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Autonomy In The Institution: An Institute For Detroit Techno And Rave Culture, Peter Heasley
Autonomy In The Institution: An Institute For Detroit Techno And Rave Culture, Peter Heasley
Architecture Senior Theses
"The institution, in physical form, requires spatial and visual separation to replace its socio-economic history in the urban and physical landscape. An Institute for Detroit Techno will test this assertion through the establishment of techno music as an autonomous art form and the manipulation of the physical context of the project through collage and situating the project along the freeway, which is an autonomous spatial condition within the city."
Newark Noir: A Study Of Film And Architecture, Tom Mcinerney
Newark Noir: A Study Of Film And Architecture, Tom Mcinerney
Architecture Senior Theses
"Through the investigation of the filmic narrative and the semantics of the visual style inherent in film noir, I intend to establish a precedent that can be used to construct an architectural product in Newark that serves to investigate the city's past, present, and anticipate the future."
An Agitated (Co)Existence - The Conquest Of Timeless Meztisaje, Joaquin Bonifaz
An Agitated (Co)Existence - The Conquest Of Timeless Meztisaje, Joaquin Bonifaz
Architecture Senior Theses
"The success of the Marvelous Real is in the acknowledgement as existing of the pre-existed, implied or unnoticed and its revelation through unusual juxtaposition and interweaving narrated in a passive tone. The contention of this thesis is that if this type of juxtaposition of existing, pre-existed, implied and unnoticed is translated into an architectural concept where the tools of juxtaposition are space, form, program, materiality, and order it is possible to create, by addition and subtraction, a heightened reality of the historical layering of site."
Configuration Of Spatial Dynamics Through Cross-Cultural Reference; Korean-American Cultural Center At The Edge Between Inside And Outside, Kwangpyo Steve Koh
Configuration Of Spatial Dynamics Through Cross-Cultural Reference; Korean-American Cultural Center At The Edge Between Inside And Outside, Kwangpyo Steve Koh
Architecture Senior Theses
"In this thesis, I would like to investigate and study the role of architecture as a spatial mediator between different cultural spheres within the city context. Specifically, I would like to focus on Koreatown and its surrounding in New York City. Through the architectural intervention of a cultural center at the edge of the community, I wish to explore the relationship between the Korean community and its immediate environment, between a transplanted ethnic neighborhood and the city, between inside and outside. The architecture of the new cultural venter will take advantage of this relationship to become a space for porous …