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Alternate Americanisms, Ella Arne
Alternate Americanisms, Ella Arne
Architecture Thesis Prep
Architecture is actively crafting reality, culture, and identity. It is simultaneously constructed from and constructing meaning. Route 66 exists as an American invention, ruin, and manifestation of American Identity. The objects on the route sit innocently on the landscape, covering their complex histories and power networks that lead back to the dominant government administration.
Alternate Americanisms shows the agency of architectural objects in creating new realities, identities, and histories.
The game explores how every single decision changes the entire built landscape. It reflects and translates alternate histories to project alternate versions. It examines the relationship between meaning and architecture, identity …