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I am interested in the relationship between solidity and transparency, between permanence and ephemerality, in the context of the modern city. This thesis is an exploration of transience and of social and phenomenal exchange, ...

Since the 1880's the United States government has been constructing buildings on national park land. The visitor and administrative building typologies in the National Park Service have evolved from Army barracks at Fort ...

Other than the martial component, the primary concern for many of the martial arts is answering the question, "what is self?". The task of answering that question has historically belonged to the martial arts to the extent ...

Ideas. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that architecture, conceived from human experience, is a dual process of thinking and doing, in addition to being a building or a final product, and can occur at any scale of ...

The thesis will propose a method of architectural design that applies the use of continuous and curvilinear surfaces. It will explore a method of engaging the continuous surface as an expression and response to t he dynamic ...

The thesis seeks to explore the implications of the emergence of the digital media as a new art form on the museum space. The museum as an institution has faced some ideological and philosophical contradictions in recent ...

Generally, in the contemporary cities vertical buildings are conceived and implemented as subdivided volumes that set up highly regularized modes of inhabitation. This condition limits the possibility for more complex and ...

How may design address the conditions of change and creativity in today's workplace environment? Increasingly there is the recognition that in order to develop effective workplaces, the design not only needs to respond to ...

People's physical patterns are composed of continuity and congestion in their space, which are created as a life realm by movements of people. Perhaps their history, present living, and future are reminded of regrets, ...

The goal of the project is to design a non-sectarian meditation center in the dense urban area of New York City. The design challenge is to draw inspiration from an interpretation of ancient philosophies of meditation, ...