Justin Ware
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer AGUAS INFORMALES JUSTIN PAUL WARE Mexico City is a heterogeneous mix of contradictions that cannot easily be reduced; however, as the city continues to experience rapid urban growth, the major challenges facing it are focused around water. With a population of nearly 20 million people, land that was once a […]
Olesia Kruglov
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer SYMBIOTIC VOIDS Return to Edo OLESIA KRUGLOV Present-day Tokyo, the largest and richest city in the world, is an “urban village” with endless neighborhoods of single-family homes and greenery nestled between multiple layers of the highly organized infrastructure. Despite a national population decrease and subsequently small urban growth, the city […]
Kyle Baumgardner
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor GRAYS FERRY A New Bio-Industrial Parkscape KYLE BAUMGARDNER Philadelphia is in the midst of an identity crisis. Over the last century, Philadelphia and its surrounding metropolitan area have been the leading refiners of petroleum products on the east coast; being home to half of the refineries in this region. […]
Nils Jonsson
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer MOBILE GENERATION Super Private Pao and the Unscripted Community NILS JONSSON Set at an indeterminate time in New York City’s future, my thesis is an exploration into the effects that technology, distrust of government, and urban growth have on a city surrounded by water. Drawing on my own fascination with […]
Kieran Martin
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor SOFT MEGASTRUCTURE Stitching Detroit’s Urban Voids KIERAN MARTIN This research uses the post-war avant-garde trend of Megastructure as a lens into the coupling of science and design that informed the performance and aesthetics of sixties paper architecture. Though easy to discount as a fashion, Megastructure contained innovative and technically […]
Katheryn Czub
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor THE ARCHITECT IS A CAVE MAN KATHERYN CZUB “Man started with two basic ways of controlling environment: one by avoiding the issue and hiding under a rock, tree, tent or roof (this led ultimately to architecture as we know it) and the other by actually interfering with the local […]
Jillian Crandall
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor THE SENTIENT EVENT Establishing a Reflexive Ecology JILLIAN CRANDAL For decades, the Olympic games have been used as leverage in cities to generate tourism and to fund infrastructural developments. In actuality, the event more often leaves a disproportionate amount of damage in its wake – environmentally, financially, and infrastructurally. […]
Jessica Van Handel
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor THE MOBILE GAME JESSICA VAN HANDEL Sociologists such as Johan Huizinga, author of Homo Ludens, have noted that ‘play’ is older than culture. Huizinga states that play is “a well-defined quality of action which is different from ‘ordinary life.’” The stadium is an arena for ‘play’ and should therefore […]
FP_Ngai Section 11-12
Final Project | Ted Ngai, Lecturer PERFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE & METABOLIC URBANISM FP Students 2011-12 – Ted Ngai Section According to the United Nations, more than half of the world’s population now resides in urban areas. WIth an estimation of 50 cities around the world growing at a staggering rate of more than 100,000 people per […]
Jenni Wilga
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor DIASPORIC ORGANIZATION Connectivity Through Informality JENNI WILGA The perpetual motion of humankind results in a global cultural exchange that has made the understanding of cultural identity increasingly complex. With the exportation of labor, goods and media, cultural boundaries are constantly blurred. The Philippines constitutes a large portion of the […]