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Architecture Design 2 Unit Chair: Dr. Mirjana Lozanovska Co-Chair: Anthony Worm Design Teachers: Marc Dixon, Fiona Gray, Eugenia Tan design orientation This semester will focus on the ‘making ofarchitecture’ in the more specific sense of the physical building and order of the environment. There will be two major themes explored: how materiality generates both the physical and aesthetic conditions of architecture; and how materiality organizes and frames social relations. These are elaborated below. Architecture is a product of imagination, ideas, traditions, cultural forces and it is also a product of technologies, construction, and structures. Experimentation, invention, manufacture and innovative ways of using existing materials define the field of the ‘making of architecture’. To be familiar with the tools, materials, techniques, technologies and structural possibilities of architecture is to build on the capacity of the imagination. Architecture is expanded and limited by how it is made and what it is made of. To resist and prevent a dormant imagination or an imagination that tends towards repetition, you will be encouraged to nourish it with the properties, processes and possibilities of architecture’s material conditions. Concepts such as tectonics, technics and technology will be explored through ‘hands on’ projects rather than theoretically. In a sense these all derive from the concept téchne which is conventionally understood as the science or art of making, the crafting of an object or tool. However, its deeper sense derives from the ancient Greek to refer to the process of making something appear, the letting out of the intrinsic properties within materials to inform their expression, form and usage. Technologies of the social emphasises architecture’s role in facilitating social relations, the ways that the materiality, spatial order, and various components (doors, walls, windows) set limits and open possibilities for the various relations between people, whether this be eating a meal, working, playing, or having a meeting or conversation. Architecture organises relations between people: person to person, person to group, person to crowd, group to group, etc. However, architecture also organises relations between people and objects: person to toaster, person to iPod, person to tool, person to monument. The important thing is that there are various different status objects: technological, aesthetic, consumable, kitsch, precious, profound, functional etc. At this point you can begin to understand how the two major themes meet and are overlaid onto one another. The materiality of architecture mediates the relations between people. In addition, a building is itself an object and is construed, used and perceived through its relation to people. This semester is about exploring how materiality generates architecture and organizes the relations between people and objects of a utilitarian, kitsch and aesthetic kind. It will ask you to examine the everyday garage or shed as a building type that is made in an ad hoc way. The garage is invariably not only the intended shelter for cars, but a place for a diverse array of other uses. This will ultimately form the platform for a design of a factory, warehouse or display centre.
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Across culture and time, architects have interrogated the built environment and their role in shaping it. Questions of artistic agency, political power, social control, and cultural preservation all contribute to the fundamental debate of what architecture is—and is for. This syllabus aims to introduce students to the expansive theory, practice, and study of architecture. At once an examination of disciplinary history and theory, this course will investigate the diverse ways architects have understood their world (and situated their profession within it) by actively negotiating between written ideas, drawings, and built projects. To do so, this syllabus adopts an explicitly transnational perspective, challenging the Euro-American canon of architectural theory by presenting it as just one tradition amongst a range of cultural, geographic, and historical perspectives. Through exposure to a range of thinkers, students will be able to consider their own work within a diverse spectrum of theories concerning architecture, urbanism, and space.
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The framework of the research undertaken by AUID doctoral students in the first semester (2021) traces a very varied landscape and often with interdisciplinary characteristics. Concerning the centrality of the architectural project, the backbone of the program, almost all the proposals introduce external elements involving other-dimensional scales, social and technical problems, and references to ecological, urban, and landscape issues.
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RISD’s Master of Architecture program is one of the few in the US embedded in a college of art and design. Here, architecture is taught in a way that understands the practice of design and making as a thoughtful, reflective process that both engenders and draws from social, political, material, technological and cultural agendas. The program aims to empower students to exercise their creativity by understanding their role as cultural creators and equipping them to succeed in the client-based practice of architecture.
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Theses from 2024 2024
Reform Craft | Re-Form Clay , Katherine Badenhausen
Narrative Structures , Theodore Badenhausen
Room to Grieve: The Space of Solace in Public Life , Lauren Blonde
Frontier: Land, Architecture, and Abstraction , Jacob Boatman
Rhythm of Space , Brian Carrillo
Searching for the Hyperobject: Crystals as Transscalar Vehicles , Jay Costello
Unconditioning Air , Weijia Deng
(Matter)ial Revolution , Aleza Epstein
Building the Body , Jasmine Flowers
House Calls , Gregory Goldstone
Culinary community: Collaborative Relationship Building through Improvisational Fine Dining , Victoria Goodisman
Textile Tectonics: Shaping Space Through Soft Studies , Lela Gunderson
Hong Kong’s Architectural Resistance: Practice Through Research , Jingjing Huang
“Modern Nomads”: Unfolding Domesticity , Yifan Hu
Mind Follows Matter , Fiona Libby
Curb Appeal , Eric Liu
Dreampool , Xia Li
Atelier Interloper , Isabel Jane Marvel
Entre Manos Y Barro: Innovando Con Tradición , Jose Mata
Patchwork: 76km between Juárez and El Paso , Naheyla Medina
The Dollhouse , Kristina Miesel
A Dispatch from the Site Office , Adrian Pelliccia
Infinite Plane: Metaphysical Architecture + Digital Space , Isabella Ruggiero
Icons of Solitude: Peace, Quiet, and the Urban Condition , Jack Schildge
Beyond the Idle Machine: Spatio-Subjective Architecture , Andrew Schnurr
snowstorm , Caleb Shafer
Corner Revolution: Beyond “skynet”, Brightening Grey space and Building Security , Caimin Shen
Living Surfaces , Ryan R. Sotelo
THE RUNIS: HOW CAN SOCIAL REMIDATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL REMEIDATION BE LINKED THROGUH ARCHITECTURE? , Tayu Ting
Entropic Accumulation , Abby Tuckett
What does water want? , Julia Woznicki
Design With Decay , Charlotte Wyman
LifeLink , Yuan Yuan
Architecture As A Carbon-Based Practice , Qixin Yu
Theses from 2023 2023
Ghost Hotel , George Acosta
Cohabitation x Adaptation, 2100: A Climate Change Epoch , Kyle Andrews
