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The UVA School of Architecture dedicates this book to the Class of 2020, a truly remarkable group of individuals who experienced their final months as students in an unimaginable way — concurrent with a global pandemic. The work in this volume showcases the diversity and depth of their scholarship and creative vision, and is testament to their individual strength of spirit and collective resilience. We are so very proud of you.
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Introduction by the Dean 17
Remarks by the Chairs 29
Student Work 149
Graduating Student Index 155
Awards 167
Faculty and Staff
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Ila Berman Dean In her writing on human creation and the making and unmaking of the world, Elaine Scarry had once written that every object “will be found to contain within its interior a material record or trace of the nature of the human life out of which it is made, and from which it in turn derives its power to act on that life and recreate it.”1 That we project our knowledge and capacity out into the world through, and in the things that we make, and then these things—the architectures, landscapes, environments, and cities that we create, or the books that we write—have a reciprocal effect on us. We therefore make things in the world, not only to remake the reality around us, but perhaps more profoundly, in order to remake ourselves. What we make defines not only how we live, but also who we are. So at this important juncture in your lives, you need to ask, what are the things that you will do and make in the future, and how will this making reshape not only the world around us, but also who we ourselves—as individuals, as a society, as a culture—become.
Elaine Scarry. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press. 1985
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There are an infinite number of opportunities for each of you outside the boundaries of this university. Seek out those that will enable you to learn and be creative. Do something meaningful, make something beautiful, and have a positive impact on the world around you. I truly hope that your education at UVA School of Architecture will empower you to do so, and to be the agents of change that we need in this world. Project yourself towards that future with humility and curiosity, and with great passion and courage.
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Architectural History
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Sheila Crane Chair What an extraordinary, unprecedented, history-making class you are, the Class of 2020! Congratulations to all of you—you made it! As we have been learning together while apart, I’ve been rereading filmmaker Derek Jarman’s chronicle of his self-imposed retreat as he was battling AIDS, and I have been struck once again by the importance of caretaking and community, by the transformative work of tending…a garden, a corner of our shared world, a set of values. Jarman was writing around the time of my own graduation, as an epidemic was raging and a recession was escalating. Today the challenges are different, but many questions endure: how to confront crisis as an opportunity for radical transformation, how to translate values into action, how to reimagine the spaces and landscapes we inhabit, and how to ensure entrenched inequities are redressed. May you savor your accomplishments, may you find strength in the knowledge and connections you have forged, and may you tend to yourself and to our shared future, with a critical eye trained on the past.
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Felipe Correa Chair It is a distinct pleasure to browse through the pages of Shelf Life 2020 and view the rich selection of images and text provided by you; our graduating class. The material in the pages to follow provides a snapshot of the quality and the intensity of academic life at the School of Architecture. This volume temporarily suspends the school’s four departmental affiliations—architecture, architectural history, landscape architecture, and urban and environmental planning—in order to highlight inconspicuous congruencies between studio work, theses, research projects, and writings; establishing a new sensus communis in the era of social distancing. As a compilation, the work presents a powerful cross-disciplinary reading of the many ideas and interests that have helped shape you into critical mediators between society and space. Of the many lessons embedded in the work collected herein, perhaps the most salient one, is the power afforded to meaningful design in constructing a better world. As you move beyond the walls of Campbell Hall, I am sure that the rigor, passion, empathy, and beauty offered in your work will continue to guide your disciplinary bearings and take the world by surprise! 19
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Brad Cantrell Chair I feel a shared connection with the Class of 2020 as you are the first group of MLA students that I have seen throughout your entire arc in the MLA program. As the Chair of the Department, I have watched each of you grow through the expression of your own agendas and through your engagement with the coursework that has been put in front of you. Both individually and collectively, you inspire me by asking me to think differently and by expanding my knowledge of the discipline. In all of that, thank you for allowing me to grow with you. The world does not always move forward the way we may have predicted but I know that each of you has the ability to confront it. I am confident in your ability to engage this new normal and that you will each shape the world in your own way. I cannot be more proud of your accomplishments. You have helped to shape new knowledge and your contribution has strengthened our collective position within the discipline. Congratulations Class of 2020!
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Urban + Environmental Planning
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Ellen Bassett Chair Planning Now More Than Ever! Normally when faculty watch graduating students stride across the stage, we feel some mixture of pride, nostalgia, and relief. In 2020 we have those thoughts mixed with trepidation for what lies ahead—for our graduates entering professional life, but also for society at large. I, too, graduated in a time of a pandemic, namely AIDS. It didn’t unleash economic havoc—but it did loom over my life for two decades. I worried about my newly uncloseted brother in San Francisco. I mourned friends and cried over quilts commemorating lives lived. I watched African colleagues become whisperthin and die. AIDS had a silver lining: activism— demanding healthcare and equality for repressed communities. It spawned international action that saved the lives of the world’s poorest. Our current crisis provides a similar window for progress: to demand healthcare access, address persistent, deadly social inequality, and reinvigorate our much-maligned public sector. Planners—you have a great challenge, but also the values, tools, and leadership skills we need. Go for the silver!
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PhD in the Constructed Environment
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Shiqiao Li Director The PhD Program in the Constructed Environment represents the School of Architecture’s deep commitment to the critical establishment and assessment of the structures, horizons, and limits of the knowledge of the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban and environmental planning, and architectural history. In framing the environment as constructed culturally and technologically, we seek unique inter-disciplinary insights and efficacies through rigorous empirical and theoretical investigations, and through engaging with the most pressing challenges of our time. The making of our environment is immensely consequential, and we are deeply invested in crafting informed research and action grounded in evidence and understanding, and in shaping more equitable and sustainable environmental futures. As the highest degree offered by the School, PhD in the Constructed Environment embodies high intellectual and design ambitions in all four disciplines in the School of Architecture. Our graduates have joined us in this essential endeavor with the deepest level of commitment and rigor.
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Brandon Adams
MArch ‘20
Professors: Leena Cho, Matthew Jull
[MOD]ifying Shishmaref ALAR 8010 This image depicts existing HUD homes on the island of Shishmaref, Alaska, and depicts a series of modifications that allow for their relocation and adaption to the extreme climate. These model iterations represent “MODs” made out of recycled building materials found on the island. Collaborators: Andrew Ashcraft, Melissa Brand
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Evelyn Andrulis
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Charlie Menefee
Ca’Foscari Reading Room ARCH 4010 Located adjacent to the train station, the reading room is the merging point between the Ca’Foscari University and the city of Venice, Italy.
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Andrea Aragón
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Daniel Mowery
La Escuela Urbana ARCH 2010 La Escuela Urbana is a high school that aims to expand student’s academic and social environments. This public school is situated next to the Charlottesville Downtown Mall and allows low-income minority students to tap into the city public resources that are typically unaccessible to them. The open air classrooms helps promote an open campus concept for the school.
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Ariana Arenius
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Lucia Phinney
The Lunatic’s Clock ARCH 4020
The concentration of design in metropolitan areas often neglects other scales of cities. Norfolk, Virginia presents a case where design once played an active role in the creation and experience of the urban environment. The presence of sea level rise continues to threaten the well-being of Norfolk. As a result, it has fostered a sense of fear throughout many communities. For others, apathy and denial have been responses to forthcoming issues regarding the safety of the city. The urgency of addressing these matters calls for creative solutions in unifying the city. Looking to existing programs and organizations, the city offers pockets of space that provide the opportunity to reconsider the types of interactions that occur among the people who call the city their home. As Norfolk continues to devise opportunities for development, many addressing climate change and promoting economic growth, the future of the city will continue to struggle to provide a solution for the inevitable events of climate change. Natural forces will not cease to change, but instead continue to as it has throughout time. Although the implementation of new
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programs can stimulate aspects of the city, such as the economy, their effects are temporary rather than permanent. It is up to us to seek ways to unify the built and natural environments, rather than working against such phenomena. What if people could experience these phenomena in a dedicated space? There’s an opportunity to challenge the way people have responded to times of crisis- especially in the time of climate change- in the context of Norfolk. This project presents the narrative between Norfolk and the water, a relationship that has continuously reflected tension and animosity as sea level rises. These discoveries attempt to fortify the relationships between humans and their environments in unforeseen times. This is proposed through a series of design operations guided by cycles of time and movement. Through observation, adaptation, appreciation, and change, there’s an opportunity to redefine the way we interact and experience natural phenomena. Image Caption: Rendering of entering the pavilion, catching glimpses of the water and the moon.
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Hunter Berry
MUEP ‘20
Professors: Elgin Cleckley, Jeana Ripple, Barbara Brown Wilson
Project Pipeline PLAN 5993
the School of Architecture to design a plan for a small park near the bridge crossing and repurposing the historic ash tree which will be felled for the bridge project. Youth designers worked with resident leaders, city officials, University professors and student mentors, wood fabricators, and local professionals to develop design concepts for the park incorporating reuse of the ash tree. The high school designers presented their final work to community members and stakeholders in July and the exhibition opened in the School of Architecture in September. The National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) summer STEM program entitled Project Pipeline Architectural Summer Mentorship Program aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities, especially African Americans, pursuing careers in architecture and design. During the summer of 2019, the University of Virginia School of Architecture piloted its first version of Project Pipeline in partnership with our NOMA Student Chapter and the Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents. The program provided a two-week intensive design experience for seven minority youth designed to improve their pathways to pursue design education and engaged UVA students in learning from and mentoring young people in local K-12 school systems. The project partnered with the redevelopment plans for the South First Street neighborhood. The Watershed Plan includes the installation of a footbridge crossing Pollocks Branch at Rockland Avenue connecting to the South First Street neighborhood. Neighborhood and community leaders, Joy Johnson and Audrey Oliver, developed a design project with
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Image Caption: Student presenting final work from the Project Pipeline Architectural Summer Mentorship Program Š Dan Addison, UVA Communications
Caitria Boomsma
BSArch ‘20
Professor: John Comazzi
A Study of Courtyard Houses: Redefining Suburbia ARCH 4020 Houses appear to be borderless and indistinguishable from one another, but function as individual units, each complete with a large gathering courtyard and smaller secluded courtyards for individual use.
