Shelf Life at UVA 2021 by UVA School of Architecture

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at UVA

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2021

The UVA School of Architecture dedicates this book to the Class of 2021. 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 an era of social distancing. Of the many lessons embedded in the work collected herein, perhaps the most salient one, is the power afforded to meaningful design and research in constructing a better world. To our 2021 graduates, we are inspired by the passion and empathy offered in your work and your unwavering sense of mission. We hope that these aspirations will continue to guide you well into the future.

Introduction by the Dean 15

Remarks by the Chairs 27

Student Work 175

Graduating Student Index 183

Awards 197

Faculty and Staff

Introduction by the Dean

School of Architecture

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Ila Berman Dean One of the most amazing things about the design disciplines is that every day we get to rethink, reimagine and remake the world around us. We create fictions that become realities the moment that we build and share them, so that what is possible becomes actual, and what was virtual becomes real. All of our disciplines enable this, not only by advancing knowledge and skills, but by fostering creativity and innovation, and building the capacity for imagination, in order to improve the world around us. The art of dreaming is the first step in the art of world making which happens when we concretize our imagination out there in the world in order to contribute to the making of its, and our shared future. I spend a lot of time thinking about the power of making, and about the ways in which ideas are materialized into the very things that constitute our culture. This need to create is not only how we project ourselves into the world but it is also how we remake that world and bring about our own collective evolution. Elaine Scarry, in her writing on the making and unmaking of the world, wrote that every artifact, whether made, manufactured

or written, “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.” We project our ideas and imagination out into the world through, and in the things that we make, and then these things—the environments and cities, objects and devices, or texts and books that we create—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. As graduates, at this very important juncture in your lives, you are ready to ask yourselves, what are the things that you will do, imagine and make in the future, and how will this remake not only the world around us, but also who we ourselves—as individuals, as a community, and as a culture—become. I truly believe that your education at the A-School has empowered you to do so, and to be the agents of change that we so need in this world. Project yourselves towards that future with humility and curiosity, and with great passion and courage. Elaine Scarry. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press. 1985

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Architectural History

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Sheila Crane Chair Congratulations to you, the class of 2021! In ways we could never have anticipated, you have been asked, over the last year and more, to embrace contingency and the unknown, to navigate loss, to be flexible, to forge your own networks of care and support, to adapt to unforeseen circumstances, and to think otherwise. In the School of Architecture, we talk a great deal about resilience, but you have been living resilience. As challenging as our time together, while apart, has been, these experiences have equipped you to think critically about the past, while envisioning, in Achille Mbembe’s words, “new ways of living together on a damaged planet.” Now it’s time for you to venture on the next steps of your journey. Here’s hoping that all of us will continue to reflect on the lessons we have learned. What will you carry with you?

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Felipe Correa Chair I am once again delighted to browse through the pages of the second edition of Shelf Life, and carefully examine the selection of images submitted by our stellar 2021 graduating class. In carefully reading the material, one can see the rich methodological and instrumental diversity embedded in the Department of Architecture, combined with the talent and commitment to design that all of you bring to the table. From material studies to buildings to landscapes, the work represented herein exemplifies the power design has to improve quality of life through an aesthetic project across a wide variety of scales and geographies. It also depicts an inherent passion, in all of you, to build a better future as critical mediators between society and space. 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. I am convinced that all of you will continue to make important contributions to the field of architecture and society at large!

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Brad Cantrell Chair I feel a shared connection with the Class of 2021 as I have seen you progress through the entire arc of the MLA program at UVA. 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!

Urban + Environmental Planning

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Ellen Bassett Chair Congratulations, SARC 2021 Graduates! In thinking about what to say about this year, a much-quoted phrase comes to mind: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” (Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities, of course! No honor code violation here!) While we are all a bit tired and glad to see this abnormal school year end, one feeling is constant—even enhanced—this year: pride. We are proud of your creative and academic achievements, proud of your grit and patience, and proud that you maintained a sense of humor, optimism, and collegiality throughout. My grandmother was a “practical nurse” during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. This year, I’ve wished that I had asked her how it felt to survive and emerge from such a traumatic event. But I didn’t. So, save your masks and safely file all those zoom screen shots and vaccine selfies! Future generations are going to want to know how it was—and congratulate you for your tenacity again!

PhD in the Constructed Environment

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Shiqiao Li Director The inter-disciplinary program of PhD in the Constructed Environment serves as an indispensable armature to link history and theory to practice, and to link practice in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and environmental planning to broader knowledge production. It is a place where the fundamental assumptions of knowledge and technics are reformulated to strive for a more equitable, inclusive, and ecological set of frameworks within which all can thrive. In too many cases, our planetary environment has been irreversibly altered – often at an enormous cost of viable life systems – by human intellectual and technological schemas with a destructive combination of over-simplification and hubris. A school of architecture embodies the institutional care for the legacy of knowledge that shapes the environment; it is a humbling and compelling responsibility. I am so proud of the works and thought leaders emerging from the PhD program, and this year’s class of doctoral graduates. I look forward to their contributions to bring forth better futures.

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Elizabeth Adkins

MArch ‘21

Professor: Manuel Bailo

Sagrada Familia Anchor: The Sky & The Earth ALAR 8010 This project designs and formalizes an ‘anchor’ for Sagrada Familia and greater Barcelona with the introduction of a new ‘skydeck’ and accompanying train station. This connects tourists, locals, and citizens alike with both a localized and wider view of the Sagrada Familia. Collaborator: Zimo Ren

Weaam Alabdullah

PhD ‘21

Advisor: Jessica Sewell; Committee: Gareth Doherty, Beth Meyer

Al-Shaheed Park as Public Space: An ethnographic exploration of everyday landscapes and politics in Kuwait

showcasing parks in particular as active political sites of reflection and exclusion. Ontologically, multiple definitions of public space exist. By engaging with power in parks, we access and alter the different meanings and understandings of public space and foresee room for change. Image Caption: Al-Shaheed Park in Kuwait City, Kuwait (2019); Source: author

Kuwait’s City’s Al-Shaheed Park is an example of public space beyond democracy, which disrupts the public/non-public binary. Scholars widely depict public spaces as directly tied to democracy, and emphasize their active production through protests and informal and insurgent practices. Drawing from thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Al-Shaheed Park, this dissertation investigates publicness through the lens of everyday life. Each dissertation chapter identifies a seemingly banal practice that highlights the park’s heterotopic (real and unreal) nature. Through its uncanniness, the park reveals political cues and enables people entry into the public sphere. Practices include cleaning, managing, maintaining, programming, securing, and traveling to and through the park. Through ethnography and theories of everyday life, the chapters investigate how the park and definition of the ‘public’ it serves are reinforced by the actions of multiple actors. These include officials, visitors, cleaners, ecologists and designers, amongst others. Instead of seeing public spaces as lost, this study suggests that publicness exists on a spectrum,

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Shaheen Alikhan

BArH ‘21

Professor: Louis Nelson

Building A Slave Ship: Planning A Floating Prison ARH 4999 Thesis determine the viability of shipbuilding itself having altered to accommodate the appalling commodification of human lives. Image Caption: "Insurrection on Board a Slave Ship", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed June 3, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2999

The romance of historic tallships was belied by the uses to which they were put, most particularly throughout the eighteenth century. This thesis investigates the structural reality of purpose-built slaving vessels, focusing upon the ships built and registered out of Liverpool, England, between approximately 1740-1807. Though the vast majority of these ships were repurposed merchant vessels retrofit to carry human cargo, nearly a dozen in the last few decades of legal slavery in England alone were registered as “built for the trade.” We have finally, as a nation, begun to truly acknowledge the horrors we perpetuated upon those of African descent, in addition to indigenous American peoples; but it did not begin on American plantation soil. Our demand, as a nation, saw a continent ransacked and its people treated as less than livestock. It is my firm belief that far more than an apology is warranted. I believe the initial, minimal step is to make the story known. For this thesis, I studied ships' logs, surgeons' accounts, Parliamentary records and period art, shipbuilders’ plans and records of insurrection to

Jessica Auer

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Sanda Iliescu

A Drawing Meditation on Local Plants ARCH 5500 100 days of drawing plants, a project on iteration turned into a meditation. During this period of isolation amid the pandemic, I turned my focus to the beauty of nature and its growth by documenting various plants around me to learn more about plants and to improve my drawing skills.

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Baheshta Azizi

BSArch ‘21

Professors: Karen Van Lengen, Alexander Yuen

A Just Design ARCH 4020 Thesis This thesis aims to remodel the architectural design of prisons in the United States. By redesigning the interior and exterior spaces and inventing more structured and efficient education, rehabilitation and community-based programs, this project attempts to improve mental and physical health in inmates.

Maya Balassa

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Chris Neale; Advisor: Frank Dukes

Mindfulness for Mental Health and Collaborative Processes PLAC 6090

How might mindfulness impact mental health issues? sense of community? connection to public spaces? collaboration? This project sought to explore ways to offer mindfulness as a free mental health resource in the community that Health Equity and Access in Rural Regions, HEARR, serves. Mindfulness was also explored in collaborative processes as a tool to increase their success. HEARR is a local health organization that works out of Scottsville, VA, serving the community in an approximate 10-mile radius through advocacy and education outreach. Mindfulness is the practice of giving intense attention to one’s feelings and thoughts without judgment. By being in tune with what you are thinking and how you are feeling, there is the ability to either accept and understand lingering feelings and thoughts or release beliefs and feelings that are not serving you. This translates to stress and anxiety reduction because the practitioner can release stories or fears that are causing them stress and anxiety without benefiting them. This translates to collaborative processes by

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asking participants to be aware of their feelings and thoughts coming into the collaboration, possibly stress and assumptions that might not produce active listening and understanding, and to take a few breaths coming to the present to engage thoughtfully. Three recommendations were made for HEARR to utilize mindfulness, both internally and externally. The first was a mindfulness booklet, which contained two place-based mindfulness meditations written for four public places. The second was for mindfulness message boards to be placed in the same public spaces with rotating mindfulness messages and poems. The third was a toolkit for incorporating mindfulness into collaborative processes. Example of a mindfulness poem recommended for a mindfulness message board: Enough Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life We have refused again and again Until now. Until now. David Whyte Image Caption: Photograph by Clark Wilson

Somrita Bandyopadhyay

MArch ‘21

Professor: Esther Lorenz; Faculty Thesis Advisor: Shiqiao Li

(Re) weaving Industry ALAR 9995 Thesis Decolonizing the jute industry by creating sites of exchange between the mechanisms of capitalism and post growth economy in the process of innovation. This project is situated in the 150-year-old Gouripur jute mill in Naihati, India.

