Plot Zero: Sensing the Landscape to Map the Dynamic Atmospheric Environment of the Urban Fabric
Introduction Working at the nexus of the social, ecological, and technological in the built environment…
Projects
2024 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Walnut Park Place: Affordable Ownership Opportunities for the Egleston Square Community”
by Aaron Smithson (MArch + MUP ’25), Cat Chen (MArch ’25), Maggie Weese (MUP +…
SILVERLINE: A New Model for Data Centers in the Age of AI: Verticalities at the Edge of the Cloud
by Ben Parker (MAUD ’24), Christopher Oh (MAUD ’24), Ziyang Dong (MArch ’25), Jasmine Ibrahim…
Bådehus
by Yeonho Lee (MArch II ’24)…
Learning from Quartzsite, AZ: Emerging Nomadic Spatial Practices in America
by Mojtaba Nabavi (MAUD ’24) Quartzsite, in Arizona, is a popular winter home base…
How to (Un)build a House? A Reinvention of Wood Framing
by Clara Mu He (MArch I…
Seeding Grounds: Working Beyond Arcadia in The Pyrocene
by Stewart Crane Sarris (MLA I ’24) From drought, to fire, Australia’s landscapes face multiple existential…
Reforesting Fort Ord
by Slide Kelly (MLA I AP, MDes ’24) This thesis examines the potential for…
Project Kin
by Priyanka Pillai (MDE ’24) and Julius Stein (MDE ’24) When conflict arises from humanitarian crises, families…
INSURGENT GEOLOGY: Mineral Matters in the Arctic
by Melanie Louterbach (MLA I ’24) “Insurgent Geology” is about oil, fossils, power, and people.
KEUR FÀTTALIKU — The House of Recollection
by Mariama Muhammadou Modou Kah (MArch II…
Monterrey’s Urban [River] Forest: Improving Microclimatic Conditions through Public-Private Partnership Vertical Development
by Miguel Lantigua Inoa (MArch II + MLA AP ‘24), Jaime Espinoza (MRE ‘25), Chris…
Vallerani Micro Water Harvesting
The Badia Region covers more than 80% of Jordan and receives less than 8 inches…
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek
Resilient by Design was the Bay Area’s year-long collaborative design challenge for resilience to sea…
Ashland Forest Resiliency Project
The Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project is an ongoing collaboration since 2010 between the Lomakatsi…
TransMilenio and Bikeways
Enrique Peñalosa, was a two-term mayor of Bogotá. He served from 1998 to 2001 and…
Chagga Homegardens
Homegardens are subsistence gardens that provide a supplemental source of food and nutritional security in…
Pleistocene Park
At the end of the Pleistocene, the steppe ecosystem was dominant across the planet, with…
Copenhagen Cloudburst Plan
In 2011, Copenhagen was struck by a 1,000-year storm event, a Cloudburst, that flooded the…
Delhi Stepwell Restoration
Baolis, or stepwells, are underground reservoirs where water can be stored close to the groundwater…
Swansea Bay Lagoon
Swansea Bay was once home to a thriving oyster industry that employed 600 residents in…
Connecting Gilman Square: A New Housing and Green Space Development
by Chandler Caserta (MArch ’25), Austin Sun (MLA/MArch 24), Kei Takanami (MArch ‘25), Amber Zeng…
2023 Peter Rice Prize: Sujie Park’s “Material Alchemy”
by Sujie Park (MArch I ’23) — Recipient of the Peter Rice Prize. The history…
2023 Digital Design Prize: Amelia Gan’s “Place-Time: From Waste to 3D CAD, or, Framework for geographical and temporally conscious design”
by Amelia Gan (MDes ’23) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize. The dominance of…
2023 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Randy Crandon and Maddie Farrer
Sidewalk Stuff: Adaptive Reuse Cohousing by Randy Crandon (MArch I ’25) and Maddie Farrer (MArch…
2023 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Michael Zajakowski Uhll’s “Our History is our Resource:” Historic Narrative as Urban Planning Strategy in Chicago’s Pullman Neighborhood
by Michael Zajakowski Uhll (MUP ’23) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize. How…
2023 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Jacqueline Wong’s “An Intrinsic Model for a Non-Neutral Plural National School”
by Jacqueline Wong (MArch I ’23) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
2023 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Saad Boujane’s “Dwellings, Paths, Places: Configurative Habitat in Casablanca, Morocco “
by Saad Boujane (MAUD ’23) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. The Modernist…
2023 Landscape Architecture AP Thesis Prize and 2023 Digital Design Prize: Sonia Sobrino Ralston’s “Uncommon Knowledge: Practices and Protocols for Environmental Information”
by Sonia Sobrino Ralston (MLA I AP ’23) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture AP…
2023 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Alaa Suliman Eltayeb Mohamed Hamid’s Ghostopia: Interrogating Colonial Legacies and A Manifesto for The Modernized Nile
by Alaa Suliman Eltayeb Mohamed Hamid (MDes ’23) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis…
2023 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Kevin Robishaw’s Manatees and Margaritas: Toward a Strange New Paradise
by Kevin Robishaw (MLA I ’23) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.
2023 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Deok Kyu Chung’s “Boundaries of Everyday: walls to voids, voids to solids, solids to walls”
by Deok Kyu Chung (MArch II ’23) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…
2023 Landscape Architecture AP Thesis Prize: Celina Abba and Enrique Cavelier’s Plantation Futures: Foregrounding Lost Narratives
by Celina Abba (MLA I AP ’23) and Enrique…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: “Truly, Oregon! Empower Lloyd Center, Portland, OR”
by Heejin Park (MAUD ’23), Terry Kim (MUP ’23), Aelin Shaoyu Li (MDes ’24), Claire…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “The Gansevoort: Design for Longevity”
by Xinxin Cheryl Lin (MArch II ’24), Vivian Cheng (MAUD ’23), and Pinyang Paul Chen…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Boyd Street Gateway”
by Maddie Farrer (MArch I ‘25), Madeleine Levin (MUP ‘23), and Arielle Rawlings (MUP ‘23)…
2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Liwei Shen’s “The Echoes of Sky River – Two Pre-modern and Modern Atmospheric Assemblages”
by Liwei Shen (MLA I ’22) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize. The…
2022 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Remi McClain’s “There Goes the Neighborhood”
by Remi McClain (MArch II ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
2022 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Isaac Henry Pollan’s “This Is Not A Firehouse”
by Isaac Henry Pollan (MArch I ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…