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Kelsea Champ
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Peter Waldman
Theater of the City_Performance at the Scale of Manhattan ARCH 4020 Section taken through a theater in Manhattan with a centralized fly loft surrounded by a winding ramp system, connecting a basement black box theater with a rooftop white box theater.
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Jiawei Chen
MArch ‘20
Professors: Darcy Engle, Ferda Kolatan
Pipe Organism ALAR 8020 By utilizing the airflow created by vehicles, dynamic ventilation systems, and natural wind, this new ventilation tower, which is combined with the art gallery and garden, will provide a unique space for citizens to experience the nonhuman sound. Collaborator: Shan Zhu
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Yu Cheng
MLA ‘19
Professors: Brad Cantrell, Brad Goetz, Andrea Hansen Phillips, Zihao Zhang
BEEcoming-Redraw the Relationships Between Us and Them LAR 7020 “BEEcoming” suggests a refreshing perception of urban wildness, a provisional and uneven aesthetic that allows ephemeral engagement between human and other agencies on site. Collaborators: Wanyi Li, Yuchen Sun
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Tianqi Chu
MArch ‘20
Professor: Ehsan Baharlou
Pattern-Dominant Bending Tectonics ALAR 8010 This research focuses on the bending and buckling of thin wood plates and the construction of complex, self-standing structures. Collaborators: Xinyi Xia, Jingyao Zhang
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Olivia Cleary
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Ehsan Baharlou
Hygrobloom ARCH 4020 Hygrobloom artificially recreates the hygroscopic bending property found naturally in wood. This project pushes the concept by creating a tri-bendable surface used as a moveable, humidity-reactive facade that filters sunlight. Collaborators: Lizzy Fentress, Abby Roletter
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Lauren Crino
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Charlie Menefee
Venetian Aula ARCH 4010 This image consists of two sections and an elevation of a study space along Canal Canneregio in Venice − this second story building has a plain front facade to not distract from the church behind it, with an open back facade that connects the aula to the courtyard.
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Emmett Debree
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Mona El Khafif
An Exploration into “Sustainable” Design ARCH 4020/4021
Image Caption: The timeline elucidates projects that meet the expectations for the next paradigm of sustainability while also creating connections and relationships between them.
The Earth has entered into The Anthropocene Epoch. This Epoch is a product of human activity having a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems. Due to this, the human species is no longer living in harmony with the natural cycles of the Earth that have been present since the beginning of its creation. This issue is omnipresent and accelerating at a worrying rate. Given this issue, how should the field of Architecture best mitigate its threat? The modern paradigm of sustainable design is driven by the widespread point based system referred to as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. This system, however well intended, incentivizes practices that do not coincide with the long term longevity of our planet, nor the wellbeing of the structure’s inhabitants. Although it may be a step in the right direction, we are not in the current position to be taking minor steps towards a more sustainable future. This project aims to explore the possibility of creating networks, structures, metabolisms, and communities that incentivize the human species to treat the Earth as a finite and precious resource.
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Jiaying Deng
MArch ‘20
Professors: Felipe Correa, Alexander Yuen
Ring as New Epicenter ALAR 8010 The Epicenter is both an iconic object and an integral piece of the landscape, using a spiral structure to create a pedestrian walkway that links to the city. Collaborator: Yaqi Zhang
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Grace Douthit
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Lucia Phinney
Plant Morphologies: Re-Thinking the Bathhouse ARCH 4020 This project addresses how plant morphologies dictate the special arrangement of a re-designed bathhouse using a set of transformative properties.
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Lauryn Downing
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Jeana Ripple
Chairbler Guild ARCH 3010 This image depicts a concept model for the overall geometry and structural system for the building envelope of the Chairbler’s Guild.
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Kellen Dunnavant
MUEP ‘20
Professors: Elgin Cleckley, Jeana Ripple, Barbara Brown Wilson
Project Pipeline PLAN 5993
the School of Architecture to design a plan for a small park near the bridge crossing and repurposing the historic ash tree which will be felled for the bridge project. Youth designers worked with resident leaders, city officials, University professors and student mentors, wood fabricators, and local professionals to develop design concepts for the park incorporating reuse of the ash tree. The high school designers presented their final work to community members and stakeholders in July and the exhibition opened in the School of Architecture in September. The National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) summer STEM program entitled Project Pipeline Architectural Summer Mentorship Program aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities, especially African Americans, pursuing careers in architecture and design. During the summer of 2019, the University of Virginia School of Architecture piloted its first version of Project Pipeline in partnership with our NOMA Student Chapter and the Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents. The program provided a two-week intensive design experience for seven minority youth designed to improve their pathways to pursue design education and engaged UVA students in learning from and mentoring young people in local K-12 school systems. The project partnered with the redevelopment plans for the South First Street neighborhood. The Watershed Plan includes the installation of a footbridge crossing Pollocks Branch at Rockland Avenue connecting to the South First Street neighborhood. Neighborhood and community leaders, Joy Johnson and Audrey Oliver, developed a design project with
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Image Caption: Wall display at exhibition opening at the University of Virginia School of Architecture in September.
Eric Duong
BSArch ‘20
Professors: Glen Bull, Jennifer Chiu, John Comazzi
Soundloop 3Cavaliers Research Soundloop is a web application for elementary school students that teaches computational thinking through interactive musical compositions. Developed from scratch for computer and tablet browsers. Collaborator: Garrett Vercoe
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Robert Edwards
MArH ‘20
Professors: Sheila Crane, Andrew Johnston, Jessica Sewell
The Architecture of Freedom and Place, and the Preservation of Racialized Space in New York City
to have a more authentic account of the past. This thesis also argues that we need to change the way that we interpret history and that the historical marker and plaque at landmark sites are simply not enough. It argues that historians, public officials, and preservationists must collaborate with the creative minds of writers, artists, musicians, and activists to come up with new ways to interpret and reinterpret past, present, and future historical sites in order to engage wider demographics. This thesis suggests ways in which we can improve the current practice of historic preservation in order to make the collective memory in this country more inclusive. How do we remember the history of slavery? How do we remember the history of segregation? How do we conceptualize the relationship between race and space? This relationship between race and space is key to understanding the black experience in America. This thesis examines safe spaces for African Americans during slavery and segregation under the same microscope by looking at the sites, networks, and cultural landscapes associated with the Underground Railroad and The Negro Motorist Green Book. Through case study based research of the David Ruggles House and the Harlem Y.M.C.A. in New York City, this thesis argues that the history of this country has been preserved and told through the lens of a white spatial imaginary and because of this, black history and the buildings associated with it have not been thoroughly researched and preserved. There is a disproportionate number of preserved buildings associated with black history. There is also a disproportionate number of black people in the professional fields of architectural history and historic preservation. This thesis argues that we need to change this in order
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Image Caption: Harlem Y.M.C.A. at 180 West 135th Street, New York, NY. 1932. Y.M.C.A. of Greater New York Archives/New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
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Karim El-Araby
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Peter Waldman
A WONDEROUS LAND | Wadi Ageeba as an Educational and Infrastructural Resource for Contemporary Bedouin and Visitors ARCH 4020 Section of school and research center proposed along Wadi Ageeba, looking north. The school’s courtyard collects and purifies rainwater.
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Samuel Feldman
MArch ‘20
Professor: Peter Waldman
Perceptions of Scale Through Pilgrimage ARCH 5993 Spatial anchors give pilgrims a sense of orientation on the Camino de Santiago. Depicted here is the Statue Notre-Dame de France in Le Puy-en-Velay on the Via Podiensis.
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Qing Feng
MArch ‘20
Professor: Manuel Bailo
Modern Barceloneta ALAR 8010 This project aims to build an open community which acts as a transitional space between the city and the ocean on the seaside of Barcelona. Collaborator: Yunfan Yang
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Keaton Fisher
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Ehsan Baharlou
Responsive Furniture ARCH 4020 Design iterations for wood and fabric furniture, utilizing a unique material system with the potential for self-assembly.
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Kristina Fisher
MArch ‘20
Professor: Charlie Menefee
Un-Wild ARCH 7020 Un-Wild is a public gallery created by a rhizome-like structure that holistically educates people on how to live more harmoniously with their interconnected environment.
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Lydia Fulton
MArch ‘20
Professor: Shiqiao Li
An Alternative Axis ALAR 8010 This project uses elements of architecture, landscape architecture, and infrastructure to suggest a new way of reading Washington, D.C.’s ecological and social history.
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K. Thatcher Gerike
MLA ‘20
Professor: Elizabeth Meyer
Through Loving Eyes: Public Spaces of Self-Care and Conviviality ALAR 8995 Ultimately, this thesis is a declaration that public spaces should be for all and should provide for all. This includes those who are intensely and visibly ostracized, such as people who are experiencing houselessness. It advocates for compassionate perspectives and wellbeing in public spaces by proclaiming public spaces are spaces of conviviality and self-care. This means spaces should be developed that nurture and welcome; spaces that are equitable, inclusive, vibrant, and flexible. Public space is fundamentally intended for all, therefore, public space shall embrace the role of a home for all, a domestic space for all, including those in need or who are ostracized. Public spaces should be developed that are truly for all and that are inherently public. Too many beings in the biosphere are forgotten, alienated, and stigmatized. This is no different for members of our own species, and certainly no different within the public realm. Central to generating exclusion in public space are design and policy. Both regulations and design influence the way individuals are able to—or not—interact, use, or participate in public space, thereby always deciding for whom a space is or is not intended for. This thesis investigates and responds to exclusionary practices that influence public spaces with a look at Madison, Wisconsin while also acknowledging existing community assets. This thesis announces 10 Theses on Public Space while developing spatial tactics in support of these theses. It asserts that societies are a reflection of how they treat those in most need and that it is unconscionable that extreme wealth can exist while many people must seek refuge in hostile public environments. Instead of being places that are truly for all, public spaces tend to offer little acceptance or acknowledgment for people who do not fit societal norms while simultaneously limiting entrance and offering no ability to satisfy bodily needs.
