Ark, a Plural Whole
by Konstantinos Chatzaras (MArch ’17) Accepting pluralism as a contemporary zeitgeist and the city as…
Thesis
Zea Mays / Corn as Civilization, Commodity, Consumerism and Control
Alberto de Salvatierra (MDes ’17) Maize (zea mays)—commonly known as corn—often evokes nostalgic visions of…
Unfolding the Western District Public Cargo Working Area in Hong Kong
Benni Yu-ling Pong (MDes ’17) The Western District Public Cargo Working Area (WDPCWA) in Hong…
Fans: Constructed Invisibles
by Catty Dan Zhang (MDes ’17) Gabriele d’ Annunzio described the “richest events occur in…
The Future is Nutty: Balanoculture for the World
by Jane Zhang (MDes ’17) It takes an Oak tree on average 30 years to…
Suggestive Drawing Along Human and Artificial Intelligences
by Nono Martínez Alonso (MDes ’17) We use sketching as a medium to represent the…
Fashioned Forms
by Amir Karimpour (MDes ’17) Design requires an expression of form (a particular condition, character…
Underutilized Strategies in the American Multifamily Sector: How Community, Branding, and Amenities Could Reshape the Residential Apartment Market
Kevin Michael Sievers (MDes ’17) This research investigates three current industry trends in the multifamily…
Energizing Retrofits in an Inefficient Market: A Scalable Model for Small Commercial Buildings
by Greg Hopkins (MDes ’17) Buildings consume more energy than any other sector in the…
Peter Eisenman’s The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture: A Preface
Xuan Luo (MDes ’17) This thesis is a retrospective reading of Peter Eisenman’s 1963 doctoral…
Theatre of the Dialogic Self: Carlo Aymonino’s Civic Architecture
Tairan An (MDes ’17) The Roman architect Carlo Aymonino (1926-2010) is one of the most…
Gateway of India: An Undesirable Fragment of Colonial Architecture
Javier Ors Ausin (MDes ’17) The extravaganza of the British colonial power in India left…
Towards a New Geography: Rural Tourism in China
by Guan Min (MDes ’17) Urban, widely understood as the elementary unit of human settlement,…
Critical Chinese Copying
by Boya Gua (MDes ’17) The modern influence of the West in changing the concepts…
A spoon
by Youngjin Song (MDes ’17) We confront. We observe. We choose. We manipulate. We bring. We…
Through the Looking Glass
Tanuja Mishra (MDes ’17) The internet has grown from its humble origins into a behemoth…
Living Conservation
by Mary Catherine Miller (MDes ’17) Prominent ecologists and biologists have published extensively on the…
The Chinese Block: Searching for A New Spatial Construct
by Liang Wang (MAUD ’17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Sovereignty on Stilts: Drawing a Genealogy of Extra-Territorial Urbanization along the Mudflats of the Tropical Belt
by Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes ’17) and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MDes ’17)—Recipient of the Project Prize in…
tchotch·ke
by Jonathan Rieke (MArch ’17) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelly Prize tchotch·ke /’CHäCHkə/ noun…
Logistics Urbanism: The Socio-Spatial Project of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
by Caroline Filice Smith (MAUD ’17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
Re-FORM: Towards Human-Scale Urbanism in China
by Sol Andrew Stokols (MUP ’17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize…
Gradually, Fiercely: Amazon and the Urbanism of Fulfillment
by David Zielnicki (MLA ’17) Amazon operates at the scale of the planet: it is a…
Forward from Woodward: Planning New Growth along the American Rust Belt
by Jonah Susskind (MLA ’17) — Recipient of ASLA Certificate of Honor and ASLA Certificate of…
Over : Under : Through—Immersive Landscape as Resilient Infrastructure
by Kira Sargent (MLA ’17) — Recipient of ASLA Certificate of Honor and ASLA Certificate of…
Coastal Retreat: Staging Inundation in Provincetown
by Kent Hipp (MLA ’17) — Recipient of ASLA Certificate of Honor and ASLA Certificate of…
Rigged New World
by Hannah Gaengler (MLA ’17) — Recipient of Norman T. Newton Prize Nearing the end of…
Bewildered in Banff: Displacing the Contours of Colonization in Canada’s National Parks System
by Tiffany Dang (MLA ’17) — Recipient of ASLA Certificate of Honor and ASLA Certificate…
Rise: A Guide to Boundary Resistance
by Alexandra Mei (MLA ’17) — Recipient of 2017 MLA Thesis Prize The distinction between…
Art of Assembly
by Evan Farley (MArch ’17) — Recipient of Faculty Design Award MArch I The production of…
Untitled 01 | 170219
by Zack Matthews (MArch ’17) — Recipient of Faculty Design Award MArch II The purpose…
Feral Frames
Zahra Safaverdi (MArch II, ’17) — Recipient of James Templeton Kelley Prize Throughout recent history,…
Constructing Panorama: vision, views and the non-visible
by Benjamin Halpern (MArch ’17) — Recipient of Julia Amore Appleton Traveling Fellowship in Architecture…
Societal Simulations: A Carceral Geography of Restoration
by Dana McKinney (MArch/MUP ’17) — Recipient of Alpha Rho Chi Award Upon re-entry, approximately…
The City’s Lobby: Making Space for Social Interaction in Tourism
by Anita Sellers Helfrich (MArch ’17) In a globalizing world, tourists are a…
Medial Ground: A Critique on the Disembodied School
by Allison Cottle (MArch ’17) Medial Ground critically examines the role of space and the…
Sensible Concrete with Optical Fiber: Application with Light, Force and Data Transmissions
by Yuan Gao (MArch ’17) Concrete is traditionally treated as a material primarily for load-bearing…
A Fair, A Fare, Affair for Architecture: Curating Architecture and Other Oxymora
by Daniela Leon (MArch ’17) This thesis is framed within the paradox of curating architecture.
Groundedness as Risk: Adaptive Strategies for Ground Failures in Seattle
by Arthur Leung (MDes ’17) This thesis argues that the conditions of the ground—the mutable…
Informed Consent in Contemporary Construction
by Erin Ota (MDes ’17) According to Salmaan Craig, the first time synthetic materials were invented…