Art of Assembly
by Evan Farley (MArch ’17) — Recipient of Faculty Design Award MArch I The production of…
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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.
Parametric Energy Simulation in Early Design
This project proposed a framework for the development of early-design guidance to inform architects and policy-makers using…
Third Semester Architecture Core: INTEGRATE
Selected projects from Third Semester Architecture Core by Bradley Silling (MArch ’19)…
Catalog of Parts
by Yuyanguang Mou (MArch ’17) The ambiguity of tropical cities sometimes could be reflected through…
Ambiguous Pictures: Dynamic Projections of Non-Euclidean Space
by Iman Fayyad (MArch ’16), Irving Innovation Fellow, 2016 The art historian Ernst Gombrich reminds…
Plywood Napkins: Revisiting the Fold through Recursion
by Alexander Timmer (MArch ’16), Irving Innovation Fellow, 2016-2017 Plywood Napkins explores the possibility of…
Drawing the Line
Ana Luiza Addor & Maia Peck (MArch ’16) As bodies inside of other bodies, we…
You Make Your Own Bed
by Maia Peck (MArch ’16) Performance and mixed media installation Air is the new commons….We…
City Form Lab’s Grid Structures
The City Form Lab’s research on grid structures has developed a novel building technology…
One La Défense
Defining the historic axis that continues beyond the Grand Arche de La Défense in Nanterre, France,…
La Folie Divine
La Folie Divine is the first of the twelve follies to be built on brownfield…
Representing Force: Lebbeus Woods and the Havana Projects
by Eliyahu Keller (MDes ’16) “I don’t care very much about building buildings. I care about…
Computational Craft: Construction of Carbon-fiber Composites
by Tiffany Cheng (MDes ’16) How can new technologies enable carbon fiber to be pushed…
Projectors, Experiments in Image Tectonics
by Zeina Koreitem (MDes Tech ’16) — Recipient of the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology…
On Adapting
by Caio Barboza (MArch ’16) and Sofia Blanco Santos (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the James Templeton…
Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…
KAWAII-KOWAI Amplifying the Affective Loop
by Erin Cuevas (MArch II ’16) The proposal in Tokyo addresses the duality between Kawaii…
The Littleton Trials
by David Kennedy (MDes ’16), Jacob Mans (MDes ’16), and Benjamin Peek (MDes ’16)—Recipient of the…
Hyperbolic Cosines: Recasting Form Finding to Induce Ventilation Performance
We explored the allometric potential of a funicular catenary form to both modulate interior climatic…
Show/Flow
by Andrew Keating (MArch ’17 ) and Scott Smith (MArch ’17 ) This project hybridizes…
A Slight yet Reliable Breeze
by Aaron Mendonca (MDes ’17), Sarah Kantrowitz (MArch ’17), and Jerónimo van Schendel Erice (MArch…
Abductive Architecture
by Alexander Timmer (MArch ’16) Inference or logical reasoning in the design, representation, and dissemination…
Allometric Sake
by Amira Abdel-Rahman (MDes ’17), Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes ’17), and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MArch/MDes…
Information Tool on Urban Water Systems
The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure has developed the Information Tool on Urban Water…
The Phantom Projective
by Iman Fayyad (MArch ’16) This thesis is an investigation of the production of form…
Borders: Ocean as Platform
by B. Cannon Ivers (MLA ’16) This speculative project examines the perceived borders between land, sky…
The Epistemological Condition of the Magazine: Arquitecturas Bis and its Editorial Board (1974-1985)
by Alejandro Valdivieso (MDes HPD ’16) Valdivieso’s research, developed between Madrid (UPM) and Cambridge (Harvard), focuses…
Musical Box: The Well-Tempered House and the Hollowed Column
by Daniel Quesada Lombo (MArch ’17) The project reconfigures the horizontal patio house into a…
Celosía Cosida
by Kritika Dhanda, Alkistis Mavroeidi, and Jake Rudin (all MDes ‘16) How can we create…
Toward Buildings that Work: Reusing Design-Phase Energy Models for Operations-Phase Improvements
Too frequently today’s energy-efficient building designs fall far short of performance expectations. Yet, most building…
Real-World Energy Model Calibration
by Holly Samuelson This research evaluates the accuracy of 18 design-phase building energy models…
Design and Simulation Workflow of an Office Building in New Delhi, India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes EE ’16), Huishan He (MDes EE ’16), Rufei Wang (MDes RR ’16),…