Logistical Urbanization
by Conor O’Shea (MDes ’14) Logistical urbanization historically contextualizes and theorizes processes of urbanization catalyzed…
Thesis
Wet Grounds: Emerging Landscapes of Storage
by Adriana Chávez (MDes ’14) “Wet Grounds: Emerging Landscapes of Storage” is a projective research…
Slope: Intercept
by Sara Hendren (MDes ’13) My ongoing project, Slope : Intercept,…
Other[ed] City: (Re)presentations of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Urban West
by Somayeh Chitchian (MDes ’13) Working from the broad cultural context implicit in Critical Conservation,…
Architecture for a Recovered Democracy
by Manuel López Segura (MDes ’13) This thesis deals with 1980s architecture in the Valencian…
The Event Landscape: Experience, Attendance, Alter-Institutionality
by Gavin Kroeber (MDes ’12) The disciplinary categories we use to partition and manage cultural…
Building 'Code': A Spatial Ethology
by Marshall Prado (MDes ’12) This research is a study of urban agents in the…
Time-Honored Versus Bigger and Better: Critical and Strategic Conservation in Post-Katrina Mississippi
by Christopher L. Cosper (MDesS ’13) Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August…
Flexible Urbanism: Retroactive Assemblage for the Contemporary City
by Daniel Ibanez (MDes ’12) Historically, urbanization has depended upon landscapes and broader ecologies to…
Border as Urbanism: Redrawing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea
by Dongsei Kim (MDes ’12) Borders are everywhere and exist at every level of our…
The Inconspicuous Life of Walls
by Jutta Friedrichs (MDes ’12) The Inconspicuous Life of Walls amplifies the natural and sublime…
Spatio-Phenomenal Intervention: Sculpting the ephemeral
by Melissa Kit Chow (MDes ’12) and Helena Slosar (MDes ’12) Spatio-phenomenal intervention (SPI) is…
Soft Modular Pneumatic System A Biologically-inspired Smart Building System
by Daekwon Park (MDes ’12) This thesis investigates the design process of biologically-inspired smart building…
Counter-Forms: Sacrifice as Catalytic Dissent
by Aviva Rubin (MDes ’12) This thesis proposes a re-conceptualization of the moment of dissent…
Delhi, The City of Edges
by Aneesha Dharwadker (MDes ’12) There is a wall in Delhi being swallowed by architecture.
Chaebol Urbanism
Chaebol Urbanism: Diversified Corporate Conglomerates as Agents of Urban Transformation in the Seoul Metropolitan Region…
re:reading borders
by Sofia Balters (MArch ’17) Void of natural geographic divisions, how does a border communicate…