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Replacing The Plaza, Timothy Jeremiah Nolan

Architecture Thesis Prep

"This project uses the methods of scanning implicated by the skateboarder in a detournement of the modernist plaza. In doing so, it seeks to prove that universality is not universal. Ultimately, by reframing Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalarie in Berlin as field of spatial data through methods of scanning related to skateboarding, new ways of understanding Mies' plaza will point to a spatial reorganization of the museum and plaza."

Fixed - Flow: The Emergent Library, Laura Elizabeth Swartz

Architecture Thesis Prep

"Traditional academic library have been concerned with physically containing institutional collections. However, today we see a paradigm shift in knowledge transfer, a digital wave sweeping book and periodical collections off the shelves of these centralized containers to offsite storage warehouses...

"The Emergent Library will re-define and activate a current academic library (and the 'Learning Commons') by embracing technology - both physical hardware and digital models (web 2.0 and 3.0) in concept and structure - which allow for the following:

[1] Networked management of perpetual real-time flow of knowledge

[2] User generated experiential spaces

[3] Barrier free access to emergent knowledge …

Peripheral Architecture, James Utterback

Architecture Thesis Prep

"By 2012 the 4G 'Anytime, Aywhere' digital age will be upon us and the air will be loaded with new possibilities for those with the hardware to tap into it. In the latter half of the 20th century, screen-mediated technologies generated an abundance of hybrid local/peripheral places. Movie screens, televisions, and computers challenged notions of privacy, location, and place by stretching people across the screen and into the screenspace. Where screens became pervasive the architecture became passive, often acting as an experiential shield from the local space, wholly privileging the space of the screen over the context in which we …

London Program 2009 Part 2, Xavier De Kestelier, Jethro Hon

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Syracuse University School of Architecture Study Abroad London Program 2009

Graduate Sessions 7: Anthony Vidler, Mark D. Linder, James Lucas, Lauren M. Baez

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Anthony Vidler is Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. His books include Histories of the Immediate Present, The Architectural Uncanny, Warped Space, and The Writing of the Walls.

Remembering And Honoring Paul Harold Malo, Paul Harold Malo

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Remembering and Honoring Paul Harold Malo (June 8, 1930 - July 22, 2008)

Graduate Sessions 8: Neil Denari, Mark D. Linder, James Lucas, Melissa Griffin

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Neil Denari is the founder and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects, Inc. He was the director of SCI-Arc from 1997 to 2001 and is currently a professor in the Architecture and Urban Design Department at UCLA. His lecture at Syracuse Architecture, entitled "The New Intimacy," is one of over two hundred he has given at institutions throughout France, Japan, and the United States.

Architecture News: The Newsletter Of The Syracuse School Of Architecture, N.5 Fall 2008, Mark Robbins

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Architecture News: The Newsletter of the Syracuse University School of Architecture No. 5, Fall 2008.

Untitled, Darren Poon

Architecture Master Theses

"My objective is to explore the potential of generative design processes driven by user-derived parameters established through computational protocols, algorithms, and simulations resulting in a process embodying ecologies of feedback and performances. Inherent in the designed process is the establishment of feedback, through each cycle of simulation, evaluation, and modification of the geometry.

This thesis project demonstrates a version of these processes specifically examining the performance driven building typology of the massive server farm. Specifically, its implicit correlations with fluid dynamic simulation and its biases toward an optimization of heat dissipation and plan layout. This project is situated between a …

Construction For Art, Will Fellis

Architecture Thesis Prep

"When museums draw large crowds and display large collections, there is a lack of personal relationship and understanding of the art.

Small scale museum architecture, in the form of single galleries or pavilions housing only a few pieces by a specific artist or simply expressing the concepts of a certain artist's work, offers and opportunity to create a more intimate relationship between the artwork and the viewer.

The design of a pavilion according to an artist's philosophy will be manifested within the construction. Therefore the detailing of the pavilion will be the point at which the occupant engages the principles …

The Lobby: Volume One, Paul Miller

Architecture Thesis Prep

"There have been many projections of a utopian society where all should have access to humanity's total body of knowledge. With that knowledge, the people would be granted power: But in fact, not many have access to the kind of knowledge that produces power; and many who do don't know how to use it. Knowledge is only power if you control it.

In Washington D.C., a priviledged group of political consultants, the lobbyists, have slowly and steadily gained a tremendous amount of power through their control of information needed by private citizens, corporations, and elected officials. Always the middleman, the …

Sparsification And The Reconsideration Of Contemporary Rural Living, Eric Murphy

Architecture Thesis Prep

"This thesis asserts that architecture and agriculture must form a symbiotic relationship united by sustainability to redefine contemporary rural living. By challenging outdated traditions, idyllic visions, and preconceived notions of the rural paradigm, it is also possible to reprove a diminishing agrarian lifestyle. Rural architecture must become as productive as the ground it replaces, and as integrated as the crop to the soil. A new model needs to be established to facilitate these assertions and reconsider contemporary rural living."

Mil_Civ Immersive Surface, Elizabeth M. Quick

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The pervasive proliferation of complex tracking systems such as GPS and simulation gaming environments such as Full Spectrum Warrior are transforming the built environment into an immersive 1:1 map where all flows and transactions are measured, monitored, and tracked. The gap between map and real experience disappears resulting in an immersive map. The spatial implications of this real time 1:1 immersive map creates an opportunity for architecture itself to monitor, track, and measure flows and transactions. This tracking and simulation agenda plays out specifically in the design of a surface that integrates military training, military artifacts, and civilian recreation into …

Synthetic Window: Game Space And The Player's Dilemma, Alejandro Perez

Architecture Thesis Prep

No abstract provided.

