NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POLICY AND STRATEGIC STUDIES JOS
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POLICY AND STRATEGIC STUDIES JOS
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1999-10
Authors
Rufai, Shehu Idress
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Abstract
Whether or not contemporary criticisms have accepted that the subject "symbolic
expression of power" is an aphorism or a metaphor of the new pluralist vocabulary, an
evaluation of its subjective constituents is what this thesis intends to highlight. The
design of the national institute for policy and strategic studies is intended to depict the
symbolic power expression searching for an appropriate philosophical and evocative
concept in context and character to which such an abstract analogy can be deduced in
form and function when addressing the issue with adequate and sufficient architectural
justification, the institute as a national think - tant of the nation deserves the appearance
of a powerful building. The contemplation of a symbolic codification for a facility
especially where the aim is sending a powerful message of monumental expressionism,
hierarchy and grandeur constitute the composition of which elements and style principally
form the components of power in symbolic delight.
The Task to find the appropriate means of symbolism in cultural, technical,
material or historic concept about power constitute the necessary keynotes to which the
design of the national institute base its architectural proposition. Here as with so many
architecture of celebrating symbols and values lies the architect's ability for eclectic
abstract imagination to distinguish extensively the proponents and components of
signolism from symbolism.
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BEING A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST - GRADUATE
SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA, NIGERIA IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF
SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE. (M.Sc. ARCH).
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE,
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
NIGERIA
OCTOBER 1999
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NATIONAL,, INSTITUTE,, POLICY,, STRATEGIC STUDIES JOS