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Image Caption: Depiction of a potential spatial tactic for public spaces making them public spaces of self-care, conviviality, and nurturance.
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Jacob Gianni
MArch ‘20
Professors: Andrew Johnston, William Rourk
Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest ARH 5612 This project documented the existing conditions of Jefferson’s estate at Poplar Forest via 3D point cloud scanning. The resulting model and documentation method represents a new process in the historic preservation toolkit. Collaborators: Amelia Hughes, Alex Kiehl, Grace Wills
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Wade Goodrich
MArH ‘20
Professors: Andrew Johnston, Louis Nelson, Richard Guy Wilson
Virginia Tech’s Buildings and Campus: Virginian, Southern, and American
Virginia Tech was founded in 1872 as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s land-grant university. Its buildings and campus have not previously been studied as meaningful products of the school’s cultural legacy. In the late-19th and early-20th century, Virginia Tech adopted a cohesive architectural identity based on locally mined limestone and the Collegiate Gothic style. Common historical narratives and popular school lore obscure the complex historical realities of Virginia Tech’s campus architecture. Limestone has been used as a building material in the Valley of Virginia since first European settlement. For the 18th and 19th century residents of the Valley who still held inherited memory of their Medieval European origins, stone houses were a symbol of the wealth, power, and stability provided by the paternalistic social structures of the Old World. Virginia Tech’s first stone building, often overlooked by historians, was built in the format of a traditional Virginian house in 1877, connecting Virginia Tech with the cultural traditions of the Valley of Virginia.
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Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Gothic style was intended to be a symbol of Medieval European heritage and pre-Enlightenment ideology. The school’s fifth president, an agrarian and Confederate Veteran named John McLaren McBryde, formed a personal relationship with the Boston architect Ralph Adams Cram, whose work was based on a desire to return to the architecture and social relations of Medieval England. Similar “Medievalism” was central to the culture of the Old South, where feudalism was used as a rationalization for enslavement. In the early-20th century, the two ideologies were linked in the broader American trend known as “anti-modernism.” When Ralph Adams Cram designed Gothic architecture for the American South, as he did at Virginia Tech, he satiated his own anti-modernist desires by consciously creating a post-Reconstruction fulfillment of the South’s stunted dream of a feudal modernity. To Cram, “all lost causes were sacred.” Image Caption: War Memorial Hall, Cram and Ferguson Architects. Blacksburg, Virginia, 1926.
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Gaelle Gourmelon
MLA ‘20
Professor: Julie Bargmann
The Corner Herboretum: A Pop-up Museum of Weeds The Corner Herboretum hijacks tools of legitimization to bring appreciation to spontaneous vegetation. By identifying, highlighting and tagging plants that are normally overlooked, this temporary installation celebrates vegetation sprouting in our forgotten spaces within the short life span of weeds.
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Mary Kate Graeff
BSArch ‘20
Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta
Bath House Prototypes: Jawahar Nagar ARCH 4010 Axonometric of the expansive bath house prototype, which uses captured rainwater and local materials to address sanitation needs using a sustainable approach.
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Caroline Grant
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Ehsan Baharlou
Moving Beyond Compliance: Tactility, Accessability, and Gallery Design ARCH 4020 Exploring connections between tactility, tactile communication and accessibility, the drawings depicted below represent a research process which explores design methods for creating increasingly accessible museum and gallery environments for people living with visual impairments.
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Andre Grospe
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Peter Waldman
Love in a Void ARCH 3010 A napkin sketch documenting the eureka moment of the studio. The project is a transportation hub in the Lower East Side of New York City.
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Joshua Hadley-Goggin
MArch ‘20
Professor: Matthew Jull
| # | @NYC.EDU ARCH 7010 | # | @NYC.EDU creates a place of repose within the chaos of Manhattan. A Public Private Partnership between mixed-income housing and education forms the framework for a tower and a school, bookending an undulating ground that cuts down into the earth. Collaborator: Alek De Mott
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Meghan Hale
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Jaime Sanz Haro
“What is Earth?” collage ARCH 2020 A reflection on how architecture can teach us to understand the earth.
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Sara Hall
BSArch ‘20
Professor: María González Aranguren
Punctured Apartments ARCH 2020 This apartment block in Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C., opens itself up to the neighborhood through shared spaces and colors that match the surrounding townhouses.
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Amanda Harlow
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Mona El Khafif
Rooted Mobility: Uncovering America’s Mobile Home Parks ARCH 4020/4021
The mobile home is a housing phenomenon unique to the United States. The manifestation of its present form carries complexity and tells an evolving narrative about both home and mobility. Today, about 22 million Americans live in mobile homes, yet they are highly misunderstood and overlooked in the domestic setting. About one third of mobile homeowners rent a plot of land in a mobile home park. This “halfway homeownership” leaves the community vulnerable because park owners can raise rents, fail to maintain communal infrastructure, or even sell the park and evict everyone living in it. Mobile homes today are highly immobile, and residents stay in their homes within parks for years, if not most of their lives. However, their lives can be completely uprooted at the hands of the landlord. A transformative part of my life occurred in 2010 when my family and I moved from our singlefamily home in a typical suburban neighborhood to a doublewide trailer in a nearby mobile home park. Throughout my college career, I often considered why I chose to study architecture when I live in a place that
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carries a stigma of poverty, immobility, and less than “real” housing. Viewing my community now through an architectural lens, I have learned that architecture plays a major role in the identity and social justice of individuals and communities regardless of positions in society. The purpose of my thesis is to address mobile home park residents’ challenges with perception, ownership, and identity by proposing interventions at various scales. Through a close examination of my own mobile home park, I have identified and developed designs for parking, driveways, streets, public commons, and the housing module. These strategies operate as interrelated systems that rely on user engagement and emphasize process over product. The project has the potential to transform the thousands of mobile home parks in America today, but also suggests how future mobile home parks can be reorganized to create more dignified and adaptive neighborhoods. Image Caption: The public spine bringing together people, place, and design over time.
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Sarah Hirschfeld
BArH ‘20
Professor: Dylan Rogers
Sir Arthur Evans and Knossos: Reconsidering the Creation and Recreation of Prehistoric Architecture and Society in the Early 20th Century
Sir Arthur Evans played an influential role in the development of archaeology in the 20th century. His excavation at Knossos on Crete continues to be a celebrated yet controversial topic in academia over issues with his methods and interpretations. While the highly publicized discovery brought excitement to the general public, Evans’ presentation of his findings is sometimes considered to be misleading or overbearing. His interpretations were often based on modest evidence, which combined with his imagination led to an intricate narrative of the Minoan society that went beyond what modern archaeologists would view as reasonable. Evans also used the site’s connection with Homeric poems as a way to increase the public’s interest in the work. While not going so far as to claim that the site proves Homer right, unlike Heinrich Schliemann with his excavation of Troy, Evans did take advantage of the appeal of the captivating mythological tales. The controversy over his methods is not meant to take away from the importance of the discovery itself. Knossos represents an important landmark in human history as the home of a hierarchical society with
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advanced technology, well established religious practices, and unique artistic expressions that persisted for millennia. Whether or not Evans’ interpretations are completely accurate, he was able to introduce a previously unknown civilization to the public, gaining widespread interest and propelling Classical Archaeology into the limelight. Uncovering new information about a pacifistic ancient people may have provided some solace in an ever-changing world. As Europe braced itself for the First World War, Evans’ finds at Knossos would have supplied a welcome distraction. While a full account of Minoan civilization may never be available, Evans’ work at Knossos represents an important discovery in human history and a step in the development of archaeology as an academic discipline. Image Caption: Photograph of Arthur Evans at Knossos, 19001908 © University of California, San Diego.
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Yangqianqian Hu
MLA ‘20
Professors: Leena Cho, Matthew Jull
Ground Metabolism: Living Things and Contaminations LAR 8020 This image shows the contaminants in the arctic region, including hydrocarbon, heavy metal and micro-plastics. Collaborators: Chengxin Sha, Qinmeng Yu
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Inhwi Hwang
BSArch ‘20
Professors: Felipe Correa, Alexander Yuen
Double ARCH 4010 This project is to rethink Manaus’ docks as a dynamic infrastructure that is both a new commons and a metropolitan entrance to the city’s historical downtown. Collaborator: Chengxin Sha
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Xuting Jin
MArch ‘20
Professors: Ali Fard, Ghazal Jafari
Subtraction for Exchange ALAR 8020 This mapping captures the phenomenon “adjacency without linkages” along the Dulles Corridor, where techno-logistical spaces are physically adjacent to suburban communities, but not necessarily connected.
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Rita John
MArch ‘20
Professor: Esther Lorenz
The Urban Cave ARCH 7020 The Urban Cave is a subterranean respite from the harsh over-lit public realm of LA with its natural solar glare and constant visual stimulus from digital device centered lifestyles.
