Third Semester Architecture Core: INTEGRATE
Selected projects from Third Semester Architecture Core by Bradley Silling (MArch ’19)…
Projects
Re-Tooling Metropolis: Provisional Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism in Houston’s Eastern Bayous
by Yuxi Qin (MLA ’17) and Christopher Reznich (MLA ’17) …
Catalog of Parts
by Yuyanguang Mou (MArch ’17) The ambiguity of tropical cities sometimes could be reflected through…
The Possibility of an Island
Andres Camacho (MArch ’19) Who would build the island? Would it be the Mitsubishi Group?…
The W
by Van-Tuong Nguyen (MDes REBE ’18), Carla Wijaya (MAUD ’18) and Maxime Faure (MAUD ’18)…
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…
Territories of Flux
Gloria Chang (MDes ’18), Dení López (MDes ’18), Ruth Chang (MArch ’17) Our project addresses…
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…
SELENOGRAPHY: The Celestial Sovereign
by Genevieve Ennis Hume (MDes ’17) Baudrillard writes that “it is no longer a question of…
Informed Consent in Contemporary Construction
by Erin Ota (MDes ’17) According to Salmaan Craig, the first time synthetic materials were invented…
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…
New Towns Initiative
New towns have been a dominant concept in urban planning throughout the 20th…
Autoscopic Extremis
by Keith Hartwig (MDes ’18) Autoscopic Extremis examines the aerostat’s many manifestations and symbolic meanings throughout…
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…
NoBe Nexo—Recipient of the 2017 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize
by Lisa Hollywood (MAUD ’17), Chris Merritt (MLA ’17), Patricia Alvarez (MDes REBE ’18) and Lindsay…
Flamingo Waterpark
by Izgi Uygur (MLA ’18) In subtropical climates such as Florida’s, there is either too much…
Miami Beach Baywalk
by Chris Merritt (MLA ’17) The Miami Beach Baywalk will serve as an infrastructure for storm…
Ocean Court
by Daniel Widis (MLA ’16) Tenuously positioned as an informal slip of sand and coral…
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…
Pneuma(tic) Bodies
Installation-Performance, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA), Cambridge, MA, 2016 Pneuma(tic) Bodies…
Representing Mimi Sheller’s “Aluminum Dreams”
by Erin Ota (MDes/MArch ’17) Animation representing Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity by Mimi…
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…
Phyto Garden
A New Paradise-Renewal of Damaged and Polluted City Land with the Power and Work of…
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…
OBJECTHOOD — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design
by Liang Wang (MAUD ’17) and Lu Zhang (MAUD ’17) — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize…
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…