Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
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Item The Grand Union Hotel, Fort Benton, Montana ; a symbol of an age(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1971) Ellingsen, John DavidItem What's next? : thinking beyond the box: landscape of exchange and consumer waste as food for cultural change(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2007) Schwanda, Peter Benjamin; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Christopher LivingstonThe current state of architecture is pregnant with possibility for its future. As technology and innovation give shape to a malleable landscape of digital media, the world surges onward, pioneered by high-tech industries and everready consumers. International political and commercial forces are colliding and entwining in new ways as globalization increases and borderless commerce gains momentum. As the power struggle over consumer dollars and sociopolitical control has intensified a "one planet" mentality, globalization continues to exhibit our interconnectedness. However, another significant power struggle ferments between the human race and the planet itself and the impact of the former upon the ecological state of the latter.Item A continuation of place and time(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2007) Moorshead, Elizabeth; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Maire O'NeillThe American barn is an enigma on the landscape. A building that arouses feelings in every person. Whether recollecting a childhood memory of playing in a loft, doing barn chores at all hours of the day or that forever connection to the past wondering what it must have been like to live back then or even architecturally admiring its undeniable form. Yet they are an enigma because this embedded nostalgia we have for them is not merely enough to save a lost culture and the buildings themselves. The foundations and ideals that the barns were built on must be looked at as well. "Until quite recently, the majority of humanity still told time by the sun, organized their lives by the slow rhythms of the seasons, and lived by the traditional knowledge and beliefs of their ancestors, accumulated slowly over the course of centuries and millennia."¹ This way of life is reflected in older farm buildings and is perhaps the last remnant of that culture in the United States. Technology has changed the way we live, build and identify place, allowing us to do things we once only dreamed. In many instances the increased mechanization of farming has led to the destruction of soils, water systems and habitats, not to mention fruits and vegetables that are flavorless and covered in pesticides. Yet in recent years there has been resurgence and developing awareness of sustainable farming practices, which are based on a whole system approach whose overall goal is the continuing health of the land and people. The demand for products, such as milk from cows that have not been injected with hormones, can be seen nationwide in grocery stores. There is a growing market for the quality of food. In almost every aspect.