Converging Divergence: Film Shed as Cinematic Device
by George Zhang (MArch, MLA ’18) Sited on the water’s edge in Boston’s Seaport District,…
Projects
A Summer Retreat for Lindsey Vonn
by Caroline Chao (March ’19) The world we inhabit is intrinsically connected to our mental…
Blurred Lines
by Andreea Vasile Hoxha (MLA ’20) The project repurposes the Northern side of Franklin Park…
Journey
by Wilson Harkhono (MArch ’19), Yina Moore (MArch ’19) This project, a museum of porcelain,…
Jingdezhen Rekindled
by Aaron Hill (MLA ’18), Caleb Marhoover (MArch ’19) In Jingdezhen, we can rediscover the…
Borderhood: Reimagining the Canada–US Borderlands
by Sonny Meng Qi Xu (MArch, MLA ’18) Through the mapping of the flows and…
Stress Terrain
by Anne Chen (MLA ’18), Yoeun Chung (MAUD ’19), Shuo Zhao (MAUD ’18) Stress have…
Orchard, Nursery, Public Park: Franklin Park’s Next 100 Years
by Kira Clingen (MLA ’20) “Orchard, Nursery, Public Park” seeks to reinvigorate Frederick Law Olmsted’s…
TransVision: Exploring the State of the Visual Field
by Jiabao Li (MDes ’19) – Recipient of Project Prize in Design Studies Human…
LIVE, WORK, PLAY: Renovation and Repurposing of Vacant Office to Mixed Use Co-Living Housing
by Keunyoung Lim (MArch ’19) Context Having complicated urban problems, St. Louis functions as a…
Schoemehl Products
by Ashutosh Singhal (MAUD ’19) It was the former mayor, Vincent Schoemehl, that introduced the…
Model World
by Rose Florian Rodriguez (MAUD ’18) Model World tries to address the school to prison…
Provisionally Invisible: Depicting the Margins of the Known
by Yara Saqfalhait (MDes ’19) In his preface to the second volume of Mundus Subterraneus (1665),…
Port District Interbay: Seattle
by Georgios Avramides (MDes ’18), Duly Lee (MDes ’18), John Lee (MDes ’18), Emily Marsh (MUP…
GLORESI #OLIVETTI
by Dalia Alderzi (MDes ’19), Alaa Raafat (MDes ’18), and Carlotta Weller (MDes ’19) — Recipients of…
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…
Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children
Global displacement has surpassed that witnessed in the wake of World War…
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…
Future of the American City
The Future of the American City project is an urban study initiative…
Detroit’s Got Lots: The Generation Z Guide to Warrendale’s Vacant Lots
by Ann Salerno (MLA I ’18) Warrendale—like many of Detroit’s neighborhoods—has a lot of vacant…
Street Dreams: Redefining Revitalization at West Warren Avenue
by Natasha Hicks (MUP/MDes ’19) and Simone Hodgson (MUP ’18) This project explored what inclusive…
Growing-Up Warrendale: Trauma-Informed Landscape Operations for Neighborhood Intersections
by Ana Cristina Garcia (MLA I ’17) The neighborhood of Warrendale in Detroit is transforming…
Pharma 2100
by Anesta Iwan (MDE ’19)) Is our country focused more on fixing our problems or…
Human-Building Interaction
Our research has highlighted the challenges of understanding, simulating, and designing for the complex interactions between…
Ascending and Descending Planes
by Andreea Vasile Hoxha (MLA ’20) Through a series of ascending and descending planes, the…
Monastery & Brewery in Säynätsalo
by Benjamin Hayes (MArch ’19) The monastery and brewery reinvigorate Säynätsalo, Finland, by providing a…
Collected Towers: Life as a Spectacle
by Kaoru Lovett (MArch ’20) Nested within Boston’s urban topography, the opera house serves as…
The Four Ecologies 2.0
by Suthata Jiranuntarat (MArch I ’19), Sonny Meng Qi Xu (MArch, MLA ’18) How…
Shadowboxer
by Jonathan Gregurick (MArch ’21) Shadowboxer hides a fifth room in a seemingly four room…
PostGuild, Guild House
by Farnoosh Rafaie (MArch ’18) The presence of perimeter is what we subconsciously associated with…
The Paradox
Je Sung Lee (MDes ’19) When it comes to the “wilderness,” we often fall into…
Futurism 2.0
by Nicolas Turchi (MArch ’18) The project aims to address the question of why and…
A Bank in a Bank
by Taylor Halamka (MArch ’19), Julia Roberts (MArch ’19) A bank for Burbank demands a…
Stable/Unstable Grounds
by Sarah Diamond (MLA ’19), Wan Fung Lee (MLA ’19), Matthew Macchietto (MLA ’19) Our project…
Tin Whiskers, or The Ghost in the Machine Part II
by Matthew Gehm (MArch ’19), Jonathan Gregurick (MArch ’21) Our project represents the culmination of…