Harshita Batra

MArch ‘21

Professors: Andrew Johnston, William Rourk

Barboursville Dependencies ARH 5600 This project documents the dependencies at Barboursville using FARO Focus Laser Scanners, which produce 3D Point cloud data processed in FARO Scene and Autodesk Recap softwares. These structures survived the great fire of 1884, which destroyed the Jefferson-designed mansion that now sits in ruins at Barboursville. Collaborator: Natalie Chavez

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Fatmah Behbehani

PhD ‘21

Advisor: Ellen Bassett; Committee: Sheila Crane, Hassan Radoine

Life in the New Towns: The Social and Planning Implications of Morocco’s New Town Experiment

socially define these master planned “utopias” in the Moroccan context. This finding is highly reminiscent of planning theorist Vanessa Watson’s concept of “conflicting rationalities”. Additionally, I find that the informal sector, and informal markets in particular, are key contributors to the progress and development of the new towns Tamesna and Tamansourt. The latter finding contributes to the growing body of literature on urban informality. More specifically, this finding supports the work of Middle Eastern scholar Asef Bayat on “quiet encroachments of the ordinary”. Finally, in relation to policy, my work offers key principles and strategies for effectively planning and managing contemporary new towns in Morocco. Since the early 20th century, state-built new town developments have been affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions around the world. However, scholarship on planning and developing new towns is predominantly approached from a technical perspective, dominated by the view point of elite professionals, program evaluators and political actors. The lived experiences and the voices of those inhabiting a newly built environment are seldom considered. In contrast, this dissertation examines the new town as an urbanization strategy by focusing on how new town dwellers adapt and contribute to a newly constructed environment. Utilizing qualitative data collected at two new towns in Morocco (Tamesna and Tamansourt) my thesis paints a comprehensive picture of the planning and social implications of Morocco’s 2004 New Town Program. My research defines new towns (“mudin jadida”) in contemporary Morocco based on the perspectives of the new towns’ everyday residents. I find that there exists a clear mismatch between how new towns are technically defined by professional planners, versus how residents’ and everyday users of new towns

Image Caption: The formal meets the informal: A view of the informal market in new town Tamesna aligned in contrast with high-modernist apartment buildings. Photograph by Author, 2018.

Alexander Beranek

MArch ‘21

Professor: Alexander Yuen

311/475 Pearl Street ARCH 7010 311/475 Pearl Street examines the infamous Verizon Tower, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, proposing its reuse as a viable economic and programmatic strategy. A series of stacked volumes, connected to this historic innovation center by a circulation atrium, house the neighboring high school, new technology offices, and mixed housing. Collaborator: Taro Matsuno

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Reagan Bowles

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Katie MacDonald

Echo Edge ARCH 4011 Echo Edge proposes a new approach to the domestic wall, hybridizing hempcrete with the dramatic contour of the live edge plank. Experimental form finding presents a unique opportunity to blend interior and exterior spaces. The result minimizes subtractive milling and maximizes thermal insulation and cradle to cradle performance of hempcrete construction.

Colleen Brennan

MLA ‘21

Professors: Michael Ezban, Sara Jacobs, Beth Meyer

The Power of Memory LAR 7010 At Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park, conceptual development for a public seating proposal led to a strategy of thickening the park’s edge to obscure its center. Through participatory excavation, transformation, and reallocation of soil, focus shifts from the central monument to the park’s periphery, reclaiming ground for victims of white supremacy.

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Lauren Brown

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Elgin Cleckley

Two Sides of the Same Home ARCH 4010 This series of domestic typological memory spaces confronts the origins, dreams, and realities of place faced by millions of African-Americans during the Great Migration. These dwellings, each characteristic of the Migration, speak to how the built environment roots deeply into our own cultures and identities of HOME—present and removed.

Caitlin Caum

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Chris Neale; Advisor: Frank Dukes

The Elizabeth River Project’s Resilience Lab: Motivating Visitors to Action through Activities + Design PLAC 6090

The Elizabeth River Project (ERP), a membershipbased non-profit organization whose mission is “to restore the Elizabeth River to the highest practical level of environmental quality through government, business and community partnerships.” In the next year, ERP plans to break ground on the Ryan Resilience Lab, an innovative facility on Norfolk’s Knitting Mill Creek which will demonstrate sustainable and flood-resilient building and landscaping practices. The lab will serve as ERP’s headquarters, and will be open to the public to experience the indoor and outdoor features, and to participate in educational activities ERP plans to host on-site. The building and site are under professional design by Work Program Architects (WPA) and Stromberg/Garrigan & Associates (SGA). Two remaining needs exist for the Resilience Lab site: identifying educational, resilience-focused activities to occur on-site, and developing a design strategy for developing an adjacent southern billboard parcel that ERP hopes to lease. The goals of this project were to present activities and design strategies for the adjacent parcel that:

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– Welcome and orient the public to the site – Engage the public in understanding the structure’s resilient design and its interface with the marsh – Provide opportunities for visitors to interact with educational materials which connect the landscape and the structure – Create an interface for both visual and physical connection between the marsh and the individual’s experience – Identify spaces for local artwork to be displayed Detailed recommendations were divided into two sections: I developed recommendations and guidelines for the billboard parcel as it relates to the larger site design developed by SGA. My collaborator Carolyn Heaps developed concepts for educational activities for the Resilience Lab site. The Elizabeth River Watershed faces great challenges induced by climate change. The Ryan Resilience Lab can serve as an important space for the community to envision new ways to live with water, and support local ecosystems to adapt and thrive. It offers incredible partnership opportunities, and the chance to expand ERP’s reach more deeply into the community. Moving forward, we hope that the recommendations presented will provide a framework from which ERP can engage in open, collaborative dialogue with neighboring communities to envision a lab that is inviting and supportive to all residents of the watershed. Collaborator: Carolyn Heaps Image Caption: Lamberts Point Living Shoreline installed by Norfolk Southern Corporation. The Elizabeth River Project’s 2021 River Star Hall of Fame Winner. Photograph by The Elizabeth River Project.

Lauren Cheetham

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

Sumarbústaðir ARCH 4021 Thesis This is an elevation map of Iceland made during the exploratory phase of my independent research studio. The purple to orange color ramp shows the increase in elevation from the low shores to the high glaciers. It evokes the great topographical extremities of Iceland as well as the Aurora Borealis.

Aoran Chen

MArch ‘21

Professor: Robin Dripps

Urban Hills ALAR 8010 Located in Philadelphia, PA, this project is the design for a mixed-use non-hierarchical architecture. The project inserts four hill-like spaces into the site to blur the boundaries of levels and circulation. Distinct spaces are defined, but continuity is maintained through various connections.

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Changji Chen

MArch ‘21

Professor: Inés Martín-Robles

LA Cinematheque ARCH 7020 This project is sited in the dense urban environment of Hollywood, Los Angeles. It is a preservation, exhibition and education space for the Hollywood film industry. Its design aims to harmonize with the immediate context and local environment and promote future community development.

Jinzhao Chen

MUEP ‘21

Professors: Suzanne Moomaw, Chris Neale

Visioning Infill in the Town of Woodstock, VA PLAC 6090 This project proposes visualizations and designs that depict what the town of Woodstock, VA could look like and how it could be experienced through different infill scenarios and strategies. Collaborators: Kyle Kelly, Harrison Premen

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Yuwen Chen

MArch ‘21

Professor: Shiqiao Li

A Delegation of Swamp ALAR 8020 Ecological systems should have the right to flourish. This project proposes an architectural program as an instrument that defines zones within the landscape and amplifies the presence of nature. The previously unperceived landscape layers are made visible allowing people to experience and be aware of the zones of nature.

Ya-Hsin Chiang

MArch ‘21

Professor: Seth McDowell

Slowness: A Film Archive in Hollywood, CA ARCH 7020 Due to the slow commute people experience on Hollywood Boulevard, commuters spend more time between destinations. This creates more opportunities for people to experience and engage with the urban environment. This project explores this unique travel pattern at the scale of a building and examines the relationship between movement and spatial experiences.

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William Clark

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Jeana Ripple

Urban Woodworkers Guild ARCH 3010 Final Sectional Model. Made from rockite, basswood, and paper, this model highlights the critical sectional relationships of the Urban Woodworkers Guild, as well as the material relationships of the design. The model works with a uniformly black base site model, which contrasts with the material composition of the building model, and highlights the site conditions.

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Michelle Colbert

MArH ‘21

Thesis Advisor: Louis Nelson; Faculty Committee: Justene Hill Edwards, Jessica Sewell

“A Blight on Our State”: Politics and Place in the Making and Remaking of Georgia’s Stone Mountain ARH 8994 Thesis

On August 15, 2017, in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called for the removal of the Confederate memorial carving from the edifice of Stone Mountain. Abrams’ Tweet helped reignite a debate about the future of the world’s largest Confederate memorial. But even as these conversations contended with the future of Stone Mountain, they failed to fully understand its past. The history of Stone Mountain is deeply political but it has been depoliticized by an existing literature that centers its early-twentieth-century origins but obscures the politics of its mid-twentieth-century completion and its tension with the diverse and evolving cultural landscape of the state. This thesis provides a political history of the Stone Mountain project from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It argues that the history of Stone Mountain is intrinsically political, inseparable from the political history of the state of Georgia and city of Atlanta, and reflects the shifting cultural and racial landscapes of the Metro Atlanta region. Through this lens, it demonstrates that

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the state’s completion of the Stone Mountain memorial carving was not merely a continuation of the project’s earlier iterations but a deliberate effort of the state’s political elite to champion white supremacy in Georgia in the face of political and cultural change. This thesis also investigates the contested relationship between Stone Mountain and the contemporary Metro Atlanta landscape and examines how the face of the mountain has been physically and digitally re appropriated to illustrate perceptions of race, class, and popular culture. As the fate of Stone Mountain’s Confederate imagery continues to make national news, this investigation, now more than ever, is integral to understanding Stone Mountain’s political legacy and informing future interpretations at Stone Mountain Park. Image Caption: Photoshopped rendering of Stone Mountain with the addition of Outkast from Williams’ petition. Image courtesy of Mack Williams and MoveOn.org, 2015, https://sign.moveon.org/ petitions/georgia-add-outkast-to

Yuchu Cui

BArH ‘20

Professor: Shiqiao Li

Shanghai Art Deco: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Modern Chinese Architecture ARH 4999 Thesis

