Korean and East Asian Urban Research Program
Research focuses on urban settlement dynamics in evolving natural and regional contexts of Korea, China…
Projects
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…
The Inconspicuous Life of Walls
by Jutta Friedrichs (MDes ’12) The Inconspicuous Life of Walls amplifies the natural and sublime…
Spatio-Phenomenal Intervention: Sculpting the ephemeral
by Melissa Kit Chow (MDes ’12) and Helena Slosar (MDes ’12) Spatio-phenomenal intervention (SPI) is…
Soft Modular Pneumatic System A Biologically-inspired Smart Building System
by Daekwon Park (MDes ’12) This thesis investigates the design process of biologically-inspired smart building…
Counter-Forms: Sacrifice as Catalytic Dissent
by Aviva Rubin (MDes ’12) This thesis proposes a re-conceptualization of the moment of dissent…
Delhi, The City of Edges
by Aneesha Dharwadker (MDes ’12) There is a wall in Delhi being swallowed by architecture.
Cambridge Community Development Department, Cambridge, MA
Laura Gilmore (MUP 2013), spent her 2012 summer working for the Environment and Transportation division…
Chaebol Urbanism
Chaebol Urbanism: Diversified Corporate Conglomerates as Agents of Urban Transformation in the Seoul Metropolitan Region…
City of Everett, Everett, MA
Ksenya Benderskaya’s (MUP ’13) flagship project for the City of Everett was to create a preliminary…
Linking the Hill to New Haven's Central Corridor
Name Fabiana Meacham, MUP 2013 Project Title Linking the Hill to New Haven’s Central Corridor,…
Moving Centers, Shared Lines. There is no post-industrial city.
by Savina Romanos (MAUD ’13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD ’13) In October 1949, Mao…
MudWorks
MudWorks is a design-build installation and exhibition demonstrating the potential of building with raw earth.
New Haven 2050
Re-connect Open Space Celebrating a Knowledge-based Urban Life Name Qingnan Liu, MUP 2013…
Rediscovering glories
by Fabiana Araujo (MAUD ’13) The design proposed for Plaça de les Glories a aims to…
Sanriku Project, Minamisanriku, Japan
A year out from last year’s tsunami, attitudes were very different. As part of the…
Solo Kota Kita, Indonesia
Alykhan Mohamed (MUP 2013) travelled to Indonesia for a summer internship with Solo…
Somerville Community Corporation, Somerville, MA
Tessa Perry (MUP ’13) worked at Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), where her primary focus was to research other states with…
The Future of US Mortgage Finance
A Public Proposition Name Pamela Lee, MUP 2012 Project Title The Future…
The School of the Year 2030 in Rio de Janeiro
Urban Development in Complexo de Alemão Name Raquel Fernández Gutiérrez, MAUD 2013 Project…
The Urban Restructuring of Metropolitan Detroit
Name Catherine Tang, MAUD 2012 Project Title The Urban Restructuring of Metropolitan Detroit, Thesis Instructors…
TOC: Transit Oriented City, Second Semester Core
by Holly Masek (MUP ’13)