Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2019
Capstone Advisor
Amber Bartosh
Honors Reader
Robert Thompson
Capstone Major
Architecture
Capstone College
Architecture
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
yes
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Architecture | Interior Architecture | Interior Design
Abstract
In this paper, I examine the design of homes on television sitcoms and their relationship to reality and what viewers recognize as “home.” This is done through referencing sources from the realms of architecture and television/media studies. Additionally, multiple interviews with professionals in the production design industry inform many of the paper’s most important points. This serves as a companion piece to an architectural design thesis, which is a design of a space that combines living and television production programs. The aim of this is to ask how and why television homes are designed the way they are, and what they mean for viewers as a domestic ideal and for architects as both a “false” space and a space tailored for specific characters.
Recommended Citation
Guttenplan, Aaron, "Situation Comedy, Domestic Situation: The Design of American Domesticity in Television Comedies" (2019). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 1318.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/1318
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