Reintroducing Hemp (rongony) in the Material Palette of Madagascar: A study on the potential of Hemp Clay components and its impact on social and ecological communities. , Henintsoa Thierry Andrianambinina
Norteada- En Busca De un Nuevo Norte. Cocoon Portals and the Negotiation of Space. , Kimberly Ayala Najera
Decolonial Perspective on Fashion and Sustainability , Haisum Basharat
Psychochoreography , Nora Bayer
Whale Fall·Building Fall , Jiayi Cai
Means and Methods: Pedagogy and Proto-Architecture , Daniel Choconta
The Miacomet Movement , Charles Duce
Unpacked: Consumer Culture in Suburban Spaces , Jaime Dunlap
you're making me sentimental , Chris Geng
Myths, Legends, and Landscapes , Oromia Jula
Old and New: Intervention in Space and Material , Yoonji Kang
Urban Succession: an ecocentric urbanism , Anthony Kershaw
An Architect's Toolkit for Color Theory , ella knight
WAST3D POTENTIAL , Andrew Larsen
Sustainable Seismic Architecture: Exploring the Synergy of Mortise-and-Tenon Joinery and Modern Timber Construction for Reducing Embodied Carbon , Cong Li
Recipes for Building Relationships , Adriana Lintz
Water Relations, Understanding Our Relationship to Water: Through Research, Diagrams, and Glass , Tian Li
Exploring Permanent Temporariness: A Look into the Palestinian Experience through Refugee Camps , Tamara Malhas
A Study of Dwelling , Julia McArthur
Appropriate that Bridge: Appropriation as a way of Intervention , Haochen Meng
Toronto Rewilded , Forrest Meyer
Confronting and Caring for Spaces of Service , Tia Miller
Reorientation , Soleil Nguyen
The De-centering of Architecture , Uthman Olowa
[De]Composition: Grounding Architecture , Skylar Perez
Soft City: Reclaiming Urban Public Spaces for Play , Jennifer Pham
We Have a (Home) - Co-operative Homes for Sunset Park , Lisa Qiu
The Incremental Ecosystem: Hybridizing Self-Built + Conventional Processes as a Solution to Urban Expansion , Shayne Serrano
Liberdade para quem? - Layered Histories , Vanessa Shimada
Tracing as Process , Lesley Su
The Design of Consequences , Yuqi Tang
On the Edge of the "Er-Ocean" State , Mariesa Travers
Beyond the White Box: Building Alternative Art Spaces for the Black Community , Elijah Trice
Translational Placemaking: The Diasporic Archive , Alia Varawalla
Unearthing Complexity: Tangible Histories of Water and Earth , Alexis Violet
Ritual as Design Gesture: Reimagining the Spring Festival in Downtown Providence , wenjie wang
Spatial Reveries , Alexander Wenstrup
Public-ish , Aliah Werth
Phantom Spaces , Craytonia Williams II
Navigating Contextualism: An architectural and urban design study at the intersection of climate, culture, urban development, and globalization Case Study of Dire Dawa , Ruth Wondimu
Green Paths - On the Space In-Between Buildings , Hongru Zhang
Blowing Away , Ziyi Zhao
Uncovering Emotional Contamination: Five Sites of Trauma , Abigail Zola
Theses from 2022 2022
Revisionist Zinealog : a coacted countercultural device , Madaleine Ackerman
Reengineer value , Maxwell Altman
Space in sound , Gidiony Rocha Alves
Anybody home? Figural studies in architectural representation , David Auerbach
An atlas of speculating flooded futures ; water keeps rising , Victoria Barlay
Notes on institutional architecture ; towards and understanding of erasure and conversation , Liam Burke
For a moment, I was lost ; a visual reflection on the process of grief and mortality within the home , Adam Chiang-Harris
Remnants , Sarah Chriss
A thesis on the entanglement of art and design , Racquel Clarke
Community conservation & engagement through the architecture of public transportation , Liam Costello
Sacred pleasures : a patronage festival of the erotic and play , David Dávila
Caregivers as worldbuilders , Caitlin Dippo
Youkoso Tokyo : Guidebook to a new cybercity , Evelyn Ehgotz
Home: a landscape of narratives ; spaces through story telling , Tania S. Estrada
A digital surreal , Michael Garel-Martorana
Moving through time , Anca Gherghiceanu
Rising to the occasion : a resiliency strategy for Brickell, Miami , Stephanie Gottlieb
Food for an island : on the relationships between agriculture, architecture and land , Melinda Groenewegen
Towards a new immersion , Kaijie Huang
Astoria houses: a resilient community , James Juscik
Healing the Black Butterfly: reparation through resources , Danasha Kelly
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Aging with Independence and Interaction: An Assisted Living Community , Steven J. Flositz
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Wayfinding in Architecture , Jason Brandon Abrams
Phenomenology of Home , Lidiya Angelova
Do You Have A Permit For That? Exposing the Pseudo-Public Space and Exploring Alternative Means of Urban Occupation , Adam Barbosa
Architecture as Canvas , Monika Blazenovic
Women and Architecture: Re-Making Shelter Through Woven Tectonics , Kirsten Lee Dahlquist
Re-Connecting: Revitalizing Downtown Clearwater With Environmental Sensibility , Diego Duran
Livable Streets: Establishing Social Place Through a Walkable Intervention , Jeffrey T. Flositz
Upgrading Design: A Mechatronic Investigation into the Architectural Product Market , Matthew Gaboury
Emergent Morphogenetic Design Strategies , Dawn Gunter
Re-Tooling an American Metropolis , Robert Shawn Hott
The Rebirth of a Semi-Disintegrated Enterprise: Towards the Future of Composites in Pre-Synthesized Domestic Dwellings; and the Societal Acceptance of the Anti-In Situ Architectural Movement , Timothy James Keepers
Architectural Symbiosis , Tim Kimball
Elevating Communication , Thao Thanh Nguyen
PLAY: A Process-Driven Study of Design Discovery , Kuebler Wilson Perry
AC/DC: Let There Be Hybrid Cooling , Christopher Podes
The Third Realm: Suburban Identity through the Transformation of the Main Street , Alberto Rodriguez
From Airport to Spaceport: Designing for an Aerospace Revolution , Paula Selvidge
Perceiving Architecture: An Experiential Design Approach , Ashley Verbanic
(im•print) A Material Investigation to Encourage a Haptic Dialog , Julie Marie Vo
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
The Sleeping Giant: Revealing the Potential Energy of Abandoned Industry Through Adaptive Transformation , Wesley A. Bradley
Community Service Through Architecture: Social Housing with Identity , Karina Cabernite Cigagna
Building a Brighter Future Through Education: Student Housing for Single Parent Families , Carrie Cogsdale
Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design and Technology (C-HMD+T): Biomimetic architecture as part of nature , Isabel Marisa Corsino Carro
Dyna-Mod Constructing the Modern Adaptable Home , Sarah Deardorff
Memory - Ness: The Collaboration Between a Library and Museum , Kelsey Doughty
Promoting Cultural Experiences Through Responsive Architecture , Shabonni Olivia Elkanah
Urban-Eco-Filter: Introducing New Lungs to the City of Beijing , Carlos Gil
Sustainable Planning and Design for Ecotourism: Ecotecture Embraced by the Essence of Nature on Amboro National Park, Santa Cruz-Bolivia , Claudia P. Gil
Revitalization and Modernization of Old Havana, Cuba , Mileydis Hernandez
Framework for Self Sustaining Eco-Village , Eric Holtgard
Condition / recondition: Reconstruction of the city and its collective memory , C Lopez
Architecture of materialism: A study of craft in design culture, process, and product , Logan Mahaffey
Incorporating solar technology to design in humid subtropical climates , Andres Mamontoff
"RE-Homing": Sustaining housing first , Jennifer McKinney
Devised architecture: Revitalizing the mundane , Jason Novisk
