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…
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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…
(Slum)scapes of adaptation Weak Grounds, Risk Ecologies, Community Initiatives
by Eduardo Pelaez (MDes ULE ’19) Rapid population growth, rural-urban migration, and the occupation of…
2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: Building Biras
By MacKenzie Wasson (MArch I ’20) — Recipient of the 2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize,…
Afterlives of Orbital Infrastructures: From the Earth’s High Orbits to its High Seas
by Rajji Sanjay Desai (MDes ULE ’19) “We live in an age in which extremely…
Inveterate Scars: Confederate Monument Removal in the New South
by Ann Hunter Lynch (MLA ’19) The removal of Confederate monuments as it is carried…
Emptiful: Changing the paradigm in a post-oil landscape
by Aiysha Alsane (MLA I AP ’19) Through common language, we describe the desert as…
The Tropical Arboretum of Vegetal Dwelling: Fabled Treehouse Phylogenies
by Joshua Stevens (MLA ’19) The institution of the arboretum emerged from a tradition of using…
Smart Toilet Paper
by Anesta Iwan (MDE ’19) — Recipient of the Outstanding Design Engineering Project Award…
Wilhelm Wundt, Apperception & Psychological Figures of the Architectural Imagination
by Carrie Bly (MDes ’19) This thesis seeks to understand, to apprehend and to grasp…
Site and Shelter: Design for the ‘Whole Landscape’
by Charlotte Leib (MDes ’19) — Recipient of “Best Paper on Housing” prize, awarded by…
The Humid Threshold: Cooling hot, humid climates via membrane dehumidification
by Pamela Lucia Cabrera Pardo (MDes ’19) — Recipient of Daniel L Schodek Award for…
Cyberfeminism Catalog 1990–2020
by Malinda Seu (MDes ’19) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize This is…
Architecture for a New World: Louis Kahn and Philadelphia
by Izzy Kornblatt (MDes ’19) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize This project…
Lines in The Sand: Rethinking Private Property On Barrier Islands
by Maggie Tsang (MDes ’19) and Isaac Stein (MLA/MDes ’20) — Recipient of the Design…
It Starts with a Seed: Exploring Place-Based Socio-Ecological Care and Alternative Economies in Community Seed Saving Initiatives
by Kathryn Gourley (MUP ’19) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
Rain Bridge
by Aimilios Davlantis Lo (MArch II ’19) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters…
Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia!
by Evan Shieh (MAUD ’19) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
WILD RICE WATERS: Recovering Practice in the St. Louis River Estuary
by Melody Stein (MLA ’19) and Emily Hicks (MLA ’19) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis…
Mixed Metaphors: The Poetics of Gravity, Machines, and Empathy
by Morgan Starkey (MArch I ’19) — Recipient of James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters in Architecture…
Diffusive Geometries: Vapor as a Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimates in Architectural Space
by Honghao Deng (MDes Tech ’18) An essential function of architecture is to…
Death, Divorce, Down-sizing, Dislocation, and (Now) Display: A Self-Storage Center for a More Exhibitionist Future
By Hyojin Kwon (MArch ’18), winner of the 2018 James Templeton Kelley Prize. Kwon’s thesis…
L’Enfant’s Latency: Camping the Anacostia
by Greta Ruedisueli (MLA ’18) On the one hand, there are the highly regulated, pristine,…
Critical Intervention: Alternatives to Preservation in Mexico
by Enrique Aureng Silva (MDes ’18) Historic buildings are the physical signs of the past.
Water Assemblage: A new politic for the Mekong River Collective
by Tam Banh (MArch, MLA ’18) “The point . . . is…
Almost, But Not Quite, Entirely Unlike a Supermarket
by Shaina Kim (MArch ’18) This thesis proposes an architectural typology of the supermarket. By…
Cryosphere
by Keith Hartwig (MDes ’19) This project will reveal the entanglement of cold-producing technologies and…
Making a New City Image . . . or, An Eye for AI
by Brian Ho (MDE ’18) Making a New City Image explores the machine-mediated perception of urban…
Borderhood: Reimagining the Canada–US Borderlands
by Sonny Meng Qi Xu (MArch, MLA ’18) Through the mapping of the flows and…
TransVision: Exploring the State of the Visual Field
by Jiabao Li (MDes ’19) – Recipient of Project Prize in Design Studies Human…
Provisionally Invisible: Depicting the Margins of the Known
by Yara Saqfalhait (MDes ’19) In his preface to the second volume of Mundus Subterraneus (1665),…
Dwelling + Ground: Terraformed Housing for Port-Au-Prince
by Belle Verwaay (MArch ’18) — Winner of the 2018 Clifford Wong Prize in…
Tirana Freescape: Reconstructing Socialist Space
by William Baumgardner (MLA ’18) Tirana, Albania is a city where voices are silenced and…
From Pipeline to Platform: Imagining Innovation in the Rust Belt
by Alex Yuen (MAUD ’18) — Recipient of Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Redefining the State-Society Interface: Learning from Ghana’s Ministry of Inner City & Zongo Development
by Colleen Brady (MUP ’18) — Recipient of Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Not so skin deep: vernacularism in XL
by Ziwei Song (MArch II ’18) — Recipient of James Templeton Kelley Prize, Masters in Architecture II…
Turnpike Metabolism: Reconstituting National Infrastructure Through Landscape
by Ernest Haines (MLA I ’18) — Recipient of Masters in Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize I When…
Wild: Manhattanism Unhinged
by Seok Min Yeo (MLA I ’18) — Recipient of Masters in Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize II…
Critical Conservation of Chinese-American Culture: The story of Los Angeles’s five Chinese neighborhoods
by Hao Ding (MDes, ’17) In this project, I study the differences between Los Angeles’s…
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by Tanuja Mishra (MDes ’17) In this installation, I have alienated myself from my work…