Archinect - News 2024-11-25T00:40:17-05:00 https://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-Hochberg 2015-05-08T13:19:00-04:00 >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&rsquo;s dissertation, titled Indigenous Architecture through Indigenous Knowledge, eschews almost all punctuation. [...] And so what? &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing in the (UBC dissertation) rules about formats or punctuation,&rdquo; he insists. A 61-year-old architect from the Nisga&rsquo;a First Nation, Stewart explains that he &ldquo;wanted to make a point&rdquo; about aboriginal culture, colonialism, and &ldquo;the blind acceptance of English language conventions in academia.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>