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Ecology of a Myth: Landscape, Vernacular, and Settler Colonialism at the Sea Ranch

Jennings, Michele Lee
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4527-1528
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1668852617107313

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2022, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Art History (Fine Arts).
The Sea Ranch is an architecturally significant resort community on the north coast in California’s Bay Area, with a master plan and aesthetic that is renowned for its treatment of the local site conditions and rural built environment. This study seeks to demonstrate that the Sea Ranch can be understood through the lens of settler colonialism in the United States not in spite of its ecological and site-specific credo, but indeed precisely because of it. In untangling the relationship between architecture, landscape, and vernacularity at the Sea Ranch, so too does the relationship between its visual and cultural antecedents begin to unravel the myth of the place. In reading the Sea Ranch’s environmental and aesthetic citations through the experiences, histories, and means of survival of the land’s original stewards, the Kashaya Pomo, the settler colonial framework undergirding the project complicates the ways in which the Sea Ranch’s utopian beginnings were conceived of and are recounted in architectural history.
Samuel Dodd (Advisor)
Angela Sprunger (Committee Member)
Jennie Klein (Committee Member)
157 p.
Aesthetics; American History; American Studies; Architectural; Architecture; Area Planning and Development; Art History; Design; Environmental Studies; History; Landscape Architecture; Native American Studies
architecture; architectural history; modernism; settler colonialism; environmental conservation; california; california modernism; bay regional tradition; sea ranch; northern california; site specific architecture; charles moore; lawrence halprin; condominium one; MLTW; vernacular architecture; kashaya pomo

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  • Jennings, M. L. (2022). Ecology of a Myth: Landscape, Vernacular, and Settler Colonialism at the Sea Ranch [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1668852617107313

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jennings, Michele. Ecology of a Myth: Landscape, Vernacular, and Settler Colonialism at the Sea Ranch. 2022. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1668852617107313.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jennings, Michele. "Ecology of a Myth: Landscape, Vernacular, and Settler Colonialism at the Sea Ranch." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1668852617107313

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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