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Place[ing] a Rural Built Identity: Establishing a Built Identity for St. Henry, Ohio Through a Hermeneutic & Phenomenological Enrichment of Critical Regionalist Theory & Practice

Miller, Kurt A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454824

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2014, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Contemporary rural architecture, particularly of rural Midwestern Ohio, produces uninspiring, abject, and cheap architectural solutions that become universally accepted, yet that ignore the depth and complexity of meanings and particularities of place inherent in their geographic, cultural, and historic relationships. Through a hermeneutic and phenomenological enrichment of Critical Regionalist theory and practice, this thesis develops an architectural design process for Saint Henry, Ohio and the surrounding Midwestern Ohio region that reveals the subtle architectural and cultural regional identities. Critical Regionalism, as explored by Kenneth Frampton, works within the mediation of technological universality and traditional regionality to produce architecture that poetically engages specifics of its time and place. These well-known ideas are deepened through a phenomenological understanding of experience as ongoing interpretation of already-existing traditions, meanings, and relationships. Specifically understood through five relationships of geography and place; history and time; culture and identity; material and presencing; and tectonics and engagement, this thesis will develop a Town Hall and Square for St. Henry, Ohio through a process of reading regional particularities. As a result, the town hall typology will enhance a sense of place through architectural intervention, specifically, a “presencing,” (or foregrounding) of meanings and relationships already latent in the cultural and built environment.
John Eliot Hancock, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
89 p.
Architecture
Critical Regionalism; Hermeneutic; Phenomenology; Contemporary Rural Architecture; Sense of Place

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  • Miller, K. A. (2014). Place[ing] a Rural Built Identity: Establishing a Built Identity for St. Henry, Ohio Through a Hermeneutic & Phenomenological Enrichment of Critical Regionalist Theory & Practice [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454824

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miller, Kurt. Place[ing] a Rural Built Identity: Establishing a Built Identity for St. Henry, Ohio Through a Hermeneutic & Phenomenological Enrichment of Critical Regionalist Theory & Practice. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454824.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miller, Kurt. "Place[ing] a Rural Built Identity: Establishing a Built Identity for St. Henry, Ohio Through a Hermeneutic & Phenomenological Enrichment of Critical Regionalist Theory & Practice." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396454824

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