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untitled, ambiguity and architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis seeks to expand Robert Venturi's concept of ambiguity in architecture to include meanings that, extending beyond the formal and semiotic, are rooted in narrative. It takes as a precedent the work of Larry Sultan ...
From seed to sale
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The history of cultivating cannabis can be traced back to at least the 3rd millennium BCE, as evidence suggests it was consumed for psychoactive effects at least 2,500 years ago in the Pamir Mountains in central Asia. ...
Taking stock
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis is sited in a near and uncertain future in the Rust Belt of America. The title of this thesis refers to three interrelated conditions, industrial technology, material culture and architectural agency. 'Taking' ...
World Court
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Eighteen billion gallons of toxic waste, nine billion dollars in damages, trials across five countries, hundreds of lawyers, millions of dollars in litigation fees, and a corporation with an annual revenue of two hundred ...
Fourth Belgrade : story about reclaiming land
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
In light of Yugoslavian socialist heritage, the violent transition into capitalism and current developer's logics, this thesis is using architecture to imagine a path not taken, an alternative outcome and value system which ...
Soggy sovereignty on the Irish border
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
BREXIT caused an existential crisis in Northern Ireland, by March 2019 the Irish border, between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland will become the EU's only land frontier with another union. ...
Collective Home Office
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Collective Home Office is a collaborative practice whose working process tests the propositions it makes through architecture. As a group of friends, willing test subjects, a union of producers, a jury, a family, or an ...
The ecology of truth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The spaces we inhabit influence the way we experience our surroundings, but this causal relationship is much weaker than designers and architects like to imagine. The Ecology of Truth investigates these weak effects as a ...
Form and daylight as a creative medium : Church of John Paul II in South End, Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
This thesis is an architectural design project of a Catholic Church dedicated to Pope John Paul II. The main intention of this Thesis is to explore and clearly present daylighting methods and techniques and how important ...
Picturesque prairies : productive preservation on a petroleum planet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Fires burn bright atop the flare stacks in the distance as bison watch from behind the two-meter high fence of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. In this modern scene, complex geographic formations in North Dakota's ...