It is no surprise that over the last century the earth we have lived on is ever changing. The natural resource supply is being depleted at a rate that cannot be reversed. Many governmental policies are encouraging the ...
Currently, the stock of buildings in American school districts is becoming old and is no longer suitable for learning. When these buildings are gone will the same type of building replace them? Or will people step up and ...
Research may find that architecture in the region in the present may have changed significantly from the ancient architecture that has been submerged in the water. There may be a chance that the architecture on land in the ...
Water is arguably the most crucial element
of life, but as life is a delicate balance, water becomes
detrimental in just moments, destroying the life it
helps to create. As we develop in the modern world,
we are not ...
This thesis is a critique of public space and its role within community and consumer culture. When analyzing public space, it is a prime location for social interaction, but the context in which this interaction exists ...
This thesis began with an observation within an environment of quite the mundane. The observation drew upon curiosity of certain connections that were generated toward a painting that was place within the confines of this ...
Over the last one hundred years Detroit has risen to become one of the most populated cities in American with the help of the automobile industry and has since become a deteriorating city losing population constantly as ...
What is a border? Does a border depend on the site or the people that live there? Is a border just a governmental idea of where their domain exists to? This thesis is an investigation into what the qualities of a border ...
It has been said that the degree of civilization in a society can be judged on how it treats its criminals. In the middle ages, punishments were meant to be as savage as the crimes committed. It was believed that the ...
This thesis is hypothesizing a healthier way to transition in and out of a city using existing and new infrastructure, in combination with public transit. This is done by creating a network of transportation hubs that help ...
Detroit has always had a strong design heritage that goes beyond its architecture and into the fabric of everything it produces. This strong design sense has fallen off with the city, as it has fallen on hard times. Detroit ...
Educational developers are the root system of higher education; not often seen, but they keep teaching and learning alive and healthy. They do this by creating connections between people, places, and ideas. Their methods ...
The world is a heavily segregated place where we are first separated by the seven continents, broken down into many countries, then by cities, trickling all the way down to towns branching off into neighborhoods and ...
This thesis examines the effect of discriminatory economic practices and institutional racism on African American communities in Saint Louis, Missouri. Following a thorough critique of CPTED (Crime Prevention through ...
Jean Baudrillard begins to bring an arising situation to light when he speaks about the new modernism. The Pompidou Centre can be seen as an important example of an object or a building that has become purely an expression ...
Introduction
It is generally accepted throughout any design school that the process of critique generates ideas around the topic being analyzed. While ideas may not be directly derived from the critique itself, this type ...
Urban boundaries exist in multiple forms. Interaction across these boundaries is typically unseen. Many forms of current architectural design reflect this isolated and individualistic feeling. Many contemporary buildings ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...