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  • A Culturalist Manifesto 
    Petzak, Christopher (2012-05-17)
    Society is sculpted by the information it is fed. A particular society’s habits are a direct product of an education and value system and what has been internalized from those systems. Architecture is a direct appearance ...
  • Cultured Growth: Nature as Cultural Object 
    Haas, Ryan (2012-05-17)
    Although seemingly contradictory, Nature and Culture are inextricably linked to each other, with modern culture wholly developing as a result of the natural physical world, which has in turn been affected by the culture ...
  • Cure vs. Heal 
    Piszar, Erik (2013-06-12)
    This thesis is an exploration on the contemporary design philosophies of Healthcare facilities and their shortcomings. Most Americans can readily conjure images of the stereotype of a typical hospital environment: sterile, ...
  • The Currency of Growth 
    Stephens, Brian (2012-11-30)
    This thesis is an investigation whose purpose is to create a threshold between the natural and built environments and to discover to what extent that architecture at this juncture can invoke a phenomenological response, ...
  • Data Centers 
    Marcantonio, Philip (2022-05-16)
    Throughout the turn of the 20th century humanity saw a shift in its way of life as technology evolved ever so rapidly. This technological integration, having lasted for already over a half of a century, has crossed ...
  • Days of Future Past 
    Fournier, Steven H. (2016-04-28)
    Without question we live in an interesting time for the city of Detroit. Those who live here, or spend significant time here, know that major shifts are well underway. Yet, we also know the problems of the city run far too ...
  • Dead Space 
    Castiglione, Rocco (2012-05-22)
    The bridge between skateboarding and architecture is not seen on the same plane. Both stem from the idea of creating new challenges, new design, and moving through space. The distinction between building space and urban ...
  • Debt Monetization by States and Central Banks; A Brief History and an Outline of the Theory 
    Edmands, Nathaniel (2015-04-08)
    This paper leverages official government statistics and historical sources across five centuries to trace a brief history of debt monetization by states and their central banks. It derives from the history a sketch of a ...
  • Defense Mechanisms, Psychopathology, and Life Stress 
    Greenhut, Dana (2017-06-07)
    This study examined the relationships between the maturity of defense mechanisms, psychopathology, and life stress in a community sample of adult African American females (N=51). It was hypothesized that less mature ...
  • Delray: A Case Study in Declining Immigrant Neighborhoods 
    Koleszar, Austin J. (2019-06-03)
    Immigrant neighborhoods are often industrial and when the production moves, the factory closes, or the city deindustrializes these communities lose their cultural density. These communities are the key for 2nd & 3rd ...
  • Democratic Impermanence 
    Ryan, Sean (2012-05-17)
    Democracy is a word that generally provokes perceptions of freedom, choice, or the understood ability to have an effect on your environment. However, the actual composition of our physical environment is largely the product ...
  • The Dependency of Production 
    Allick, Christopher (2013-06-05)
    The allure of industrialization has captivated the imagination and interest of architects since the early days of mass production. New industrial processes allowed for high quality goods to be produced at a rapid pace ...
  • Dependency, Psychpathology, and Difficult Doctor-Patient Relationships in Primary Care Patients 
    Fowler, Shannon Leigh (2014-11-06)
    Strong doctor-patient relationships and working alliance has much to do with the outcomes of healthcare. Strong relationships between physicians and patients can increase the treatment effectiveness and result in better ...
  • Design as a Community Catalyst - Rebuilding Downtown Identities 
    Reynolds, Scott (2014-05-16)
    Thriving Post-World War Two America created cities that were no longer dependent upon America’s major city centers, but rather a network of regional developments. Highways allowed metropolitans to rapidly expand and engulf ...
  • Designers, Builders, Users: Messing with Mainstream Architecture 
    Noto, Andrew (2012-05-17)
    The built environment is representative of a society’s health. It grows and diminishes with economic changes and largely affects social behavior. Therefore it is easy to ascertain that healthy and vibrant built environments ...
  • Design for the Public-Private Threshold 
    Autrey, Logan (2019-05-22)
    This research aims to make interpretations of how we define the public and private in contemporary domestic spaces. It will address how due to the age of modernization, the age of industrialism and consumerism, we have ...
  • Designing for Loss 
    Hoppe, David (2012-05-17)
    Floods are the number one most common natural disaster in the United States. Each year they kill hundreds of people and cause billions of dollars in damages to both the natural and the built environment. They are both ...
  • Designing for the Site 
    Smith, Christina (2014-05-20)
    From mountains and hills to valleys and plains, there exists a variety of landscapes of which act as the resting place for architectural designs and buildings. However, when selecting a site on which to construct, the ...
  • Designing the Message 
    Allan, Johanna (2012-05-17)
    “Brands are persuasive lifestyle packagers, powerfully focused on molding our ideas about what our identity should be.” (Klingmann, 2007, p. 2) Many companies use brand identity to persuade people to buy their product, but ...
  • Designing War/An Architecture of Defense & Destruction 
    Suschak, Alison (2013-11-15)
    An institution built around destruction and war can off er insight and innovation into architecture and construction processes. Temporary and permanent military occupation impacts the surrounding environment and community ...

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