A greener vertical habitat: Creating a naturally cohesive sense of community in a vertical multi-family housing structure , Justin Onorati
Visualizing sound: A musical composition of aural architecture , James Pendley
Biotopia: An interdisciplinary connection between ecology, suburbia, and the city , Jessica Phillips
Cultural visualization through architecture , Fernando Pizarro
Experience + evolution: Exploring nature as a constant in an evolving culture and building type , Robin Plotkowski
Nature, daylight and sound: A sensible environment for the families, staff and patients of neonatal intensive care units , Ana Praskach
School work environment: Transition from education to practice , Shane Ross
ReLife: Transitional Housing for Victims of Natural Disaster , Alexander B. Smith
Form and Numbers: Mathematical Patterns and Ordering Elements in Design , Alison Marie Thom
Martian Modules: Design of a Programmable Martian Settlement , Craig A. Trover
Redesigning the megachurch: reintroduction of sacred space into a highly functional building , Javier Valencia
Aquatecture: Architectural Adaptation to Rising Sea Levels , Erica Williams
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Landscape as Urbanism , Ryan Nicholas Abraham
Architectural Strategies in Reducing Heat Gain in the Sub-Tropical Urban Heat Island , Mark A. Blazer
A Heritage Center for the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Linking the Community and Tourism Through Culture , Islay Burgess
Living Chassis: Learning from the Automotive Industry; Site Specifi c, Prefabricated, Systems Architecture , Christopher Emilio Emiliucci Cox
Permanent Supportive Housing in Tampa, Florida: Facilitating Transition through Site, Program, & Design , Nicole Lara Dodd
School as a Center for Community: Establishing Neighborhood Identity through Public Space and Educational Facility , Fred Goykhman
Reestablishing the Neighborhood: Exploring New Relationships & Strategies in Inner City Single Family Home Development , Jeremy Michael Hughes
High-Rise Neighborhood: Rethinking Community in the Residential Tower , Benjamin Hurlbut
reBURB: Redefining the Suburban Family Unit Under a New Construction Ecology , Matthew A. Lobeck
Blurring the Disconnect: [Inter]positioning Place within a Struggling Context , Eric Luttmann
Socializing Housing Phased Early Response to Impromptu Migrant Encampments In Lima, Peru , Raul E. Mayta
Knitting of Nature into an Urban Fabric: A Riverfront Development , Thant Myat
An Address, Not a Room Number: An Assisted Living Community within a Community , Gregory J. Novotnak
Ecological Coexistence: A Nature Retreat and Education Center on Rattlesnake Key, Terra Ceia, Florida , Richard F. Peterika
Aging with Identity: Integrating Culture into Senior Housing , Christine Sanchez
Re-Establishing Place Through Knowledge: A Facility for Earth Construction Education in Pisco, Peru , Hannah Jo Sebastian
Redefining What Is Sacred , Sarah A. Sisson
Reside…Commute…Visit... Reintegrating Defined Communal Place Amongst Those Who Engage with Tampa’s Built Environment , Matthew D. Suarez
The First Icomde A Library for the Information Age , Daniel Elias Todd
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Urban Fabric as a Calayst for Architectural Awareness: Center for Architectural Research , Bernard C. Wilhelm
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Writing an Architecture Thesis: A-Z Guide
ishika kapoor
14 min read
January 5, 2022
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How to Choose Your Architecture Thesis Topic
As with most things, taking the first step is often the hardest. Choosing a topic for your architecture thesis is not just daunting but also one that your faculty will not offer much help with. To aid this annual confusion among students of architecture, we've created this resource with tips, topics to choose from, case examples, and links to further reading!
[Read: 7 Tips on Choosing the Perfect Architecture Thesis Topic for you ]
1. What You Love
Might seem like a no-brainer, but in the flurry of taking up a feasible topic, students often neglect this crucial point. Taking up a topic you're passionate about will not just make for a unique thesis, but will also ensure your dedication during tough times.
Think about the things you're interested in apart from architecture. Is it music? Sports? History? Then, look for topics that can logically incorporate these interests into your thesis. For example, I have always been invested in women's rights, and therefore I chose to design rehabilitation shelters for battered women for my thesis. My vested interest in the topic kept me going through heavy submissions and nights of demotivation!
Watch Vipanchi's video above to get insights on how she incorporated her interest in Urban Farming to create a brilliant thesis proposal, which ended up being one of the most viewed theses on the internet in India!
2. What You're Good At
You might admire, say, tensile structures, but it’s not necessary that you’re also good at designing them. Take a good look at the skills you’ve gathered over the years in architecture school- whether it be landscapes, form creation, parametric modelling- and try to incorporate one or two of them into your thesis.
It is these skills that give you an edge and make the process slightly easier.
The other way to look at this is context-based , both personal and geographical. Ask yourself the following questions:
• Do you have a unique insight into a particular town by virtue of having spent some time there?
• Do you come from a certain background , like doctors, chefs, etc? That might give you access to information not commonly available.
• Do you have a stronghold over a particular built typology?
3. What the World Needs
By now, we’ve covered two aspects of picking your topic which focus solely on you. However, your thesis will be concerned with a lot more people than you! A worthy objective to factor in is to think about what the world needs which can combine with what you want to do.
For example, say Tara loves photography, and has unique knowledge of its processes. Rather than creating a museum for cameras, she may consider a school for filmmaking or even a film studio!
Another way to look at this is to think about socio-economically relevant topics, which demonstrate their own urgency. Think disaster housing, adaptive reuse of spaces for medical care, etcetera. Browse many such categories in our resource below!
[Read: 30 Architecture Thesis Topics You Can Choose From ]
4. What is Feasible
Time to get real! As your thesis is a project being conducted within the confines of an institution as well as a semester, there are certain constraints which we need to take care of:
• Site/Data Accessibility: Can you access your site? Is it possible to get your hands on site data and drawings in time?
• Size of Site and Built-up Area: Try for bigger than a residential plot, but much smaller than urban scale. The larger your site/built-up, the harder it will be to do justice to it.
• Popularity/Controversy of Topic: While there’s nothing wrong with going for a popular or controversial topic, you may find highly opinionated faculty/jury on that subject, which might hinder their ability to give unbiased feedback.
• Timeline! Only you know how productive you are, so go with a topic that suits the speed at which you work. This will help you avoid unnecessary stress during the semester.
How to Create an Area Program for your Architecture Thesis
Watch SPA Delhi Thesis Gold-Medallist Nishita Mohta talk about how to create a good quality area program.
