The Reactive City investigates architecture and the impact of doing architecture at the urban scale. Individual architectural projects are, for the most part, designed with the end users in mind, but at the urban scale, ...

From the beginning of human life to present day, civilization and society has adapted based on the need for food. As social beings, people have created a tradition of gathering around food. As people have found easier, ...

If we recognize architecture as a built environment then we must also recognize it as a primarily static condition. Despite its affects on the present, architecture is primarily a response to the past. The past tense of ...

Entertainment centers fuse a multitude of cultural aesthetics into one finite place, ultimately making fictional places for paradise. Resort destinations provide the guest with a variety of entertainment options for people ...

The perception of a city as a defined, communal entity is becoming rapidly less apparent every day. New developments result from business owners and developers working to achieve their primary motive which is profit. This ...

The evolution of time encourages change and diversity which often promotes both innovation and advancement. Many industrial cities including Detroit were once booming and full of life but as time moves on and advancement ...

Architecture is not outside of the laws of nature, yet architects design to do just that; defy the natural cycles and systems of nature. Nature should be seen as the model for everything that can be designed and constructed. ...

This thesis argues that the Mexican-American Border is defined by two essential structures: the physical barriers along the border and the influx of people trying to cross the border, and that re-imagining the liminal ...