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Norwegian American Architecture, Rural Practice, Start-UP Business
Hi, my name is Miranda Moen and I’m an architectural designer working from a small town in Southeastern Minnesota. I’m passionate about cultural heritage and am interested in how people’s lives are intertwined with the histories of the built environment. I’m fascinated with seemingly “average” and perhaps architecturally insignificant structures that go unrecognized in the world of historic preservation and the field of Architecture today. My work and research aims to raise the validity of studying commonplace and working-class historic architecture to trace how it has informed community identity today.
This blog is an avenue I’m taking to share my architectural process and journey through creating my own rural architectural business as well as research and documentation I have conducted regarding Norwegian-American architecture and buildings in the Upper Midwest.
