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Hijacked | Reclaiming Legislative Loopholes, Lara Moock
Hijacked | Reclaiming Legislative Loopholes, Lara Moock
Architecture Senior Theses
ARTICLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS.
SEC. 100. PURPOSES.
San Francisco’s current political legislation has critical loopholes that have constructed a predominant shift in the city’s identity and urban fabric, as well as an obvious neglect of the public realm and social agenda. The recent move of the Silicon Valley tech headquarters to the city’s center has dramatically changed the architectural landscape as well as reinforced a growing push for corporate privatization. This thesis aims to expose and confront the hidden political and social dynamics of the constructed environment and reclaim the existing loopholes in order to propose a project without major …
Free Encounters | Giving Form To The Informal Workplace, Ryan Williams
Free Encounters | Giving Form To The Informal Workplace, Ryan Williams
Architecture Senior Theses
This thesis contends that the "office" as a solely economic construct is no more: Its utility as an engine driving productivity and the accumulation of capital has stalled in our present age of information where value is constructed through knowledge exchange and interaction.
Via the use of new technologies, millennial workers' transition from the college campus to the office has become more seamless and, this thesis argues, it is in this paradigm shift that it is possible to identify a blurring of the public and private spheres. The millennial worker-turned-freelancer's life exists forever suspended between work and play, place and …