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Samuel Johnson
MArch ‘19
Professor: Manuel Bailo
Deshilachar La Costa ALAR 8030 Though sea level rise is certain for coastal cities, the magnitude remains unknown; this project proposes an architecture that embraces that ephemerality. Collaborator: Sherry Ng
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Gene Jones
BSArch ‘20
Professors: Lucia Phinney, Philip Yuan
Matter Aggregation ALAR 8010 A 1:300 scale model of a museum gallery designed utilizing the logics of aggregated wood joint construction. Collaborators: Sihan Lai, Paige Simmons
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Tarin Jones
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Mona El Khafif
A Matter of Coal | The Community Exhibition Against Dirty Energy ARCH 4020 Diagrammatic section of a site in Newport News, in southeast Virginia, with proposed exhibition installations focused on community engagement.
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Cameron Kayne
MArch ‘20
Professors: Mona El Khafif, Matthew Jull
Bar None ARCH 7010 Comprised of 4 residential bars and a geometrically dynamic base, which contains a public school and community center, Bar None is the proposed cultural nexus for the Lower-East-Side Manhattan, NYC community. Collaborator: Xuting Jin
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Anthony Kershaw
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Charlie Menefee
Artist’s Guild Arch 3010 This sectional perspective of an artist’s guild shows the interior of the building with an emphasis on shadows and light quality.
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Alex Kiehl
MArch ‘20
Professors: Felipe Correa, Katie Kasabalis
Public Private Partnership ARCH 7010 This project investigates the possibilities embedded in different scales of collective space to re-define the edge of the Manhattan grid and propose new models of domesticity and learning. Collaborator: Jacob Gianni
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Taylor Kitchens
MArch ‘20
Professors: John Comazzi, Earl Mark
A Place for Recovery ARCH 8995 As a community center for individuals recovering from addiction, this project seeks to establish spaces for engagement with nature, personal reflection, and small group meetings.
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Seshi Konu
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Alexander Kitchin
Through the Looking Orb ARCH 3021 Through the Looking Orb opens the eye to discovery, with concrete capsules sealing artifacts and preserving the history of the school. Collaborator: Finn Moran
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Grant Kuczler
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Lucia Phinney
Designing for Student-Led Learning: A New Spatial and Curricular Model for Education
Education is evolving very rapidly today compared to 50 or even 10 years ago. This creates an unknown set of wants and needs for the design of schools to confront. Because of these unknowns, school curricula and its architecture must be more flexible and adaptable to future change. Using charter schools and the flipped classroom as a framework, my project is a high school that proposes a new model for education giving students more control over their own learning. The flipped classroom places more accountability on students, but also allows for more flexible scheduling to include internships and interest-based projects. The project embeds itself in the community to physically create a connection with the neighborhood and to expand it program by leveraging existing athletic, assembly and work spaces. Students fill in gaps in use of these area resources like the Boys and Girls Club and the Shriners Center of East Chicago, Indiana without disrupting their typical use. The city of East Chicago is small and post industrial, but has recently invested in redeveloping its downtown area. My site is located on the Main St corridor and reclaims two abandoned
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buildings that fit into the network of community spaces that house school programming. The building responds to a need for flexible education spaces that can adapt to changes in use throughout the day and across the life of the building with a free plan that has several operable panels and doors that increases the range of experiences students have in the building. The plan is a collection of objects within a boundary connected by a series of interrupted paths that meander to create galleries and in-between moments for impromptu student meetings. The paneled facade system allows spaces to visually extend to the outside while still providing some privacy to the school activities. The back of the school faces an alley that became a crucial part of the project. School activity spills into the alley through large flip-up doors and there is a large structure opposite the school that provides outdoor seating and opportunities for meetings and performances. This alleyway is not only a resource to the school, but also to the community. It is a useful gathering space for public events. The public is invited into the school and there are a lot of opportunities for gallery space and student presentations of their work.
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Katie LaRose
MArch ‘20
Drawing Translation Carlo Pelliccia Traveling Fellowship based in Rome, Italy This research seeks to re-draw projects utilizing both compass and hand - like Bramante’s Tempietto, among others - and becomes a test of translation from drawing to architecture.
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Tim Lasley
BSArch ‘20
Professor: WG Clark
The Spring Grove House ARCH 4010 Designed by principle, yet inseparable from its site, this Farmhouse not only serves as a dwelling, but also functions relative to the greater landscape and mechanical purposes of the agricultural compound. The house is conscious of the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water, and is designed to coexist among their ecological influence.
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Carly Latessa
BArH ‘20
Professor: Lisa Reilly
The Contrade: The Blueprint for Historical and Cultural Preservation of Siena
In recent years, European cities have been struggling to stay viable for their local populations while facing overtourism, which was caused by the growth of budget airfare and accommodations. Italy is peculiarly affected. Rome, Venice, and Florence are trampled with tourists, whereas towns like Sambuca and Cantiano are practically empty by both visitors and locals alike. However, Siena, Italy is a city of impressively persevered medieval architecture, yet has struck a balance between accommodating plenty of tourists, while remaining livable for locals. The key to Siena’s success is the contrade, the seventeen neighborhood divisions and social fabric of historic Siena. The contrade originated during the Middle Ages from military companies, and continue to be an expression of the extreme localism and civic pride that the Sienese developed from a turbulent history. The Sienese pride is reflected in the city’s built environment and its preservation of tradition, most notably the bareback horse race of the Palio. The Palio is run around Siena’s main Piazza del Campo and evokes the intense rivalry between the competing contrade.
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The contrade prepare and partake in Palio festivities during the summer months, but contrade life exists throughout the entire year. Through year-round intergenerational activity within the contrade, the Sienese learn respect for the built-environment, tradition, and each other, especially elders, in addition to acquiring skills like setting and serving tables to traditional flag throwing. Despite its longevity, the dynamic of the contrade has shifted drastically in the last decades. With more expensive real estate and high maintenance costs, the Sienese have started to move out of the walled city center, therefore out of the contrade. The majority of the Sienese are no longer living among the people of their contrade as they used to; instead, they congregate within the contrade for scheduled activities. With today’s fast-paced and globally connected world, the new generation of Sienese are growing up in a different contrade environment and are concerned to be less invested in tradition. The contrade that have preserved Siena for so long could potentially lose their integrity and allow Siena to lose its charm. Image Caption: The Piazza del Campo full of locals and visitors a few hours before the start of the 2018 Extraordinary Palio race. Photographed by Carly Latessa, 2018, Siena, Italy.
Jonathan Lewis
MArch ‘20
Professor: WG Clark
House of Four Walls ALAR 8995
Many houses, maybe most, have four walls. These act primarily as barriers to the external environment. They are punctured with apertures for light, view, and ventilation. They are usually thought of as facades and as exterior structure, but not having any function related to use, and seldom occupiable except as a window seat, or as a bay. This thesis proposes a house of four walls, which are structural units brought to the site and placed to enclose a space for living, dining, or sleeping. These walls, in their thickness, contain the ’service’ functions of the house: stair, kitchen, bath, storage, and workspaces. Maison Domino was a house of concrete floor plates; this, a house of concrete walls, given specific functions.Imagine the pylons of Stonehenge but hollowed out for domestic use. The ‘walls’ come in four thicknesses varying from one foot to eight feet. They are pre-cast concrete channels, into which are placed fitments of use: shelves, counters, appliances, and fixtures. The four walls are placed and joined within hours of delivery, forming the inner space of the house, which may be a square or a
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rectangle as appropriate to the site conditions and the needs. Floors and a roof are then added and may be of wood, steel, or concrete construction. The walls have a structural intentionality and different functional purposes that serve the design of the house and its occupants. But they also serve as a juncture to the outside: the admission of light, of view, and ventilation. They form entry and threshold. They screen unwanted adjacencies and modulate light. So, the “walls” also have variations of aperture. The intention of this thesis is the design of a house whose thick, inhabitable walls form both dwelling and a juncture to place. As Louis Kahn said, we must learn to use ‘hollow stones’; my design for the House with Four Walls explores this charge. Image Caption: Cast Concrete Study Model (Scale 1/4 inch: 1 foot)
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Wanyi Li
MLA ‘19
Professors: Brad Cantrell, Brad Goetz, Andrea Hansen Phillips, Zihao Zhang
Beecoming LAR 7020 Beecoming explores the spatial perception between humans and bees in multi-sensory ways, including tactile sense, olfactory sense, optical sense and auditory sense. Collaborators: Yu Cheng, Yuchen Sun
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Katherine Lipkowitz
MArch ‘20
Professor: Shiqiao Li
Crossing Lines ALAR 8995 Simultaneous Projection, contemporary visions for the DMZ from Crossing Lines, a graphic novel documenting research and design for the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
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Yen-Han (Audrey) Liu
MArch ‘20
Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta
Safe Houses for Women and Children ALAR 8010 This project is a network of safe houses designed for women and children in Jaipur, India. These protected spaces incorporate a number of functions allowing women to have a space where they and their children can have more freedom and security in health, economy, and personal safety.
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Linxi Lu
MArch ‘20
Professors: Lucia Phinney, Philip Yuan
Matter Aggregation ALAR 8010 This 1/30 handcrafted sectional mockup shows how wood aggregation can turn into a holistic architecture — including its structural system, programmatic and spatial properties. Collaborators: Xuting Jin, Nita Wareechatchai
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Shixun Lyu
MArch ‘20
Professor: Mona El Khafif
Street Lives in a Block ARCH 7010 This project uses an “Alphabet Massing Strategy” to create a spatial network of circulation, an Art Loop, that is contained within residential program. The open floor is fully integrated with Chelsea Park in NY through four themed terraces. Collaborator: Audrey Liu
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Sam Mellecker
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Mona El Khafif
Prepare, React, Nourish ARCH 4020 These proposed towers facilitate resilience to their surrounding environment and to their own structures, while serving as habitats for species that are at risk of habitat loss.
