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An Archeology of Postmodern Architecture: A Reading of Charles Jencks' work
A powerful sense of discontinuity and rupture, a simultaneity of theory and practice as well as a critique of bourgeois art forms are some of the common features that modern and postmodern discourses share. Despite the ... -
ARCHITECT-ING AS WORLD BUILDING: Knowing the world through Kaḷiyāṭṭaṁ of Malabar coast, India
Kaḷiyāṭṭaṁ is a natureculture expression and feeling of the Malabar coast, India. A human-turned-deity, the Teyyaṃ in Kaḷiyāṭṭaṁ critiques the subject-centric and eye-centric worlds. This thesis attempts to illustrate this ... -
Architecture for a Regional Food System: A Food Hub for the Beacon Hill Neighborhood
Throughout the history of civilization there has been a close and mutually beneficial relationship between food and cities. However due to industrialization of our contemporary food network the tangible connections to food ... -
architecture must die: placing cemeteries within the flow of lived time
Burial spaces are among the earliest works of architecture. Varying by time period and culture, they represent a society’s sense of place and their values as a community. Historically, cemeteries in the United States ... -
Architecture Occupation A sky community culture center in traditional district, Guangzhou
(2012-05-31)Guangzhou is a city with profound historical and cultural heritage in southern China. Along with the rapid population increase and development, the new cultural centers of the city have been built as the city landmark ... -
Architecture of Belonging: A Multicultural Sanctuary Center for South Park
The South Park neighborhood in the city of Seattle is home to a rich and vibrant Latino and immigrant community. Yet the neighborhood lacks a multicultural center—a place where these residents can feel protected and safe—to ... -
Architecture of Connection: A Mixed-Use Housing Strategy for Building Urban Community
(2014-02-24)This thesis proposes that a more community-oriented housing type, informed by cohousing, student housing, and German baugruppen, is an important response to the social isolation brought by increased urban density, less ... -
Architecture of Life: Biophilic Urban Acupuncture for Downtown Seattle
This thesis is an exploration in biophilic design through urban acupuncture. It is an investigation of what is possible at a small scale within the existing dense urban fabric. The intentions are that while we may begin ... -
The Architecture of Persuasion: Reinterpreting Commercial Vernacular on Wilshire Boulevard
(2014-02-24)This thesis focuses on an analysis of billboards which exist as the common thread on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, weaving together its many fragmentary qualities. By responding to the abundance of billboards on ... -
The Architecture of Suspense: A Center for the Cinematic Arts in the Former Olympia Brewery
Industrial ruins are often deemed "not worthy" of preservation and approaches to the site are focused on sanitizing and erasing a tarnished past. This approach removes the essential character of the site and wipes away all ... -
Architecture on the Couch
This thesis explores architecture as an assemblage of realities. The rise in virtual and cybernetic technologies rapidly increases the convergence of multiple realities, revealing different ways of perceiving the environment. ... -
Architecture: Where Mutual Fantasy May live
From the psychoanalytic perspective, fantasy comes from and reflects desires. It is a way that people recognize themselves and establish their own understanding of the world. Architecture is an apparatus, a platform to ... -
Architecture: Where Mutual Fantasy May Live
From the psychoanalytic perspective, fantasy comes from and reflects desires. It is a way that people recognize themselves and establish their own understanding of the world. Architecture is an apparatus, a platform to ... -
Assessing the Potential Applications of Deep Learning in Design
The recent wave of developments and research in the field of deep learning and artificial intelligence is causing the border between the intuitive and deterministic domains to be redrawn. Amidst all the excitement surrounding ... -
Atelier Seattle: Engaging Immigrants and Refugees in the Design, Production and Exchange of Ethnic Clothing
(2012-08-10)An architectural design thesis documenting the design of a multi-cultural center in Seattle's Chinatown-International District. The building program centers on the cultural significance of dress for immigrants and refugees ... -
B-Shelves: A Web Based Mass Customized Product
(2012-08-10)B-Shelves (Box-Shelves) explores the relationship between design intent, generative design, mass customization and digital fabrication. B-Shelves is a mass custom furniture product that is customized through a web based ... -
B-Side Urbanism: a Dub City.
(2013-02-25)According to the UN-Habitat, "developing countries will have 80% of the world's urban population in 2030. By then Africa and Asia will include almost seven out of every ten urban inhabitants in the world." (UN-Habitat, ... -
BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE -Site Revitalization in Magnuson Park By An Integration of Landscape and Building Reuse
What can a design based on dealing with the relationship between architecture and landscape, bring to a site, a community, and the urban environment? This thesis is a journey to explore the relationship between landscape ... -
Between the Mines and the Mountaintops: Remembrance, Learning, and Activism at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary
Brushy Mountain Penitentiary is located near Knoxville, TN, in the coal-rich region of Appalachian Mountains. Built in 1896 in response to the violent events of Coal Creek War, the prison traces its roots to the forgotten ... -
Beyond the Autonomous Vehicle: The New Mobility Hub
This thesis studies the complications and issues that arise in the future when the use of the autonomous vehicle becomes mainstream and more widespread in the city. The autonomous vehicle is a car that can control itself ...