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100-Day Exhibition: Labor, Robots, and Corridors
(2021-05-21)
This thesis proposes a weird, giant, and cycling memorial spectacle with the introduction of a new sort of labor in the format of a 100-day exhibition. The robotic machines replaced the enslaved persons to run a closed ...
The Trojan Cinema: A Confabulation of AlKhayam
(2021-05-27)
In 1956, the premier of the film, Helen of Troy, took place in the newly finished building complex of Al Khayam; a 1,500 seat cinema engulfed by a hotel located in Baghdad, Iraq. The opening of the cinema happened to fall ...
Middle Ground: Between Monument and Fabric
(2021-05-26)
This thesis re-assesses our contemporary distinctions between monument and fabric to discover methods for intervening in historic cities. Antwerp, like many European cities, was faced with the consequences of urban exodus ...
Architectural Hybrids Shaped by the Times: Moments of Public Housing in the US
(2021-02-09)
This dissertation questioned the tendency toward varied architectural forms in US housing projects, given that the function of the public housing program evolved over time. This work contributed to existing studies on ...
On Vision: The Science and Cultural History of Spatial Perception and Imagination
(2021-05-20)
This thesis investigates the relationship between evolving modes of visual perception and the space of architecture. The design of architecture is intimately linked to the way space is imagined to be seen, and thus to the ...
Hyphen - American: The Making of Hybrid Identities
(2021-05-24)
ON BELONGING – DISPLACEMENT
We seek to feel “in place.” However, one cannot feel a sense of belonging if there is nowhere to belong. In the 21st century, globalization has increased the mobility of people, information, ...
Crossing Paths: Strategies for the Gowanus Basin
(2021-06-02)
Over the past few centuries, the Gowanus has transformed from natural to pastoral to industrial to post-industrial. Its history is tied to the development of Brooklyn. Once a tidal inlet with orchards and mills, it ...
Understanding Design Responsibility in Human Health: A Case-Study Approach for Evaluating Sunlight Use in Chilean Public Housing and Its Lack of Design Variability
(2018-03-20)
Given the importance of sunlight on human health and how the built environment influences human interaction with sunlight, does the design of public housing in Chile address the country’s large geographic variation in order ...
Enactive Genesis: Toward Generative Architecture with Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence
(2021-06-09)
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are gaining increasing popularity in the domain of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. However, most of recent generative design workflows using image-based AI ...
Liquid Pedagogy
(2021-05-20)
Liquid Pedagogy is a critical reflection on pedagogy and the discipline of architecture which historically is shaped by but also has shaped the learning spaces in architecture schools. The thesis is materialized in a design ...