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  • Architecture | Archaeology 
    Gauthier, Erin (2012-05-17)
    Archaeology is known as the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...
  • ARCHITECTURE AND THE EXHIBITION OF SOUND 
    Rudnycky, Andrew (2012-05-17)
    The role of musical expression within society is one that has grown and continues to grow alongside the American populous. Since the emergence of the first American sound in the later 19th and early 20th century, the methods ...
  • Architectural Techne', design. craft. architecture. 
    Denner, Matthew (2012-05-17)
    The goal of Architectural Techne’ is to give incite into a different approach to design and production that architects typically would not consider. There is a large disconnect between how we as architects design and detail ...
  • Architectural Music 
    Whitmer, Jeff (2012-05-17)
    Architecture typically is thought of as an aesthetically based art form, with the base in the visual representation of space. This project will challenge the experience of space and how it is perceived by individuals with ...
  • Apart Of 
    VanderWeele, Jared (2012-05-17)
    Is nature really right outside the window? When someone says, "I'm going to go enjoy the Great Outdoors this weekend," everyone knows that they don't mean their backyard; they mean the lake or the mountains or the cabin ...
  • Anchoring Detroit's Shifting Contextual Ground 
    Field, Sarah (Chaney) (2012-05-17)
    How do architects contribute to the physical city? And, what role does architecture play in the process of the city making? It is the edges or sense of edges that architects contribute to the physical city. By breaking ...
  • Invigoration: Growth through Activity 
    Guinta, Matthew (2012-05-18)
    In a post-industrial society there are many social issues plaguing urban dwelling Americans. There is an abundance of unemployed land in cites. Without program these spaces are not seen as assets to their communities. These ...
  • Movement Transistor 
    Hanna, Jennifer (2012-05-18)
    Movement is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as a given change of place or position or posture; the act or process of moving. The intent of the project is to celebrate the movement of pedestrians and the experiences within ...
  • Moveable Marketspace 
    Dara, Christopher (2012-05-18)
    This thesis explores the architectural nuances of relinquished waterfront parcels of land in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Because of deindustrialization in this area the city has been left fragmented in that the ...
  • Morphogenesis: A Theory of Places 
    Nelsen, Brian (2012-05-18)
    Reconstructing the concept of place as a location of events fosters a greater social awareness of occasion. In an effort to adopt and encourage this reconstruction, this thesis will develop a specific Place Theory which ...
  • Modus Operandi Within Landscapes Wasted Through Attrition 
    Gehring, Jake (2012-05-18)
    The twentieth century revealed the American metropolis as a space that has consistently extended outward rather than expanding upward. Because the expansion evolved horizontally, urban spaces and landscape entities grew ...
  • Mid-Patient 
    Bassie, Cummings, III (2012-05-18)
    In recent years, around 48 percent of non-hospital healthcare establishments employed fewer than five workers. In contrast, 72 percent of hospital employees were in establishments with more than 1,000 workers. How can ...
  • Metamorphoses of Space 
    McDuell, Pinky (2012-05-18)
    A thesis that questions the transformation of space over time and the existence of the past into the future. How to relate to the past without losing the existence of today. Approach the metamorphoses of space as a ...
  • MEMORY: Recollection Through Architecture 
    Murphy, Jenna (2012-05-18)
    Moments create memory. The moments in which we exist are a result of continuous passing of time. From these moments. our memories are written. A memory is not a duplication of an event, but an edited moment stored in the ...
  • Members Only 
    Kellman, Brett (2012-05-18)
    The desire to be self-reliant perpetuates the American way of life. The American dream is to be able to provide personal possessions for one’s self. One needs to look no further than the aspiration of most citizens to own ...
  • A Means to a Place: Reconnecting the Road With the Street 
    Shell, Eric (2012-05-18)
    The project is a alternate look at sprawling transportation infrastructure, recognizing 21st century design/practice mentalities. As an example for design/implementation, it looks at the public condition of a street within ...
  • MAKING media: Industrial + Handcraft + Digital 
    Hornik, Erik (2012-05-18)
    MAKING "IN THE SHAPE THAT CHANCE AND WIND GIVE THE CLOUDS, YOU ARE ALREADY INTENT ON RECOGNIZING FIGURES: A SAILING SHIP, A HAND, AN ELEPHANT…” - ITALD CAVIND, INVISIBLE CITIES. How do we re-program our intent to take a ...
  • Making Design 
    Harris, Jeffrey N (2012-05-18)
    There are designers, and there are makers. Each responds to different considerations when working their craft. A designer is largely concerned with form and beauty, crafting objects and images. The designer may be heavily ...
  • Made to Measure 
    Brechting, Patrick (2012-05-18)
    Most often the design of a building is thought to originate solely from the mind of the designer. The architect’s vision focuses on a final product while the construction process is seen as a means of creating that product. ...
  • King Lear and Contemporary Critics 
    Manion, Frederick Paul S.J. (2012-05-18)
    It is idle to conjecture as to which of the Four Great Tragedies is greatest. As one writer has put it, the reader is always inclined to judge as the greatest the one he has read most recently. However this may be, King ...

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