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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Islands of Elegy: Dispersing the Urban Cemetery
(2022-05-18)
Islands of Elegy proposes a new kind of cemetery, one that brings death closer to us
and resists the stagnation of memory. This new cemetery—the “microcemetery”—
manifests as several small sanctuary spaces embedded in ...
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 ...
What is the huachicol-scape? —Navigating the multiple identities, landscapes, and architectures of an ecology of stolen gasoline
(2022-06-08)
This project used Harvard Graduate School of Design tools and resources to treat fuel theft as an object of study through three frames:
1) politico-economic, 2) socio-environmental, and 3) historic-spatial.
Following the ...
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, ...
A Walk in the Grid
(2023-01-05)
How could the design of a regional shopping center reconcile the loss of architectural scale in globalized brownfields?
This thesis explores alternative arrangements of form and proportion in search of a new composition ...
Anticipatory Architecture
(2022-04-01)
Contemporary architects are often excluded from the project of the city. Handed a plot of land and predetermined boundary conditions, architects lack the agency to shape the future development of the city. However, before ...