Art Deco takes its name from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, which initiated a fashion of decorative design during the interwar period. The exhibition displayed avant-garde works of applied arts and architecture from all over the world to manifest the advancement of decorative arts in the modern era as the foundation for Art Deco in later years. Art Deco architecture played a major role in the interwar period for its expression of a bursting dynamic consumerist society through an invigorated built environment – theaters, hotels, apartments, skyscrapers, and so on – echoing consumerism. Peaceful golden decades witnessed the import of modern cultures and lifestyles to Shanghai under consumerism, which was to a large extent shaped by Art Deco, as opposed to the traditional Chinese and western influences in the 19th century. Skyscrapers were erected to define the skyline of the city; the middle class moved into high rise apartments with convenient amenities to fulfill the modern living standard; the bourgeoisie spent their nightlife in cinemas and

ballrooms for entertainment. Unprecedentedly, modernity rooted in post-WWI metropolises like New York, London, and Paris pervaded Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s through burgeoning consumerist societies. Art Deco works in this case provided a platform to display the ideas related to modern life, and Art Deco architecture created urban landscapes for its expression in Shanghai. This thesis consists of a case study of five Art Deco buildings in 1930s Shanghai, classified into three groups: Paul Veysseyre’s Gascogne Apartments and Dauphine Apartments in the French Concession, Laszlo Hudec’s Grand Cinema and Park Hotel in the International Settlement, and Luke Him-Sau’s Bank of China in the Bund. Each group represents the private living space, entertainment and social life, and commerce, respectively. This case study-based research argues that Art Deco facilitated Chinese nationalism in Shanghai, serving simultaneously as symbols of cosmopolitanism and local identity, both central to Shanghai’s thriving role as an international financial center and China’s emergence in a modern world. Art Deco in Shanghai, or Chinese Deco, became part of the Art Deco kaleidoscope in different parts of the world, and a central architectural style that marked Shanghai’s inclusiveness, diversity, and creativity better than any other stylistic dogmas. Image Caption: 1937 night exterior of the Grand Theatre in Shanghai © Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3708/photos/214515

Mira Davis

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Elgin Cleckley

The Visible Hand ARCH 4010 “The invisible hand ruled their lives and the lives of all the colored people.” - Isabel Wilkerson The Visible Hand translates lived experiences of African Americans during the Great Migration. The project juxtaposes New York’s visible expressions of control with a metaphorical unraveling of the invisible hand’s role in the Black Experience.

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Alek De Mott

MArch ‘21, MLA ‘21

Professor: Ghazal Jafari

Charlottesville’s Racialized Topographies: A Bench, An Edge, A Park, A Plaza LAR 7010 This mapping asks that redevelopment on Charlottesville’s Mall engage with rubble from construction along 2nd Street. It proposes an operational ground that shifts regularly through public acts of building, arraying, and organizing pavers, aggregate/ rubble and plantings. It challenges us to consider racialized topographies by employing the uncanny in the everyday.

Joseph DeRicco

MArch ‘21

Professors: Mona El Khafif, Darcy Engle

Norfolk Brownfields Partnership ALAR 8020 Many of Norfolk’s contaminated industrial sites threaten to release pollutants into vulnerable neighborhoods upon flooding with rising sea levels. This pilot project redevelops a 21-acre junkyard into a living research lab using phytoremediation to restore soils. It provides recreation and community gathering space to repair the city's fabric.

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Alejandro Di NapoliCastañeda

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Devin Dobrowolski

Adjacencies: Re-imagining The Enfilade ARCH 3020 Adjacencies is a project aimed at organically synthesizing hybridized spaces through the reinterpretation of the Enfilade plan to create overlaps and synergies in programs. This new student center places Lambeth Commons as a point of centrality within the larger UVA urban fabric.

Angel Diaz

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Felipe Correa

The Souk ARCH 4010 The Souk is an addition to the Lord & Taylor building, converted into light industry maker space for small businesses. Its form is two contrasting boxes, the original façade as a solid box and the addition as a lantern, but has a unified section of units of: fabrication, exhibition, and office. Collaborator: Yahya Suid

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Jixiang Dong

MArch ‘21

Professor: Alexander Yuen

The Latent Line ARCH 7010 This project investigates the urban context around the site, concentrating on how to integrate the relationship between superblocks in the upper west side of New York City. This project produces an active school space and a high-end residential refuge to suture the dichotomy among these urban contexts. Collaborator: Hao Yuan

Yudi Dong

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

A Station for Seafaring Nomads: Inspired by the Chinese Fable of the Peach Blossom Land ARCH 4021 Thesis A station for seafaring nomads is where people come and go. It is a farewell to someone. It is a hope that he/she will eventually return.

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Anna Drumheller

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Ian Klein

Landmark Site 1 - The Duke PLAC 5250

profit of $124 million. This course allowed me to merge my GIS skills, zoning code knowledge and 3D massing skills with a financial background to make a development project come to life. Collaborator: Chris Moore Image Caption: Massing diagram of development site, Landmark Mall, Alexandria, VA

Landmark Site I - The Duke was developed for a course in applied real estate design and development. For this project my collaborator, Chris Moore, and I created a development program for the Landmark Mall in Alexandria. With Chris being a Darden student, he took on many of the financial feasibility tasks and underwriting while I generated the entitlements, massing, and a physical feasibility analysis. Our specific site encompassed the parking garage of the mall posing both a financial benefit due to decreased construction costs, but also a challenge for programming. Our finalized development program resulted in a mixed use project with a ground floor containing a distribution center, office and grocer; the top parking levels being converted into retail; and both office and multifamily housing being constructed above the parking deck. Two additional multifamily buildings were constructed bedding the parking deck to maximize the FAR of 2.5. The program allowed for us to activate the street level with retail, meet the walkability and mixed use goals set forth by the Van Dorn Corridor Plan, and generate an anticipated

Hayden Duncan

BSArch ‘21

Professor: John Comazzi

(Re)Designing Education ARCH 4020 Thesis This is a school renovation and addition project seeking to improve the learning environment. Adaptive spaces conforming to different learning methods are created throughout the school. An addition including classrooms, an auditorium, and a media center completes the improvements within a contrasting building form.

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Yingxu Fan

MArch ‘21

Professor: Luis Pancorbo

The American Cinematheque Archives: Hollywood Boulevard ARCH 7020 This project is a cinematic-themed archive inspired by cinestrip: the center spiral staircase that engraves different stories on each floor. Translucent alabaster curtain walls provide soft colors and textures on the facade, like a see-though filter. Indoor and outdoor spaces interspersed with each other provide platforms to view the city.

Colin Frazier

MArch ‘20

Professor: Ehsan Baharlou

CataLog ALAR 8010 This research project seeks to utilize 3D scanning technology, robotic fabrication, and diverse joinery systems to generate intricate structures from wood in its natural form. Collaborators: Evan Sparkman, Qingqing Zhou

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Junhong Fu

MLA ‘21

Professors: Brad Cantrell, Michael Ezban, Andrea Hansen Phillips

Interweaving the Valley: Sharing Land Tenure in California’s Central Valley LAR 7020 Land tenure reveals resource injustice. By intercropping legume with commercial crops and collaborating with large property owners, minority farmers can acquire adequate farming resources, and the agriculture justice in the valley can be enhanced. Collaborators: Xinyu Tu, Tian Wang

Yunrui Gao

MArch ‘21

Professor: Mona El Khafif

Courtyard Unleashed ARCH 7010 Located in East Harlem where historic urban fabric is fragmented through the implementation of social housing super blocks, this project connects the surroundings and gives back public spaces to the city. Collaborator: Jing Gu

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Caroline Gesell

MArH ‘21

Professors: Sheila Crane, Brittany Lavelle-Tulla, Jessica Sewell

Preserving Virginia Park: Examining Urbanization and Segregation in Detroit ARH 8994 Thesis This thesis focuses on the Virginia Park neighborhood of Detroit and how the processes of urban renewal and the Detroit Riot of 1967 make a case for Virginia Park to be recognized as a significant historic site. Furthermore, it examines the methodology of current preservation practices and the criteria required for a building, landscape, or district to be listed as a historic site. As a preservationist, I recognize that impactful work has been and will continue to be done to document our nation’s buildings, landscapes, and neighborhoods. However, the inability for current preservation practices to adequately recognize sites that do not readily fit within the Secretary of Interior Standards does the field a major disservice. The opportunities to explore the multi-layered narratives for places such as the Virginia Park neighborhood in Detroit offer a future of urban equality. Virginia Park is a specific case that offers insight into the patterns of urban renewal and Black community that play a major role in not only the history of Detroit, but also across the country. By discussing the history of urban renewal in Detroit, its formative effects can be seen through this neighborhood transformation and what impact that had on the communities involved. My motivation for this work stems from my connection to Detroit, growing up in one of its suburbs of Grosse Pointe, and my passion to represent a city I believe deserves more recognition.

Marina Gianakopoulos

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Jeana Ripple

Intertwine ARCH 3010 This rockite model explores the manipulation of solid and void to break up the massiveness and horitzontality of the project site - a corner lot in Manhattan.

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Dylan Gibbs

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Felipe Correa

amazon.edu ARCH 4010 amazon.edu examines how the former Lord & Taylor Building can serve as an epicenter for a new educational model that capitalizes on partnerships between academia and tech industries. The project negotiates between two critical spatial identities: the campus as a global brand versus the campus as the epicenter of a new common landscape. Collaborators: Mary Key, Chenan Shen

Omer Gorashi

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Elgin Cleckley

The Block (2020) ARCH 4010 The Block (2020) is an active retelling of African American history, in which the spatialized and immersive reconstruction of Romare Bearden's "The Block" (1971) assembles experiences from various American cities transcending time within a single Harlem Block composition.

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Jing Gu

MArch ‘21

Professor: Felipe Correa

Dischronic Space ALAR 8010 This project explores multi-generational housing, bringing together two groups that have traditionally been marginalized in Manhattan – senior citizens and youth. It creates a space where subsidized rooms for youth provide sources of income for seniors. Furthermore, the project includes a vertical farm, as a source of employment and leisure for residents. Collaborator: Jixiang Dong

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Summer Harding

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

Climatic Dwelling: A Family Home in South Carolina’s Low Country ARCH 4021 Thesis This project explores how Low Country architecture has evolved from an aesthetic to a system of living. By working with real clients and restraints, the home was developed specifically for the family’s needs. It is anchored along a central axis bringing continuity through the landscape and the home.

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David Harkavy

MArch ‘21

Professor: Charlie Menefee

The Future Library ARCH 7020 The Future Library is a film archive split into two sections: a library and a theatre, connected by an automated storage and retrieval system. The library includes modules of 10’ x 10’ platforms that can be arranged to adapt to the building’s changing needs.

