Griggs, KimoStoeckle, Adam2013-04-172013-04-172013-04-172012Stoeckle_washington_0250O_11263.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/22687Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2012The purpose of this thesis is to explore the potential that architecture has to address the well-being of the immigrant farmworker community in Washington. Farmworkers represent a population that is systematically taken advantage of on a daily basis. Agricultural corporations, politicians, consumers, and local citizens contribute directly and indirectly to their hardships. Poor living and working conditions compounded with racism and anti-immigration sentiment result in a severely degraded state of well-being. This thesis asserts that the cycle of poverty experienced by the farmworker community is largely perpetuated by a negative relationship with their local community and a nonexistent relationship with the greater consumer community. It seeks to create a marketplace and knowledge co-op that fosters interaction between farmworkers, locals, and consumers to generate understanding and awareness. Ultimately, it utilizes culturally contextual tectonics as a design methodology for creating a comfortable and familiar sense of place.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.Farmworkers; Marketplace; Skagit Valley; Socially Conscious Design; Tectonics; Well-BeingArchitectureHispanic American studiesarchitectureThesis