Often assumed to be a quantitative exercise, creating an area program is just as much a qualitative effort. As Nishita says, “An area program is of good quality when all user experiences are created with thought and intention to enhance the usage of the site and social fabric.”
Essentially, your area program needs to be human-centric, wherein each component is present for a very good reason. Rigorously question the existence of every component on your program for whether it satisfies an existing need, or creates immense value for users of your site.
To this end, you need to create three lists:
• A list of proposed spaces by referring to area programs of similar projects;
• A list of needs of your users which can be fulfilled by spatial intervention.
• A list of existing functions offered by your immediate context.
Once you put these lists side-by-side, you’ll see that you are able to match certain needs of users to some proposed spaces on your list, or to those in the immediate context.
However, there will be some proposed spaces which do not cater to any need, and needs that are not catered to by any of the spaces. There will also be certain proposed spaces which are redundant because the context already fulfils that need.
This when you remove redundant spaces to create ones for unmatched needs, and viola, you have a good quality area program!
Confused? Here’s an example from the above video. Nishita originally intended to provide a typical eatery on her site, which she later realised was redundant because several eateries already existed around it. In this manner, she was able to fulfil the actual needs of her users- one of which was to be able to rest without having to pay for anything- rather than creating a generic, unnecessary space.
How to Identify Key Stakeholders for Your Architecture Thesis
“A stakeholder? You mean investors in my thesis?”, you scoff.
You’re not wrong! Theoretically, there are several people invested in your thesis! A stakeholder in an architectural project is anyone who has interest and gets impacted by the process or outcome of the project.
At this point, you may question why it’s important to identify your stakeholders. The stakeholders in your thesis will comprise of your user groups, and without knowing your users, you can’t know their needs or design for them!
There are usually two broad categories of stakeholders you must investigate:
• Key Stakeholders: Client and the targeted users
• Invisible Stakeholders: Residents around the site, local businesses, etc.
Within these broad categories, start by naming the kind of stakeholder. Are they residents in your site? Visitors? Workers? Low-income neighbours? Once you’ve named all of them, go ahead and interview at least one person from each category!
The reason for this activity is that you are not the all-knowing Almighty. One can never assume to know what all your users and stakeholders need, and therefore, it’s essential to understand perspectives and break assumptions by talking directly to them. This is how you come up with the aforementioned 'List of Needs', and through it, an area program with a solid footing.
An added advantage of carrying out this interviewing process is that at the end of the day, nobody, not even the jury, can question you on the relevance of a function on your site!
Why Empathy Mapping is Crucial for Your Architecture Thesis
Okay, I interviewed my stakeholders, but I can’t really convert a long conversation into actionable inputs. What do I do?
This is where empathy mapping comes in. It basically allows you to synthesize your data and reduce it to the Pain Points and Gain Points of your stakeholders, which are the inferences of all your observations.
• Pain Points: Problems and challenges that your users face, which you should try to address through design.
• Gain Points: Aspirations of your users which can be catered to through design.
In the above video, Nishita guides you through using an empathy map, so I would highly recommend our readers to watch it. The inferences through empathy mapping are what will help you create a human-centric design that is valuable to the user, the city, and the social fabric.
Download your own copy of this Empathy Map by David Gray , and get working!
Beyond Case Studies: Component Research for your Architecture Thesis
Coming to the more important aspects, it’s essential to know whether learning a new skill will expand your employability prospects. Otherwise, might as well just spend the extra time sleeping. Apart from being a highly sought-after skill within each design field, Rhinoceros is a unique software application being used across the entire spectrum of design. This vastly multiples your chances of being hired and gives you powerful versatility as a freelancer or entrepreneur. The following are some heavyweights in the design world where Rhino 3D is used:
Case Studies are usually existing projects that broadly capture the intent of your thesis. But, it’s not necessary that all components on your site will get covered in depth during your case studies.', 'Instead, we recommend also doing individual Component (or Typology) Research, especially for functions with highly technical spatial requirements.
For example, say you have proposed a residence hall which has a dining area, and therefore, a kitchen- but you have never seen an industrial kitchen before. How would you go about designing it?', 'Not very well!', 'Or, you’re designing a research institute with a chemistry lab, but you don’t know what kind of equipment they use or how a chem lab is typically laid out.
But don’t freak out, it’s not necessary that all of this research needs to be in person! You can use a mixture of primary and secondary studies to your advantage. The point of this exercise is to deeply understand each component on your site such that you face lesser obstacles while designing.
[Read: Site Analysis Categories You Need to Cover For Your Architecture Thesis Project ]" ]
The Technique of Writing an Experiential Narrative for your Architecture Thesis
A narrative? You mean writing? What does that have to do with anything?
A hell of a lot, actually! While your area programs, case studies, site analysis, etc. deal with the tangible, the experience narrative is about the intangible. It is about creating a story for what your user would experience as they walk through the space, which is communicated best in the form of text. This is done for your clarity before you start designing, to be your constant reference as to what you aim to experientially achieve through design.
At the end of the day, all your user will consciously feel is the experience of using your space, so why not have a clear idea of what we want to achieve?
This can be as long or as short as you want, it’s completely up to you! To get an example of what an experience narrative looks like, download the ebook and take a look at what Nishita wrote for her thesis.
Overcoming Creative Blocks During Your Architecture Thesis
Ah, the old enemy of the artist, the Creative Block. Much has been said about creative blocks over time, but there’s not enough guidance on how to overcome them before they send your deadline straight to hell.
When you must put your work out into the world for judgement, there is an automatic fear of judgement and failure which gets activated. It is a defensive mechanism that the brain creates to avoid potential emotional harm.
So how do we override this self-destructive mechanism?
As Nishita says, just waiting for the block to dissolve until we magically feel okay again is not always an option. Therefore, we need to address the block there and then, and to systematically seek inspiration which would help us with a creative breakthrough.
This is where the concept of Divergent and Convergent Thinking comes in.
• Divergent Thinking: Say you browse through ideas on pinterest to get inspired. If you’re in a creative rut, do just that, but don’t worry about implementing any of those ideas. Freely and carelessly jot down everything that inspires you right now regardless of how unfeasible they may be. This is called Divergent Thinking! This process will help unclog your brain and free it from anxiety.
Divergent and convergent thinking.
• Convergent Thinking: Now, using the various constraints of your architecture thesis project, keep or eliminate those ideas based on how feasible they are for your thesis. This is called Convergent Thinking. You’ll either end up with some great concepts to pursue, or have become much more receptive to creative thinking!
Feel free to use Nishita’s Idea Dashboard (example in the video) to give an identity to the ideas you chose to go forward with. Who knows, maybe your creative block will end up being what propels you forward in your ideation process!
How to Prototype Form and Function During Your Architecture Thesis
Prototyping is one of the most crucial processes of your architecture thesis project. But what exactly does it mean?
“A preliminary version of your designed space which can be used to give an idea of various aspects of your space is known as a prototype.”
