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Media Theory and Architecture in Rural Places: Dispatch from the Internet Swamp

Wiederhold, Charles E T
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5743-9263
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522340261779448

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2018, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
This thesis navigates the opportunities and consequences of social technologies as they relate to architecture in rural places in the age of late capitalism. A two-fold response that addresses the problems facing rural American communities emerges on a hermeneutic journey through media theory, phenomenological, and pragmatist texts reveals the masking, virtualization, and disembodiment that characterize social technologies. The first response is programmatic; identifying a typological proposal with the potential to reconstitute public space in rural communities that behaves according to the rules of late capitalism – a social service agency. The second response is formal; hacking a ubiquitous, globalized icon of rural architecture, the Pre-Engineered Metal Barn (P.E.M.B.), by overlaying programmatic glitches within the familiar experience of the section of the P.E.M.B. that intensify a body’s understanding of the site’s history, nature, and culture through the body’s engagement with sequence, volume, and material. This approach to program development and building in rural places tethers community to nature and history, restores deep meaning in daily experience, and maintains a connection to the globalized world.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
86 p.
Architecture
late capitalism; social media; internet; rural; globalization; social service

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  • Wiederhold, C. E. T. (2018). Media Theory and Architecture in Rural Places: Dispatch from the Internet Swamp [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522340261779448

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wiederhold, Charles. Media Theory and Architecture in Rural Places: Dispatch from the Internet Swamp. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522340261779448.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wiederhold, Charles. "Media Theory and Architecture in Rural Places: Dispatch from the Internet Swamp." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522340261779448

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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