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Absolute architecture : scaled experience
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2007) Ankeny, Samuel Robert; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ralph Johnson
Located near the edge of the North American Plate, in the great west of the United States, is an area known as the Colorado Plateau. Encompassing four states Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, it is also known as the four corners region. This Area has been widely recognized as one of the most powerful landscapes in the world and holds special meaning to the Native peoples of America. It is an area which is known to produce irregularities in the earths geomagnetic field. These irregularities have been described as many different things from spirits to extraterrestrials.1 More notably known for it's unique and diverse geology, this area is home to the Grand Canyon. It provides one of the most elaborate timelines of the earths history known. Near the western edge of the Colorado Plateau is an area of Utah known as the San Rafael Swell. It is a dome shaped anticline approximately 70 miles long and 40 miles wide. The area was thrust upward nearly 2000 feet above the surrounding desert and has since been eroded into a natural spectacle which defies verbal description.