As Nishita explains in the video above, there can be endless kinds of prototypes that you can explore for your thesis, and all of them explain different parts of your designed space. However, the two aspects of your thesis most crucial to communicate through prototyping are Form and Function.
As we know, nothing beats physical or 3D models as prototypes of form. But how can you prototype function? Nishita gives the example of designing a School for the Blind , wherein you can rearrange your actual studio according to principles you’re using to design for blind people. And then, make your faculty and friends walk through the space with blindfolds on! Prototyping doesn’t get better than this.
In the absence of time or a physical space, you may also explore digital walkthroughs to achieve similar results. Whatever your method may be, eventually the aim of the prototype is to give a good idea of versions of your space to your faculty, friends, or jury, such that they can offer valuable feedback. The different prototypes you create during your thesis will all end up in formulating the best possible version towards the end.
Within the spectrum of prototypes, they also may vary between Narrative Prototypes and Experiential Prototypes. Watch the video above to know where your chosen methods lie on this scale and to get more examples of fascinating prototyping!
How to Convert Feedback (Crits) into Action During Your Architecture Thesis Project
Nishita talks about how to efficiently capture feedback and convert them into actionable points during your architecture thesis process.
If you’ve understood the worth of prototyping, you would also know by now that those prototypes are only valuable if you continuously seek feedback on them. However, the process of taking architectural ‘crits’ (critique) can often be a prolonged, meandering affair and one may come out of them feeling dazed, hopeless and confused. This is especially true for the dreaded architecture thesis crits!
To avoid that, Nishita suggests capturing feedback efficiently in a simple grid, noting remarks under the following four categories:
• Amplify: There will be certain aspects of your thesis that your faculty and friends would appreciate, or would point out as key features of your design that must be made more prominent. For example, you may have chosen to use a certain definitive kind of window in a space, which you could be advised to use more consistently across your design. This is the kind of feedback you would put under ‘Amplify’.
• Address: More often, you will receive feedback which says, ‘this is not working’ or ‘you’ve done nothing to address this problem’. In such cases, don’t get dejected or defensive, simply note the points under the ‘Address’ column. Whether you agree with the advice or not, you cannot ignore it completely!
• Explore: Sometimes, you get feedback that is totally out of the blue or is rather unclear in its intent. Don’t ponder too long over those points during your crit at the cost of other (probably more important) aspects. Rather, write down such feedback under the ‘Explore’ column, to investigate further independently.
• Consider: When someone looks at your work, their creative and problem-solving synapses start firing as well, and they are likely to come up with ideas of their own which you may not have considered. You may or may not want to take them up, but it is a worthy effort to put them down under the ‘Consider’ column to ruminate over later!
Following this system, you would come out of the feedback session with action points already in hand! Feel free to now go get a coffee, knowing that you have everything you need to continue developing your architecture thesis project.
How to Structure Your Architecture Thesis Presentation for a Brilliant Jury
And so, together, we have reached the last stage of your architecture thesis project: The Jury. Here, I will refrain from telling you that this is the most important part of the semester, as I believe that the process of learning is a lot more valuable than the outcome. However, one cannot deny the satisfaction of a good jury at the end of a gruelling semester!
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Dissertations & Theses : Covers scholarship from most U.S. universities with some international coverage. Full text coverage begins with 1997+ but indexing includes scholarship dating back to 1861. To search PU Dissertations, follow this link to a subset of the Proquest Dissertations.
SoA Design Theses: The School of Architecture maintains an archive of student theses from 1930s through the present. To search the index of projects or access the collection, contact the Visual Resources Curator . This collection includes both graduate and undergraduate projects.
Princeton Senior Theses Database : A search catalog of senior theses written from 1929 through the present. Approximately 60 000 records are included but not all departments are represented (SoA is). Searchable by author, advisor, department, or year. The Mudd Manuscript Library collects and maintains the primary copies.
SoA Library Senior Thesis Collection : The School of Architecture Library has a small subset of SoA senioir theses. These essays can be found in the library Main Catalog by an author search or by a call number browse search for "Sen. Th." Many of these theses have not been formatted for primary copy but rather include color images, fold-outs, dust jackets, etc. This small collection does not circulate.
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Harvard's Graduate School of Design : A guide for finding masters theses and doctoral dissertations specific to the GSD.
MIT Architecture Dissertations & Theses : A basic list organized by author of the thesis or dissertation. Each entry includes the title of the work, brief "where are they now" info, and links to the works in MIT's Barton catalog.
UC-Berkeley's Guide to Architecture & Environmental Design Theses and Dissertations: Explains how you can find these works in the UCB system.
Architecture Association's School of Architecture Theses: Theses can be searched via the online catalogue by selecting the 'AA Theses' menu option from the upper left-hand drop-down menu.
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UIUC's Depts. of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Checklist: l inks to pages with basic details about theses, projects, and dissertations from the Departments of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning up to 2006 (update pending). THis link will take you to the dedicated Landscape Architecture Thesis Database .
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eCommons@Cornell : The OPEN collection is available to the general public, including the full text. The CLOSED collection is not available outside Cornell and only the citation and abstract are available at Cornell.
Scholarly Commons - Univ. of Pennsylvania : Browse and in some cases access the full text to theses and dissertations from Penn programs and professional schools.
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ADT (Australiasian Digital Theses Program) : This search portal provides searching, browsing, and access to theses and dissertations produced in Australia.
Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertacoes : A search tool for accessing theses and dissertations produced in Brazilian universities.
Cybertesis : Sponsored by UNESCO and Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes, Cybertesis is a project between the Université de Montréal, the Université de Lyon2, the University of Chile and 32 universities of Europe, Africa and Latin America . Simultaneous searches through a single Web interface may retrieve more than 50.000 full text theses stored in 27 different servers and university repositories, by means of the use of OAI protocol (Open Archives Initiative) as a service provider (metadata harvesting).
DART-Europe E-theses Portal : A discovery service for open access research theses awarded by European universities.
DiVA : This portal provides access to dissertations, theses, and research publications written at 26 institutions in Scandinavia.
EThOS : Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) offers free access, in a secure format, to the full text of electronically stored UK theses--a rich and vast body of knowledge.
Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database : The Center for Research Libraries has more than 800,000 cataloged foreign doctoral dissertations representing more than 90 countries and over 1200 institutions.
Index to Theses: A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1716. 589,028 theses in collection (355,862 of which have abstracts)
NARCIS: This search portal provides access to theses and dissertations produced in the Netherlands, as well as access to a variety of other research and data sets.
National ETD Portal (South Africa): This search portal provides access to dissertations and theses produced in South Africa.
RCAAP - Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal: The RCAAP 's mission is to promote, support and facilitate the adoption of the open access movement in Portugal. RCAAP The project aims to: increase the visibility , accessibility and dissemination of academic activity and Portuguese scientific research , facilitating the management and access to information about scientific production and integrate Portugal into a set of international initiatives. This portal offers a union catalog with digital contents from more than 30 institutions.
