Archinect - News2024-11-04T22:43:45-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/126944062/ubc-student-writes-52-438-word-architecture-dissertation-with-no-punctuation
UBC student writes 52,438 word architecture dissertation with no punctuation Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-05-08T13:19:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/23/23fffd8c717d5341d05fbdafb39ca968?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Stewart’s dissertation, titled Indigenous Architecture through Indigenous Knowledge, eschews almost all punctuation. [...]
And so what? “There’s nothing in the (UBC dissertation) rules about formats or punctuation,” he insists.
A 61-year-old architect from the Nisga’a First Nation, Stewart explains that he “wanted to make a point” about aboriginal culture, colonialism, and “the blind acceptance of English language conventions in academia.”</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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