Carolyn Heaps

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Bev Wilson

Communicating Land Use Change and its Relationship to Water in Eldersburg, Maryland PLAN 6120

This final project for the MUEP course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) drew inspiration from observed land conversion of forests and farmland to single-family homes in my hometown: Eldersburg, Maryland. The project used ArcGIS software to answer two questions: (1) where has land cover change occurred over time in Eldersburg, Maryland? and (2) what are the real or potential impacts of this change on water quality? To answer these questions, I conducted a supervised image classification of land cover types using multispectral satellite imagery (Landsat-5 and Landsat-8) available from the US Geological Service. I used false-color/color infrared (vegetation) composite images to create training datasets for the years 1995, 2000, 2010, and 2019. I then conducted a maximum likelihood classification to achieve four raster datasets for these years which classified land cover in each year into six land typologies: water, urban, open, conifer (forest), deciduous (forest) and herbaceous. Analyzing the outputs of this classification, I found that between 1995 and 2019, urban land in the Eldersburg area increased by

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10%, while open land shrank by 14%. The amount of surface water in the study area remained constant, and changes in forest cover were slight. The most drastic change in land cover typology occurred between 1995 and 2000, when there was a 12% gain in urban land, and an 18% loss in open land. The biggest loss of forested land occurred between 2010 and 2019, with a 5% loss in deciduous land cover. Using these findings and the shapefiles created from my analysis, I created a public-facing ArcGIS web application (“Eldersburg’s Land and Water”) which empowers Eldersburg residents with basic tools to understand where tree canopy, agricultural lands, and pavement cover have changed in the town in the recent past. This web app seeks to make land use change data and stream quality data (available from the state government) comprehensible to a broad audience while visually demonstrating the integrated relationship between land cover and water quality. Additionally, by providing context around the data, information about how development decisions are made, and relatively simple steps to reduce runoff in suburban homes, I hope to motivate web app users to take action to protect water quality. Image Caption: Forest Cover Change in Eldersburg, Maryland: 1995-2019

Matias Hendi

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Elgin Cleckley

Double Vision ARCH 4010 Dear Chandelier, we get it. You’re big, you’re blingy, you’re all that. You’re a sparkly ‘How nice would it be?’ floating in the air untouchable…Share the wealth, opulence for the masses, but your crystal ain’t so clear...” Double Vision is a response to the division seen within our country on the issues of racial discrimination and racial injustice.

Bridget Heppes

BSArch ‘21

Professor: WG Clark

Renew ARCH 4010 This design intends to establish a community by replacing the existing Seminole Square Shopping Center with a figure-ground reversal. The footprint of the buildings is reclaimed to establish an open park space. The existing walls of the shopping mall are transformed into an inhabitable wall of various units.

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Anna Hickman

BArH ‘21

Professor: Alissa Ujie Diamond

Genteel Erosion: Perpetuated Abrasion within Northwest Locust Grove ARH 3604

This research and exploration consider genteel erosion as experienced and enacted upon Charlottesville’s Locust Grove neighborhood from the 18th to 21st century. The research is centered on the northwest portion of the neighborhood that is defined within the following contemporary boundaries: to the south by the 250 Bypass, to the east by Park St., to the north by Schenk’s Branch’s intersection with Meadow Creek, and to the west both by Schenks Branch and the John W. Warner Parkway. The research is categorized along three scales, 1) movement from an agricultural landscape to one of development, 2) development and erosion, and 3) genteel erosion. The first scale explores agricultural uses over time, studying how the land transitions from large properties of agricultural production to smaller residential parcels. This scale considers not only development of the built environment and land but also of agricultural techniques employed over time. The second scale builds upon the work of the first by considering the contributions of development within and enacted upon the site toward erosion. Erosion in this case refers both to physical erosion of the natural

environment as well as erosion of an agricultural economy in favor of industry. The third scale builds upon the previous two to consider how they reinforce systems and histories of the site’s genteel nature. While the site’s boundaries and thresholds exhibit shifts over time, their effect is consistent. The site’s evolution from large plots of agricultural landscape to smaller residential plots is shown to repeatedly employ or utilize boundary lines to assert ownership and maintain security while infrastructure, suburbanization, elevation, and waterways reinforce and maintain a culture of private ownership and socio-economic privilege. In synthesis, the three scales ultimately demonstrate how genteel systems of the site contribute to the maintenance of privileged accessibility and perpetuation of erosion of equity and hidden landscapes. Image Caption: Park St. delineated; Photograph by Anna Hickman

Zoe Hicks

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

An Assembly For Respite in the Desert Shade ARCH 4020 Thesis This device for making shade, located in Tempe Beach Park in Tempe, Arizona, works as both a connective tissue and mediator between the river and mountain. As various programs find their home under the canopy there are established and transitory spaces that can be re-purposed and used by various people throughout the days/seasons.

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Rebecca Hinch

MLA ‘21

Professor: Elgin Cleckley

In the Garden ARCH 8010 How might design center narratives that have been historically and strategically overlooked? “In the Garden” is a public space and exhibition that shares the stories of African Americans that experienced the Great Migration so that others will better understand their struggles and triumphs.

Bihong Hu

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Robin Dripps

School in the Garden ARCH 4010 This project develops complex three-dimensional patterns of connectivity to engage issues of contested public space, tackling concerns of inclusion and equity. As a result, new hybrid ecologies are created to provide safe and healthy places in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Julia Hunger

BSArch ‘21

Professor: John Comazzi

Realms of Dwelling ARCH 4020 Thesis This model is an early artifact from my thesis “Realms of Dwelling.” The thesis focuses on the house, defining the house as a consolidation of the realms that support living. The house becomes a topography of enclosure and gardens supporting cooking, dining, gathering, resting, and bathing.

Kent Huntsinger

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Lucia Phinney

Florida’s Coral Reef Science and Conservation Center ARCH 4020 Thesis Coral reefs are an extremely important part of our ecosystem and are critically threatened by climate change. This project examines how design can play a positive role in combating these threats by proposing a science and conservation center where scientists and tourists can learn and work together to help repopulate coral reefs. The project proposes a design intervention of "coral trees" to promote the growth of heatresistant coral.

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6 - 8 months of monitoring and bi-monthly check ups on the coral frags

Christopher Hurst

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

Healing Shards ARCH 3010 Healing Shards is the building design of a medical guild with two juxtaposed halves that relate to their surroundings at the urban scale of Manhattan. The two sides of the building are mediated with a light-filled atrium at the core of the building.

Jingjing Ji

MLA ‘20

Professors: Brad Cantrell, Michael Ezban, Andrea Hansen Phillips

Food Justice: Supporting disadvantaged communities in the Central Valley LAR 7020 Responding to current condition in the Central Valley, this project is committed to improving the working environment, promoting a safe educational environment, building a stronger community — all while establishing a sustainable food system. We dream about a future that farmworkers who help feed us can work and live with dignity and respect. Collaborators: JJ Lai, Yuyin Sun

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Yao Jiang

MArH ‘21

Faculty Committee: Sheila Crane, Michael Lee, Shiqiao Li

The Astor Chinese Garden Court: A Reconstruction of Americans’ Understanding of the Chinese Garden ARH 8994 Thesis models; one that shifted from collecting fragments to a new interest, beginning in the early 1980s, in constructing cohesive replicas—the Simulacrum Era. Thirdly, the creation of Astor Court has provided a “tangible form” through which the American audience might better understand the Chinese Garden and associated foundational garden treatises. The Astor Court constructed a paradigmatic Ming-style Chinese Garden type that catalyzed a broader shift in the 1980s and 1990s US from generalized conceptions of the Oriental Garden to closer documentary studies of the Chinese Garden, a shift that solidified the predominant focus on Ming gardens. This thesis focuses on the Astor Chinese Garden Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, interrogating how this “neo-historical garden” has transformed Americans’ understanding of the Chinese Garden since its opening in 1981. Three interlocking moments and historical scales are covered in this study: the history of Astor Court’s design and construction, the broader construction history of gardens inspired by Chinese examples in the United States, and the historiography of English-language accounts of the Chinese garden study. Applied methods in this study include archival research, video-based research, field research, historical analysis, material culture study, and case study. Accordingly, this thesis underscores three pivot points catalyzed by the creation of the Astor Court as the first Ming-style Chinese garden installation in the United States. Firstly, the Astor Court has offered an unprecedented instance of creating an overseas Chinese garden from scratch. Secondly, the realization of Astor Court was a watershed moment in the construction of gardens in the US inspired by Chinese

Image Caption: A view of the Astor Court from the Ming Furniture Room. Photograph by Cheng Chen, January 11, 2021.

Adam Johnson

MArch ‘21

Professor: Inés Martín-Robles

Hortus Conclusus: Leaving Los Angeles ALAR 7020 A sheltered oasis sits at the busiest corner of Los Angeles, Hollywood and Vine. The cinemateque takes you out of the city and into a new world of fantasy and wonder, creating spaces that would never otherwise exist.

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Leah Kahler

MLA ‘21

Professors: Kathleen Adams, Mary Vélez

Industrial Swamp Sublime ALAR 8010 This project calls for the revitalization of New Orleans’ peri-urban Central Wetlands Unit through wetland assimilation, a process which uses treated municipal effluent to treat sewage contaminants and enrich swamp hardwoods. Through a series of community-governed work “krewes,” the proposal centers the city’s working class, framing labor rights, racial justice, and green infrastructure as part-and-parcel to a livable urbanism for the Crescent City.

Kyle Kelly

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Andrew Mondschein

COVID-19 and Transportation: The Impacts and Effects of the Pandemic on Transportation in the United States Independent Study The excerpt below is taken from an independent study course completed during the fall of 2020 semester. The final paper for the course sought to examine, analyze, and contextualize some of the different ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has effected transportation in the United States. Some questions that are addressed include how stay-at-home orders affected trip distance and VMT, how ridership on public transit was impacted, and what the implications of the trends seen during the pandemic will mean going forward. “The arrival of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States has caused drastic and profound changes to the lives of nearly every individual in the country. Virtually every aspect of our daily routines have been impacted by the virus, often forcing us to quickly adapt to new health regulations and restrictions. From the closures of schools and businesses to teleworking and travel restrictions, COVID-19 has redefined the definition of ‘normal’ while also creating a cloud of uncertainty over the future. Nowhere is this more true than in the realm of transportation and public transit. Since the pandemic began in early March, there have been numerous changes to transportation ridership, operations, and protocols. This research examines and analyzes how transportation has been impacted by the virus and also explain what the implications of this will be going forward.”

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Mary Key

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Felipe Correa

amazon.edu ARCH 4010 amazon.edu examines how the former Lord and Taylor Building can serve as an epicenter for a new educational model that capitalizes on partnerships between academia and tech industries. The proposal conceives a new civic space for the campus of the 21st century metropolis. Collaborators: Dylan Gibbs, Chenan Shen

Katherine Kilgore

BSArch ‘21

Professors: Karen Van Lengen, Alexander Yuen

Beyond Building Shelters: Creating Communities for Los Angeles’ Homeless ARCH 4020 Thesis These shelter pods for Skid Row’s homeless can be collapsed and expanded, transported, and aggregated in a scaffolding system. Residents are provided with a sense of community, security, dignity, and autonomy as they work to get back on their feet.

