A thesis that critically enquires the approach to Derelict architecture of the city created as a consequence of socio-capitalist-economic conditions of a city. It becomes an allegorical exploration of these spaces through subjects of nostalgia and identity of a place. Analogical ??????Ghosts?????? of a place these structures become fragments of memories and events they contained, which once revived start to infiltrate the city, radicalizing its inhabitation. Through socio-natural means of inhabitation and a surreal intersection of time, it attempts to create new cultures and layers of memories (an interplay of desire and nostalgia). A manifesto for a methodological approach to these tensioned historic places becomes a documentation and abstraction of architectural, eventual, and economic occurrences.

Timothy Burke and Irene Perez Lopez