The Grange, formally known as the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, is the oldest farm organization in the United States. At the local level, subordinate granges are typically organized among interested community members, and these groups meet regularly for the purpose of improving social, political, economic and educational ...

Recently Beijing has become the most important transportation hub in China and in the East Asian region. As larger and larger population moved into the capital city, together with an enormous car growth, traffic congestion becomes a severe problem for today's Beijing. Encouraging use of public transportation is considered as ...

This thesis argues for the value of isolation as a spatial strategy. In examining the situation of the contemporary prison, we find an institution swarming with contradictions. Relegated to the periphery of our urban centers, the prison requires isolation to ensure public safety which also removes it from critical examination. ...

Schools are being re-imagined as dynamic experiences where the larger built environment in which they are located are just as influential on what is learned as are the structured lessons. Students are active learners who have a natural inquisitiveness, and they learn in various ways that require different types of spaces and ...

Since the civil rights activism of the late 1960s, Seattle has moved toward greater equity along racial lines, but a variety of factors are still holding the city back from full integration. Socioeconomic constructs based on the discriminatory laws of the last century have combined with the persistence of racial biases and ...

The stand-alone parking garage exemplifies the twentieth century paradigm of the American city's reliance on car-centric infrastructure and encouragement of suburban sprawl. Over the past 100 years, streets have transitioned from the realm of the pedestrian to the domain of the automobile. The overabundance of cars in urban ...

Pixelated Urbanism is a strategy for dense urban living through new forms of mixed-use buildings that connect users and programs on a small scale (pixels) to create compact, vertical environments. Pixelated Urbanism moves beyond the stratified programming preconceptions of the existing mixed-use building typology with a range ...

This thesis involves the design of a cooperative distillery on the former site of the Rainier Cold Storage building, which was originally part of the large complex of buildings comprising the Seattle Brewing & Malting Company, constructed in the early 1900's. The main goal is to explore how the built environment can support ...

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how architects can strengthen the interaction between the design process and available existing resources, in order to shortcut material flows and educate the public the underutilized value of waste materials. The thesis project targets on a typical industrial building near Seattle ...

During the Bosnian War (1992-1995), one strategy of ethnic cleansing employed by all sides involved the destruction and obliteration of physical manifestations of ethnic identity including historic buildings, such as churches, cathedrals, mosques, and urban infrastructure. Postwar preservation projects across the country have ...