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Leah Kirssin

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Ehsan Baharlou

Robotic Serpentine Wall ARCH 4010 The Robotic Serpentine Wall is assembled from custom steam bent and twisted pieces of plywood. A KUKA robot was used to cut slots into the primary pieces and twist and bend secondary pieces to the correct angles. Photograph by: Kwadwo Tenkorang. For more on this project, see page 133. Collaborators: Bay Penny, Trenton Rhodes

Adam Khdach

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Fred Missel

Westover Property Development PLAN 5200 The proposed Westover Development project, located in Albemarle County, is designed to meet community needs and embodies key aspirational criteria for a successful community, including walkability, preservation of natural areas, a mix of uses, and a wide range of housing types with varying degrees of attainability. Collaborators: Kevin Kask, Mary-Michael Robertson

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Praise of the Shadow is a design proposal awarded first prize in the public competition for a new Socio-Sanitary Center in Mérida, Extremadura, Spain. The design is a system of repeated elements and courtyards wrapped by a uniform skin of wood slats that, working as a lattice, perform a dynamic play of light and shadow; rendering © José Manuel Sanz Arquitectos (including lecturer Jaime Sanz Haro), 2019.

Esther Lorenz, assistant professor, received the 2021 ACSA Creative Achievement Award for Kinesthetic Montage Hong Kong in recognition of work from a series of advanced design studios that explore the creative use of film within architectural pedagogy; photo at Virginia Film Festival © Esther Lorenz, 2018.

The microclimate simulation of i-Tree guided planting illustrates that the street corridor exhibits a 2.6°F warmer temperature than the base-case where trees were planted along the street corridor, highlighting how small plantings of trees can have considerable impact on urban microclimates; from Planning the urban forest: Adding microclimate simulation to the planner’s toolkit authored by Bev Wilson, associate professor, with A. Petri and A. Koeser; in Land Use Policy © Elsevier Ltd., 2019.

The Matter Aggregation advanced research studio participated in the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen, China. Taught by Thomas Jefferson visiting professor Philip F. Yuan and distinguished lecturer Lucia Phinney, the studio examined new sustainability and high-efficiency approaches for wood crafts from a computational perspective; photo courtesy of Philip F. Yuan, 2019.

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Designed and fabricated by professor and chair Felipe Correa and assistant professor Devin Dobrowolski of Somatic Collaborative in collaboration with others, the exhibition Beyond the City: The South American Hinterland in the Soils of the 21st Century was featured as a part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and focused on economies of resource extraction in South America; photo © Norbert Tukaj, 2019.

In collaboration with local real estate developer Prince Concepts and architect Ishtiaq Rafiuddin, landscape architecture professor Julie Bargmann of D.I.R.T. Studio designed and developed Caterpillar, a 9,000 square foot structure of six apartments and two live/work spaces with an urban woodland featuring over 150 trees — the first major development in Detroit’s Core City neighborhood in 60 years; photo © Chris Miele, 2021.

Supported by 2021 Jefferson Trust Grant, assistant professors Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann have created a multidisciplinary platform focused on architecturalscale biomaterial research, leading to the forthcoming exhibition, BioMaterial Building Exposition, of built temporary pavilions which will demonstrate novel approaches to construction using rapidly renewable biomaterials; photo © After Architecture, 2020.

3D Cultural Informatics, taught by associate professor Andrew Johnston and lecturer Will Rourk, developed records of the ruins at Barboursville, the Orange County, Virginia home of James Barbour (1775-1842) designed by Thomas Jefferson, including this aerial plan view created from raw 3D scan data in FARO Scene using laser and structural light scanning and photogrammetry; rendering © Will Rourk, 2021.

Right: Selected as “Editor’s Pick” (in the Research Category) of The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards, assistant professors Katie Stranix and JT Bachman, with their collaborators at Office of Things, designed and fabricated the Immersive Space Series, a collection of meditation chambers for Google’s Bay Area headquarters that combine technology, light and sound to create restorative effects for workplace wellbeing; photo © Tom Harris, 2020.

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Habitat Natura (or Espai Natura) is a multi-phased collective housing project located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, just outside of Barcelona, Spain designed and constructed by associate professor Manuel Bailo’s practice BAILORULL + ADD Arquitectura; Phase 1 shown here was awarded the COAC Valles Award for Multifamily Housing in 2020; photo © José Hevia Fotografía, 2018.

Associate professor Luis Pancorbo and assistant professor Inés Martín Robles, principals of pancorbo arquitectos, developed a proposal for the urban redevelopment of Real Club Náutico de Cádiz, a marina city located on the southwestern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Their awardwinning proposal expands on the history of the site’s recreational uses with a series of swimming pools and complementary public spaces; rendering © pancorbo arquitectos, 2021.

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Bottom Left: Associate professor Jeana Ripple and her partners at Mir Collective joined one of four teams in developing proposals for the C40 Reinventing Cities Competition for Chicago’s Loop. Their project The Inspiration Exchange is a dynamic community hub that models climate justice to the city and beyond through its net-carbon zero, 12-story mixed-use building proposal that includes 81 studio apartments, public and social services, and an inclusive plan for Pritzker Park; rendering courtesy of mir collective, 2021.

Funded by the Great Lakes Protection Fund and awarded a 2020 ASLA Honor Award, Healthy Port Futures is led by landscape architects, including associate professor Brian Davis, and includes stakeholders and collaborators in the Great Lakes Basin Region. The project focuses on sediment, its management, and the ways this informs the design and restoration of public landscapes in critical nearshore habitats to improve human and ecosystem health; image © Heathy Port Futures

Bottom Right: Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities Resident Fellow, associate professor Jessica Sewell, is developing a Digital Urban Cultural Landscapes Guide to Suzhou, focusing on the Chinese city of about 12 million located west of Shanghai that has been a major center of trade and culture since the tenth century. The guide explores the spaces and buildings of Suzhou in their cultural and historical context, with an emphasis on the everyday and the ordinary; photo of Suzhou Industrial Park showing resettlement and “commodity” housing © Jessica Sewell, 2019.

Associate professor Lisa Reilly published The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition (Cambridge University Press, 2020), establishing a new interpretative paradigm for the 11th and 12th century art and architecture of the Norman world in France, England and Sicily focused on its complex intercultural nature.

In The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats (Island Press, 2020) professor Tim Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are utilizing a range of approaches from public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture and art, to civil disobedience and more, to make urban environments more welcoming to birds.

Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University (University of Virginia Press, 2019) is co-edited by Maurie D. McInnis and Louis Nelson, professor of architectural history, and includes a collection of contributing authors. It reveals how slavery was part of the landscape, culture and politics of the University’s first 50 years.

As a follow up to his book Lessons from the Lawn (ORO Editions, 2019) professor Peter Waldman released Connective Tissues: Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows: 2001 – 2016 (ORO Editions, 2021) weaving fictions and constructing dialogues in his philosophical work framed on epistemological and ethical questions that seeks to identify the contemporary vitality of American cultural history and topographic landscapes. Associate professor Nana Last’s Archive Matrix Assembly: The Photography of Thomas Struth (Applied Research and Design, 2021) presents the first comprehensive, systematic theory of contemporary German artist Thomas Struth’s main body of photographic work from its beginnings in the late 1970s until his most recent work in 2018 analyzed through three stages of production: archive, matrix, and assembly.

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Clare Knecht

MArch ‘21

Professor: Mona El Khafif

The Band - Public Surplus ARCH 7010 Growing out of the city’s fabric, Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school is now housed in the center portion of the weaving program dubbed The Band. Coupled between commercial and residential zoning, this typology connects the variant forms of the west side of Manhattan and bridges the landscape between the iconic Hudson River and Central Park. Collaborator: David Harkavy

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Lindsay Knights

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Lucia Phinney

Colorful Effects on Rural Healthcare Design ARCH 4020 Thesis Colors found in the local landscapes of Stanardsville, Virginia are applied to a design for the town’s free clinic. The vibrant exam rooms as seen from a colorless hallway are invitations to a colorful experience. Here, color exists as material.

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Andrew Knuppel

MUEP ‘20

Professors: Ellen Bassett, Barbara Brown Wilson

Watershed Moments in a Suburbanizing County: Environmentalism, Exclusion, and Land Use in Albemarle County, Virginia, 1960-1980 PLAN 8999 Thesis

The last major reorganization of Albemarle County, Virginia’s zoning ordinance was adopted on December 10, 1980, substantially downzoning Albemarle’s rural areas. As of 2020, this zoning regime and the growth management policy it implements remain largely the same. Watershed Moments explores influences on the development of Albemarle County’s land use and growth management policies between 1960 and 1980 through the lenses of land use and planning policy, environmentalism, and the civil rights movement. The case study approach included a content analysis of archived meeting minutes, planning documents, and newspaper articles; oral history interviews; and analysis of demographic information, electoral activity, and the geographic location of planning proposals. While Albemarle’s 1980 ordinance addressed emerging emphases on rural and environmental conservation, preceding political battles and land use proposals suggest that controversies about annexation, race, and growth influenced its development. Following a major annexation dispute with Charlottesville in 1960-1963, Albemarle pursued utility and

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zoning programs as a means to combat future annexation efforts. However, by the mid-1970s, dissatisfaction with unchecked growth, environmental issues, and a development-aligned county government led to the emergence of a politically dominant environmental-conservative coalition and strengthened growth management policies. Although race and exclusion were not explicit motivations for the 1980 ordinance, opposition to annexation was underlaid by anti-integration attitudes, and exclusionary and no-growth interests likely found sympathies in policies that were “pro-environmental” or “pro-character”. This finding complicates discussions of Albemarle’s current rural preservation and housing policies. Watershed Moments ultimately aims to compliment the growing body of scholarship about the City of Charlottesville’s historic trends of segregation by contextualizing surrounding Albemarle County’s role in creating contemporary development patterns. Anticipated revisions to Albemarle’s comprehensive plan provide an opportunity to acknowledge and redress a history of exclusionary motivations and impacts through updated policy. Image Caption: Portion of Albemarle County 1977 Land Use Plan.

Kyle Koury

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

New York City Artists' Guild ARCH 3010 This project is the design of a building to house all forms of the arts from drawing to music. The building thrives off of openness on the roof and within to allow for the arts to mix with one another and to breed inspiration and collaborative spirit.

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Jingjing Lai

MLA ‘20

Professor: Matthew Seibert

Marijuana Justice: Re-Balancing the Penalization and Profiteering of Cannabis Through Landscape LAR 6020 Responding to homelessness, vacancy of urban lands and inequity of marijuana use and industry, this project aims to transfer vacant lands occupied by homeless people into a uniquely landscape condition: hybrid sites of urban farm, homeless shelter, and job training. The project proposes to not only help with living conditions of homeless people, but also involve homeless people into a burgeoning cannabis industry by creating jobs and opportunities to help them achieve financial independence and societal well-being.

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Jane Lee

MLA ‘21

Professor: Zaneta Hong

Making Common Place LAR 6020 This catalog of existing community assets in West Oakland’s streetscape, documented during site walking, informs the design of pocket public spaces that attempt to start conversations among the neighborhood’s diverse constituents. These liminal sites embrace surprise, ephemerality, and multiple layers of meaning as ways of working.

