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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 ...
THOSE PREGNANT IMAGES I WOULD LIKE TO BRING BACK TO CHINA
(2021-02-09)
Since modernity, the term “atlas” has garnered a meaning beyond an accumulation of maps, referring also to the practice of collecting images. Aby Warburg collected 971 images in his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne to create a model ...
An Intrinsic Model for a Non-neutral, Plural National School
(2023-01-05)
When Malaysia gained independence from the British in 1957, it took on a national architectural identity that was rooted in the language and neutrality of tropical modernism, which was deemed appropriate for the multi-ethnic ...
The Post Office Is Now A House
(2021-01-20)
The Post Office Is Now A House positions the United States Postal Service’s national network of 35,000 post offices as a site for exploring two progressive policies: the Green New Deal and the Homes for All bill, which ...
Behind the Scenes: Pregnancy Portrait
(2023-01-05)
The pregnancy portrait underlines the position of female reproductive bodies within a cultural moment, creating identity, agency, and capital. Social and cinematic mediums animate the pregnancy portrait, showing the pregnant ...
Machine —— A Utopian Transfomation Tower
(2023-01-05)
Our society is transforming from a society of supervision which has persisted for a long time,
to a controlled society. A controlled society is a softer, more adjustable, but also more
irresistible social operation form. ...
Our Village: a Queer Paradise in the 1980s
(2021-05-25)
A drag queen is as American Dream as a suburban house surrounded by a white picket fence. Drag performance is more than entertainment in a night club: it is a way of expressing, dreaming, commenting, and escaping the ...