Theses Canada : A union catalog of Canadian theses and dissertations, in both electronic and analog formats, is available through the search interface on this portal.
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12 Websites That Can Aid Architectural Thesis Research
Writing the perfect thesis can be a daunting experience. While also juggling other deadlines, internships, projects and tests, final year architecture students are faced with the various challenges that thesis research brings in. Right from finalizing a suitable topic to identifying and analysing verified research data, the entire process is quite taxing on the mind and time-consuming.
To make your journey a little simpler, here’s a compilation of ten websites that can aid your architectural thesis research:
1. Library Genesis
The holy grail of research papers, dissertations, scholarly articles, scientific projects, journals, books, paintings and magazines, Library Genesis is a must-visit website for thesis research. It provides access to documents that are otherwise paywalled or not digitized and enables users to download and/or upload data. The website provides a searchable database from publicly available resources and currently holds over three million files!
The website can be accessed at: http://libgen.li/
2. The Pudding
Students engaged in thesis research often face difficulties while attempting to obtain reliable data when it comes to area-wise population density. Especially in areas where documented information in the field is sparse, this website can be of great help. The Pudding is a project that utilizes satellite imagery, census data and volunteered geographic information to create near-accurate population density maps. The website not only lets the user explore current population trends but also lets one compare data collected over the years.
The website can be accessed at: https://pudding.cool/2018/10/city_3d/
3. Ventusky
Ventusky is a Czech based website that presents real-time meteorological data. It simplifies one’s research by offering various parameters of climatic information on a single platform, thereby cutting down multiple website visits and analysis time. It offers a range of forecast models including the ICON, GFS, GEM, HRRR and NBM and covers thirteen meteorological factors (Temperature, Precipitation, Radar, Satellite, Clouds, Wind Speed, Wind Gust, Air Pressure, Thunderstorms, Humidity, Waves, Snow Cover and Air Quality). It also lets the user access each of the parameters on eighteen different altitude levels.
The website can be accessed at: https://www.ventusky.com/
Another online library, JSTOR has an extensive collection of academic journals, articles, scientific publications, photographs and research papers. With a user-friendly interface and millions of rights-cleared sources, this website is a great companion for architecture students pursuing a thesis. This website also offers an advanced image searching option that can aid research.
The website can be accessed at: https://www.jstor.org/
5. The Courtauld Institute’s Conway Library
This website is a digital collection of architectural drawings, publications, photographs and cuttings from the Courtauld Institute of Art, based in London , United Kingdom. It offers thousands of digitized files from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and is a great resource for thesis research work.
The website can be accessed at: http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/
6. ArchDaily
ArchDaily is a household name for architecture students. Aside from news, competitions and reviews, the blog offers millions of detailed case studies on projects. Highlighting relevant specifications of architectural design with technical drawings and pictures, Archdaily can cover a major chunk of your preliminary studies! Additionally, it is one of the most visited architecture websites in the world and attracts over 160 million monthly users.
The website can be accessed at: https://www.archdaily.com/
7. Architect Magazine
This website rolls out hundreds of articles every day, describing the latest projects, technologies, products, events and building resources in the architecture industry. It covers multiple facets of the architectural community through insightful reviews by architects and journalists from across the world. Architect Magazine is a great tool to enhance thesis research by learning and discovering practices around the world.
The website can be accessed at: https://www.architectmagazine.com/
8. Andrew Marsh: 3D Sun Path
Acquiring and plotting accurate sun paths can be a cumbersome process. Andrew Marsh’s Sun Path website simplifies this task by providing solar information according to the location’s geographic coordinates. The site not only maps the sun’s annual path in three dimensions , but it also lets the user observe the behaviour of light during different times of the day. The website also projects shadows of 3d buildings that can be modified by the user.
The website can be accessed at: http://andrewmarsh.com/apps/staging/sunpath3d.html
9. Harvard Digital Collection Library
Opening doors to an Ivy League library, Harvard’s Digital Collection Website is another online database with millions of digitized files. Users can search for information within a range of years with an advanced search option. Adding to the vast collection of text files, the digital library also provides maps, 3d material, audio and videos.
The website can be accessed at: https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/
10. Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
The Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) website is a thesis exclusive online database. It offers a range of filters including university, country, language, department and degree that can be instrumental in simplifying thesis research. Indexing nearly 60 lakh publications from over 1100 universities, this non-profit website is one of the best open access dissertation databases on the internet.
The website can be accessed at: https://oatd.org/
11. Rethinking The Future
Rethinking The Future (RTF) is a digital platform that aims to inspire individuals to think, create and criticize. The team at RTF rolls out hosts of digital content that is instrumental in thesis research including design journals, courses, collated articles and projects.The website extends its presence on social media as well, with thought provoking articles and designs posted on a regular basis.
The website can be accessed at: https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/
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Selected Architecture Thesis Projects: Fall 2020
Clockwise from top left: “Citing the Native Genius” by Taylor Cook, “Pair of Dice, Para-Dice, Paradise: A Counter-Memorial to Victims of Police Brutality” by Calvin Boyd, “The Magic Carpet” by Goli Jalali, “Stacked Daydreams: Ceiling-Scape for the Neglected” by Zai Xi Jeffrey Wong, and “Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago’s South Side” by Isabel Strauss
Five films showcase a selection of Fall 2020 thesis projects from the Department of Architecture.
Pair of Dice, Para-Dice, Paradise: A Counter-Memorial to Victims of Police Brutality
This thesis is a proposal for a counter-memorial to victims of police brutality. The counter-memorial addresses scale by being both local and national, addresses materiality by privileging black aesthetics over politeness, addresses presence/absence by being more transient than permanent, and lastly, addresses site by being collective rather than singular. The result is an architecture that plays itself out over 18,000 police stations across America and the Washington Monument at the National Mall, two sites that are intrinsically linked through the architecture itself: negative “voids” at police stations whose positive counterparts aggregate at the Mall.
The critical question here is whether or not the system in which police brutality takes place can be reformed from within, or if people of color need to seek their utopia outside of these too-ironclad structures. This counter-memorial, when understood as an instrument of accountability (and therefore a real-time beacon that measures America’s capacity to either change or otherwise repeat the same violent patterns), ultimately provides us with an eventual answer.
