“The modern apartment, or that which is referred to as a studio or one-room apartment, is the material realization of a tendency toward cell formation, which can be recognized as the architectural and topological analogue ...

This thesis analyzes design strategies used to adapt modernist housing projects. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the modernist residential district was designed as the new and standardized form of ...

When imagining a discourse around Black domesticity, it is essential to create new parameters, or for that matter, no parameters at all, no longer relying only on colonial Anglo-Saxon methods telling how to appropriate or ...

Mexican migrants make the decision to uproot their lives, submitting to legal and social instability and housing insecurity in order to help provide better lives for their families. Through Hometown Associatiations (HTAs), ...

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, ...

Travel is inherent to the development of our social instincts, used as a means to raise our sensitivities to unfamiliar contexts and peoples. The act of travel itself had architectural impositions during one’s journey. ...

The Republic of Armenia’s inadequate and deteriorating housing stock is among the nation’s most pressing challenges. With resources limited, how can policymakers and private developers help overcome this crisis, expanding ...

Shelter is a basic human need, yet in many large cities, access to shelter is dependent primarily on the ability to afford it and public spaces are mostly confined to streets, sidewalks and parks, creating a vulnerable and ...

Segregation is a complex social phenomenon that occurs across various socio-spatial domains and operates on multiple levels. Past research indicates that segregated residential areas can lead to social and economic exclusion. ...

Over the last two centuries, San Francisco Chinatown’s resistance towards architectural change has resulted in the identity of the neighborhood becoming increasingly misaligned with the present – a place losing its sense ...