A House to Grow In: A Proposal for the Contemporary Re-Pioneering of the Iowa Prairie
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Title
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A House to Grow In: A Proposal for the Contemporary Re-Pioneering of the Iowa Prairie
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Description
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While the complexities of contemporary life have many considering a rural relocation, the current American imagination of a desirable rural life has contributed to uninformed urbanite settlement and a lack of population growth in agricultural rural communities. The thesis seeks to write promise and adventure back into these agricultural communities by proposing a contemporary re-pioneering of current farmland. In Clinton, Iowa, a new farmhouse typology and site strategy will aid in the incremental establishment of the former Iowa prairie and a pioneering family; this will become the foundation of a new rural narrative based on the resources of rural America: ecology, tradition, and the transcendent. In this reformed rural narrative, the transcendent value of stewardship will guide the design and is made manifest through the hidden abundance of the native prairie and a contemporary reimagining of traditional building and agricultural practices.
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Creator
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Holley, Joel Waters
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Subject
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architecture
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Iowa
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pioneering
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prairie
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rewilding
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rural
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Architecture
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Landscape architecture
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Agriculture
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Contributor
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Mori, Toshiko
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Date
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2024-09-26T12:09:15Z
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2024
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2024-05-21
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2024
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2024-09-26T12:09:15Z
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Type
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Thesis or Dissertation
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text
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Format
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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Holley, Joel Waters. 2024. A House to Grow In: A Proposal for the Contemporary Re-Pioneering of the Iowa Prairie. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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31300106
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https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37379531
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Language
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en