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…
Projects
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.
Cambridge Community Development Department, Cambridge, MA
Laura Gilmore (MUP 2013), spent her 2012 summer working for the Environment and Transportation division…
Chaebol Urbanism
Chaebol Urbanism: Diversified Corporate Conglomerates as Agents of Urban Transformation in the Seoul Metropolitan Region…
City of Everett, Everett, MA
Ksenya Benderskaya's (MUP '13) flagship project for the City of Everett was to create a preliminary…
Linking the Hill to New Haven's Central Corridor
Name Fabiana Meacham, MUP 2013 Project Title Linking the Hill to New Haven’s Central Corridor,…
Moving Centers, Shared Lines. There is no post-industrial city.
by Savina Romanos (MAUD '13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD '13) In October 1949, Mao…
MudWorks
MudWorks is a design-build installation and exhibition demonstrating the potential of building with raw earth.
New Haven 2050
Re-connect Open Space Celebrating a Knowledge-based Urban Life Name Qingnan Liu, MUP 2013…
Rediscovering glories
by Fabiana Araujo (MAUD '13) The design proposed for Plaça de les Glories a aims to…
Sanriku Project, Minamisanriku, Japan
A year out from last year's tsunami, attitudes were very different. As part of the…
Solo Kota Kita, Indonesia
Alykhan Mohamed (MUP 2013) travelled to Indonesia for a summer internship with Solo…
Somerville Community Corporation, Somerville, MA
Tessa Perry (MUP '13) worked at Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), where her primary focus was to research other states with…
The Future of US Mortgage Finance
A Public Proposition Name Pamela Lee, MUP 2012 Project Title The Future…
The School of the Year 2030 in Rio de Janeiro
Urban Development in Complexo de Alemão Name Raquel Fernández Gutiérrez, MAUD 2013 Project…
The Urban Restructuring of Metropolitan Detroit
Name Catherine Tang, MAUD 2012 Project Title The Urban Restructuring of Metropolitan Detroit, Thesis Instructors…
TOC: Transit Oriented City, Second Semester Core
by Holly Masek (MUP '13)…
Assessing the relationship between urban design and urban climate in selected Bronx neighborhoods
Research assessing the relationship between urban design features and urban climate in densely populated neighborhoods…
Extreme Urbanism I: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Back Bay of Mumbai—underdeveloped, sandwiched between high rise office and residential blocks, historic buildings,…
Itinerant Architecture
by Jeung Eun Lee (MArch '12) The world we live in today is complex, afflicted…
Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House
by Lap Chi Kwong (MArch '13) A Natural Form of Architectural Narration and Construction…
Lock Building, First Semester Core Studio
by Eun Jung Yoo (MArch I '15) [1-4], and Hung Lai (Wesley) Ho (MArch I'15)…
New Norc City
Names Jack Becker, MAUD 2012 Nicolas Rivard, MAUD 2012 Project Title New Norc City,…
Performing Arts Center, Third Semester Core
by Lauren (Elle) Gerdeman (MArch '14) The Government Service Center, voted the ugliest building in…
Perimeter Plan – First Semester Core Studio
by Corey Seeger (MArch I '15) [1-3], Chen Lu (MArch I '15) [4-6], Kaley Blackstock (MArch I…
Site/Building Reciprocity, First Semester Core Studio
by Ben Ruswick (MArch I '15) [1-6), and Chen Lu (MArch I '15) [7-10] The…
South America Project
The South America Project (SAP) is a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses…
The Hidden Room, First Semester Core Studio
by Chen Lu (MArch I '15) [1-6], and Ben Burdick (MArch I '15) [7-9] This…
The People’s Downtown, First Semester Core Studio
by Edward (Mike) Healy (MUP '13) Boston's Fenway-Kenmore/Longwood district hosts an array of assets that…
Campus in Motion: A Sports Science Research Institute for Coney Island
by Amy Fung (MAUD '12) and Danish Kurani (MAUD '12) This project addresses a neglected and…
Flatland: Romance of Many Dimensions
by Casey Hughes (MArch '11) Flatland is an installation that forms a canopy over the…
National Art Museum of China
In the past two decades, our museums have become larger and larger; they have now…
Designing Process: Creating long-term replicable community building solutions in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The earthquake of January 12, 2010 turned the already critical shortage of housing in Haiti…
A Better City
Catherine Tang (MAUD '12) worked with A Better City (ABC), an independent, membership-based, non-profit organization…