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Tectonic Inflections: Additions Logic
(2021-05-24)
"Tectonic Inflections: Ruling Logics" investigates the confluence between form and tectonic assembly through the typology of the add-on. Architectural confluence, as described by Nader Tehrani, is the merging of structure, ...
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 ...
edit architecture*
(2023-01-06)
Editing just one detail can alter the entire structure of a concept. This thesis explores architecturally editing existing buildings to challenge their conceptual framework.
The global construction boom of the past fifty ...
The Migrant Landscape: Padrinos y Madrinas of Architecture
(2022-04-01)
Mexican migrants make the decision to uproot their lives, submitting to legal and social instability and housing insecurity in order to help provide better lives for their families. Through Hometown Associatiations (HTAs), ...
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 ...
Hyphenated Housing: Healthcare-Housing for those Experiencing Homelessness in LA
(2021-05-20)
Hospitals are the most expensive form of housing. New research suggests that it is far more cost-effective to purchase dedicated housing for homeless patients for an entire year than to house them in a hospital bed for a ...
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 ...
Simulation? Machine Learning? Simulation X Machine Learning?: A decision system for research integrating building physic simulation and machine learning methods in the early design stage
(2022-06-08)
Researchers have leveraged machine learning technologies and physics-based simulation in predicting daylight and other factors relevant to building energy consumption. However, this is still an emerging research area with ...
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 ...
Fortress Science: The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy
(2021-02-09)
The production of space as an internal condition to the scientific production of knowledge is an under investigated and seldom theorized process within the studies of science, technology, and society (STS), and the spatial ...