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Chaoming Li

MLA ‘21

Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta

Green Convergence ALAR 8010 By creating an ecological corridor with a circulatory system for both water and waste, this project collects and decentralizes solid waste and waste water from the surrounding slums. The proposed corridor includes rain gardens to collect and purify runoff, an underground sewage system, and infrastructure to meet residents' daily needs. Collaborator: Xuefei Yang

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Weiqi Li

MLA ‘21

Professors: Brad Cantrell, Michael Ezban, Andrea Hansen Phillips

Tactical Fallowscapes LAR 7020 This project proposes a simulation interface for stakeholders to test what agricultural strategies are possible in different scenarios and visualize a diversity of landscape futures for the Central Valley under the crisis of extraction of groundwater and soil. Collaborators: Reid Farnsworth, Jingyi Hu

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Elizabeth Liberatore

BSArch ‘21

Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta

Re-Imagining Tal Katora ARCH 4010 This project restores the relationship of residents and tourists to one of Jaipur’s most significant bodies of water. Tal Katora will serve as a place of gathering, commerce, tourism, reflection, and recreation for residents and visitors to foster a deeper connection with the history, culture, and landscape of Jaipur.

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Amelia Lin

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Robin Dripps

Stage-in, Stage-out ARCH 4010 Stage-in, Stage-out is the design of an art school in which all forms of art are competing for attention. The ground floor opens up and becomes a theatrical territory where all aspects of the school converge, overlap, and co-mingle.

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Po Yi Lin

MLA ‘20

Professor: Brad Goetz

Oculus LAR 6010 Light in the forest is like an oculus in the Byzantine church. Through analyzing light, shadow, and light spots in different conditions, this project seeks to work together with time, landform, humans and plants to create unique scenarios and paths to and through the woods.

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Jiajing Lyu

MLA ‘21

Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta

Redefinition Stepwell Public Space ALAR 8010 This project is a new public part prototype that can be applied at each water pour point along the site. The public park borrows the concept from a traditional stepwell system. It combines bioswales and various plantings to establish a water collection system and public gathering place that contains necessary facilities.

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Jiashu Lyu

MArch ‘21

Professor: Esther Lorenz

Urban Node ARCH 7010 This project works as a new node that integrates the urban context around it. The short wing of the project follows the direction of a curved apartment building near the site, framing a large open space for neighborhood gatherings and re-organizing the urban context around it. Collaborator: Lan Yang

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Ian MacPherson

BSArch ‘21

Professors: Karen Van Lengen, Alexander Yuen

The Anti-Eremitic Cloister ARCH 4020 Thesis

experiment in decolonization that drew global renown, royal patronage, and enduring commitment from the nearby community of Azrou. This project implicates a wider territory than the currently understood confines of the monastery, and designates this tract the mediated wild. Constructing a clear edge along the cedar treeline to the east, populated with three new gates, enables the blazing of paths for contemplative retreat away from the communal programs in and immediately around the existing buildings. By proposing a vocabulary of tent-like pavilions, the project aims to inhabit, but not colonize, the forest. This thesis is about understanding rural areas as the front lines of cultural change: the threshold point at which theoretical legal reform diverges from what’s actually happening. Dialogue between different faiths is a unifying, galvanizing force that, when paired with sustainable initiatives, enables new possibilities for prosperity. The proposal is a new, expanded idea of what a cloister can be: radically open to the world in its multitude of colors, creeds, and countries. Roughly seventy years ago, right at the watershed moment of decolonization in Africa, a nascent settlement of French Benedictine monks in Morocco were brought together by circumstance with young idealists of the Moroccan Independence Party. At Toumliline, they together pioneered a summer camp. Rather than focusing on conversion, they aimed to generate visions of the future as monks and youth alike struggled to understand their changing world. Months later, when French rule finally fell and the people were free, the unlikely alliance of Toumliline carried forward a great

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Jolie Magenheimer

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Ehsan Baharlou

Langscape ARCH 4021 Thesis Mapped visualization of communities generated from an analysis of tweets to define areas of similar language patterns. This project aims to critique demographic mapping and proposes new methods for understanding community.

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Taro Matsuno

MArch ‘21

Professor: Alexander Yuen

375/411 Pearl Street ARCH 7010 Day and night views of 375/411 Pearl Street, an extension of the Verizon building to accommodate a school, housing, and office space. By reusing the existing structure, the project opens up new economic, ecological, and urbanistic possibilities. Collaborator: Alex Beranek

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Veronica Merril

BArH ‘21

Professors: Elgin Cleckley, Lisa Reilly

Interactivity and Reflection ARH 4591

The course Strategies of Interpretation II approached James Monroe's Highland as a case study for exploring how museums create and present their narratives. Students were challenged to develop new interpretation that sought to answer questions like, what stories do museums choose to tell? What opportunities do new technologies present for museums and visitors? How do we determine the narrative and create the best presentation of that story for visitors? What can we imagine as a strategy for Highland as it rewrites its history? My team’s design centered around the ideas of interactivity and reflection. Our group worked in the cellar space of the guest house at Highland. Our design goals were: weave the narrative of the enslaved people into the broader tour and into the landscape of Highland, bring to light the narrative of the enslaved laborers at Highland and in the broader Piedmont Area that has been neglected by previous curatorial decisions, and provide opportunities for interaction and reflection in the spaces. Our final design included an interactive museum exhibit. We split the cellar space into 3 ‘zones’ to support our design goals. Each zone is an individual room or set of rooms that are separated by the walls of the basement, creating spaces where specific narratives take place. I had the opportunity to continue this work at Highland after my second year at UVA in a combined internship with the School of Architecture and Highland, exploring various options for interpretation with Highland's executive team. Working closely with individuals at the Presidential House Museum, I was able to learn more about interpretation and the design of experiential narratives.

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Collaborators: Zach Beim, Alex Binnie, Hannah Glatt, Emma Hendrix

William Merrill

MArch ‘21

Professor: Bill Sherman

Environmental Learning Center and Community Outreach Program in Charleston, SC ALAR 8010 This project argues for education over infrastructure for coastal cities dealing with rising sea levels. The image below presents the design through a view looking southwest from Joseph Riley Waterfront Park.

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Elizabeth Miller

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Elgin Cleckley

The Ignition Grove ARCH 4010 A pre-design collage exercise aiming to redefine New York’s Vanderbilt Hall into a youth-centered exhibition centered around the Great Migration.

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Stephen Milone

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Alissa Ujie Diamond

Decimation of the Black Cultural Heart of Charlottesville PLAN 6070

From the late nineteenth century, Charlottesville’s Vinegar Hill thrived as the core of a rich, mixed use neighborhood that served as the heart of the Black community generating culture, commerce, and mutual support. That community was unceremoniously demolished in 1965, scraped to the ground, and piled like refuse, ostensibly to remove deteriorating buildings and improve living conditions, while facilitating roadway improvements and enabling expansion of commercial development. The harsh reality is that this mid-twentieth century urban renewal project destroyed a thriving community of families that called Vinegar Hill home for generations. The residents, many of whom owned their homes, were uprooted and forced to find new homes scattered throughout the city and the region. Those who could afford to purchase new homes, found themselves living in neighborhoods where they felt like outsiders. Residents who could not afford to purchase new homes that often came with higher prices were forced to move into Westhaven public housing, and became perpetual renters, losing the

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ability to pass down their home to younger family members and build equity. The urban renewal destroyed private businesses operating from neighborhood storefronts, many owned by Black proprietors, and disrupted other businesses operating from neighborhood homes when business owners could not afford to purchase storefronts, and were removed from their former Vinegar Hill clientele. Urban renewal also terminated important cultural institutions, music venues, churches, fellowship halls, and other gathering spaces and community assistance organizations that were forced to vacate their buildings. The deeper one examines the observations, studies, and evaluations government officials used to assess the future of Vinegar Hill, the more nefarious the insights one must conclude. Studies showed that many buildings owned by Black residents and business owners were well maintained, while the most deteriorated buildings were owned by white landlords who chose not to maintain the buildings, while simultaneously increasing rents charged to Black occupants. Tragically, following demolition of Vinegar Hill, most of the land sat vacant for decades before redevelopment occurred. The Black community of Vinegar Hill should have been better served by government officials who orchestrated razing of the community. The loss of the Black community at Vinegar Hill left a physical scar on downtown, and more importantly, a cultural scar in the community from which Charlottesville will not recover. Image Caption: Downtown Charlottesville. Looking west down Main Street to Vinegar Hill. Circa 1920~/1939~. Ralph W. Holsinger. Holsinger Studio Collection. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA.

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William Milone

BArH ‘21

Thesis Advisor: Andrew Johnston

Facadism Overlooked: Historic Residential Renovations in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia ARH 4999 Thesis Of the many studies published on facadism in various parts of the world, practically none focus on facadism in the context of the medium- to low-density historic residential environment. Although not nearly as obvious as examples of iconic historic buildings in bustling downtowns whose interiors are emptied out and facades retained as a ‘historic cloak’ for the first few stories of a skyscraper, facadism is just as common and arguably more significant in the ordinary American residential landscape. The urban built environment is changing faster than ever, and historic landscapes are no exception. Even though it is rarely given attention in academia, the prioritization of primary elevations has proven extremely impactful in the management of historic districts as of late. Extensive additions to small historic homes have become increasingly common, as have large-scale overhauls of historic buildings that ignore any significance behind the streetscape as they ‘freshen up’ and ‘open up’ interior spaces. The forces behind these changes are fairly well understood and may be unavoidable in some cases. Nevertheless, the resulting effect of facadism in the historic residential landscape certainly warrants further consideration. This thesis seeks to answer the following questions: why has facadism come to be so prevalent in renovations of historic homes? What are its impacts as traditionally considered with respect to architecture, architectural history, historic preservation, and urban design, and in light of other subjects not often brought into the discourse on facadism? Finally, how should these trends be addressed?

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Esteban MorinigoSpalding

BSArch ‘21

Professor: John Comazzi

Graffiti Pier ARCH 4020 Thesis Near northeast Philadelphia and on the banks of the Delaware river lies Pier 18, colloquially known as “Graffiti Pier”. As the city cracked down on graffiti, abandoned sites become safe havens for cultural expression. Through the decades it has become overgrown with both artists and vegetation, an incredible gallery and park of active cultural production.

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Nicholas Norton

BSArch ‘21

Professors: Karen Van Lengen, Alexander Yuen

The Architecture of Happiness ARCH 4020 Thesis Re-imagining the suburban block in order to reduce the rate of seasonal depression.

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Isabella Padilla

BSArch ‘21

Professor: John Comazzi

Resilience and Revitalization in Puerto Rican Plazas ARCH 4020 Thesis This project creates a system of resilience and revitalization in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. This involves creating more lively, accessible public spaces, while strengthening them in times of disaster.

