Societal Simulations: A Carceral Geography of Restoration
by Dana McKinney (MArch/MUP ’17) — Recipient of Alpha Rho Chi Award Upon re-entry, approximately…
Thesis
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…
Mobilizing Habitations: Re-Imagining Nomadic Architecture in the Sub-Saharan Sahel Region
by Aman Singhvi (MDes ’16) As land is increasingly commoditized with an upsurge in population,…
In Search of Authenticity: A Case Study of San Francisco Chinatown
by Yunjie Li (MDes ’16) A city or neighborhood is attractive because of its unique…
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…
Un-Greening Golden Gate Park
by Josselyn Ivanov (MDes ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of…
Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…
Te Vas o Te Quedas? Variations in the Explanations for Housing Abandonment in Tijuana, México
by Francisco Lara-García (MUP ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Department…
Towards Sentience: Attuning the Los Angeles River’s Fluvial Morphology
by Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis incorporates the…
CITY HALLucination: The Arching Attitudes of City Halls from Surface to Type
by Trax Yinan Wang (MAUD ’16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis aims to…
From Terroir to Territory: Vineyard Public Space
by Alexander Cassini (MLA I ’16) The French concept of terroir claims that characteristics of place…
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…
Living and Working in Phytoremediating Brownfield Sites, Creating Healthier Environments than Is the Norm in Urban Conditions
by Jane Philbrick (MDes CC ’16) Phytoremediation, a remedial technique using living plant…
Coupling Thermal Mass & Buoyancy for Thermoregulation and Ventilation in India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes ’16) This thesis explores how the form and mass of a…
Abductive Architecture
by Alexander Timmer (MArch ’16) Inference or logical reasoning in the design, representation, and dissemination…
The Phantom Projective
by Iman Fayyad (MArch ’16) This thesis is an investigation of the production of form…
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…
Reenactment
by Qinqin Wu (MDes ’15) Contemporary types of reenactments challenge the prevalent view that conservation…
FITNESS
by Kaley Blackstock (MArch ’15) The body is a thermal machine, constantly negotiating the environmental…
Public Spaces, Private Lives: Encoding Environments to Incite Civil Courtesies
by Jen Krava (MDes ’15) This project investigates the issue of violence against women and…
Francis D. Pastorius’ Garden: A Botanical Cosmos in a “Howling Wilderness” (c. 1683–1719)
by Miranda Mote (MDes HPD ‘15) Francis D. Pastorius described Pennsylvania as Germany’s howling wilderness,…
Mass Customization of Reciprocol Frame Structures: Digital Optimization and Robotic Manufacture
by Ana Garcia Puyol (MDes ’14) This thesis focuses on the creation of a digital…
Learning from District Six: Drawing On Cape Town
by Ashley Mendelsohn (MDes ’14) District Six is an infamous example of the forced-removals of…
Void Urbanism. A Genealogy
by Roi Salgueiro Barrio (MDes ’14) The thesis posits that the notion of void and its…
'Self-Reliant' Architecture and Body in North Korea, circa 1980
by Melany Sun-Min Park (MDes ’14) Kim Jong-il’s 46th birthday, 16 February 1987, marked the…
The Lower Athabasca Regional Counterplan
by Christopher Alton (MDes ’14) This thesis is constructed as a critical analysis of the…
(Re)Considering Energy and Existing Multi-wythe Brick
by Julie Paul Brown (MDes ’14) Multi-wythe (or “mass”) brick construction has been familiar to…
New Contours of Crisis: Shaping Retreat and Resettlement in the Northeast
by George Gard (MAUD ’14) New data, recent experiences, and coastal scholars have shown that…
"Please in My Back Yard": Mitigating the aesthetic effects of wind turbines
by Jennifer A. Haugh (MDes ’14) Exploring and analyzing the potential for artistic interventions with…
The HighLink
by Brian Vargo (MDes ’15) The HighLink is a winning proposal in an ideas competition…
Logistical Urbanization
by Conor O’Shea (MDes ’14) Logistical urbanization historically contextualizes and theorizes processes of urbanization catalyzed…