THESIS & FINAL RESEARCH

2020

Francisco Brown-Ortega, MDes CC 2020

Independent Study:Culture, Power and Place: Generic Specificity in Coworking Spaces

 

Weiyi Cao, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: The State and the Market: Measuring the (In)equity of Social Rented Housing in Chongqing

 

Elena Clarke, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: Untitled

 

Linda Just, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: Plot Excavations: On the Potential of Narratives to Reinvent Place in the Post-Industrial Aftermath

 

Corine Morain, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: Unpacking the Maison Louis Vuitton: Power, Beauty & Heritage

 

Karan Saharya, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Elite Development, Spatial Cleansing & Social Exclusion in Mehrauli, Delhi

 

Alexandra Indira Sanyal, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: Power in/and Preservation: Understanding Loss in a (Post) Colonial Calcutta

 

Lei Song, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: The Biopolitics of Architectural Conservation in Postcolonial Taiwan: Body, Space, and Media

Zhongnan Yang, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: Spatial Differentiation: The Resident Retention Mode in the Pingjiang Road District of Suzhou Old City

 

Jingxuan Zhang, MDes CC 2020

Thesis: Power and Imaginary: Airbnb in The Former French Concession of Shanghai

 

2019

 

Francisco Colom, MDes CC 2019

Thesis: Beauty Killed the Beast? Modernist Dreams, Maisons Tropicales, and the Ecology of Knowledges

 

Carrie Gammell, MDes CC 2019

Thesis: A Real Face-Washing for All Downtown: The Revitalization of Cleveland, Ohio

 

Izzy Kornblatt, MDes CC 2019

Thesis: Architecture for a New World: Louis Kahn and Philadelphia

 

2018

 

Enrique Aureng Silva, MDes CC 2018

Thesis: Critical Intervention: the liminality of earthquakes as alternative to preservation in Mexico

 

Luisa Brando, MDes CC 2018

Thesis: An Aquatic Sense of Place

 

Yonghui Chen, MDes CC 2018

Thesis: Aggravating Social Exclusion How Internet-based Participation Affects Historic Conservation in the Dashilar District of Beijing Old City

 

Esesua Ikpefan, MDes CC 2018

Thesis: Pako Butter: A “Floating Slum’s” Place in a Globally Competitive City

 

Prathima Muniyappa, MDes CC 2018

Thesis: Sylvan Synesthesia 

 

Jacqueline Palavicino, MDes CC 2018

Thesis: The Subsequent Effects of the Power Behind the Identity of Place

 

Ranjani Srinivasan, MDes CC 2018

Thesis: Gold & Cyanide: Family, Caste and the Post Extractive Landscape at Kolar Gold Fields

 

2017

 

Hao Ding, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: Critical Conservation of Chinese-American Culture – The Story of Los Angeles’s Five Chinese Neighbourhoods 

 

Boya Guo , MDes CC 2017

Open Project: Critical Chinese Copying — Authenticity and Originality in the Built Environment of Contemporary China 

 

Ana Mayoral Moratilla, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: Archegemony: The Universal Architecture or the Architecture of the Universal?

Michail Papavarnavas, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: Archegemony: The Universal Architecture or the Architecture of the Universal?

 

Guan Min, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: Towards a New Geography: Rural Tourism in China

 

Javier Ors Ausín, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: GATEWAY OF INDIA: An (Un)Desirable Fragment of Imperial Architecture

 

Longyun Ren, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: How the Mask Became the Face: Crypto-colonization in the Architectural Design of the Campus of Ginling College

 

Francesca Romana Forlini, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: Field of Objects: the Preservation of the Domestic Condition

 

Roseann Tariq Sijeeni, MDes CC 2017

Thesis: (Dis)Oriented Identities in The Representation of Historic Jeddah

 

2016

 

Noor A. Boushehri, MDes CC 2016

Thesis: (RE)MEMBERING FAILAKA: The Perils of Selective Remembrance and the Reconstruction of a Historical Narrative

 

Maria Letizia Garzoli, MDes CC 2016

Thesis: Conservation by Design

 

Elad Horn, MDes CC 2016

Thesis: The Capital Paradox of Postmodern Tel Aviv

 

Josselyn F Ivanov, MDes CC 2016

Thesis: Un-Greening Golden Gate Park

 

Yunjie Li, MDes CC 2016

Thesis: In Search of Authenticity, A Case Study of San Francisco Chinatown

 

2014

 

Julie Paul Brown, MDes CC 2014

Thesis: (Re)Considering Energy and Existing Multi-wythe Brick

 

2013

 

Rosabella Alvarez-Calderon, MDes CC 2013

Thesis: The Negotiated Urban Landscape: Archaeological Sites and the Multilayered City in Lima, Peru

 

Ryn Burns, MDes CC 2013

Thesis: Transformative Reuse of the Built Environment & Preservation as Hoarding

 

Somayeh Chitchian, MDes CC 2013

Thesis: Other[ed] City: (Re)presentations of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Urban West (the case of the city of Boston)

 

2012

 

Chris Cosper, MDes CC 2012

Thesis: Time-Honored Versus Bigger and Better: Critical and Strategic Conservation in Post-Katrina Mississippi