Kristen Abruzzese
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor EMBASSY SPECIES FOR THE INFORMATION LANDSCAPE KRISTEN ABRUZZESE For the embassy, the continually buffering digital landscape represents a crisis. As digital tools continue to take on the efforts of effectively transferring information, it pushes the historical purpose and program of embassy into a corner. In terms of numbers, the quantity of […]
Caitlin Toczko
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer NON-PERMANENCE A Rhizomatic Architecture CAITLIN TOCZKO As a culture, we have been evolving toward what we had believed to be a rather catalytic future, one in which an action between two forces is initiated by an agent which remains unaffected itself. In the recent past, we have slowly begun to reconcile with […]
Dana Shin
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer REGENERATIVE MICROSTRUCTURE Electrokinetic Extraction of Minerals in Tailings DANA SHIN Reasoning for things in multiple different scales, thinkers and designers in the world were able to interact between material property of forms and how they function. In the Greek age, the thinkers saw the repetition of the golden ratio throughout the world […]
Justin Rupp
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer DIRT, GERMS, AND HEALTH Improving Our Built Microbial Environments JUSTIN RUPP Humans spend more than 90 percent of our time indoors, coming into contact with many microbes through breathing, touching, and interacting with other people. All of the buildings we occupy have controlled indoor climates that have been designed to keep us […]
Aviel Rappoport
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer CHARTER CITY An Investment in Change AVIEL RAPPOPORT The Goal of this proposal is to initiate change in a stagnant environment. The project will implement research from case studies into Fordlandia, special economic zones in China, and imperialistic architecture to try and remedy the improper housing and unemployment rate that faces Argentina […]
Angela McCrory
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer INTO THE WASTELAND Tailings Reclamation through Biomineralization ANGELA McCRORY Through an examination of the environmental impact of mining operations both historical and contemporary, an alternative building process is proposed that considers abundant mineral industry wastes as a material resource. This proposal intends to reconcile a people and an ecology to an existing […]
Kyleen Hoover
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer THE COLLECTIVE MICROCOSM Creating The Next-Generation Artifacts KYLEEN HOOVER Japan’s unique cultural identity is the perfect test bed for my thesis proposal which will propel the urban agriculture movement in Tokyo and offset the annual energy usage via a system that responds dynamically to climatic and cultural variables. Japan is facing a […]
Christopher Green
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY OF MARINE ECOSCAPES CHRISTOPHER GREEN Architecture must imbibe a sense of the imagination as well as be performative with respect to changing environmental conditions and user needs. In order to do this it must continually evolve and transform. The role of architecture has taken on new roles of ever-growing scope […]
Rachel Empensando
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer EXPLORING NATURE’S RESILIENCE RACHEL EMPENSANDO Through biomaterial experimentation one begins to realize the capabilities of a material system to alter and sustain an ecosystem. The material composition can allow for maintenance of an environment, introduction of new species, and the integration of several bionetworks. Pripyat, Ukraine is a location in which nature, […]
Alexandra Dorn
ARCH-4980.1 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer TRANSIT HUB FOR THE GLOBALIZED INDIVIDUAL ALEXANDRA DORN The most radical architecture is that which exists in direct contact with the human body. Treatment of our truly immediate environments, our bodies, has evolved just as our treatment of our greater external environments. As we gain a greater understanding of where and what we […]