AlmaViva A New Heart for the North Common
Selected as the 1st place proposal from an annual affordable housing competition that draws submissions…
Projects
Insuring Resilient Urbanism: Adapting the National Flood Insurance Program to meet long-term needs in urban environments
by Trevor Johnson (MUP ’14) and Alison Tramba (MUP ’14) The National Flood Insurance Program…
Real Estate Field Study: East Chicago
Instructor: Rick Peiser In this field study course, the students worked with both The…
Urban Growth Scenarios: RapidFire in Mexico City
Sofia Viguri (MUP ’15) As Mexico City’s population of over 20 million continues to grow,…
Monk’s Garden
MVVA’s design of the Monk’s Garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum aims to interpret…
Priority Setting Amid the Rubble: Organizational Responses to Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Haiti
Since 2012, this project has been investigating how development organizations establish, and act on, priorities…
Urban India Atlas
The Urban India Atlas project is a long-term critical assessment of emergent patterns of urban…
Urban Theory Lab
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization…
130 Fenchurch Street
The new building at 130 Fenchurch Street is designed as a 17-story mid-rise tower…
Newark Department of Economic and Housing Development
by Elizabeth MacWillie (MDes/MAUD ’14) Elizabeth MacWillie spent her summer at the Newark Department of Economic and…
Shared Parking in Union Square
by Tim Czerwienski (MUP ’14) With the long-awaited MBTA Green Line extension arriving in Somerville’s…
#MIMMI
First Prize Winner of an open competition for the City of Minneapolis. MIMMI is a…
Kumbh Mela
The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious festival that occurs every twelve years at the…
Slope: Intercept
by Sara Hendren (MDes ’13) My ongoing project, Slope : Intercept,…
Other[ed] City: (Re)presentations of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Urban West
by Somayeh Chitchian (MDes ’13) Working from the broad cultural context implicit in Critical Conservation,…
Architecture for a Recovered Democracy
by Manuel López Segura (MDes ’13) This thesis deals with 1980s architecture in the Valencian…
North Hollywood Field Study: Suburban Transit-Oriented Towncenter Development
North Hollywood is representative of suburban transit nodes in many cities; it is in an…
Plan Downtown Malden 2013
Plan Downtown Malden (find the full document here) is a project of the Second…
Creating Common Ground: Embedding Urban Fabric in Longwood’s Institutions
by Benjamin Scheerbarth (MUP ’14) The Longwood Medical and Academic Area, an economically important agglomeration…
Gridding Midtown West: Mediating Global and Local Forces
by Jack Becker (MAUD ’13) The agenda of the studio was to draw from the…
Korean and East Asian Urban Research Program
Research focuses on urban settlement dynamics in evolving natural and regional contexts of Korea, China…
Museum of Contemporary Art
MOCA is a 34,000 sq. ft. non-collecting museum in the emerging Uptown district of Cleveland’s…
Redefine the West Water Edge of the Manhattan Grid
by Junfeng Wang (MAUD ’13) and Yi Tu (MLAUD ’13) As one of the largest ports…
Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Conflict
The sources and forms of social and political violence have been extensively examined, but the…
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
MOCA Cleveland is a 34,000ft² non-collecting contemporary art museum designed to serve as a…
El Campin stadium
El Campin stadium renovation. El estadio El Campin, diseñado en 1937 por el ingeniero Aleman…
Economies of Waste: Industrial Hog Farm Infrastructure in Rural Netherlands
by Connie Migliazzo (MLA ’13) As the population of the world increases, so too does the…
Design for Disasters, Bangkok, Thailand
Oscar Malaspina (MAUD ’13), Adriana Chavez (MArch ’13), and Einat Rosenkrantz Amon (MAUD ’13) traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to…
City Hall Plaza: Boston’s Transparent Civic & Art Center
by Holly Masek (MUP ’13)…
Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes
Professor in Residence in Art, Design, and the Public Domain Krzysztof Wodiczko, in collaboration with architect Julian…
Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston, MA
by Holly Masek (MUP ’13) The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) is Boston’s municipal planning and development…
Aquatic Center
In March 2008 an open international competition was held for a new aquatic center to…
Brazil School for Year 2030
by Danish Kurani (MAUD ’12) The Brazil School for Year 2030 is a collaboration between…
The Event Landscape: Experience, Attendance, Alter-Institutionality
by Gavin Kroeber (MDes ’12) The disciplinary categories we use to partition and manage cultural…
Neo-Mining: Reconstituting the Foothills of Beijing for Peri-Urban Growth
by Emily Parish Gordon (MLA ’12) and Carmen Martínez Fernández-Barja (MAUD ’13) Responding to the challenges…
Concord, MA: Old and New
Name Holly Masek, MUP 2013 Project Title Concord, MA: Old and New,…
Building 'Code': A Spatial Ethology
by Marshall Prado (MDes ’12) This research is a study of urban agents in the…
Time-Honored Versus Bigger and Better: Critical and Strategic Conservation in Post-Katrina Mississippi
by Christopher L. Cosper (MDesS ’13) Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August…
Flexible Urbanism: Retroactive Assemblage for the Contemporary City
by Daniel Ibanez (MDes ’12) Historically, urbanization has depended upon landscapes and broader ecologies to…
Border as Urbanism: Redrawing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea
by Dongsei Kim (MDes ’12) Borders are everywhere and exist at every level of our…