2021 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Proey Liao’s “An Attempt to Approach a Void: Georges Perec, Cause commune, and the Infraordinary”
by Proey Liao (MArch II/MDes ’21) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize In…
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2021 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Juan David Grisales’ “From Humboldt to Caldas: Environmental Liberations through Tropical Altitudes”
by Juan David Grisales (MDes / MLA I AP ’21) — Recipient of the Design…
2021 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Adam Mekies’ “Aggregate, Aggregation + Geotechnical Urbanism”
by Adam Mekies (MLAUD ’21) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize Within the…
2021 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Mary Louise Chatters Taylor’s “Urban Planning and Mental Wellness in Black Communities”
by Mary Louise Chatters Taylor (MUP ’21) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize…
2021 James Templeton Kelley Prize and Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Shaina Yang’s “Cripping Architecture”
by Shaina Yang (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Joanne Li’s “Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum and Evolution Lab”
by Joanne Li (MLA ’21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Gracie Villa’s “City | Forest: Reordering Plant-Human Relationships Toward Healthy Cities”
by Gracie Villa (MLA I ’21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
2021 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Calvin Boyd’s “Pair of Dice, Para-Dice, Paradise: A Counter-Memorial to Victims of Police Brutality”
by Calvin Boyd (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
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: 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.