MO/EN
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MO/EN Research Blog
a study of cultural identity and the built environment
Hi, my name is Miranda Moen and I’m an architect and material culture researcher, originally from 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 buildings as a way to investigate how they have informed community identity today.
This blog is an outlet to share the research and documentation I have conducted of mostly Norwegian-American buildings in the Upper Midwest.
