The Haizhu Gardens: Guangzhou Group
by Brian Vargo (MDes ’15), Matt Ciccotti (MDes ’15) and Patrick Boateng II (MUP ’14)…
Projects
Birmingham New Street Station
Birmingham New Street Station is an important transport hub and a key aspect of the…
Victoria Beckham Flagship Store
The Victoria Beckham flagship store in London is a conversion of a 560 m2…
Terracotta Bricks
Unfamiliar with many of the properties and methods of working with ceramics—armed only with a…
How Ultras Football Clubs Breed Activists
by Ana Maria Quiros (MDes ’15) Developed in conjunction with the seminar “Networked Social Movements:…
In[Fresh]Structure: Floating Transshipment Hub
by Tiffany Chen (MArch ’15)) This project positions a floating transshipment hub in the Caribbean…
Mass Customization of Reciprocol Frame Structures: Digital Optimization and Robotic Manufacture
by Ana Garcia Puyol (MDes ’14) This thesis focuses on the creation of a digital…
Learning from District Six: Drawing On Cape Town
by Ashley Mendelsohn (MDes ’14) District Six is an infamous example of the forced-removals of…
Connect Chelsea: Three Visions for a Gateway City
Thirty-four members of the Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio developed three planning alternatives for…
Horizon House
First Prize Winner of the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition Designed by…
Void Urbanism. A Genealogy
by Roi Salgueiro Barrio (MDes ’14) The thesis posits that the notion of void and its…
'Self-Reliant' Architecture and Body in North Korea, circa 1980
by Melany Sun-Min Park (MDes ’14) Kim Jong-il’s 46th birthday, 16 February 1987, marked the…
The Lower Athabasca Regional Counterplan
by Christopher Alton (MDes ’14) This thesis is constructed as a critical analysis of the…
(Re)Considering Energy and Existing Multi-wythe Brick
by Julie Paul Brown (MDes ’14) Multi-wythe (or “mass”) brick construction has been familiar to…
New Contours of Crisis: Shaping Retreat and Resettlement in the Northeast
by George Gard (MAUD ’14) New data, recent experiences, and coastal scholars have shown that…
"Please in My Back Yard": Mitigating the aesthetic effects of wind turbines
by Jennifer A. Haugh (MDes ’14) Exploring and analyzing the potential for artistic interventions with…
The HighLink
by Brian Vargo (MDes ’15) The HighLink is a winning proposal in an ideas competition…
Logistical Urbanization
by Conor O’Shea (MDes ’14) Logistical urbanization historically contextualizes and theorizes processes of urbanization catalyzed…
Improving Protections for Urban Renters in the Global South
The policy brief was written as a component of the Urbanization and International Development…
Wet Grounds: Emerging Landscapes of Storage
by Adriana Chávez (MDes ’14) “Wet Grounds: Emerging Landscapes of Storage” is a projective research…
AlmaViva A New Heart for the North Common
Selected as the 1st place proposal from an annual affordable housing competition that draws submissions…
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…