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Holden Miles
BSArch ‘20
Professor: WG Clark
The Florida House ARCH 4010 This project was conceived as a house to establish a Floridian architectural identity. It begins by considering the regional climate which is defined by its three primary conditions - Hotness, Wetness, and the underground limestones that line the Floridian bedrock.
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Leigh Miller
PhD ‘20
Professors: Christopher Ali, Nana Last, Richard Guy Wilson
Being (in)Between: Space and Subjectivity in Video Game Worlds
dissertation identifies performative components of space, time, materiality, and place, and explores them as a series of equations. These modalities are some of the aspects of video games that critically link the concerns of video game space and the physical space of buildings and landscapes. It disrupts the notion that there is a singular experience of either world, and that by engaging with this medium, the very nature of space itself, how we define it, understand it, and live within it, is radically shifting from a set of lived, singular experiences, to a multitude of possibilities that constitute a form of architecture. Video games are an object of study at the crossroads of disciplines that shape the constructed environment, and yet they remain largely unstudied as architectural spaces. Like architecture, video games speak to ontological questions of how the player or observer conceives of themselves as being in a space. At the same time, they are a unique medium that presents the user with their own attributes of space. The video game is suggesting new ways of approaching the study of space and our way of being in two places at once: when engaged with the game space, the player or observer is neither fully within the digital world of the video game, nor fully present in the physical world of their living rooms. Space in video games is configured such that the player or observer occupies an in between ontological state when they play or observe. This study uses video games with immersive ecologies, or those in which the world constructed that the player or observer sees and interacts with, is a critical part of the experience of the game, to explore the way the experience of video games is reconfiguring the playing or observing subject. Each chapter of the
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Image Caption: Author’s Image. Red Dead Redemption 2. Video Game. Developed by Rockstar Games. Rockstar Games, 2018.
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Sarah Miller
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Alexander Kitchin
X Marks the Spot ARCH 3021 A concrete chair fabricated using a fiber based ultra high performance concrete, allowing for structural soundness without the use of steel rebar. Collaborator: Ryan Shih
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Tommy Miller
BSArch ‘20
Professor: John Comazzi
Headwater Research Institute ARCH 4020 This project proposes “a school as settlement” that critically investigates natural/ manufactured and traditional/contemporary modes of production and sustenance to develop constructive futures.
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Finn Moran
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Peter Waldman
Specifications of a Spider: Mythological Narratives in Architecture
To explore the contemporary myth, I have formed multiple narratives in order to test the capacity of architecture and the city through this ethos. My sequence of experiments begins in Hong Kong, moves to a Hospital’s atrium in Washington, D.C., expands to the scale of a city, transcends to a myth of origin (Washington is woven anew by a Spider), and finally, returns to the atrium where the Spider’s myth actualizes itself as a sequence of construction. Through these fictional narratives, I am positing an architectural reality where myth is part of nature, because it is in our nature to be part of myths. My thesis investigates the relationship between myth and architectural production. Historically, mythological narratives were critical to the formation of cities and for determining architecture’s relationship with nature; these are the narratives of Romulus and Remus of Rome, Athena and the Olive Tree of Athens, and Mother Spider of the Hopi. This need to interpret the unknowns of nature through storytelling has always been primordial. However, modernism attempted to convince society that myth was no longer a meaningful way of interpreting architecture, nature, or ourselves. My thesis argues that the role of myth is critical to explore in contemporary times. I’m not alone; contemporary myth makers such as John Hejduk, Alexander Calder, Peter Cook, and Jimenez Lai shared this sentiment and were influential to this thesis. Inspired by both ancient and contemporary narratives, my thesis attempts to use what I love, animal narratives, to address the problem I have observed; a disenchantment of architecture and nature that removes meaning and health from society.
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Image Caption: Shadow box model of the Hospital’s atrium; a eutopia of walkways, mobiles, and water creatures.
ChloĂŠ Nagraj
MLA ‘20
Professor: Brad Cantrell
Decommission as Design: Reconciling Opaque Landscapes Thesis If decommission were to be treated as design, how might we better mitigate the social impact of the histories embedded in contested landscapes?
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Mingyue Nan
MArch ‘20
Professors: Ali Fard, Ghazal Jafari
Digestive Corridors ALAR 8020 This project investigates a scene in the future when the means of trans-regional logistics fail. The image shows the proposed future food system under an alternative food culture that includes hunting, fishing, and foraging.
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Sherry Ng
MArch ‘19
Professor: Esther Lorenz
Mongkok Enfilade ALAR 8020 This project examines the sequential organization of the enfilade through the cinematic lens, and subverts the spatial expectations established by it across multiple experiential scales.
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Abe Nolan
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Peter Waldman
The Basal Villa ARCH 4020 Rendered etching showing the character of the project and the interaction between it and the landscape.
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Alexa Patel
BSArch ‘20
Professor: John Comazzi
Baben Housing ARCH 4021 Sewing/Tailoring Courtyard. This project proposes a series of smaller sub-courtyards nested within a larger courtyard, defining multi-scalar communities.
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Alexandra Poses
BUEP ‘20, BA Economics ‘20
Professor: Katie Kasabalis
Redesigning the Superblock: Adapting Corridor Block Design to a Voucher-Based Housing Program PLAN 2020
Homeownership, once a right, is now a privilege. It has already withered in coastal cities, inverting the income demographics by proximity to the Downtown. Increasing restrictions on underwriting loans and reserve requirements in commercial banks has added a premium to new mortgages, grandfathering in the homeowner and leaving the renter to a market inflated by growing excess demand. Those pushed out often spend more than thirty percent of their income on housing, qualifying for subsidized projects, such as Section 8, Section 236, and rent-controlled units. The subsidies received are tied to the unit, rather than the tenant, subjugating the renter to their landlord and location regardless of personal preference. The housing voucher program by the HUD can provide the same unit quality at 72% lower cost. Efficiency in subsidy programs is lost in profit margins paid to developers. Vouchers allow renters to participate in the unsubsidized market by paying the attainable cost differential. Finding a comprehensive welfare solution will no longer bifurcate the market between public and private, and will make rents more affordable.
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The associated design project modeled a “City within a City”, replacing Fashion Square Mall—a failing shopping mall on the I-29 corridor. Low-density superblocks contribute to our under supplied housing by under utilizing negotiable, transit-dominated spaces. Precedent analysis on city grids included block scale and both layout and use organization comparisons. The plan overlaid pedestrian-scale blocks, a network of public spaces, condensed and concealed parking, and clear multi modal paths. The result raised the FAR from 0.29 to 1.71 and created roughly 1500 voucher-eligible housing units with adapted soft infrastructure. The geographically segregated housing market, present in most American cities is not to the fault of designers, but is a welfare inefficiency. With a streamlined voucher program, designers can be contracted to create economically viable spaces of integration. Image Caption: Development Strategy: Phasing construction to prioritize public funds for the grid and stimulate private investors to finance to infill businesses and housing.
Jonah Pruitt
MArch ‘20
Professors: Julie Bargmann, Matthew Jull
Untitled Power Plant Project ALAR 8020 This project uses collage to imagine projective futures for Northwest Indiana’s postindustrial future.
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Yumeng Qu
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Robin Dripps
The World ARCH 4010 This is a design of a public library in Philadelphia. The theater is a very special space in this library − it is created by forces around it and is located at the center of the public realm. It is also the generator of the space.
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Matthew Reger
MArch ‘20
Professors: Darcy Engle, Ferda Kolatan
Hovering Gardens, Honoring Machines ALAR 8020 The building’s introverted form conceals hybrid gardens that serve the Battery Tunnel. The interior’s nebulous atmosphere is punctually reversed when one approaches a skylight, where framed views of NYC are revealed. Collaborator: Alex Kiehl
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David Rodgers
BSArch ‘20
Professors: Felipe Correa, Alexander Yuen
Pharos of Manaus ALAR 4010/8010 Model and exterior render of a hybrid observatory tower and community center that creates a new dialogue between the city of Manaus and the surrounding Amazon Rainforest. Collaborator: Xingyu Zhang
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Chengxin Sha
MArch ‘20
Professors: Leena Cho, Matthew Jull
Ground Metabolism: Living Things and Contaminations ALAR 8020 This project seeks to reconnect people to the ground by revitalizing a once contaminated site, located at the center of Barrow, Alaska. The image depicts a view from the proposed office building to a new park, which repurposes once used photoremediation infrastructure to enable civic use on the site in the summer. Collaborators: Yangqianqian Hu, Qinmeng Yu
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Palak Shah
MArch ‘20
Professors: John Kett, Scott Mitchell
The Oscillating Amble ALAR 8020 Aerial view of the proposed oscillating ample at Franklin Park, Boston.
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Pranjal Sharma
MUEP ‘20
Professor: Mona El Khafif
Elevating Urbanity | Wynwood meets Miami ULI Hines Design Competition 2020 Wynwood offers lively urban spaces nested in a low-density fabric, while Midtown and Edgewater represent high-density conditions. This project combines the best qualities of both conditions by offering a higher density neighborhood with vibrant urban spaces and connections to the greater Miami region.
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Huiru Shen
MLA ‘19
Professors: Brad Cantrell, Brad Goetz, Andrea Hansen Phillips
Pixel City LAR 7020 Prototyping the Territory Pixel City is an interactive online mapping tool that echos my manifesto: every “pixel” matters, while the assemblage of the discrete individual elements compose a better, and more full, public image.
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Ryan Shih
BSArch ‘20
Professors: Lucia Phinney, Chao Yan, Philip Yuan
Matter Aggregation: Joints Construction ARCH 4010/6010 This constructed concept model focuses on new methods of computational design, fabrication, and wood utilizing material optimization strategies. Collaborators: Sarah Miller, Andrew Spears
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Ines Softic
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Charlie Menefee
Venice Material (F)acts ARCH 4010 Draw what you see and not what you think you see. This simple rule helped me become more loose in how I draw but also more importantly to design better. The images below are scenes in Venice, Italy created during my study abroad.
