What is architecture's role in challenging conventions of mixed-use in downtown Detroit? This thesis investigation seeks to explore and challenge the idea of the mixed use urban environment in downtown Detroit. To understand ...

There are always questions about communities and what they need. The question that should be asked first before all others is, what defines a community? Is it the housing? Is it the economy? Is it the location and geography? ...

Our attitudes are shaped by our environments; our emotions, activities, and thoughts are affected by the surroundings in which we live. Individual personalities develop as a reflection of the environment in which they ...

There is a problem of discussing experiences. In architecture, the result makes for a difficult critique or discussion of experiences in the built environment. Whenever style, form, function, or materials are called into ...

It has been said that great architecture makes a statement. While some statements are open for debate, the basic premise of a building making a valid statement rings true for all good designers. With this initial design ...

Adaptive Reuse takes many ideas from Historical Preservation with similar goals of preserving the nature and collective identity of an existing site. Using Historic Preservation as a basis for further understanding the ...