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Home Away from Home: Senior Immigrants’ Culinary Nostalgia
(2024-02-05)
A group of senior immigrants in the United States, who left their home countries decades ago and have since established themselves here, often find themselves immersed in nostalgic moments, reliving their childhood memories. ...
“¡Azúcar!”: Fragments from a Land of Sugar
(2024-02-07)
The sugarcane-processing factory, or central, has long played a pivotal role in Cuba’s history. For the Cuban people, the production of sugar is more than just an export commodity. Sugar, and by proxy the central—its spatial ...
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 ...
Multi-objective building system control optimization using machine-learning-based techniques
(2024-02-05)
The operation of buildings is responsible for 30% of the world's total energy use and 26% of global energy-related emissions. Proper control of buildings is thus economically, socially, and environmentally crucial for ...
Learning from the Wreck: Reframing Sentimentality
(2024-02-28)
Cape Cod is characterized by a cyclical churning of land. Over timescales of decades, the Atlantic shifts, erodes, and redeposits the sandy sediment from which the Cape is almost entirely composed, rapidly reshaping its ...
The Third Typology: Architecture on the Bank of the Bengawan Solo
(2024-02-28)
Indonesia has a wide range of vernacular architectural styles known as rumah adat. However, the passage of time and colonialism has caused a decline in the traditional rumah adat. The architectural landscape of the post-1940s ...
Design Practice / Practice design
(2024-02-28)
The strategy, mission, and organization of architecture firms – here loosely defined as organizations that produce designs – have profound impacts on the outcome of the built environment. Because contemporary building ...
A Polyphonic Archipelago along the Faulted California Coast
(2024-01-24)
White Point projects off a peninsula that was once part of the Channel Island Archipelago. Descending from hill to sea within the San Andreas Rift, its 140 acres hold seemingly irreconcilable landscapes and uses. Traces ...
Art for Kmart: A Very Long Opera House
(2024-01-24)
The production of an opera is as much an act of world building as an act of music. The operatic interior expands outward, carried by its audience and practitioners into a blended universe consisting of opera's constructed ...
Recess Reimagined: The Intergenerational Campus
(2024-01-24)
This thesis project tackles Los Angeles' severe housing crisis, evident in the Los
Angeles Housing Element, while also addressing the urban heat island effect, social
isolation, and a growing aging population. Elementary ...