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…
Projects
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…
The Eternal Simulation Project
by William Smith (MArch II ’20) The Eternal Simulation Project is a model: a model…
Hidden Landscape
by Xijia Zhang (MLA I AP ’20) In the small country of Switzerland, landscape is…
Jump Cut
by Min Sung Kim (MArch I ’23) This project creates a continuity between the two…
“downlifting”
by Erik Fichter (MArch I AP ’22) “downlifting” addresses urban densification, instantiating the relationship between…
(e)motion library
by Nashra Balagamwala (MDes ADPD ’21) and Mengfei Wang (MDes ADPD ’20) People worldwide currently…
Dynasty
by Yaxuan Liu (MArch I ’21) Over the past decade, the revival of…
(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,…
2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: El Mercado Modelo de Miami
By Tessa Crespo (MDes Risk & Resilience ’20) and Stefan Bird (MIT MSRED ’20) —…
2020 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: Oasi Plaza
By Zehui Gong (MAUD ’20), Jing Hai (MAUD ’20), Daisha Martin (MUP ’20), and Sidharth…
Re-fragmentation
By Thomas Huang (MArch I ’23) This spatial exercise renders a perfectly centralized space as…
Terra Fluxus
By Shizheng Geng (MAUD ’21) and Youngju Kim (MAUD ’21) Our project, ‘Terra Fluxus,’ aims…
Ecological Machines
By Simon Escabi Santos (MLA 1 AP ’20) The city of Santiago, Chile, is located…
Running the Course: Unifying Franklin Park One Step at a Time
by Lucy Humphreys (MLA ’22) Franklin Park, the Eastern-most park of Olmstead’s Emerald Necklace, exists…
Peanut Farm Casino and Resort
By Jonathan Lee (March II ’20) Greetings. Sit back, lay-down, stand up, kneel, curl into…
The Island of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
by Anna Goga (March II ’20) This project is located in-between the Diomede Islands, precisely…
LOW-ENERGY | HIGH-RISE
by David Ling (MArch ’20) — Recipient of second prize in the…
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…
At The Dinner Table — Green to Orange: Building Ireland’s food security and identity
By Jiyun Jeong (MLA ’19) Food reveals the culture and identity of the place. What…
Creating Higher Ground in Boston’s Seaport
By Amelia Muller (MUP ’20) In September 2018, the City of Boston published estimates…
Nourishing Captiva
by Naoko Asno, Anna Curtis-Heald, Jenjira Holmes, Phia Sennett (all MLA ’19) On March 5,…
The New Generic
by Daniel Garcia (MArch II ’20) In, The Generic City, Rem Koolhaas asks us…
Surface of Confluence, An Infrastructural Museum on the National Mall
by Zi Meng (MArch I AP ’21) This project intends to synthetize multiple architectural interests…
Vegetation Orientation: Franklin Park’s Way
by Chelsea Dombroskie (MLA I ’21) Franklin Park is challenging to navigate. Vegetation Orientation…