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Harrison Premen

MUEP ‘21

Professors: Suzanne Moomaw, Chris Neale

Infill Redevelopment at the Woodstock Shopping Center PLAC 6090 This rendering is part of a project that proposes the re-development of underutilized spaces in the town of Woodstock, VA. Here, a portion of the underutilized parking lot is turned into a plaza with mixed-use structures and multimodal improvements. Collaborators: Jinzhao Chen, Kyle Kelly

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Maria-Emilia Proano

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Jorge Pizarro Montavillo

A La Ecuatoriana ARCH 2020 This home is influenced by the dynamic of a typical Ecuadorian family. All rooms are knitted together by the outdoor corridor which provides a cushion between the private and public areas. This house aims to accommodate different familial relationships that occur between parents, children, and grandparents.

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Gabriella Ragano

BSArch ‘21

Professor: John Comazzi

Re-Thinking Bayshore Boulevard ARCH 4020 Thesis The issue of climate change and specifically sea level rise are threatening to destroy beloved communities. This project redevelops Bayshore Boulevard in order to more effectively utilize the space, to provide accessibility to the surrounding community, and to protect the environment.

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Heather Reid

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Anthony Averbeck

Triptych ARCH 2020 A mixture of unit typologies comprise these three rigid bars of collective housing. These structured bars provide elevated private housing atop a semi-private domestic plinth which creates cover for a public market space.

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Xiaoxuan Ren

MLA ‘21

Professor: Beth Meyer

Cultivating Spatial Justice: From Symbolic Figure to Field of Action LAR 7010 This proposal for Market Street Park decenters the physical presence of the Robert E. Lee statue, as well as the history it stands for, by creating a public space that is connected to its context and related to food justice and equity.

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Zimo Ren

MArch ‘20

Professors: Belén González Aranguren, Jeana Ripple

Reggio Emilia Elementary School ARCH 6020 Located in downtown Chicago, this elementary school is hidden in nature. The project makes full use of the existing terrain by blurring the boundary between architecture and landscape and by maximizing the preservation of the original green space. It creates the possibility for people to embrace and share nature in the city.

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Trenton Rhodes

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Ehsan Baharlou

Robotic Serpentine Wall ARCH 4010 Using parametric design tools and a 5-axis robotic arm, this project investigates the material properties of Birch wood and uses steam bending techniques to achieve a unitbased installation. The construct was sited on the North Terrace outside of Campbell Hall for one week before the weather got the best of it. For more on this project, see page 91. Collaborator: Leah Kirssin

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Ellie Riley

BSArch ‘21

Professors: Karen Van Lengen, Alexander Yuen

Rethinking Education: Mediating Youth Pressures in Society ARCH 4020 Thesis After researching the correlation between education and innovation in Seoul, South Korea, I came to the conclusion that standardization in their education system discourages creativity in the youth population. This project breaks the conventions of traditional schooling and offers a space of movement and sociability for the youth of Seoul.

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Gabi Rodas

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Belén González Aranguren

JUNCTION ARCH 2010 An international marketplace and public space located at the entrance to the Downtown Mall, this project addresses the need for greenery and open space. Although there are public spaces for rest in the center of the pedestrian Mall, this hybrid building sets the stage for the flavors found in this area, as well as a taste of cultures from around the world that represent the different cultures of students that attend the University of Virginia.

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Genesis Rodgers

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Jorge Pizarro Montavillo

The Block, a Mixed-Use Residential Complex ARCH 2020 Minority and low-income social communities are often ignored in the conversation about urbanization in the Charlottesville Downtown neighborhood. To better integrate a residential development into the existing site context, mixed-income tenants, food and retail programs, and an activated recreational ground floor blur the distinction between privileged space and shared community space.

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Michael Salgueiro

MUEP ‘21

Professors: Andrew Mondschein, Christopher Neale

Streets for People: Better Integrating Smart Mobility and Context-Sensitive Street Design in Transportation Planning PLAC 6090 A report was prepared for the StreetsForPeople.io (S4P.io) Lab at the University of Virginia. The Lab conducts research on the ways trends in smart mobility and context-sensitive street design are shaping city streets. Through its research, the S4P.io Lab developed an initial conceptual framework for analyzing the ways these trends were shaping, and being shaped by, transportation planning and street management policies and practices. The report built on the conceptual framework and served as an initial attempt to create an analytical tool to apply the updated conceptual framework to cities in the US. The updated conceptual framework posited that Streets for People, versus streets that prioritize cars, can better integrate smart mobility and context-sensitive street design by promoting and balancing three functions of streets: Democratic Streets, Streets for Flows, and Streets for Living. The report then proposed an Audit Tool that could be used to analyze the extent to which transportation planning and street management regimes in a city successfully promote and balance each of those constructs. The Audit Tool applies a mixed methods approach to analyzing the policies and practices in a given city. Finally, the report applies the Audit Tool to a specific city: Charlottesville, VA. The report contains findings produced via interviews, reviews of government documents, and quantitative analyses of data from a variety of sources. The Audit produced several findings. First, Charlottesville falls short in promoting Democratic Streets where all residents’ constitutional rights are protected and where a diversity of community needs are heard and met by local government authorities. Second, while commuting times are relatively low

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in Charlottesville, residents do not have authentic mobility choices. Third, Charlottesville streets are relatively safe for all users, though opportunities to promote greater street appropriation for uses other than car travel are currently being missed. The report provides three recommendations for how to address these gaps or shortcomings. First, it encourages Charlottesville’s Bike & Pedestrian Coordinator and Advisory Committee to initiate a Dignity Infused Community Engagement (DICE) program. Second, it recommends that the City create a website that clearly communicates to residents existing opportunities for street appropriation. Third, it highlights the need for improved digital public asset mapping, both to better deliver existing services and to prepare for potential future smart mobility-enabled services.

Luke Schiavone

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

Delancey Street Fine Arts Center ARCH 3010 The design of the Fine Arts Center takes cues from painter-architects Theo Van Doesburg and Gerrit Reitveld, who assembled color planes in their imagining of threedimensional space. The art center is a building that a painter might conceive, where planes of color and materiality create atmosphere and highlight spatial conditions.

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Veena Shah

MArch ‘21

Professor: Bill Sherman

Potentials Unlocked: An emergent refuge + prospect network in New Orleans ALAR 8010 This project proposes an emergent network of sanctuaries, anchored within the local assets to provide for the immediate needs of New Orleanians, both during times of crises and otherwise. Driven by the energy of the residents, the sanctuaries provide a gradient of spaces from refuge to prospect.

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Chenan Shen

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Felipe Correa

amazon.edu: A Prototype for the Next-Gen Metropolitan Campus ARCH 4010 This project examines how the former Lord and Taylor building can serve as an epicenter for a new educational model that capitalizes on partnerships between academia and techindustries. The rendering shows exterior and interior conditions joined together to create a new prototype: privately owned public space used for academic purposes. Collaborators: Dylan Gibbs, Mary Key

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Samantha Sigmon

MArH ‘21

Thesis Advisor: Sheila Crane

Transforming the Local: Remaking, Rebranding, & Repopulating Northwest Arkansas through Walton Family Arts Development ARH 8994 Thesis Northwest Arkansas (NWA) has long been an overlooked region of America due in part to the stereotypes surrounding the isolated Ozarks and their lack of culture. In reality, the area is home to both traditional and innovative crafts, arts, music, and architecture. The year 2011 marked a major shift in arts development when the Waltons, the billionaire family behind the Walmart retail corporation, opened their flagship institution Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. This major investment signaled the Family’s renewed financial interest in developing the area as a cultural playground into the 2010s. This thesis theorizes a transformation from the grassroots local arts community in NWA to the Walton localization of space through the use of corporate placemaking strategies that create an image of the local devoid of resident artists and organizers. In the last ten years, The Walton Family Foundation exponentially increased spending in the area to fund expansion of the arts campus at the University of Arkansas, hire outside planning consultants, commission development studies, scale up select existing cultural spaces and organizations, and spearhead major building projects that promote an arts, leisure, and wellness lifestyle rolled into one idealized corporate resident. Their accompanying marketing language regarding these changes not only attempts to shift the cultural center of the region to Bentonville through the strategic employment of the Waltons’ specific form of top-down arts development, but also promotes the implementation of variations of their model into the rest of NWA. My analysis of both grassroots and Walton arts environments engages with the ways art, site, architecture, and language are intrinsically tied together through funding and development in efforts to remake, rebrand, and

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repopulate the region in the Walton image. This thesis details the arts ecologies of the downtown neighborhoods of both Bentonville and Fayetteville. Ultimately Walton Family interests have moved out from Downtown Bentonville, corporatizing the culture of other towns and displacing artists. Through understanding more about the transformation of “local” used in promotional text and media, discussed with community artists, and analyzed within the built environment, a picture of who makes the decisions, who is left out, and how sites and design interact with this process becomes both more complex and clearer.

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Ben Small

MArch ‘21

Professors: Brad Cantrell, Sneha Patel

Call Text for LUNCH 15 THICK. ARCH 5132 LUNCH is the A-School’s annually published, student-edited design journal. Collaborators: Colleen Brennan, Leah Kahler, Chris Murphy

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Jessica Smith

MArch ‘21

Professors: Mona El Khafif, Darcy Engle

The Floating Omnitopia ALAR 8020 As a new common, the Floating Omnitopia is a response to sea level rise in Norfolk, VA. Shared stewardship and shared assets of the common model is a way to serve all affected, or the “omni,” rejecting both the utopian and dystopian frameworks of climate change.

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Kelsey Smith

MArch ‘21

Professor: WG Clark

Meadow Creek Agricultural Village ALAR 8010 These models were a moment of discovery during the design development phase of a community prototype in Charlottesville, Virginia. The project proposes the house should no longer be an isolated figure in the center of the field, a single-family house on the grass lawn, but rather an aggregated multifamily dwelling that borders and defines a productive agricultural field.

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Evan Sparkman

MArch ‘21

Professor: Ehsan Baharlou

CataLog ALAR 8010 This research explored the use of robotic fabrication methods to test the capabilities of untreated timber through wood joinery systems. The image presented shows the final installation under construction. Collaborators: Colin Frazier, Qingqing Zhou

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Madison Sparks

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Karen Van Lengen, Alexander Yuen

The Center: Designing for Community and Inclusivity ARCH 4020 Thesis This project proposes that architecture can influence social change. By looking at the issues surrounding the LGBTQ community, this thesis proposes a way for design to combat the discrimination this community faces.

