Communion Composed: Fostering Unity Through a Nourished Architecture

Author(s)/Creator(s)

David Acevedo

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Date

Fall 2020

Keywords

food, Guatemala, unity, urban food production, food consumption, ceremonial food preparation, community empowerment, sustainability

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

This thesis looks to utilize food and its inherent social properties as a medium in which architecture can have greater agency in the unification of people, more specifically, distraught communities. Guatemala, a pillar of Central American culture, will be the chosen zone of exploration where such a collaboration can be implemented at a ceremonial scale, utilizing techniques and methods found in ecologically efficient urban food production, intimate domestic food consumption, and marrying them to methods of engaging ceremonial food preparation to create a new edible landscape of socially sustaining architecture.

Additional Information

Advisors: Sekou Cooke and Nina Sharifi

Recommended Citation

Acevedo, David, "Communion Composed: Fostering Unity Through a Nourished Architecture" (2020). Architecture Thesis Prep. 401.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/401

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