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  • Objects of Architectural Potentials 
    Mounteer, Stephen Reilly (2016-05-19)
    Objects of Architectural Potentials is less interested in the production of dynamic, fluid, complex shapes or forms, than it is in discovering dynamic, fluid, complex architectural, design processes. By reframing our ...
  • Occupying the Void 
    Al-Jureidini, Sami (2012-05-18)
    All over America, cities are experiencing a shift in population, from the center to the outside peripheries. Known as decentralization, this phenomenon is most common in modern, post-industrial cities. Depopulation of the ...
  • Office Park 
    Kraatz, Anthony M. (2012-05-18)
    The world in which we live provides a limiting range of experiences for our individual sensory needs as well as our social interactions as a community. Architecture has created a disconnection between humans and nature by ...
  • Off The Grid: Eco-Friendly Industry 
    Bally, Todd (2012-05-18)
    Is looking at nature directly a major factor in determining a sustainable building? Some architects are concerned with how humankind can integrate itself with nature in a sustainable way, reducing energy, materials, and ...
  • On Architecture and Interaction 
    Rybak, Matthew (2015-04-28)
    The American urban landscape has been shifting for the past century. Shifting away from the public and social life to a private one, a life behind closed doors. Is our society to blame for this, the culture itself, or ...
  • On Edge 
    Lorenzano, Salvatore (2019-05-16)
    As cities have grown and evolved so too has the way a cities urban edge has been defined. For years there has been a fine line that separates urban life from the less advanced neighborhoods that surround them. Today however, ...
  • One Flew East, One Flew West 
    La Tona, Adrian (2012-05-18)
    The intention of this thesis is to investigate space as the relationship between architecture, the body and consciousness. With the advent of anti-psychotic medication and General Hospital mental wards constructed in the ...
  • On the Clock 
    Maalouf, Natalie (2020-09-09)
    On the Clock is a thesis about time, materiality, and energy. These elements are explored through the perception and understanding of time in relation to the way energy is expended. Time is an unrelenting element that is ...
  • On The Water 
    Templeton, Ian (2017-05-20)
    Whether we realize it or not, humans have always been attracted to water. The water’s edge has had a physical, mental as well as emotional connection to people in ways that affect the human mind consciously and subconsciously. ...
  • OPIOID FREE ANESTHESIA WITH INTRAOPERATIVE INTRAVENOUS LIDOCAINE AS PART OF A MULTIMODAL ANESTHETIC APPROACH 
    Williamson, Sheila (2022-01-06)
    In the United States 99% of patients receive opioids as a primary method of pain control both perioperative and postoperatively (Hah, Bateman, Ratliff, Curtin & Sun, 2017). The need for alternative methods to treat patients ...
  • Otherworldly 
    Theut, Jacob (2017-06-16)
    Our world is wide, moving, connected—a world among many other worlds. When we head out for these alien territories, physical or cognitive, what we are doing foremost is throwing ourselves into the unknown. What is the ...
  • Oughtness 
    Antrassian, Claire (2018-08-23)
    At some point in time someone, some group, or some thing decided that change ought to appen. Typically these [somes] do not, or did not, take into consideration the future consequences of these changes, and left lasting ...
  • Out of Touch: secondary education reform through interactive architecture 
    Valentine, Alycsa (2012-05-23)
    The curiosity of children has always been a personal point of interest. There is something so pure in the way they interact with their environment. Nothing is ever certain or predetermined. A couch is not something to sit ...
  • Paso a la Salud Development of a culturally relevant intervention to improve obesity among underserved Hispanics in Detroit 
    Camargo, Manuela (2021-04-06)
    Obesity among the Hispanic population continues to be a significant public health problem, obesity is considered an epidemic in the United States (US). The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC, 2015) documented ...
  • The Path of Power Within Public Design 
    Getliffe, Rachel (2021-04-26)
    This research focuses on an exploration into the complexities of public design and power between the designer and outside constraints that define a public project. This thesis attempts to answer the question of what ratio ...
  • Patterns: Economical Inhabitations 
    Waggener, Christine E. (2012-05-18)
    The central premise of this thesis is about providing housing for low-income individuals that meets the requirements of a high quality of living , security and privacy while still allowing inhabitants to interact with ...
  • Perceiving Urban Water 
    Nurnberger, Casey (2022-05-05)
    Shifting the perceptions of inaccessible, misused or abandoned urbanized water to bring the inherent beauty and opportunities presented in these landscapes. The guiding principles behind any landscape project in an urbanized ...
  • Perception of Lighting 
    Sloulin, Linda (2016-05-18)
    Architecture is designed for the purpose of experience. To compliment the architecture lighting can be used to highlight the exterior and interior spaces. To go beyond complimenting the architecture with lighting we must ...
  • Perceptual Interaction 
    Nava, Sandra M. (2014-05-22)
    Architecture is designed to be experienced in a pre-designed way where the architect uses a combination of materials and lighting to achieve an experience. Much of a space’s characteristics— regardless of what sense ...
  • Performance Driven Design 
    Stevens, Samuel (2013-06-12)
    The following thesis is solely concerned with live music and refers to such when speaking of “performance.” With the majority of small-mid scale performance venues being retrofit into an architecture designed for a ...

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