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The Infant and Parent Urban Experience: Enhancing daily life and development through personal-scale interventions
(2021-05-18)
Humans develop 90% of their brains during the first five years of life, a time where they are the
most physically vulnerable they will ever be. Thus, it is both surprising and concerning that the
built environment does ...
An Attempt to Approach A Void, or Georges Perec, Cause Commune, and the Infraordinary
(2021-05-19)
In February 1973, Jean Duvignaud, Paul Virilio, and Georges Perec introduced the infraordinary in the fifth issue of their small journal, Cause commune. The infraordinary subsequently became attributed mostly to Georges ...
The Molding House
(2021-05-24)
Moldings have been an architectural element since the prehistory.
The Greeks were the first to recognize, in their temples, the unique value possessed by moldings, which, occupying an intermediate position between the ...
After Bath: Crossing the Social Skin
(2022-02-02)
Water is an immersive body, and bathing is a medium of not only physical but also psychical identification and connection, through the bodily proximity created between strangers. The thesis explores notions of body and ...
Urbanism and Autonomy
(2021-06-09)
This dissertation introduces urbanism to the discourse on autonomy within design. Autonomy is a critical method in design, engaging the social, economic, political, racial, gender, or environmental tensions derived from ...
MUNDANE AMBIGUITY: MAKING PUBLIC REALM WITH BALLAST WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
(2022-05-18)
This thesis proposes landscape infrastructure as the agency for managing ballast water exchange, conducting mass recycling of waste materials, and creating new public realms.
It asks if infrastructure could inform spatial ...
Hudson Phloem | Shoreline Xylem
(2022-05-18)
This thesis zooms in microscopically to expose the moral distancing between the construction and material metamorphosis of concrete shorelines. As Calvert Vaux’s prevailing Riverside Park in New York City extended the ...
BODIES OF EARTH: Abduction - Death - Grief - Rebirth
(2022-06-08)
In the Acropolis, the past and the future converge. The marble that produced the citadel monuments altered our future and drained the mountain stone. Here, our cultural artifacts are evidence of our destructive relations ...
A Stadium Tower: Decongestion of congestion
(2021-05-27)
STADIUM
A stadium is a place where a flock of people get charged and discharged at a moment in time, before and after a game. To avoid congestion in the city, stadiums have been pushed away from the center and are located ...
Landscapes of Repulsion: Hidden in Plain Site
(2022-05-18)
This thesis interrogates landscape architecture’s participation in the cleaning and concealing of repugnant sites of industry through the creation of fabricated mountains constructed from the wastes of Iowa’s booming ...