Critical Intervention: Alternatives to Preservation in Mexico
by Enrique Aureng Silva (MDes ’18) Historic buildings are the physical signs of the past.
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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…
Ark, a Plural Whole
by Konstantinos Chatzaras (MArch ’17) Accepting pluralism as a contemporary zeitgeist and the city as…
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…