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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 ...
The Analogous New Block
(2023-01-05)
No place ever has an absolute existence, a place is invented through the drawing of boundaries. The thesis illustrates the dual face of the intangible border crossing. From the authority’s point of view, the community is ...
De Materia Perspectiva
(2021-05-24)
“I inscribe a quadrangle ... which is considered to be an open window through which I see,” the artist and architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote in his 1425 treatise on perspective. This description surely reminds us of ...
TEOTWAWKI: A Designer's Guide to Prepping
(2021-05-18)
Preparing, colloquially known as “prepping,” is a political act that can be read through the medium of landscape, extending from the colonization of the United States to the present. While mainstream media portrays preppers ...
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 ...
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 ...
Becoming a Haenyeo-Architect, Making a Commons
(2022-04-01)
What can an architect do to an imminent extinction of a culture? Through fieldwork, I documented traditional tools, architecture, land-seascapes, and rituals of Haenyeo in Jeju Island, South Korea, engaged with the community, ...