Re: America. Architecture, Propaganda, and the Dream

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dc.contributor.advisorAmbrose, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorObringer, Justinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-10T11:18:31Z
dc.date.available2012-10-10T11:18:31Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThe American Dream is terribly misleading. The phrase implies a singularity, as if all people share precisely the same dream. "The Dream" implied only success and happiness; it did not dictate the form that housed happiness. The form was inconsequential; it was the symptom not the realization of success. The form was meant to encourage living, not project a status. The resulting suburb may be detrimental to the environment, but the suburban lifestyle was not itself detrimental to the evolution of architecture. It was neither a definitive step backwards nor forwards. Now however, the forms and ubiquitous images associated with the suburbs have caused stagnation and no significant architectural development concerning suburban living has rivaled the 1950s propagandized model. The purpose of this thesis is to reinvent the formal concept of "suburban" living in a manner which does justice to the "American Dream" and the individuality of all the "dreamers."en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13010
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAmerican Dreamen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHousingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinner-ring-suburben_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPropagandaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRiverfront Developmenten_US
dc.titleRe: America. Architecture, Propaganda, and the Dreamen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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