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By Chandler Caserta (MArch ’25) The scale of New York City’s flood risk has only…
Thesis
Form Follows Forest
Kei Takanami (MArch I ’25) Form Follows Forest explores architecture’s potential to…
The Only Way Out is Through: Architecture, Building and Our Entangled Present in Gary, Indiana
Connor Daniel Gravelle (MArch II…
Laptis
Kevin Hu (MDE ’25) Today, over 47 million Americans struggle with substance use disorder,…
After Snow: The Case for an Alpine Public
Cory Robinson Page (MLA I/MUP…
VEILED VISIBILITY: SPATIAL MEMORY AND QUEER IDENTITY IN SHINJUKU NI-CHōME
Michael J. Kaneshiro Chou (MUP/MPH ’25) This thesis examines Shinjuku Ni-Chōme—Tokyo’s historic LGBTQ+ enclave—as…
Staging Riis
August Sklar (MLA I ’25) “Staging Riis” explores the evolution of “The People’s Beach,”…
Chemical Occupations: Anti-Colonial Reactions in the Desert
Issam Azzam (MLA I/MUP ’25)…
Tectonics of Tenure: Public Infrastructure for Collective Housing
Tectonics of Tenure: Public Infrastructure for Collective Housing by Maggie Musante (MArch I ’24) —…
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.
2023 Peter Rice Prize: Sujie Park’s “Material Alchemy”
by Sujie Park (MArch I ’23) — Recipient of the Peter Rice Prize. The history…
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…
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: Isaac Henry Pollan’s “This Is Not A Firehouse”
by Isaac Henry Pollan (MArch I ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…
2022 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Brian Lee’s “People’s Park Complex: Repairing the Modern City”
by Brian Lee (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the 2021 Clifford Wong Prize in…
2022 Peter Rice Prize: Hangsoo Jeong’s “Upon Concrete: Retrofitting Architecture with Malleability”
by Hangsoo Jeong (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the Peter Rice Prize Upon Concrete:…
2022 Digital Design Prize: George Guida’s “Multimodal Architecture: Applications of Language in a Machine Learning Aided Design Process”
by George Guida (MArch II ’22) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize. This thesis…
2022 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Rogelio Cadena’s “How Are ‘We’ Living? Reevaluating the Chicago Boulevard System”
by Rogelio Cadena (MAUD ’22) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. At its…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Allison Hyatt’s “Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for total carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits”
by Allison Hyatt (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. Energy consumption…
2022 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Qin Ye Chen’s “Fluid Permanence – A Shotengai-Archive in Tokyo”
by Qin Ye Chen (MArch I ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Nicole Piepenbrink’s “HERE LIES DARBY VASSALL: Rendering the obscured and concealed history of slavery at Christ Church Cambridge”
by Nicole Piepenbrink (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. The material…
2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Lucy Humphreys Chebot’s “Reciprocal Optimism: Projecting Terrestrial Analogues”
by Lucy Humphreys Chebot (MLA I ’22) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Anny Li’s “The World Was Their Garden: Plant introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898–1984”
by Anny Li (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. In 1898,…
2021 Architecture Faculty Design Award: Anna Kaertner’s “Equivocal Elevations”
by Anna Kaertner (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the Architecture Faculty Design Award, Master…
2021 Architecture Faculty Design Award: Sum In Sarah Cheung’s “Asignifications: Destabilizing the Colonial Imaginary”
by Sum In Sarah Cheung (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the Architecture Faculty Design…
2021 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Isabel Dunham Strauss’s “Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago’s South Side”
by Isabel Dunham Strauss (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the 2021 Clifford Wong…