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Latent Morphologies: Encoding Architectural Features and Decoding Their Structure through Artificial Intelligence
(2022-06-08)
With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, new methodologies have been introduced to the architectural discipline, expanding the current possibilities of design processes. Specifically, generative models created a paradigm ...
A Pool in the City
(2022-04-01)
American municipal pools exist in cities, often surrounded by car-centric spaces such as freeways, parking lots, big-box stores, and industrial sites. They have traditionally employed a typology of “maximum building, minimal ...
Housing Adaptation: The Fall and Rise of Modernist Residential Districts
(2021-06-09)
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 ...
CRIPPING ARCHITECTURE
(2021-05-27)
A study in critical heterogeneity.
Cripping Architecture argues that what we think of as “universal design” - a least-common-denominator model - does not and cannot produce fully equitable architecture on its own. ...
Spatial Opportunities for Self-Produced Environments
(2021-05-17)
Physical planning has contributed to perpetuating spatial inequality in Caracas, Venezuela, a dynamic that has many parallelisms with other processes that result in social and economic inequalities in Latin America. The ...
Synthetic Ecologies: Design and the Ecological Imagination
(2021-02-16)
The present historical condition has been characterized by the impasse between two seemingly opposing narratives, one of modernization, mastery, and progress (usually associated to economic growth), and another of ...
Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation
(2021-05-18)
Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape—one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Today, especially within the design ...
Evaluation of the Environmental and Economic Impact of Urban Development vs. 20th Century Modern Heritage Conservation in Kuwait City
(2021-05-18)
Following a law passed in 2004 alleviating maximum building height, historic architecture in Kuwait City is under threat of demolition and replacement by high rise buildings. The impact is three-fold: first, the demolition ...
Boston South Station: Re-imagining Mobility through the Mobile-Eye
(2023-01-05)
A top-down design process using projection lines on a flattened surface has been a dominant design technique for us, as we commonly witness in our daily lives of studios and practices or in written disciplines. However, ...
Home-Coming | Coming-Home: A Discourse Deriving from Black Domesticity
(2023-01-05)
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 ...