POV
by Ali Sherif (MArch I ’23) The sports complex splits the program into two types:…
Projects
Highlands’ Harvest
by Alysoun Wright (MUP/ MLA I AP ’21) The Lower Highlands neighborhood of Lowell,…
Meeting House: Using the Window as a Generator of Interstitial Space
by Sonya Falkovskaia (MArch I ’23) “Meeting House: Using the Window as a Generator of…
Transmission Right of Way
by Fabiana Casale (MLA I AP ’22), Yvonne Fang (MLA I ’21), and Maria Ulloa…
Live/Work/Rent
by Tyler Rodgers (MArch I ’22) and Tracy Tang (MArch I ’22) This project addresses…
Franklin Park’s Edge
by Sophie Mattinson (MLA I ’22) In “Franklin Park’s Edge,” the perimeter opens to its…
Rewilding the Urban Block: Constructing Permeability through Artificial Ground
by Kari Roynesdal (MLA I AP/MUP ’21) This project seeks to increase urban permeability in…
A Generosity Beyond Means
by Jonathan Ng (MArch I ’22) and Edda Steingrimsdottir (MArch I ’22) Mass housing faces…
Le Circuit Périphérique
by Jorge Ituarte-Arreola (MAUD ’21), Alex Kozak (MDes REBE ’21), Melissa Ponce (MDes REBE ’21),…
Rethinking the “Room” through the Pandemic: Isolation, Openness, and Confrontation
by Clara Hu Me (MArch I ’24) Based on a formal and theoretical examination of…
27 Pillars
by Alejandra Avalos Guerrero (MArch II ’21) A little building in a little plot. The…
Food on Mixed Ontology
by Sean Kim (MArch II/ MDes ADPD ’22) and Ge Zhou (MArch II ’21) Food…
J. Edgar’s Mask
by Yifan Wang (MLA I AP ’21) When the hyperplastic organ of the Federal Bureau…
String-pieced Columns
by Cecilia Huber (MLA ’20) When Andrew Jackson Downing submitted his plans for the National…
A Pile of CLT
by Edgar Rodriguez (March II ’20) Building upon the research developed for a suburban…
FOOD PARK
by Mengying Ouyang (MAUD ’20) and Shi Tang (MLA II ’21) Los Angeles County and…
300 Panels, 400 Cuts, 400 Bandages
by Anna Goga (MArch II ’20) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters in Architecture…
Housing with a long corridor
by Hee Young Pyun (MArch II ’20) It has huge windows facing the small alley.
Re-Thinking LIC
by Aeshna Prasad (MAUD ’21) and Isaac Tejeira (MAUD ’22) With its identity stuck between…
Freakish Grounds: An Urban Botanical Collection for a Hotter LA
by Karissa Campos (MLA I AP ’20), Hannah Chako (MLA I ’20), and Zoë Holland…
Vitrines for Living
by Stephanie Lloyd (MArch I ’22) and Diandra Rendradjaja (MArch I ’22) Contemporary housing practices…
Embracing Dichotomy
by Xijia Zhang (MLA I AP ’20), Shunfan Zheng (MAUD ’20), and Sungchan Kim (MArch…
Platform for Reuse
by Cynthia Deng (MArch I/ MUP ’21) and Hannah Hoyt (MArch I ’21) La Défense…
Snow Bank
by Diana Guo (MLA I ’21), Runke Luo (MLA I AP ’21), and Yuning Zhang…
Permanence in the Temporal: Artifacts for Freedom in the Rohingya Refugee Camp
by Nadyeli Quiroz (MDes ULE/ MLA I AP ’20) According to Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben,…
Da Yun He: Symbolism and Evolution Under China’s Leadership
by Frank Wen Yao (MDes ULE ’20) For centuries, China has been known for its…
Working with Urban Informality: A Postcolonial Critique of Planning Theory based on Lessons from the Caño Martín Peña Special Planning District
by Samantha Saona (MDes ULE ’20) This thesis adds to the postcolonial perspective of informality…
Land Grabs and Land Grants: Social Forestry as New Governmentality in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
by Ziwei Zhang (MLA ’17/ MDes ULE ’20) This thesis focuses on social forestry…
2020 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Karan Saharya’s “In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Differential Development, Spatial Cleansing, and Social Exclusion in Mehrauli, Delhi”
by Karan Saharya (MDes ’20) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize I intend…
2020 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Angela Mayrina’s “A Guidebook to an Empty Land: Kalimantan and the Shadows of the Capital”
by Angela Mayrina (MDes ’20) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize Indonesia is…
2020 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Justin Cawley’s “Rescaling the University: Vertical Campuses and Postindustrial Urban Restructuring in Western Sydney”
by Justin Cawley (MAUD ’20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
2020 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Margaret Haltom’s “The Next Southern Landmark: A Roadmap to Confederate Monument Redesigns and RFP for the Site of a Former White Supremacist Statue”
by Margaret Haltom (MUP ’20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
2020 Masters in Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Chelsea Kilburn’s “That Sinking Feeling: Subsidence Parables of the San Joaquin Valley”
by Chelsea Kilburn (MLA I AP ’20) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize This…
2020 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Anna Goga’s “Porch House + 300 Panels, 400 Cuts, 400 Bandages”
by Anna Goga (MArch II ’20) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters in Architecture…
2020 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Ian Miley’s “Stranger in Moscow: The Diplomatic Illusive”
by Ian Miley (MArch I AP ’20) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters in…
2020 Clifford Wong Prize: A House is Not a Home
by Qin Ye Chen (MArch I 2022) and Yiwen Wang (MArch I AP 2022) —…
The Fundamentals
by Alexis Boivin (MArch I ’22) The project started by studying Mies’s conception of the…
Hidden Room – Doubled Room
by Sean Nakamura Dolan (MArch I ’23) The stairs offer an unexpected displacement of the…
Equity in Housing Distribution
by Sarah Fayad (MLAUD ’20) Los Angeles needs over 560,000 units to close the gap…
Building on Bobst: A New Interior
by Isaac Pollan (MArch I ’22) Philip Johnson’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library has been a…