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Oates, Diana (Fa 1109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oates, Diana (Fa 1109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1109. Student folk studies project titled: “The Hall Mark,” which includes brief descriptions of the Hall Place and nearby Rockfield in Warren County, Kentucky. Project includes a brief description of a story, local architecture, illustration and photos.
Gaddie, Milton (Fa 1101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gaddie, Milton (Fa 1101), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1101. Student paper titled “Folk Architecture” in which Milton Gaddie surveys houses in Logan County, specifically those built in the I-House and Hall and Parlor styles. The paper contains black and white photographs of homes throughout the county.
Malaysian Shophouses: Creating Cities Of Character, Ashley Wagner
Malaysian Shophouses: Creating Cities Of Character, Ashley Wagner
Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses
As a developing country, the urban landscape of Malaysia faces the same trends as many other cities worldwide: modernization at a rapid and unchecked pace. Due to the demand for new infrastructure and buildings, many vernacular building types are rapidly disappearing from the urban fabric, among them the Malaysian Shophouse. The shophouse was a common building style for over a century from 1840-1960s and is perhaps a typology of a previous era. Yet it offers many lessons on creating a city that embodies the character of the culture, the antithesis of the anonymous modern city. At its most basic program …