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Multi-Media And Rare Books Addition - New Haven, Ct, Henry Hong

Architecture Senior Theses

"This proposal is a study and experiment into what the role of architecture (library) is, in the information age. The question of what it is about a certain place or building that people retreat to and gather, and experience something more than an active computer screen. How, architecturally, it can transform or 'bridge' itself from historical and traditional building types that it critically addresses these issues."

The Urban Neighborhood Collective, Angel David Nieves

Architecture Senior Theses

The study of development in traditional urban Africa is relevant to the contemporary American architect as it offers the possibility to him or her of a neighborhood form that responds to current American social problems. The form of this new American neighborhood might parallel the African village, a strong paradigm reflecting humankind in a non-alienating relationship with the environment. Our urban areas have deteriorated over the past century, in part because planners and architects seemingly have little understanding of the needs of humankind[...] The lack of self expression that humankind faces at home, at work, and in the community weakens …

Prototype: A Community Center For The Slums Of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Andre' Mellone

Architecture Senior Theses

"Poverty can be viewed through 5 different perspectives: urbanism, economy, sociology, politics, and legislation. Architecture can refer to all of them, but my decision is to deal with primarily urbanistic problems."

An Islamic Cultural Center For Cornell University, Nizar Idrisi

Architecture Senior Theses

An Islamic Cultural Center for Cornell University in Ithaca, NY

Britton Award Winner, Thesis Board

The Urban Neighborhood Collective: A Model For Empowerment Through Space Within The Inner City Landscape, Angel David Nieves

Architecture Senior Theses

"The study of development in traditional urban Africa is relevant to the contemporary American architect as it offers the possibility to him or her of a neighborhood form that responds to current American social problems. The form of this new American neighborhood might parallel the African village, a strong paradigm reflecting humankind in a non-alienating relationship with the environment."

"In order to promote social change, architecture must take on a new mode of operation. That is to say that architecture must come from the people, an architecture deemed some years ago in an art installation, "Architecture without Architects." The architect …

Civic Pride And The Urban Monument: A Study Of Places For Public Assembly, Jeffrey C. Shumaker

Architecture Senior Theses

Imagine a city where people gather in the streets by choice and not by chance[...] What better place is there to witness society at its fullest than in our cities[...] The privatization of the public realm has proven to be destructive for both the city's physical form and its social structure[...] This leads us to the discussion that becomes the reason for my writing this thesis and, ironically, becomes for me the most obvious illustrations of the present urban predicament. The city is in desperate need of a civic architecture[...] a civic architecture is one that is created for the …