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An Architecture of Fire: Restoring the former Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Co. site in Renton
Since the early nineteenth century, the manufacturing of clay products in the United State has produced a wide variety of building materials. Products like face brick, clay veneers and sewer pipe have greatly contributed ... -
An Architecture of Path and Destination in the Land of Water, Forests, and Peaks
In 2015, I read an article about a proposed huts and trails system in the Adirondack Park. This is a 6 million acre forested, mountainous, and water logged preserve, that is also home to around 130,000 people. A huts and ... -
An Epistemology of Beauty: Situating the Affect of embodied knowledge through the discourse of contact improvisation
This thesis is a pursuit of beauty. Not a pursuit of perfection, of ideal form, or even composition, but to find a way of seeing the world that might make space for encountering beauty more often. There are many obstacles ... -
An Urban Cemetery for the People: Rethinking Rituals in Beijing
This thesis proposes an urban cemetery in Beijing, China. Today Beijing faces many challenges in relation to current funerary practices. With the increasing population of death and rising costs and environmental impact of ... -
ANOTHER HOUSING CRISIS: Reclaiming Black Identity in the Albina District of Portland
This thesis aims to address the connections between racial tensions and the gentrification of the Albina district, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, and the inaccessible housing stock and lack of ... -
Application of Building Integrated Photovoltaic: Design Strategies for Optimization of Renewable Energy Through Envelope and Daylight Harvesting
Buildings account for roughly 39% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide produced in the United States. To mitigate the impact of our buildings on the environment, our buildings need to take the advantage of the abundance of ... -
Applications of Dynamic Shading Screens for Residential Buildings in Taiwan
This thesis aims to propose a designed dynamic shading screen that is culturally and environmentally feasible for residential buildings in Taiwan. As a country located in the tropical area, Taiwan consumes a great amount ... -
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 ...