Author: Calvin Boyd, MArch I 2020 Advisor: Jon Lott , Assistant Professor of Architecture Duration: 11 min, 2 sec
Thesis Helpers: Shaina Yang (MArch I 2021), Rachel Coulomb (MArch I 2022)
The Magic Carpet
The Persian Carpet and the Persian Miniature painting have served as representation tools for the Persian Garden and the idea of paradise in Persian culture since antiquity. The word paradise derives from the Persian word pari-daeza meaning “walled enclosure.” The garden is always walled and stands in opposition to its landscape. This thesis investigates the idea of a contemporary image of paradise in the Iranian imagination by using carpets and miniature paintings as a tool for designing architecture. The garden, with its profound associations, provided a world of metaphor for the classical mystic poets. One of the manuscripts describing the Persian garden is called Haft Paykar – known as the Seven Domes – written by the 12th century Persian poet called Nizami. These types of manuscripts were made for Persian kings and contain within them miniature paintings and poetry describing battles, romances, tragedies, and triumphs that compromise Iran’s mythical and pre-Islamic history. The carpet is the repeating object in the miniature paintings of the manuscript. This thesis deconstructs the carpet in seven ways in order to digitally reconstruct the miniature paintings of the Seven Domes and the image of paradise with new techniques.
Author: Goli Jalali, MArch I 2021 Advisor: Jennifer Bonner , Associate Professor of Architecture Duration: 8min, 28 sec
Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago’s South Side
Do people know what the Illinois Institute of Technology and the South Side Planning Board and the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois and the United States government did to the Black Metropolis? If they know, do they care? Is it too hard to hold these entities accountable? If we held them accountable, could we find justice for those that were displaced? What would justice look like? What comes after Mecca? What types of spaces come after Mecca? Are they different than what was there before? Are they already there? What defines them? Can Reparations be housing? How many people are already doing this work? How many people are doing this work in academia? On the ground? Is the word “Reparations” dead? What do we draw from? Who is this for? Do white men own the legacy of the architecture that defined the Black Metropolis? How personal should this work be? How anecdotal? How quantitative? Does the design need to be inherently spatial? Or atmospheric? What should it feel like? How do I draw a feeling in Rhino? What are radical ways of looking? How do we reclaim racialized architecture? Do we? Should we even talk about these things?
Author: Isabel Strauss, MArch I 2021 Advisor: Oana Stanescu , Design Critic in Architecture Duration: 4 min, 4 sec
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Stacked Daydreams: Ceiling‐Scape for the Neglected
Elderly Care Adaptive Reuse of Hong Kong’s Vertical Factory
This thesis operates at the intersection of three domains of neglect:
- In the realm of building elements, the ceiling is often considered as an afterthought in the design process.
- Across building types, the vertical factory sits abandoned and anachronistic to its surroundings. It spiraled into disuse due to Hong Kong’s shifting economic focus.
- In society, the elderly are often subjected to social neglect, seen as a financial burden, and forced toward the fringes of society.
These parts experience obsolescence that led to indifference, and subsequently to boredom. I intend to draw the parallel of deterioration between the body of the elderly and the body of the vertical factory. Using a set of ceiling parts in the manner of prosthetics to reactivate the spaces into elderly care facilities, revert boredom to daydreams, and reimagine the concept of elderhood as an experimental second stage of life.
Author: Zai Xi Jeffrey Wong, MArch I AP 2021 Advisor: Eric Höweler , Associate Professor of Architecture & Architecture Thesis Coordinator Duration: 4 min, 53 sec
Citing the Native Genius
Reconstructing vernacular architecture in Hawai’i
For over 120 years, Americanization has tried to demean and erase Hawaiian language, culture, and architecture. In contemporary discourse, the vernacular architecture of Hawai’i is mostly referred to as ancient and vague. As with many Indigenous cultures, Western perspectives tend to fetishize or patronize the Hawaiian design aesthetic. Within this hierarchy of knowledge is a systemic assumption that Hawaiian vernacular architecture cannot effectively serve as a precedent resource for contemporary architects. Those who do reference the original vernacular will often classify it as utilitarian or resourceful. Regardless of intent, this narrative takes design agency away from the people involved. As a corrective, a respectful use of vernacular domestic form would benefit designers that are struggling to connect with Hawai’i’s cultural and architectural traditions.
Mining the European gaze and influence out of revivalist publications, archeological surveys and historic images reveal unique characteristics of Hawaiian domestic space. Geometric quotation and symbolic referencing are the foundational instruments in applying the discrete components, form, and organizational logic of the vernacular. The result is a design process that creates an amalgamation of decolonized form and contemporary technique. This residential project intends to revive Hawai’i’s erased domestic experience by revisiting the precolonial vernacular form and plan.
Author: Taylor Cook, MArch I 2021 Advisor: Jeffry Burchard , Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture Duration: 5 min, 13 sec
Special Thanks: Jeffry Burchard, Cameron Wu, Kanoa Chung, Nik Butterbaugh, Carly Yong, Vernacular Pacific LLC More Information: www.vernacularhawaii.com
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The Undergraduate Thesis Research Studio offers a unique opportunity to continue your design education at NewSchool. You will plan, develop, and execute a self-generated self-directed architectural research project. You will identify a problem based on your personal interests and propose an architectural solution by navigating and expanding on a given methodology comprised of research and design tasks. You will self-evaluate and clearly convey a critical position grounded in the learning outcomes of the architectural program at NewSchool.
"An architectural thesis should be seen as a desire to map, create, draw, or plan a certain kind of spatiality through a critical/ radical critique of a specific aspect within the process of archietctural production that is representative of everyday life within our current urbanized process of spatial production." Zegarski/ Enos (2016)
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Architecture Thesis Of The Year | ATY 2022
- Published on July 06, 2022
ARCHITECTURE THESIS OF THE YEAR | ATY 2022
The most amazing Architecture Thesis of 2022!
After the overwhelming response from the first two editions, Charette is elated to announce the third edition of ‘Architecture Thesis of the Year Competition - ATY 2022’.
‘Architecture Thesis of the Year 2022’ is an international architecture thesis competition that aims to extend appreciation to the tireless effort and exceptional creativity of student theses in the field of Architecture. We seek to encourage young talent in bringing their path-breaking ideas to the forefront globally.
PREMISE Academic Design endeavours allow the free flow of unfettered ideas – experimental, bold, promising, and unconventional. An intensive architectural discourse and a collaborative design process are essential to developing ingenious solutions to complex problems of the future.
An Architecture Thesis is considered the avant-garde – pushing the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm in the architectural realm. It is the outcome of months of painstaking research and an excruciating design process yet it hardly gets any recognition beyond the design studio. It is imperative to share such revolutionary ideas with the entire fraternity to open up new possibilities for dialogue.
Competition Brief - https://thecharette.org/architecture-thesis-of-the-year/
AWARDS Exposure and recognition is the key to success for any designer. The ATY 2022 competition provides students with the opportunity to showcase their work on a global stage.
TROPHIES Custom Designed Trophies will be awarded & shipped to the Top 3 Winners.
CERTIFICATES Sharable and verifiable certificates of achievement will be awarded to the Winners, Honorable Mentions & Top 30.
INTERVIEW The Top 3 Winners will get an exclusive interview in both – written and video formats. Photos, interviews, and more information about the winners will be published on our website.
