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FALL 2014 TH E S I S D I R E CTO R
S P R I N G 2015 TH E S I S D I R E CTO R
Liz Diller
Michael Meredith AS S I STANT
Federica Vannucchi Each semester, the thesis students are challenged to make an architectural response to a general thematic question. The theme is explored in workshops, stated as a written proposition and elaborated as a design proposal during the students’ final semester. Thesis topics are one word themes, agreed upon by the faculty, that serve as a hinge point between architecture and questions of politics, culture, technology or society. The thematic organization of the final semester’s independent design research creates a shared point of departure for students, faculty and visiting critics. FALL 2014
Ruiqing Li, Autonomous Driving Urbanism Faculty Advisor: Stan Allen Zigeng Wang, A Beautiful Country— A Fairy Tale of the Landscape of ‘Globalization’ Faculty Advisor: Christine Boyer
Maggie Qianru Hua, Living in Flows—VHO: A Network of Urban Nomads in Hong Kong 2030 Faculty Advisor: Liz Diller Jaime (Ting Yan) Kwan, S.O.S. (Systems Optimized for Subterranean Architectures) Faculty Advisor: Jesse Reiser and Forrest Meggers
SPRING 2015
Yang Li, The Manfrigo Competition- Realism and the Architectural Truth Faculty Advisor: Michael Young
Serguei Bagrianski, On Error: Error Propagation as Syntactical Agent Faculty Advisor: Jesse Reiser
Jose Meza, Combine to Apply: House in Princeton NJ , 2015 Faculty Advisor: Michael Meredith
Laura Britton, Differentiated Continuity of the Urban Interior: Thresholds of Shinjuku Station Faculty Advisor: Michael Young
Gina Morrow, To the Point: Scanning and the Coordinated Surface Faculty Advisor: Michael Meredith and Lucia Allais
Patricia Chia, Constructed Topographies: A Proposal for a New Method of Architectural Production of Singapore’s Identity Faculty Advisor: Mario Gandelsonas
Daniel Tappe, “City All Main Street”: Linear Urbanism in the United States / Rethinking the city of the American Southwest Faculty Advisor: Stan Allen
Sonia Flamberg, Drawing and the sensory apparatus: updating architectural representation for the post-digital age Faculty Advisor: Michael Young
Hans Tursak, Support/Surface Architecture: Project for the Beginnings of a Digital Complex Faculty Advisor: Stan Allen
Tyler Hopf, Sensory Architecture Faculty Advisor: Axel Kilian
Shota Vashakmadze, Love the Land Faculty Advisor: Jesse Reiser
M. ARCH STUDIO
M.Arch Thesis Projects