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    • A Beijing Anecdote: Folly as Commentary for Social Values, Space and Time 

      Chen, Qi (2023-05-17)
      “Social value posters + folly” is to Beijing what “Duck” is to Las Vegas. In the role-shifting era in Beijing, cultural revival creates a new focus on citizens’ mentality and engagement in everyday civic life. Public ...
    • Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum as Evolution Lab 

      Li, Joanne (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 ...
    • Reciprocal Ruination: Nature & New York City 

      Chuff, Nora Moran (2021-06-02)
      This thesis is set in New York City, between the years of 2060 and 2300, a period in which the earlier warnings had escalated to full, protracted cataclysm. In the eventful first half of the 21st century, the United States ...
    • Rest Stop Vending Machine, California (2033) 

      Cascio, Jacob Anthony (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 Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter 

      Mhmood, Fatma (2021-05-18)
      The desert, commonly understood as a barren and infertile landscape, is not empty. This thesis reads the desert landscape as an archive full of social, economic, and political narratives using the Empty Quarter as a case ...
    • Urbanism and Autonomy 

      Lopez Melendez, Miguel (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 ...