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The Post Office Is Now A House
(2021-01-20)
The Post Office Is Now A House positions the United States Postal Service’s national network of 35,000 post offices as a site for exploring two progressive policies: the Green New Deal and the Homes for All bill, which ...
Exploitive By Design: Warning Signs From the Northwest Amazon
(2021-05-19)
This body of work concerns the impact of imposed capital and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries’ “Rubber Boom” and today’s 21st-century tourism industry in Iquitos, Peru, because there are parallels in the effects ...
Care Agency: A 10-year choreography of architectural repair
(2021-01-20)
“El mundo que queremos es uno donde quepan muchos mundos.” /
“The world we want is one where many worlds fit.”
-Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
“What the world will become already exists in fragments and ...
Spatial Opportunities for Self-Produced Environments
(2021-05-17)
Physical planning has contributed to perpetuating spatial inequality in Caracas, Venezuela, a dynamic that has many parallelisms with other processes that result in social and economic inequalities in Latin America. The ...
Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation
(2021-05-18)
Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape—one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Today, especially within the design ...
From Hinterland to Hinterglobe
(2021-09-29)
From Hinterland to Hinterglobe investigates urbanization as a mode of generalized geographical organization in which agglomerations, although covering no more than 3% of the total land surface, are connected to the ...
Investigations in Metropolitan Form: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the American City
(2021-01-20)
This thesis challenges the discipline of architecture to reassert its agency at the scale of the city, the region, and the territory. Using Austin, Texas and Richmond, Virginia as case studies, it proposes a transformation ...
Adriatic Projects Revisited
(2022-06-08)
The Adriatic Projects (1967-72) was a United Nations international exchange program in regional planning founded to transfer urban planning knowledge to Yugoslavia (1945-91). Established during the Cold War era in the ...
Suburbia as Tool of Soft Power Projection: A Case Study of Washington Heights Dependents Housing Area, Tokyo (1946-61) and the Proselytizing of the Garden Suburb for Rebuilding Japan under GHQ
(2021-05-18)
During the Allies’ occupation of Japan between 1945 and 1952, Japanese architectural and industrial design expertise was mobilized by the American leadership to provide for the housing needs of the occupying forces. The ...
Crossing Paths: Strategies for the Gowanus Basin
(2021-06-02)
Over the past few centuries, the Gowanus has transformed from natural to pastoral to industrial to post-industrial. Its history is tied to the development of Brooklyn. Once a tidal inlet with orchards and mills, it ...