Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication

Public architecture is intrinsically an issue of communication, and both are of keen importance to contemporary public life. Few communications scholars consider public buildings as communicative media, but doing so would begin dialogues on how to broaden the influence of both communication research and architecture among essential, nonexpert audiences. Further, a public architecture expressive of certain durable values can and should be at the forefront of the public realm. In light of heightened visual expectations and contemporary sensibilities fostered and reflected by mass media, utilizing architecture's great ability to communicate is the way to trumpet built space's role in civics. Written for the architectural nonexpert, this dissertation explores these issues in terms of architecture, qualitative communicative theory, history, and ethnography. Provocative public buildings and a theory called architectural advocacy provide broad conceptual guidelines.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Berman, Scott Joseph

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nerone, John

• Architecture

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912191

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86612