Doctoral Dissertation Research: Architectural and Cultural Preservation in Post-Katrina New Orleans

博士论文研究：卡特里娜飓风过后新奥尔良的建筑和文化保护

• 批准号: 0728244
• 负责人: Dydia DeLyser
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0728244&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Architectural; Cultural

The damage and displacement endured from Hurricane Katrina is having immediate impact on the future of New Orleans' locally significant places, bringing explicitly to light current efforts of architectural and cultural preservation in the city. Typically in New Orleans, as well as most American cities, places have been identified as "official" sites of cultural, historical, or architectural worth through architectural surveys and listing on the National Register of Historic Places or as a Local Historic District Landmark. These designations put emphasis on architectural form and history but overlook social and cultural histories. This doctoral dissertation research project seeks to expand ideas about the range of ways buildings are historically, socially, or culturally significant to communities as part of the preservation process. The concept of "place" is an important contribution of cultural geography scholarship to preservation practice, particularly ideas of place making or how material settings are endowed with meaning. Using a combination of traditional and critical approaches in cultural geography, doctoral candidate will explore how architecture and social and cultural practice fundamentally inform the place-making process. The research approach will take into account the material and intangible elements of buildings, including their everyday use, community associations, and cultural performances. The student will employ architectural survey methods to document the material form of buildings in conjunction with qualitative methods, namely participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research, to apprehend the lived experience of places. Four ethnohistoric case studies of significant New Orleans neighborhood places overlooked by traditional preservation practices will be conducted to illustrate the range of ways buildings and the people that use the buildings create and continue to sustain local cultural meaning over time.The current rebuilding climate in New Orleans allows for a concentrated and critical look at the ways the preservation process fails to account for sites that are significant to different communities and cultural groups citywide, especially at the neighborhood level. The project also speaks to the process of preservation at a much broader level, because the evaluation criteria of the National Register of Historic Places dictates state preservation policy and typically guides local historic district policy as well. This study will develop and evaluate new methods for identifying socially and culturally sophisticated places as part of the practice of architectural and cultural preservation at the local, state, and federal levels. By considering the traditional emphasis of the preservation process on architectural significance, the project is expected to contribute to broader-ranging discussions regarding how elements like community associations, everyday use, and cultural performances can be accounted for in the preservation process. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

卡特里娜飓风造成的破坏和流离失所对新奥尔良当地重要地方的未来产生了直接影响，明确暴露了该市目前在建筑和文化保护方面的努力。通常在新奥尔良和大多数美国城市，通过建筑调查和列入国家历史名胜名录或当地历史街区地标，这些地方被确定为具有文化、历史或建筑价值的“官方”遗址。这些名称侧重于建筑形式和历史，而忽视了社会和文化历史。这一博士论文研究项目寻求扩展关于建筑在历史、社会或文化上对社区具有重要意义的方式的范围，作为保护过程的一部分。“场所”的概念是文化地理学对保护实践的重要贡献，特别是关于场所的制作或物质环境如何被赋予意义的思想。博士生将结合文化地理学中的传统方法和批判性方法，探索建筑和社会文化实践如何从根本上影响场所的形成过程。研究方法将考虑建筑物的物质和无形元素，包括它们的日常使用、社区协会和文化表演。学生将使用建筑测量方法记录建筑的物质形式，并结合定性方法，即参与观察、深度访谈和档案研究，以理解场所的生活体验。四个被传统保护做法忽视的新奥尔良重要社区场所的民族历史案例研究将被用来说明建筑和使用建筑的人随着时间的推移创造并继续保持当地文化意义的方式的范围。新奥尔良目前的重建气候允许集中和批判性地审视保护过程如何未能考虑到对全市不同社区和文化群体具有重要意义的遗址，特别是在社区层面。该项目还在更广泛的层面上谈到了保护过程，因为国家历史名胜名录的评估标准决定了国家保护政策，通常也指导着当地的历史街区政策。这项研究将开发和评估识别社会和文化复杂场所的新方法，作为地方、州和联邦各级建筑和文化保护实践的一部分。通过考虑保护过程对建筑意义的传统强调，该项目预计将有助于更广泛的讨论，即如何在保护过程中考虑社区协会、日常使用和文化表演等元素。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。