PUBLICATIONS The winning entries shall be published on Charette’s website & social media platforms and other international architecture websites partnered with us.
ELIGIBILITY ATY 2022 is open to architecture students of all nationalities and institutions. All Undergraduate/Bachelors and Graduate/Masters Thesis conducted in the calendar year 2017 – 2022 are eligible to participate. Group, as well as individual entries, are allowed.. The official language of the competition is English.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A total of 5 sheets of size 30 cm x 30 cm are to be submitted as a combined PDF document, which shall not exceed 5 MB.
Sheets 1 to 4: Graphic Representation Sheet 5: Text Summary
For more details visit - https://thecharette.org/architecture-thesis-of-the-year/
KEY DATES Advance Entry: 15 June - 15 July 2022 Early Entry: 16 July - 15 Aug 2022 Standard Entry: 16 Aug -15 Sep 2022 Last-Min Entry: 16 Sep -15 Oct 2022 Submission Deadline: 16 Oct 2022 Results: 15 Nov 2022
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Poliakov Log, Miass , Chelyabinsk Oblast , Russia i Regional Level Types Poliakov Log Occurrence Miass City Chelyabinsk Oblast Oblast Russia Country function showexplain() { $("#locexplain").toggle(); if (typeof movemap === "function") movemap(); }
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167,500 (2012) | 10.0km | |
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46,502 (2018) | 18.5km | |
2,275 (2012) | 21.6km |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
- Ural Volcanic Arcs Volcanic Arc
- Southern Urals Mountain Range
- ⭔ Western Siberian basin (Zapadno-Sibirskiy basin) Economic Region
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- Email: [email protected]
- Type: City with 147,000 residents
- Description: city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
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Miass old station.
- Categories: administrative territorial entity of Russia , city or town , big city and locality
- Location: Chelyabinsk Oblast , Urals , Russia , Eastern Europe , Europe
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College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Architecture. Architecture Masters Theses Collection.
Theses from 2017. PDF. Eulogy to Architecture: The Three-Dimensional Collage City of Nostalgia, Molly A. Evans. PDF. Genealogy of Theories of the City: Spatial Components as an Index of Socioeconomic Capitalism, Zachary Grewe. PDF. The Delamination of Manhattan: Living in the Layers of a Post-land Society, Dylan Hursley.
While choosing an architectural thesis topic, it is best to pick something that aligns with your passion and interest as well as one that is feasible. Out of the large range of options, here are 20 architectural thesis topics. 1. Slum Redevelopment (Urban architecture) Slums are one of the rising problems in cities where overcrowding is pertinent.
Architecture Design 2 Unit Chair: Dr. Mirjana Lozanovska Co-Chair: Anthony Worm Design Teachers: Marc Dixon, Fiona Gray, Eugenia Tan design orientation This semester will focus on the 'making ofarchitecture' in the more specific sense of the physical building and order of the environment. There will be two major themes explored: how ...
Architecture Masters Theses. RISD's Master of Architecture program is one of the few in the US embedded in a college of art and design. Here, architecture is taught in a way that understands the practice of design and making as a thoughtful, reflective process that both engenders and draws from social, political, material, technological and ...
Architecture of materialism: A study of craft in design culture, process, and product, Logan Mahaffey. PDF. Incorporating solar technology to design in humid subtropical climates, Andres Mamontoff. PDF "RE-Homing": Sustaining housing first, Jennifer McKinney. PDF. Devised architecture: Revitalizing the mundane, Jason Novisk. PDF
choose a topic that will enable you to read and understand the literature. ensure that the topic is manageable and that material is available. make a list of keywords. be flexible. define your topic as a focused research question. research and read more about your topic. use your question to formulate a thesis statement.
3. What the World Needs. By now, we've covered two aspects of picking your topic which focus solely on you. However, your thesis will be concerned with a lot more people than you! A worthy objective to factor in is to think about what the world needs which can combine with what you want to do.
Architecture Theses & Dissertations Beyond Princeton. Harvard's Graduate School of Design: A guide for finding masters theses and doctoral dissertations specific to the GSD.. MIT Architecture Dissertations & Theses: A basic list organized by author of the thesis or dissertation. Each entry includes the title of the work, brief "where are they now" info, and links to the works in MIT's Barton ...
A thesis is typically the culminating project for a master's degree, while a dissertation completes a doctoral degree and represents a scholar's main area of expertise. ... Yale University Architecture Theses ... to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper-based theses ...
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Featured Thesis Projects. The five-year Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and the graduate Master of Architecture (MArch) prepare students with advanced skills in the areas of history, theory, representation and technology. The thesis projects address a clear subject matter, identify actionable methods for working, and generate knowledge ...
12 Websites That Can Aid Architectural Thesis Research
ral Design Thesis Architectural Design Thesis is an independent design research project on a topic selected and deve. oped by the student. Design Thesis is an opportunity for each student in the Master of Architecture or Master of Science in Architecture (Architectural Design Track) to define an individual position with regard to the discipli.
Five films showcase a selection of Fall 2020 thesis projects from the Department of Architecture. This thesis is a proposal for a counter-memorial to victims of police brutality. The counter-memorial addresses scale by being both local and national, addresses materiality by privileging black aesthetics over politeness, addresses presence ...
What is Thesis? The Undergraduate Thesis Research Studio offers a unique opportunity to continue your design education at NewSchool. You will plan, develop, and execute a self-generated self-directed architectural research project. You will identify a problem based on your personal interests and propose an architectural solution by navigating and expanding on a given methodology comprised of ...
ATY 2022 is open to architecture students of all nationalities and institutions. All Undergraduate/Bachelors and Graduate/Masters Thesis conducted in the calendar year 2017 - 2022 are eligible ...
Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть cheel-YAH-been-skuh-yuh OH-blust’) is in the Urals region of Russia.. Regions [] Cities []. Chelyabinsk; Magnitogorsk; Miass — a gold mining town with a historic district full of 19th century wooden architecture; Satka — mining town in the center of the Ural mountains near Zyuratkul National Park and a historic ...
Participants of the Mindat Adventure Field trip collecting some almandine of unusual elongated habitus in July 2019. Poliakov Log, Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
The area of Chelyabinsk Oblast is 88,900 km 2 (34,300 sq mi). [ 19 ] The total length of its external border is 2,750 km (1,710 mi), and the Oblast measures 400 km (250 mi) from north to south and 490 km (300 mi) from west to east. The highest point of Chelyabinsk Oblast, reaching 1,406 metres (4,613 ft) above sea level, is located in the ...
Miass is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located 96 kilometers west of Chelyabinsk, on the eastern slope of the Southern Ural Mountains, on the bank of the river Miass. Population: 147,995 ; 151,751 ; 158,420 ; 167,839 . Photo: Алексей Петров, CC BY 3.0. Ukraine is facing shortages in its brave fight to survive.