Media-Flex, Gerard Deromanis Jr.

Architecture Senior Theses

"The objective of this thesis is to look into and explore the effects of rigid programming on design. Included in this research is an in depth look into the process of demolition from the motives for destroying a preexisting building to the participation of all parties involved."

(Romp) House, Cristina Alonso

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The construction of single-family housing units wil provide an opportunity to design using recycled materials. This thesis seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the unit's performance in a tropical climate, through means of passive cooling; in particular the promotion of comport ventilation during the daytime."

Sun City Blues: The Contemporary Urban Realization Of Sun City, Usa, Patrick Lundberg

Architecture Thesis Prep

"While providing a marketable, popular, and economically successful municipal entity, Sun Cities and Active Adult Communities manifest problems. Through their strict planning, restrictive ordering, and operative rules, these communities produce issues of: population segregation, formal homogeneity, discouraged density, and programmatic disconnect."

Vertical Neighborhood : Urban Density In New Beijing, Ben Dennis

Architecture Thesis Prep

"My project is a critique od the current architecture of Beijing and its inability to transfer the values, rituals, and social programs of traditional domestic architecture into a rapidly changing contemporary context.

Through translating the courtyard house, a new model for dense domestic space can be created that maintains the salient qualities of the type and in its communal environment, while responding to the new verticality of Beijing."

Metropolis Necropolis: Building A Ritual Of Memorial For The Urban Homeless, Michael Marchand

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The intervention of architecture, through a cultural and contextual understanding, can create a relevant ritual for the memorial of the deceased that is meaningful to the communities it is intended to serve - the marginalized people of the streets of New York - while bringing the needs of the communities into the public light."

Lessons From Bernard Rudofsky, Jean-François Bédard

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

A review of the exhibition of Bernard Rudofsky's work, organized by the Architekturzentrum Wien and the Getty Research Institute (GRI) in associated with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CAA). This exhibit outlined Rudofsky's career and theoretical interests. Rudofsky was at the margins of high modernism, but unlike some of his contemporaries, focused on traditional, indigenous vernacular forms.

The Naturing Spa: Recovering An Ecological Kinship With Newtown Creek, John Jedzinak

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Abstract not Included

Resolution Through Pixelation: A Lifestyle Application For Rochester, New York, Therese Mutter

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The requirement of cities is to take on multiple personalities as a responsive strategy towards the various lifestyle existences while maintaining a fulfillment of necessary and desirable aspects in order to attain an ideal state."

"Objective: To create a cohesive program which allows for the simultaneous existence of multiple lifestyles in a singular instance in order to recreate a sense of multiple personalities within a city."

Patrol, James Degennaro

Architecture Thesis Prep

"For the later half of the 20th Century, East European metropoles were systematically disengaged from international relations, removed from circulation and "nationalized" under a particular regina. The reallocation of these metropoles, stemming from an abrupt discontinuation in 1989 of Soviet policy (a program of cultural production), to the immediate years that followed toward liberal democracy, became a critical act in the name of socio-political progress. This reaction, which produced innumerable degrees of success and failures across the former East-Boc region requires new conceptualizations of the political borders and cultural contours within the landscape of the contemporary East European peripheral city... …

Rethinking The Winery In The Desert Context, James L. Heopokoski

Architecture Thesis Prep

"It goes without saying that the American landscape is a varied one, from the purple mountains majesty to the fruited plains. It is absurd to choose a single site to be representative of American wine regions. It is , however, possible to select a single site that will maximize the generative potential of a single design project, and it is here that my thesis begins. I will examine, or rethink, if you will, the winery in the context of the Arizona deserts. This isn't a fictitious place for wine-making; wineries there are real. They are too new to have substantial …

Architecture News: The Newsletter Of The Syracuse School Of Architecture, N.4 Spring 2008, Mark Robbin

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Architecture News: The Newsletter of the Syracuse University School of Architecture No. 4, Spring 2008.

Creating The New Portable Facility For The Secular, Emerging Global City, Beth Mosenthal

Architecture Thesis Prep

"Sited in the generic 'up-and-coming global-city' the project (later branded pluraLinks) is a community model that encapsulates religious institutions' community-based programs sans religion. As a communal, global 'hub' that serves as the new, comprehensive model and heart of 'community building.' pluraLinks serves a diverse cross-section of communities on both global and local scales."

Media-Flex, Gerard Deromanis

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The objective of this thesis is to look into and explore the effects of rigid programming on design. Included in this research is an in depth look into the process of demolition from the motives for destroying a preexisting building to the participation of all parties involved."

Informal Branding, Casey Allen

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The informal brand aims to become a process of design that answers questions of identity in architecture. By establishing a methodology for design with an emphasis on program context and performance, a building will be able to become a "brand" for the company it represents, the context the project is situated in, and the typology of program it represents. The following pages set out to document this design process through site and program analysis derived from case studies and text reference. The preceding analysis will result in a speculation of programmatic relationships and there implications on the site."

Morphology Of The Cloud, Darren J. Poon

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The thesis project is a test bed for researching computational tools and design techniques specifically the performative and analytical tools used in finite element testing and computational fluid dynamics. The research territory will use ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) as a historical gauge and as a point of departure to analyze implied lexicon and form through various computational tools, design techniques, and software platforms."

Supermarket Noise And Void, Lauren Antolin

Architecture Thesis Prep

"I propose to exploit and manipulate the simulation of consumerist architecture, using the vehicle of the image and the supermarket, to create an architecture of display that merges noise with void to create a 'cultural' space for leisure and shopping, both existing within and giving an image to the suburban identity."