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Living Chinatown - Familiar Unfamiliar
(2023-05-24)
Over the last two centuries, San Francisco Chinatown’s resistance towards architectural change has resulted in the identity of the neighborhood becoming increasingly misaligned with the present – a place losing its sense ...
Photobiological Material Systems: Spectrally-Selective Surfaces for the Regulation of Indoor Alertness
(2024-02-20)
Color, light, and their interaction within the built environment have always been pertinent spatial and aesthetic factors that architects consider in their work; however, their study has been limited to a primarily perceptual ...
"If I see another palm tree, I will have a conniption!": Re-presenting Hospitality Landscapes in Jamaica
(2024-05-16)
...Indeed, almost from the inception of tourism industries on the islands, hoteliers, colonial administrators, and local white mercantile elites (re)created or tropicalized many aspects of the islands precisely in the image ...
Insurgent Geology: Mineral matters in the arctic
(2024-05-16)
“Insurgent Geology” is about oil, fossils, power, and people. It is about blowing up pipelines and taking care of the soil. Shifting from deep time to speculative near future, it calls for both insurrection and geo-poetics ...
Omnipresence: Machine Vision in the Adversarial City
(2024-05-16)
This work follows the trail of Omnipresence, a mobile program of public safety lighting in New York City. Unpacking its historical and design precedents, it argues that Omnipresence is just the latest component of an urban ...
Machine in Bloom: Industrial Park and Energy Timescapes within the Remnants of the Colstrip Power Plant
(2024-05-16)
The relics of the Colstrip coal-powered plant in eastern Montana remain as a
mausoleum to the once sublime, a polemic of American westward expansion in the
name of efficiency. Engagement with the landscape and retained ...
Seadoo Seaway: Four Tales of Cultural Imaginaries and Climate Futures on the Trent-Severn
(2024-05-16)
Water, ice, and snow are key figures of Canadian cultural identity, and rightly so as Canada has more bodies of water than the rest of the world combined. This cohabitation with water has sponsored a unique cultural ...
The People Look Like Flowers at Last: Coweeta College, Assisted Migration, and American Loneliness
(2024-05-16)
This thesis posits that the bonded movement of plants and people can productively engage with American loneliness. The project expands Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in western North Carolina into a forestry college campus. ...
Vertical Publics: Landscape Transformation of Vacant Office Towers
(2024-05-16)
Vertical Publics explores the potential for reimagining vacant modernist urban office towers through transformative public space interventions. It challenges the conventional use, access, and ownership by blurring the ...
Seeding Grounds: Working Beyond Arcadia in the Pyrocene
(2024-05-16)
From drought to fire, Australia’s landscapes face multiple existential threats. A response to the tectonic loss of life in the 2019-2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, Seeding Grounds: Working Beyond Arcadia in the Pyrocene, ...