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Andres Soria Galvarro
MArch ‘20
Professor: WG Clark
Mill House ALAR 8010 A house designed as juncture between river and land, partly to enjoy the beauty of this natural occurrence, but also to productively use the river to power the operation of the house.
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Myles Spadaccini
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Lucia Phinney
Rappahannock River Oyster Company: Architecture And/As Performance
My thesis begins with the oyster. As a result of their natural lifestyles, oysters filter out excess nitrogen and phosphorous from the water they occupy. Oysters are considered “keystone” species - meaning that they support the life of a disproportionately large number of other species within their ecosystems. The first drawing below depicts a possible ecosystem formed simply by the presence of oyster cages to the Rappahannock River bottom. The oyster cages sit 6” off the muddy bottom on feet. This creates space for sea grass to grow, generating a symbiotic relationship where the sea grass enjoys the freshly cleaned water from the oysters, and the oysters breathe the oxygen bi-product from the sea grass. Fish come to the area to eat the plankton that lives within the sea grass. Barnacles form on the cages and the ropes that tie them together. Crabs come to feed and clean the barnacles. Sea anenomes attach to the bits of recycled oyster shells on the river’s bottom. Sea anenomes eat both fish and crab. Jellyfish litter the river during the summertime but are specifically attracted to their sea anenome prey. Oysters also offer a range of health benefits for humans. They are a strong source of protein, vitamin D, zinc, iron, and copper.
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They are said to help with weight loss, heart health, immunity, increasing blood circulation, bone mass, and sex drive. In 2004, the fourth generation family of oystermen took over Rappahannock River Oyster Company in Topping, VA. The company had taken a brutal hit from over harvesting, pollution, and massive sediment stir-up from three hurricanes in a two-year time-span. Ryan and Travis Croxton introduced a floating cage oyster ecology that produced a better looking and tasting oyster in less time. Because of the mass production of the floating cages, the water is clean enough to grow oysters in cages on the river bottom again. Merroir was the first restaurant they opened (about 30 feet from their farm). It is their most lucrative restaurant and deserves to be showcased. I am proposing a complete renovation of the site to achieve a cohesive complex which supports all the current programs plus the addition of an apprenticeship program for oyster farming. My thesis asks: What if design for a site with a complex program, began with thinking about architecture as a way to choreograph the activities that occur there? Can architecture be a framework to choreograph? How does architecture ask us to perform with it, and how does it perform for us?
Adam Spector
BSArch ‘20
Professor: John Comazzi
Reimagining the Design of “The Office” Located at 375 Park Avenue, this iconic building is redesigned for optimal use for the surrounding tenants in the building. With the goal of increasing leasing, this space adds shared spaces as well as amenities for members of the building to use.
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Allison Ta
BSArch ‘20
Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta
Revitalizing the Amanisha Nala Drain ARCH 4010 This Yamuna River Project proposal presents urban design strategies to help recover Jaipur’s under-used resource, the Amanishah Nala Drain, and strengthen the community’s public amenities. Collaborator: Qinmeng Yu
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Maria Tahamtani
MUEP ‘20
Professors: Devin Dobrowolski, Brian Richter
The Heartbeat of the Colorado // Advancing Water Sustainability in the Colorado River Basin This cartographic depiction of the Colorado River Delta (left) and MVIDD (right) underscores the importance of this research endeavor on water conservation in the Basin.
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Ailsa Thai
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Sanda Iliescu
Study of Venetian Blinds ARCH 5500 Image 76 out of 100, this watercolor composition depicting the rhythmic light and lines of ordinary Venetian blinds represents a transition from Campbell Hall to a college apartment in a series of drawings exploring joints and details of the spaces we inhabit, in the context of COVID-19.
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Carly Tominovich
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Peter Waldman
A Jeffersonian Center for Democracy ARCH 4020 This center for democracy at the intersection of Emmet Street and University Avenue in Charlottesville seeks to engage not only humans, but animals - namely birds and fish - in its constructed landscape site, with the ultimate goal of having every voice heard.
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Yao Tong
MLA ‘19
Professor: Ehsan Baharlou
Wood-Proto Fabrics ALAR 8010 Wood-Proto Fabrics aims to investigate how techniques of textile patterning can inform the shaping and fabrication of wood to create parametrically modular surfaces. Collaborators: Eric Duong, Maddie Iribarren
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Stephen Van Buren
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Ehsan Baharlou
Air-Powered Adaptability ARCH 4020 A pneumatically-controlled system of modules that use inflation to adjust transparency levels and act as a semi-permeable kinetic facade capable of filtering light.
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Garrett Vercoe
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Charlie Menefee
Drawing Venice ARCH 4010 Designare in Italian means to draw and to design. These process sketches are interrogations of Venice through the re-assembly of architectural elements to conceive of the whole, exploring designare.
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Fei Wang
MArch ‘20
Professor: Robin Dripps
The Air Shaft ALAR 8010 This image shows the south elevation, where the reading room is located, and with a mix of transparent and translucent glass, the penetrating light is softened.
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Han Wang
MUEP ‘20
Professor: Andrew Mondschein
Evaluation of Hurdles and Barriers in Implementation of Automated Vehicles (AVs) Keywords: Automated Vehicles, Hurdles/ Barriers in implementation, Transportation policies and regulations
The research of automated technology has thrived over the last several decades, and much attention has been paid to automated vehicles (AV) and services. Hence, within the last several years, cities across the United States and around the world have conducted pilot projects testing the operations of low-speed AVs. AVs are expected to improve safety, significantly alter transportation costs, and change traffic patterns and congestion. Despite the gradually maturing technology, the implementation of AVs requires transportation policies and regulations to ensure its success in society. Thus, I conducted a literature review on the current hurdles in implementing AVs basd on existing precedents and official reports. Furthermore, I have aimed to identify and couple AV technology with corresponding policies and regulations that must be overcome as hurdles in contemporary cities. The AVs in this thesis are described as “low-speed automated shuttles” — specifically because this category of AVs represents a broader development that attracts more substantial research and future development investment from local, regional, and state governments, transportation agencies and manufacturers.
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Nita Wareechatchai
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Inés Martín-Robles
The School of Life ARCH 2010 Photograph of working model.
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Barrett Weaver
MArch ‘20
Professors: Felipe Correa, Katie Kasabalis
Common Ground ARCH 7010 This urban project takes on the challenges of NYC by re-envisioning the regimental Manhattan city block as a porous, mixed-use building typology that redefines the urban ground plane and the skyline of the East Harlem Triangle. Collaborator: Rita John
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Taryn Wiens
MLA ‘20
Professor: Leena Cho
Animating the Soil Commons: Designing with Time-Based Practice in the Lost River Subbasin LAR 8020 A proposal for a healing soil garden taps into existing cultural practices to process trauma and build new soil over time.
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Elizabeth Wiersma
BSArch ‘20
Professor: Jeana Ripple
Art Resource Center ARCH 3010 The Art Resource Center is designed to provide art resources to the community, where each level designates space for programs based on an accessibility grid.
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Xinyi Xia
MArch ‘20
Professors: Darcy Engle, Ferda Kolatan
The Hidden Space: Art Storage and Business in Urban Infrastructure Margins ALAR 8020 This project is a hidden art market offering tax free purchases as well as storage facilities for collectors and investors in Downtown Manhattan. Collaborator: Fei Wang
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Xianwen Xu
MArch ‘20
Professor: Matthew Jull
Ten Functions - PPP Exploration in NYC ARCH 7010 This project proposes a variety of programs that are distributed using hybrid strategies throughout this NYC building. Public programs intersect residential zones at the upper levels, transforming the flow of people off the streets and into the building. Collaborator: Xinyi Xia
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Yi Yang
MArch ‘20
Professor: Bill Sherman
11.5th Avenue ARCH 7020 Architects work at many scales, utilizing different strategies. The large scale requires the development of a clear concept that can be adapted in different ways. At a midscale, the relationships between human scale, the city and the environment can be explored as the framing of a collective experience. Then at a building scale, we work out the materials, structure, circulation paths, spaces and systems that frame these experiences.
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Yunfan Yang
MArch ‘20
Professors: Sandra Barclay, Jean Pierre Crousse, Belén González Aranguren
Curved Peninsula ALAR 8020 In response to the El Niño, Curved Peninsula proposes a design that incorporates movable walls which the staff can open to bring together the interior and exterior space.
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Qinmeng Yu
MLA ‘20
Professors: Leena Cho, Matthew Jull
Living Things and Contaminants LAR 8020 This drawing shows the fertility of living things in the arctic ground, including shallow roots system, microbes, etc. Collaborators: Yangqianqian Hu, Chengxin Sha
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Wenyan Yu
MArch ‘20
Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta
Rethinking Jaipur’s Markets ALAR 8010 This project, sited in Jaipur, India, is a prototype for an integrated market that creates an “inside world” — a place of respite from the busy public realm — that provides a variety of functions from the buying and selling of goods to places of rest and socialization.
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Jingyao Zhang
MArch ‘20
Professor: Darcy Engle, Ferda Kolatan
Sci-fi Gallery New York ALAR 8020 Sectional perspective of Sci-fi Gallery New York which represents the relationship between existing infrastructure and exhibition halls. Collaborator: Zi Zhuo
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Shurui Zhang
MArch ‘20, MLA ‘20
Professor: Brad Cantrell
Coastal Adaptation ALAR 8995 These images show the process of coastal adaptation, and provide a projected future for coastal towns.
