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Harnessing Dynamics: Exploring Scale & Coastal Infrastructure in the Arctic
(2022-04-01)
Infrastructure is crucial for survival in extreme environments. However, it is often built with little consideration for its environmental context or the broader needs of the community it serves. In the Arctic, small coastal ...
Rest Stop Vending Machine, California (2033)
(2022-05-18)
In the federal highway rest stop there are parking spots, picnic benches, a shade structure or two, and an irrigated lawn. There is also a vending machine. Vending machines are, by law, the only commercial activity allowed ...
The Sovereign Table: Embedding Knowledge Infrastructure within a Tribal Homeland
(2022-05-23)
As climate change exacerbates the consequences of Western land and resource mismanagement, landscape architects are increasingly soliciting traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). This thesis calls landscape architects to ...
Identities of Past and Present: Conservation and its Consequences
(2022-05-25)
This thesis explores the concept of “Radical Indigenism,” outlined by Julia Watson, as a critique of traditional notions of cultural heritage and preservation in landscape architecture. To investigate this concept, the ...
“Vieques es Nuestra Casa": Ecological Reparation through Embodied Action
(2022-05-25)
This thesis is set on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, a territory subjected to US Navy occupation and decades of munitions testing. To counter the alienation and destruction imposed by military exploitation, this project ...
Beyond Artifact: Reframing the Chilean Desert
(2022-01-03)
This thesis explores design as a mode to challenge dominant cultural narratives of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The project reframes an understanding of life in the desert through alternate knowledge systems specific to ...
National Garden for Subterranean Heritage: A Repository for Human/Earthly Matter
(2022-05-18)
The National Garden for Subterranean Heritage reconceptualizes the botanical National Garden of Athens, Greece, as a networked repository for human/earthly stories. Critiquing colonial practices of transplantations and ...
Materializing Access: Intersecting Walksheds, Viewsheds, and Supply Sheds
(2022-05-18)
Materializing Access is a thesis which investigates the opportunity for landscapes to provide an array of resources within the public realm. Situated in Pittsburgh, PA, the project navigates the varying topography and ...
Uncanny Nostalgia: Nine Homes of the Land Surveyor
(2022-02-02)
Architecture is a desire where its origins are at once imagined but remain elusive. For Jacques Derrida, “the question of architecture is … the taking place in space. It invents something which didn’t exist beforehand and ...
The Dust Up: Adapting Kuwait's Civic Infrastructure to SDS
(2022-05-19)
This thesis aspires to redevelop public infrastructural spaces in Kuwait to interact with the natural phenomena and challenges of local sand and dust storms (SDS) that disrupt the city, by embracing these processes to ...