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• 1. [Article] Reappropriating the Rundbogenstil: Supporting Community Revitalization Through the Adaptive Reuse of a Historic German Brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio

  Cincinnati, Ohio is a city with many architecturally significant, yet decrepit, historic brewery buildings. Most of these structures are centralized in Over-the-Rhine (OTR) and the West End, two adjoining ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Reappropriating the Rundbogenstil: Supporting Community Revitalization Through the Adaptive Reuse of a Historic German Brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio Author: Hussein, Deqah Year: 2016 Cincinnati, Ohio is a city with many architecturally significant, yet decrepit, historic brewery buildings. Most of these structures are centralized in Over-the-Rhine (OTR) and the West End, two adjoining neighborhoods bordering Cincinnati’s Central Business District. Prohibition, in combination with anti-German sentiment from World War I, led to the decline of the brewery industry in Cincinnati in the beginning of the twentieth century. The decline left the formerly German concentrated OTR neighborhood vulnerable to economic instability. Within the past ten years, gentrification has threatened the southern regions of the OTR neighborhood, forcing low-income families to relocate to the West End. This has left the West End community socially and economically disconnected from OTR. The purpose of this thesis is to present an adaptive reuse proposal for the historic Rundbogenstil style Bellevue Brewing Company building, as a means to help socioeconomically regenerate and connect OTR and the West End neighborhoods. Title: Reappropriating the Rundbogenstil: Supporting Community Revitalization Through the Adaptive Reuse of a Historic German Brewery in Cincinnati, Ohio Author: Hussein, Deqah Year: 2016 Cincinnati, Ohio is a city with many architecturally significant, yet decrepit, historic brewery buildings. Most of these structures are centralized in Over-the-Rhine (OTR) and the West End, two adjoining neighborhoods bordering Cincinnati’s Central Business District. Prohibition, in combination with anti-German sentiment from World War I, led to the decline of the brewery industry in Cincinnati in the beginning of the twentieth century. The decline left the formerly German concentrated OTR neighborhood vulnerable to economic instability. Within the past ten years, gentrification has threatened the southern regions of the OTR neighborhood, forcing low-income families to relocate to the West End. This has left the West End community socially and economically disconnected from OTR. The purpose of this thesis is to present an adaptive reuse proposal for the historic Rundbogenstil style Bellevue Brewing Company building, as a means to help socioeconomically regenerate and connect OTR and the West End neighborhoods. Close

• 2. [Article] On the Use and Meaning of Wood in Chinese Imperial Architecture

  Wood is the primary structural building material of Chinese imperial architecture. This thesis argues that there are practical and symbolic reasons why wood was chosen instead of stone for politically ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: On the Use and Meaning of Wood in Chinese Imperial Architecture Author: Long, Lindsay Year: 2016 Wood is the primary structural building material of Chinese imperial architecture. This thesis argues that there are practical and symbolic reasons why wood was chosen instead of stone for politically and ritually important structures. Stone is connected to immortality and death so for buildings that must endure through time, masonry was the preferred building material for funerary contexts. Wood represents life and regrowth and was thus the preferred material for living structures. However, wood is vulnerable and such buildings degraded over time, so they had to be habitually rebuilt. This thesis then seeks to explore the ways in which this practice of rebuilding works within modern theories of architectural authenticity and modern conservation methods. It will argue that Imperial Chinese architecture does work within certain types of architectural authenticity and conservation methods. Title: On the Use and Meaning of Wood in Chinese Imperial Architecture Author: Long, Lindsay Year: 2016 Wood is the primary structural building material of Chinese imperial architecture. This thesis argues that there are practical and symbolic reasons why wood was chosen instead of stone for politically and ritually important structures. Stone is connected to immortality and death so for buildings that must endure through time, masonry was the preferred building material for funerary contexts. Wood represents life and regrowth and was thus the preferred material for living structures. However, wood is vulnerable and such buildings degraded over time, so they had to be habitually rebuilt. This thesis then seeks to explore the ways in which this practice of rebuilding works within modern theories of architectural authenticity and modern conservation methods. It will argue that Imperial Chinese architecture does work within certain types of architectural authenticity and conservation methods. Close