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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Highway to The Bottom: Recasting Baltimore's Highway to Nowhere
(2022-05-18)
This thesis explores the potential for the landscape architect to flip the script on designing with remnant landscapes from the mid-20th century era of urban renewal, focusing on West Baltimore’s Highway to Nowhere. The ...
Deconstructing a Landscape Out-of-Place: the Afterlife of Rural Hollowing
(2022-10-13)
This thesis explores declining villages in the process towards rural hollowing. Rural hollowing, this phenomenon exhibits increasingly in depopulating rural settlements, results from fading infrastructural services, ...
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 ...
How the West Was (Really) Won: Water and the Emergence of Los Angeles
(2023-05-17)
The outsized role of infrastructure in shaping urban landscapes is ever-present in American cities, most exaggerated in a place like Los Angeles. Desert, floodplain, dry scrublands, and mountains—LA’s menu of inhospitable ...
The Borges Cloisters
(2023-10-23)
The 20th-century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is best known for his fantastical stories of labyrinths and libraries, but his early poetry evokes the sacredness of ordinary urban spaces in his native Buenos Aires: ...