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What Makes a Place Fun?
David Thomas (UC Denver)
March 30, 2010
EGL (Skiles 354) at 11AMArchitectural theory and history has long marginalized the notion of a fun place, exiling the concept from the cannon of serious architecture. In spite of this, the world is filled with fun, fanciful and playful architecture. This study of American fun houses looks to establish a framework for understanding the various roles of the fun, and proses a method for cortically engaging these places through the lens of the environmental language of fun found in videogames. [read more]
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