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Zhenkang Zhai
MArch ‘19
Professors: Lucia Phinney, Philip Yuan
Matter Aggregation ALAR 8010 Sectional model composed of 1200 pieces/component parts; model selected for the Bi-city Biennale exhibition. Collaborators: Jacob Gianni, Qiuheng Xu
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Shan Zhu
MArch ‘20
Professors: Darcy Engle, Ferda Kolatan
Pipe Organism ALAR 8020 The project explores how architecture can address visual biases and promote aural stimulation. How can architecture manipulate space to hybridize the sense of sight and hearing?
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Zi Zhuo
MArch ‘20
Professors: Felipe Correa, Katie Kasabalis
Towards Chelsea ARCH 7010 This project connects Chelsea Park to its adjacent city blocks, by designing media infrastructure that facilitates conversations between individuals both in the park and the residential units nearby. Collaborator: Xinghan Chen
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Graduating Student Index
Graduate Spring 2020 Master of Architectural History
Robert Louis Brandon Edwards 47 Wade Hampton Goodrich 58 Master of Architecture
Brandon Gregory Adams 29 Jiawei Chen 36 Xinghan Chen Tianqi Chu 38 Jiaying Deng 42 Samuel Eric Feldman 51 Qing Feng 52 Kristina Marie Fisher 54 Lydia Christine Fulton 55 Jacob Antonino Gianni 57 Joshua Robert Hadley-Goggin 63 Xuting Jin 72 Rita John 73 Cameron Blake Kayne 77 Alex Kaitlyn Kiehl 79 Taylor Galen Kitchens 80 Katherine Gail LaRose 83 Jonathan Brian Lewis 86 Katherine A Lipkowitz 88 Yen-Han Liu 89 Linxi Lu 92 Jiawei Luo Shixun Lyu 93 149
Hannah Jane Mattheis Christopher Patrick Murphy Mingyue Nan 101 Michael Joel Peterson Jonah Matthew Pruitt 106 Matthew Reger 108 Chengxin Sha 112 Palak Atul Shah 113 Jingyi Shen Carlos Andres Soria Galvarro Duran 118 Fei Wang 128 Clifford Barrett Weaver 131 Xinyi Xia 136 Xianwen Xu 137 Yi Yang 138 Yunfan Yang 139 Wenyan Yu 141 Jingyao Zhang 142 Shurui Zhang 143 Shan Zhu 145 Zi Zhuo 146 Master of Landscape Architecture
Zhenfang Chen Kevin Thatcher Gerike 56 Gaelle Jeanne Alice Marie Gourmelon 59
Graduate Fall 2019 Yangqianqian Hu 70 Jingwei Jiang Danni Jin Xiaowei Lin Chloe Delaney Nagraj 100 Stephen Andrew Spears Taryn Wiens 132 Nicholas Burwell Wittkofski Qiuheng Xu Ziyuan Yang Qinmeng Yu 140 Shurui Zhang 143
Master of Architecture
Yudou Huang Samuel Adams Johnson 74 Hutchins Thomas Landfair Kun Liu Sherry Xue Yi Ng 102 Edward Arthur Taylor Brian Richard Waite Weifang Wu Zhenkang Zhai 144 Yaqi Zhang Master of Landscape Architecture
Master of Urban + Environmental Planning
Hunter A Berry 33 Kui Cai Kellen Olivia Dunnavant 45 Joseph Tyler Hinkle Jordan Hollinger Jason Andres Inofuentes Pranjal Sharma 114 Maria Farangese Tahamtani 122 Han Wang 129 Chenjie Xiong Doctor of Philosophy in the Constructed Environment
Leigh Carroll Miller 96
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Xinhui Chen Yu Cheng 37 Mengyuan Duan Xitong He Qiyao Li Wanyi Li 87 Hangxing Liu Liwei Liu Yuting Ruan Huiru Shen 115 Kazufumi Shimomura Yuchen Sun Edward Arthur Taylor Yao Tong 125
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Master of Urban + Environmental Planning
David Alexander Birkenthal Anna-Elizabeth Lawler Stephanie Kay Lopez Rachel Mee Moon
Undergraduate Spring 2020 Bachelor of Architectural History
Sarah Hirschfeld 67 Carly Marie Latessa 85 Bachelor of Architecture
Waqas Al Mulhim Katherine Lee-Ann Alexander Evelyn Marie Andrulis 30 Andrea Aragon 31 Ariana Arenius 32 Telmen Bayasgalan Zachary Joseph Beim Caitria Hooper Boomsma 34 Jonnathan E Calle Silva Kelsea Victoria Champ 35 151
Olivia Cleary 39 Lauren Haley Crino 40 Emmett Harrison DeBree 41 Grace Elaine Murphy Douthit 43 Lauryn Elizabeth Downing 44 Eric Joseph Duong 46 Karim Moustafa El-Araby 50 Elizabeth Fentress Keaton Haigh Fisher 53 Mary Katherine Francis Graeff 60 Caroline Carr Grant 61 Andre Victor Grospe 62 Meghan Amber Hale 64 Sara Elizabeth Hall 65 Tristan Alexander Hamrick Amanda Kathryn Harlow 66 Shelby Lynne Heard Inhwi Hwang 71 Malcolm Fulton Ilnicky Madeleine Katherine Iribarren Gene Thomas Jones Jr. 75 Tarin Alexander Jones 76 Anthony Matthew Kershaw 78 Seshi Elinam Konu 81 Grant Mathew Kuczler 82 Timothy Gray Lasley 84 Claire Whitman Lennarz Emry Reed McKane
Samantha Mellecker 94 Holden Sho Miles 95 Sarah Elizabeth Miller 97 Thomas Rhodes Miller 98 Finn Sebastian Moran 99 Abram John Nolan 103 Alexa Nitin Patel 104 Yumeng Qu 107 David Willard Rodgers 109 Abigail Virginia Roletter Ryan Wiley Shih 116 Paige Elizabeth Simmons Ines Softic 117 Myles Shea Spadaccini 119 Adam Hunter Spector 120 Allison Vi Ta 121 Ailsa T Thai 123 Carly Michael Tominovich 124 Stephen Patrick Van Buren 126 Garrett Rhys Vercoe 127 Nita Wareechatchai 130 Elizabeth Michele Wiersma 133 Andrea Zabkowski Xingyu Zhang Diyu Zheng
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Bachelor of Urban + Environmental Planning
Harley Susan Adsit Anna Leah Drumheller Timothy Graham Fraley Kyle Paul Kelly Sarah Kimery Natalie Grace LaRoe Alexandra C Poses 105 Harrison Browning Premen William Francis Simopoulos Archer Osborne Willauer
Undergraduate Fall 2019 Bachelor of Urban + Environmental Planning
Savannah Knisley
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Awards
School of Architecture Award Presented by the Z Society to the student in each school of the University of Virginia who has contributed the most to that school through academic excellence, leadership and extracurricular involvement, the Edgar J. Shannon Award is presented to:
Taryn Wiens
University of Virginia International Studies Award In recognition of outstanding academic achievement by a graduating international student, the University of Virginia’s International Studies Office’s Academic Excellence Award is presented to:
Huiru Shen
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Architectural History Awards In recognition of outstanding academic achievement upon completion of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Architectural History, the Frederick Doveton Nichols Award is presented to:
Sarah Hirschfield In recognition of outstanding academic achievement upon completion of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architectural History, the Frederick Doveton Nichols Award is presented to:
Robert Louis Brandon Edwards Wade Hampton Goodrich The Betty Leake Service Award commemorates the service of Betty Leake to the Department of Architectural History and is awarded to a graduating student who has combined exemplary service and scholarship. The Betty Leake Service Award is presented to:
Wade Hampton Goodrich
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Architecture Awards Presented to the undergraduate student who, like Sean [BSArch ‘91], has exhibited an overall excellence in design and scholarship, and an enthusiasm, joy and wonder for architecture coupled with the ability to instill these same feelings and qualities in others, the Sean SteeleNicholson Memorial Award is presented to:
Andre Victor Grospe Amanda Kathryn Harlow Ailsa T Thai Garrett Rhys Vercoe Awarded annually, in memory of Duncan J. McCrea [BSArch ‘75], to the undergraduate who has demonstrated academic achievement and concern for spiritual values, the Duncan J. McCrea Memorial Award is presented to:
Lauryn Elizabeth Downing In recognition of undergraduate design excellence, the Faculty of Architecture Award for Design Excellence is presented to:
Lauryn Elizabeth Downing Andre Victor Grospe Amanda Kathryn Harlow Inhwi Hwang Anthony Matthew Kershaw Samantha Mellecker Allison Vi Ta Ailsa T Thai Garrett Rhys Vercoe Xingyu Zhang
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Architecture Awards In recognition of the undergraduate student who has demonstrated outstanding public service to the school, the university and the community, the Faculty of Architecture Award for Public Service is presented to:
Timothy Gray Lasley Sarah Elizabeth Miller Allison Vi Ta Named in honor of the late Jonathan King, co-founder and first president of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), this award is given to one student per ARCC member college based upon criteria that acknowledge innovation, integrity, and scholarship in architectural and/or environmental design research. The ARCC King Medal is presented to:
Jonah Matthew Pruitt Awarded by the Alpha Rho Chi National Professional Architectural Fraternity to the graduating student of each school of architecture who has shown ability for leadership, performed willing service to the school and gives promise of professional merit through his/her attitude and personality, the Alpha Rho Chi Medal is presented to:
Katherine Gail LaRose In recognition of academic excellence in the study of architecture leading to the professional degree of Master of Architecture, the Lori Ann Pristo Award is presented by the Department of Architecture to:
Taylor Galen Kitchens
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Architecture Awards In recognition of outstanding academic achievement, the American Institute of Architects’ Henry Adams Medal for Excellence in Architecture is presented to:
Sherry Xue Yi Ng In recognition of graduate design excellence, the Faculty of Architecture Award for Design Excellence is presented to:
Rita John Samuel Adams Johnson Taylor Galen Kitchens Katherine Gail LaRose Shixun Lyu Hannah Jane Mattheis Sherry Xue Yi Ng Jonah Matthew Pruitt Xinyi Xia In recognition of the graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding public service to the school, the university and the community, the Faculty of Architecture Award for Public Service is presented to:
Samuel Adams Johnson Katherine A Lipkowitz Xianwen Xu
