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Finding A Lost Style: Study 01_Questioning Relationships Between Black Architecture, Black Film, and Black Communities in the United States.

Morris, De'Sean B
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627661571907818

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2021, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
This thesis is an investigation into the possibilities of describing and identifying Black Architecture. The studies and essays documented here will serve as foundational material for the continued investigation of these ideas. Pruitt Igoe is identified here as an archetype of inner-city public housing; the study builds itself on a critique of the international style based on this observation. This critique suggests that; while descendants of the international style such as public housing and other urban and architectural typologies are often associated with black life, they are not considerate of black society and culture. They, therefore, do not constitute black architecture. Over the last few decades, The social influence of film and video media has provided a vehicle through which images of black life within these urban and architectural strangers have become standard. Subsequently, these images perpetuate an association of ideas of black life with these settings as a necessity. This semiotic relationship between media and society can be exploited to present new ideas about what is currently so-called black space and what could someday be acknowledged as true Black space. With that, film, social, and urban semiotics are folded into this thesis, and through a deconstructive, semiotic analysis, new images of black space will be constructed.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
71 p.
Architecture
Film; Semiotics; Black Architecture; Black Culture; Hip-Hop; Design

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  • Morris, D. B. (2021). Finding A Lost Style: Study 01_Questioning Relationships Between Black Architecture, Black Film, and Black Communities in the United States. [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627661571907818

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Morris, De'Sean. Finding A Lost Style: Study 01_Questioning Relationships Between Black Architecture, Black Film, and Black Communities in the United States. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627661571907818.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Morris, De'Sean. "Finding A Lost Style: Study 01_Questioning Relationships Between Black Architecture, Black Film, and Black Communities in the United States." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627661571907818

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