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Hijacked: Parasitic Injection Of The Social Condenser Within The Contemporary City, Lara Moock
Hijacked: Parasitic Injection Of The Social Condenser Within The Contemporary City, Lara Moock
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis contends that the constructivist “social condenser” should be injected through the lens of the 21st century, capitalist city in order to reveal the interwoven collisions and hidden overlaps between the homeless and tech industry of San Francisco. The condenser will operate like a parasitic intervention by hijacking spaces along the spine of the city, heavily influenced by social and policy concerns, to formally and programmatically make these invisibilities between the two entities evident.
Animal Cities: Post-Human Urban Wildness, Jing Huang
Animal Cities: Post-Human Urban Wildness, Jing Huang
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis contends that architecture should be designed in a way to foster closer human-animal relationships. Cities are typically designed solely with the human in mind, and over time, animals have been pushed out of the city, decreasing biodiversity. Peoples’ tendency is to separate themselves and domesticate animals, resulting in sterile and tame urban centers. This is a result of the different attitudes humans have cultivated towards animals; dirty/clean, pleasant/annoying, useful/useless, harmless/dangerous, awe/disgust, etc., and utilizing architecture as means of filtering the presence of those that are beneficial to us, rendering animals as an afterthought. In a way, humans have …
Unreal Urbanisms, Temitope Olujobi
Unreal Urbanisms, Temitope Olujobi
Architecture Thesis Prep
As virtual cities are made in the transnational image of physical cities the same claims about legibility, public image and the five elements of a city’s can be asserted to virtual environment, however; the bottom up approach to building these virtual cities means the appearance, use and interplay of these elements will operate differently. The research of the virtual cities featured on Unreal Urbanisms will be executed in methods similar to the experiments conducted by Kevin Lynch. The first method will be field research in which we navigate the city and map out my own ways of movement and legibility …
Midnight City And Other Urban Mythologies, Mark Eichler
Midnight City And Other Urban Mythologies, Mark Eichler
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Midnight City explores the physical and representational framework of fantastic architecture as a productive mode for architectural and urban design, specifically focusing on the nocturnalized city as a space of exaggerated fantasy and escape from the mundane of the diurnal."