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Landscape Architecture Awards In recognition of a sustained level of outstanding performance in the study of Landscape Architecture and the promise of significance in the profession, the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Certificate of Honor is presented by the President and Board of Trustees to:
Huiru Shen Taryn Wiens In recognition of a sustained level of outstanding performance in the study of Landscape Architecture and the promise of significance in the profession, the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Certificate of Merit is presented by the President and Board of Trustees to:
Yu Cheng Chloe Delaney Nagraj In recognition of excellence and originality in the study of Landscape Architecture, the Allison Ingram Memorial Award is presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture to:
Yangqianqian Hu In recognition of service to the school community and outstanding academic achievement, The 2019 Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture award is presented to:
Nicholas Burwell Wittkofski
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Landscape Architecture Awards In recognition of exemplary design excellence, the Faculty of Landscape Architecture Award for Design Excellence is presented to:
Gaelle Jeanne Alice Marie Gourmelon In recognition of exemplary design research, the Faculty of Landscape Architecture Award for Research Excellence is presented to:
Chloe Delaney Nagraj In recognition of exemplary design innovation, the Faculty of Landscape Architecture Award for Design Innovation Excellence is presented to:
Kazufumi Shimomura
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Urban + Environmental Planning Awards In recognition of outstanding academic achievement in the undergraduate Planning Program, the American Planning Association Outstanding Student Award is presented to:
Alexandra C Poses In recognition of an outstanding record of scholarship and service while an undergraduate student in the professional Planning Program, the Virginia Chapter of American Planning Association Outstanding Student Award is presented to:
Anna Leah Drumheller In recognition of dedicated service as an undergraduate student, the Faculty of Urban and Environmental Planning Award for Outstanding Service is presented to:
William Francis Simopoulos In recognition of outstanding academic achievement in the graduate Planning Program, the American Planning Association Outstanding Student Award is presented to:
Kellen Olivia Dunnavant In recognition of an outstanding record of scholarship and service while a graduate student in the professional Planning Program, the Virginia Chapter of American Planning Association Outstanding Student Award is presented to:
Hunter A. Berry
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Urban + Environmental Planning Awards In recognition of dedicated service as a graduate student, the Faculty of Urban and Environmental Planning Award for Outstanding Service is presented to:
Joseph Tyler Hinkle
Urban Design Award In recognition of design excellence and interdisciplinary knowledge development, the Urban Design Award is presented by the Urban Design Certificate Program to:
Chenjie Xiong
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Certificates Historic Preservation Certificate
Urban Design Certificate
Master of Architectural History
Master of Architecture
Robert Louis Brandon Edwards Wade Hampton Goodrich
Qing Feng Kristina Marie Fisher Cameron Blake Kayne Michael Joel Peterson Yunfan Yang
Master of Architecture
Jacob Antonnino Gianni Alex Kaitlyn Kiehl Hannah Jane Mattheis Master of Urban + Environmental Planning
Kellen Olivia Dunnavant
Master of Landscape Architecture
Jingwei Jiang Danni Jin Ziyuan Yang Qinmeng Yu Master of Urban + Environmental Planning
Kui Cai Pranjal Sharma Chenjie Xiong
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Faculty and Staff
School Leadership Deans Ila Berman Dean, School of Architecture Anselmo Canfora Associate Dean, Academics Allen Lee Associate Dean, Finance + Administration
John Comazzi Director, Design Thinking Program
Landscape Architecture Bradley Cantrell Chair, Landscape Architecture Department Michael Lee Director, Landscape Architecture Graduate Program
Betsy Roettger Assistant Dean, Student + Career Development
Urban + Environmental Planning / Urban Design
Kyle Sturgeon Assistant Dean, Academics
Ellen Bassett Chair, Urban + Environmental Planning Department
Academic Departments / Programs
Andrew Mondschein Director, Urban + Environmental Planning Graduate Program
Architectural History / Historic Preservation Sheila Crane Chair, Architectural History Department Director, Architectural History Graduate Program Andrew Johnston Director, Historic Preservation Certificate Program Lisa Reilly Director, Architectural History Undergraduate Program
Suzanne Moomaw Director, Urban + Environmental Planning Undergraduate Program Mona El Khafif Director, Urban Design Certificate Program
PhD Shiqiao Li Director, PhD Program in the Constructed Environment
Architecture / Design Thinking Felipe Correa Chair, Architecture Department Jeana Ripple Director, Architecture Graduate Program Esther Lorenz Director, Architecture Undergraduate Program
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Global Sustainability Phoebe Crisman Director, Global Studies + Global Sustainability minor
Directors of Research Centers Elizabeth Meyer Jessica Sewell Directors, Center for Cultural Landscapes Jenny Roe Director, Center for Design + Health Suzanne Moomaw Director, Community Design Research Center Tanya Denckla Cobb Director, Institute for Engagement + Negotiation Ila Berman Felipe Correa Directors, Next Cities Institute
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Faculty Architectural History Sheila Crane Yunsheng Huang Andrew Johnston Shiqiao Li Jill Lord Louis Nelson Lisa Reilly William Rourk Richard Guy Wilson Architecture Gonzalo Alonso Anthony Averbeck JT Bachman Ehsan Baharlou Manuel Bailo Sandra Barclay (visiting professor) Michael Leighton Beaman Pam Black Nicholas Brinen Anselmo Canfora Margaret Cavenaugh WG Clark Elgin Cleckley John Comazzi Felipe Correa Phoebe Crisman Jean Pierre Crousse (visiting professor) Devin Dobrowolski Robin Dripps Mona El Khafif Darcy Engle Ali Fard Ed Ford Belén González Aranguren
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María González Aranguren Pankaj Vir Gupta Sanda Iliescu Andrew Johnston Ted Jones Matthew Jull Kyriaki (Katie) Kasabalis Alexander Kitchin Leidy Klotz Ferda Kolatan (visiting professor) Hutch Landfair Nana Last Shiqiao Li Esther Lorenz Earl Mark Inés Martín-Robles Kirk Martini Seth McDowell Charlie Menefee Adriana Pablos Luis Pancorbo Michael Petrus Lucia Phinney Jorge Pizarro Francisco Ramos Jeana Ripple Jaime Sanz Haro Maddalena Scimemi Bill Sherman Schaeffer Somers Katie Stranix Brian Tuskey Karen Van Lengen Peter Waldman Philip Yuan (visiting professor) Alexander Yuen
Landscape Architecture Julie Bargmann Brad Cantrell Leena Cho Michael Ezban Andrea Hansen Phillips Zaneta Hong Sara Jacobs Ghazal Jafari John Kett (visiting professor) Michael Lee Emma Mendel Elizabeth Meyer Reuben Rainey Matthew Seibert Nancy Takahasi Urban + Environmental Planning Ellen Bassett Tim Beatley William Cockrell Tanya Denckla Cobb Alissa Diamond Frank Dukes Mona El Khafif Asa Eslocker Ali Fard Karen Firehock Guoping Huang Luke Juday Kyriaki (Katie) Kasabalis Ian Klein Fred Missel Andrew Mondschein Suzanne Moomaw Michael Petrus
Brian Richter Jenny Roe Siri Russell Louis Salomonsky Jessica Sewell Julia Triman Barbara Brown Wilson Bev Wilson
Staff Office of the Dean
Admission + Financial Aid
Ila Berman Dean
Cindy Kiefer Director of Recruitment, Admission + Financial Aid
Jaime Grove Assistant to the Dean
Carolyn Buchanan Administrative Coordinator of Recruitment, Admission + Financial Aid
Departmental Administration Sheller Miller Department Administrator for ArH, LAR + UEP Adela Su Department Administrator for ARCH; Administrative Services Coordinator Academics + Student Support Anselmo Canfora Associate Dean of Academics; Associate Professor Kyle Sturgeon Assistant Dean of Academic Support; Lecturer Records + Registration Sharon McDonald Director of Student Records + Registration Student Advising Tashana Starks Assistant Director of Advising + Academic Support Career Development Betsy Roettger Assistant Dean of Student + Career Development; Lecturer
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Finance + Administration Allen Lee Associate Dean of Finance + Administration Lisa Benton Business Manager Chrissie Holt-Hull Administrative Generalist Jen Lucas Research Administrator Human Resources + Management Mirjana Huddleston Human Resources Business Partner Kathy Woodson Special Assistant Information Technologies Eric Field Director of Information Technologies; Lecturer Andrew LaRue Enterprise Systems Lead Lyle Solla-Yates Software Platforms + Technology Lead
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Jake Thackston Systems Engineer + Manager Kenny Wood IT Support Technician Fabrication Labs Melissa Goldman Fabrication Facilities Manager Trevor Kemp Fabrication Facilities Assistant Manager Facilities + Building Management Dick Smith Building Manager Communications + Public Programs Sneha Patel Creative Director of Communications Cally Bryant Graphic Designer Morgan Hatfield Digital Marketing + Social Media Coordinator Development + Alumni Engagement Joey Pierce Director of Development Kristen Grams Director of Annual + Individual Giving Kim Wong Haggart Director of Engagement + Alumni Initiatives
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