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Earth, Food, and Building: Values in Nourishment and Spatial Experience

Plichta, Meghan E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265051

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2012, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The fast pace of our modern lifestyle has left behind important rhythms and relationships in our daily lives, including stillness and connection to the earth. This pace is spurred by the industrialization of separating sectors of our lives, which disconnects us from what could be considered central aspects of culture and conviviality, including food and building. Food and dwelling engage the senses, particularly the forgotten hapticity of an ingredient or material; they re-engage us with what is in front of and around us, whether food or space, enhancing our understanding of their significance in our lives. This thesis explores both food and building as integral elements of life, and imagines their transformation to cuisine and architecture by uniting daily life with processes. The design of a non-profit urban farm in Sunnyvale, California creates a vibrant source of knowledge that can reconnect visitors to natural rhythms by teaching them interaction with the land, with changing seasons, with processes of food production and consumption, and with time through dwelling. As an education center it will reinforce the importance of local food culture. Specifically, an architecture of rammed earth reinforces site-based processes of human innovation, providing a rich user experience, and allowing the buildings themselves to teach visitors. The center links an understanding of our placement in the food process, to ethical future decisions which will balance our use and enjoyment of resources.
John Eliot Hancock, MARCH (Committee Chair)
Jeffrey Tilman, PhD (Committee Member)
165 p.
Architecture
phenomenology; hapticity; agriculture; industrialized food; ocularcentrism; nourishment;

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  • Plichta, M. E. (2012). Earth, Food, and Building: Values in Nourishment and Spatial Experience [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265051

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Plichta, Meghan. Earth, Food, and Building: Values in Nourishment and Spatial Experience. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265051.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Plichta, Meghan. "Earth, Food, and Building: Values in Nourishment and Spatial Experience." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265051

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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