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The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter
(2021-05-18)
The desert, commonly understood as a barren and infertile landscape, is not empty. This thesis reads the desert landscape as an archive full of social, economic, and political narratives using the Empty Quarter as a case ...
Design in the Convívio: Making Space for Landscape in Self-Built Communities
(2021-05-19)
This thesis examines the roles in which a landscape architect can operate respectfully within dense, self-constructed communities. Piloting a design process within the context of the “convívio” -- a socially rich but ...
Blurred Lines: From Fragmentation to the Common on the Urban Coastal Edges
(2021-05-20)
Landscape architects often regard sea level rise on urban coastal edges as solely an environmental issue, relying on the design of edges and lines to fortify the coast. However, this thesis believes that climate adaptation ...
Throwing Shade: Heatwaves, Emergency Preparedness, and Produced Risk
(2021-05-21)
Throwing Shade introduces a series of public cooling landscapes designed to offer relief both daily and in emergencies. Through considering networks of infrastructure and public acupuncture, the design proposes heat escapes ...
Unpaving Paradise : Envisioning a Healthy Hialeah
(2021-05-18)
Hialeah is a city of “unhealthy” urban character in terms of green coverage, economic opportunity, and medical care; however, its strong sense of community and interpersonal “weak ties” could help overcome these characteristics ...
Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum as Evolution Lab
(2021-05-19)
This thesis explores the role of evolutionary biology in landscape architecture, examining designed landscapes as potential drivers for species evolution. It argues that any landscape design makes direct and immediate ...
Playing with Fire: Three Stories of Burning the Forest
(2021-05-17)
This thesis follows the language of fire between three characters and a forest in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. In this region, growing interest in the “good fire” of prescribed burning is routinely ...
City | Forest: Reordering Plant-Human Relationships Towards Healthy Cities
(2021-05-18)
Based in the belief that the quality of the urban landscape directly reflects the quality of its soil, I propose to utilize processes of beneficial disturbance to reorder the vegetative and soil regimes in the city’s public ...
Aggregate, Aggregation + Geotechnical Urbanism
(2021-05-18)
Within the architectural engineering and construction industry we have developed diagrammatic representations and software translations of cultural patterns, extruded 2D cities, and built architecture of processed materials ...
Of Two Minds: Excavating the Split Estate
(2021-05-18)
The split estate is a political-legal framework in the United States that severs surface property from subsurface. This effectively duplicates available property in the United States and establishes a palimpsest of ownership ...