Las Vegas is a city of duplicates; it appears at first only complicated. Buildings on The Strip duplicate neighboring buildings, implicate antecedent versions of themselves, and replicate other cities. The multiplication ...

Every building, infrastructure, or city is the spatial manifestation of metabolizing multiple materials, energy, labor relations, and capital investments from local and distant sources. Yet, an overemphasis on specific ...

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 ...

The unprecedented crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought into the limelight what many have unfortunately already known to be true, that times of extreme change, urgency, and tension too often correlate to a rise in ...

The Wardian: Confiscated Dendrobiums and Displaced Identities is an art-based research project that addresses issues around displacement and migration. By retracing the personal journey of this illegally traded, ecologically ...

Nonhuman animals are a key parameter for processes of urbanization, but have been marginalized in both mainstream and critical frameworks of urban theory and design. This dissertation critically analyzes this proposition ...

Today in India, small and marginal farmers (SMFs) in rural areas are exploited by skewed development which favors large corporate farmers which are directly linked to accelerating urban development. SMFs continue to be ...

The American Christian church is witnessing a widening rift instigated by Christian Nationalist extremists from a decades-long authoring of toxic political influence seeping into the church. The American Megachurch reflects ...

Sound can transcend the boundaries of time and space. This thesis leverages the potential of sound to capture a sense of place and reinterpret space by transplanting it to new environments. Working with the Bhutanese ...

This thesis looks at how to design data centers for the urban context in a way that benefits cities and the people who live in them. COVID-19 has only reinforced the sentiment that our physical realm will require more and ...