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Rural Networks in Appalachian Ohio: an Elegy to the Ground

Stehura, Adam C
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1416230855

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2014, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
By understanding the spatial effects of Appalachian natural gas activity, or fracking, as one type of ground alteration among many, it becomes possible to position this activity along a continuum of extractive processes which conceive of the world only in the degree to which it is orderable. The case of hydraulic fracturing is unique in the sense that discarded sites lack the remnants of industrial technology, which are so often a rich resource for the architect’s imagination. Unlike coal processing, the practice of hydraulic fracturing is systematic, efficient and ephemeral, leaving behind nothing which suggests enclosure. It is, perhaps, for this very reason that the essence of technology is present in its purest form. This thesis presents weak architecture, as one method of questioning and therefore interfering with the process whereby one extractive industry is simply replaced by the next. Weak architecture challenges the technological concept of resource by presenting works that cannot be accounted for in their entirety and remain present in spite of the impulse to interpret.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch (Committee Member)
99 p.
Architecture
ground; weak architecture; superposition; translation; opposing-complementarity; breaking the set

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  • Stehura, A. C. (2014). Rural Networks in Appalachian Ohio: an Elegy to the Ground [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1416230855

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stehura, Adam. Rural Networks in Appalachian Ohio: an Elegy to the Ground. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1416230855.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stehura, Adam. "Rural Networks in Appalachian Ohio: an Elegy to the Ground." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1416230855

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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