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Becoming an Architect: Narratives of Architectural Education
This dissertation examines the personal narratives of several aspiring architects to investigate the emergence of “occupational identities”—or how individuals navigate their education to construct a sense of themselves ... -
Building watershed narratives: two case studies of urban streams in Seattle, Washington
(2007)My research responds to calls from both practitioners and theorists to broaden the approaches for identifying and addressing the problems inherent within urban streams and rivers by utilizing a narrative-based, case study ... -
CARESCAPES: TRANSNATIONAL URBAN REDEVELOPMENT OF THE POST-COLONIAL HONG KONG
(2013-04-17)Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this research pays attention to how biased normalization of care and dependency contributes to a ... -
Clean Energy Justice: Clean Energy Access and Vulnerable Communities toward Just Energy Transition
This dissertation proposes clean energy justice that links energy justice to clean energy access and vulnerable communities in terms of geographic distribution (distributional justice) and community attributes with respect ... -
Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China
This ethnographic-phenomenological research aims to explore the phenomenon of peri-urban farming, rural-urban integration, and community building that are crystallized in Chengdu Plain, China in recent years. Through the ... -
A Community-Based Grassroots Organization in the South Bronx as a Catalyst for Youth Organizing and Activism: Analyzing the Dynamics of a Transformative Youth Program
(2014-02-24)A transformative youth program is an approach to youth development that is focused on engaging youth in understanding and changing unjust conditions in their lives, thereby transforming themselves and the communities in ... -
Computing Long-term Daylighting Simulations from High Dynamic Range Imagery Using Deep Neural Networks
Practitioners and researchers utilize long-term daylighting analysis to evaluate the luminous environment under a wide range of naturally occurring sky and sun conditions. Annual simulation tools and metrics are commonly ... -
CPM Schedule Density: A New Predictor for Productivity Loss
This dissertation addresses construction labor trade stacking, which oftentimes creates adverse labor inefficiencies, delay and cost overruns on construction projects. Present industry practice holds that Critical Path ... -
Creating Flexibility from Rigidity: A New Way of Looking at the Mass Timber Panel
Using mass timber panels in the built environment in any capacity requires offsite prefabrication and frequently involves preassembly in a factory. On site construction and assembly is then much faster, cleaner, quieter, ... -
Cultural Resilience in Asia: A Comparative Study of Heritage Conservation in Lijiang and Bagan
The practices of historic preservation have long been highly influenced by the UNESCO's international guidelines that classify the significance of local living heritage into tangible and intangible categories. This approach ... -
Density and Built Environments on Suicide Rates: Improving Urban Planning for Mental Health and Well-being
This thesis examines the relationship between the Built Environment and suicide mortality rates, focusing on improving urban planning standards and practices to promote mental health and well-being in communities. The ... -
Design for a Reconfigurable Mass Timber Building System
Mass timber products like glulam and cross-laminated timber(CLT) can store / sequester carbon in building stocks for as long as the building components remain in use. For this carbon reduction to have a significant impact, ... -
Developing Digital Project Delivery Routines Around Frequent Disruptions: How Do AEC Organizations Respond to Disruptive Information Exchange Requirements?
The unprecedented variation of information integration agendas in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry disrupts the development and maintenance of information exchange routines in firms. This research ... -
The dynamics and resilience of river cities as coupled human-natural systems
(2012-09-13)Around the world many river cities are challenged simultaneously by heightened flood risk and degraded river health. The prevailing approach to flood hazard mitigation--flood control, has been criticized to be ineffective ... -
Embodied Carbon of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigerants (HVAC+R) Systems
This dissertation expands on preliminary studies of embodied carbon in building systems in commercial office buildings and aims to advance the understanding of the role that heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and ... -
Evaluating Human Visual Preference and Performance in an Office Environment Using Luminance-based Metrics
(2013-02-25)There are not adequate human factors research studies available that examine luminance-based measures as they relate to human visual preference and acceptance in spaces with daylight. The objective of this research is to ... -
An Evaluation Framework for the Integrated Design Process of Sustainable High-Performance Buildings
(2013-07-25)Integration of disciplines and project participants is widely prescribed as a remedy to improve effectiveness and efficiency of construction projects. In the context of Sustainable High-Performance (SHP) projects, the ... -
Expressive Structure: The Life and Work of Matthew Nowicki
(2013-07-23)Matthew Nowicki (1910-1950) developed an approach to architecture that negotiated the architectural and engineering fields through his use of expressive structural forms. As more than an optimized materialist exploration, ... -
A Fragmented Memory Project: Archaeological and Ethnographic Museums in Turkey, 1960-1980
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines the long neglected archaeological and ethnographic museums in the provinces of Turkey that were built between early 1960s and early 1980s, with respect to the troublesome relationship of the ... -
History, Narrative, and Production in the Cheonggyecheon Reconstruction
As cities become increasingly de-industrialized and place greater emphasis on building a sustainable future, we have seen an increase in the design of large-scale landscapes that are being incorporated into the urban fabric. ...