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Stephany Stumphauzer

MArch ‘21

Professor: Alexander Yuen

PS 57 | NYC ARCH 7010 PS 57 is an elementary / middle school combined with 92 apartments and a community health center, organized around a processional series of central open spaces. In response to the scale and nature of the site, this project helps to formally knit the urban landscape together, and facilitates and strengthens neighborhood relationships at multiple scales. Sectional perspective by S. Stumphauzer. Collaborator: Grace Wills

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Taha Suhrawardy

MArch ‘20

Professor: Luis Pancorbo

PANCORB’S ORBS CORPSE ARCH 6010 The Orbs reinforce the visitor’s experience of this WWI ship graveyard experientially and semantically. Their outer mantles over time are annexed by the same biological and natural processes that have claimed ownership of the ships themselves in the past one hundred years. Together, these paired Corpses will become a marine sanctuary that will continually remind us of both the solemn casualties of war and nature’s inescapable loving embrace.

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Mark Tao

BSArch ‘21

Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta

Reshuffle, Reuse, Redefine ARCH 4010 This project provides Jaipur with a new urban lifestyle and appearance through the redesign of the streets implementing multi-functional street lamps that collect rainwater and provide shade. By reorganizing the congested streets, the project redefines Jaipur as a city that is growing towards the future.

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Taylor Thompson

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Schaeffer Somers

New Ground ARCH 3020 Peyton House is situated at the intersection of several different primary and secondary axes. The two dominant axes run from North to South and East to West, and, besides those two, there are other axes that define the flows of people, water, and light. This project seeks to create a new ground to capture both the implicit and the explicit characteristics of these axes while forming a new social fabric for the University and the community through the act of play.

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Bridget Thornberry

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Peter Waldman

Re-Contextualizing the Lighthouse ARCH 4020 Thesis Formalizing a home for a young man who has taken on the role of lighthouse keeper on Pond Island, a National Wildlife Refuge for several endangered bird species of Maine. With the sun rising in the East, this one good window-face bathes in the morning light.

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Devon Trepp

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Karen Van Lengen

Villa Nouveau ARCH 3020 Originally the University existed surrounded by the mountains and countryside. Jefferson’s Monticello looked down upon the original Academic Village. Villa Nouveau, a village upon a landscape redefines the idea of centrality of the academic village while taking care to preserve the existing landscape by redirecting a stream under a promenade of a new Academic Village.

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Xinyu Tu

MLA ‘20

Professors: Kathleen Adams, Mary Vélez

Phasing the Flood: A Retreat, Reconnection and Recollection Strategy for Shanghai ALAR 8010 This project proposes a new community typology derived from the traditional longtang community that incorporates phased flooding at the regional scale in Shanghai. It allows people to relocate, reconnect and recollect the memory of the city.

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Yuwei Tu

MArch ‘21

Professor: Manuel Bailo

The New Anchor ALAR 8010 The New Anchor positions La Sagrada Familia at the center of this design. Inspired by this center condition of the existing church, the entire project is developed around several anchors, creating multiple hierarchies of "centers" as an organizing principle. Collaborator: Yuwen Chen

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Jiaqi Wang

MLA ‘21

Professors: Ghazal Jafari, Beth Meyer

Beside Market LAR 7010 This project chooses Central Place as the site to create a socio-ecological public space that addresses issues of food insecurity and stormwater management in Charlottesville. Collaborator: Yi Zhu

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Nancy Wang

BSArch ‘21

Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta

Sail of Dreams ARCH 4010 This project is a typology for elementary schools in Jaipur. It aims to address the problem of low literacy in the city, while taking natural resources into consideration. The project improves energy efficiency by using a sloped rooftop to collect rainwater.

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Xinyu Wang

MLA ‘21

Professor: Manuel Bailo

Taking the Historical Stream as Media ALAR 8010 Weaving the Sagrada Familia back into the urban context of Barcelona, Spain. Collaborator: Ye Tao

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Archer Willauer

MUEP ‘21

Professor: Amanda Poncey

Ivy and Alderman Bicycle Intervention PLAN 5580

lanes with the number of existing vehicle lanes, the proposal includes bike boxes at each intersection to designate a safe space for cyclists to make turns in front of vehicles. The intervention also includes a fourth crosswalk and a sidewalk on the north side of Alderman Road in order to complete the safe network of pedestrian infrastructure.

Using the University’s Bicycle Master Plan and the Comprehensive Plans for Albemarle County and Charlottesville City, our bicycle planning course was tasked with proposing design interventions for an intersection in Charlottesville with inadequate bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The intersection of Alderman Road and Ivy Road is one of the busiest intersections near Grounds. While its current infrastructure makes it considerably dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians to use, the widths of the two intersecting roads create ideal conditions for comprehensive bicycle and pedestrian improvements. Field observations indicated that cyclists had to make many dangerous maneuvers in order to navigate the intersection. Pedestrians were also seen jaywalking and misusing the existing infrastructure due to incomplete connections and long wait times. In this proposed intervention, the bicycle lanes along Ivy Road are widened and separated with a barrier to protect the cyclists from the cars traveling at high speeds in the adjacent lanes. While the current width of Alderman Road would not support bike

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Hannah Wolfe Thesis Advisor: Lisa Reilly; Faculty Committee: Sheila Crane, Fotini Kondyli

The Digitization of Destruction: Critical Approaches to Digital Heritage Rescue ARH 8994 Thesis Over the past ten years, new advances in technology have offered promising solutions for preserving, reconstructing, and restoring historical monuments, that are endangered or have been destroyed. When universally significant monuments, best understood within this context as cultural heritage, are threatened or damaged, specialists increasingly look to find solutions through digital methods. Groundbreaking heritage technologies––particularly laser scanning and 3D modeling technologies––have inspired the rapid growth of digital and cyber rescue archaeology, a new field that uses digital tools to further archaeological research, and has increasingly focused on endangered and destroyed heritage. Universities, archaeological faculties, and scholars have launched digital labs and non-profit organizations that are dedicated to protecting threatened and destroyed heritage through digital archaeology. Yet until very recently, these new approaches have prompted little, if any, critical reflection. In this thesis I present three case studies of destroyed and/or damaged cultural heritage sites that have been the focus of such digital heritage initiatives: the Arch of Triumph from the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Buddhas of Bamiyan from Afghanistan, and the Cathedral of Notre-Dame from Paris. The aim of this research is twofold. First, I consider the various ways in which digital heritage reveals key ethical issues of our time. Second, I suggest one approach to address these issues through creating better practices for the digital heritage field. Through this work I hope to emphasize how digital heritage reflects the ontologies and epistemologies that underlie heritage politics, and contribute to an understanding of the value of meaningfully considered digital heritage.

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Alex Wright

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Elgin Cleckley

Marcus David Peters Circle: Liberating Public Space ARCH 3500 This project reimagines the site of the confederate Lee Monument in Richmond, VA to provide a dynamic public space of community engagement and activism.

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Lei Wu

MLA ‘21

Professor: Matthew Seibert

Freddie Gray Park: Materializing the Black Spatial Imaginary LAR 6020 Baltimore is remarkable for the size and achievements of its African-American community. However, its historical legacy of racial segregation has led to widespread inequities, exacerbated by police brutality, poverty, lack of educational opportunities, and disenfranchisement. This project aims to create a socially-shared space, including a memorial wall designed to coordinate with tidal flux, to recognize and honor Baltimore’s African American community.

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Chenyang Xia

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Lucia Phinney

Physical Urban Conditions of Greater Tokyo Area: The Invisible Urban Mobility ARCH 4020 Thesis This project examines the role of transportation infrastructure as an integral part of urban conditions and networks. Through urban design strategies, land use management and architectural design, diverse cultural and social mobility flows serve as a new paradigm for transportation infrastructure.

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Xuefei Yang

MLA ‘20

Professors: María González Aranguren, Pankaj Vir Gupta

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Cheyenne Yamada

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Karen Van Lengen

Field in a Field ARCH 3020 This new student center reinforces accessibility within the Lambeth site of UVA, connecting to preexisting circulation strategies and facilitating new opportunities for communal interaction. The flexibility of this gridded field has the potential to grow alongside the university, catering to its changing needs.

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Emily Zekany

BSArch ‘21

Professor: Seth McDowell

Urban Transect ARCH 3010 Situated in Manhattan near Chinatown and Little Italy, this building aims to serve the community as a farm to table marketplace. The architecture itself informs circulation patterns through the interior in order to promote fluidity and movement through the entire building from the underground to fourth floor. Collaborator: Chaoming Li

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Zihao Zhang

PhD ‘21

Advisor: Michael Lee; Committee: Brad Cantrell, Michael Gorman, Nana Last

Cybernetic Environment: Uncontrollability and Non-communication for a Future of Coexistence

This research constructs a field of inquiry – the cybernetic environment – between sciences, engineering, arts, and design. It interrogates and investigates the underlying mode of thought in emerging environmental practices revolving around cybernetic technologies – that is, environmental sensing, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics – in light of contemporary posthumanism cognition and morethan-human ontological concerns across disciplines. Emerging cybernetic practices across fields pose challenges which have been largely understudied, and may transform the ways in which we understand cybernetics, a 70-year-old concept. In his book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948), Norbert Wiener first publicly used the term “cybernetics” to refer to recursive and self-regulating mechanisms across biological and mechanical systems. Cybernetics positions communication – the exchange of information – at the center of control. This study offers an alternative interpretation of cybernetics – recursive and self-regulating mechanisms – in a

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non-communicative framework suggested by contemporary posthumanist thought. This research argues that many concepts in contemporary environmental discourse, such as adaptive management, responsive landscapes, and smart cities, operate within the paradigm of the cybernetic system, but not in the paradigm of the cybernetic environment. They imagine the environment as systems and apply cybernetic thinking to optimize and control them. In contrast, the cybernetic environment paradigm emphasizes that the environment outside a system is not a homogeneous space, but a mesh of objects, assemblages, and mental processes that are withdrawn and reserved from human access. In this framework, which emphasizes the inability to communicate and wield control between objects, cybernetic thinking is no longer about control, but is instead a logic of coexistence with and attuning to more-than-human objects around us. In addition, cybernetic environments become reserves of great open-endedness and futures we cannot now imagine.

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Qingqing Zhou

MArch ‘21

Professor: Ehsan Baharlou

CataLog ALAR 8010 This research incorporates digital fabrication tools and traditional wood joinery systems using untreated timber. Seventy-two logs were cataloged by a 3D scanner based on their length and diameter. This information was then used in a recursion growth algorithm to generate a branching pattern. Collaborators: Colin Frazier, Evan Sparkman

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Graduate Spring 2021 Master of Architectural History

Michelle Anne Colbert 50 Caroline Marie Gesell 65 Amelia K Hughes Yao Jiang 85 Ali Salman Rashdi Kari Samantha Sigmon 141 Hannah Wolfe 161 Master of Architecture

Elizabeth Anne Adkins 27 Somrita Bandyopadhyay 33 Harshita Batra 34 Alexander Joseph Beranek 36 Jacob Paul Blankenship Aoran Chen 42 Changji Chen 43 Yuwen Chen 45 Ya-Hsin Chiang 46 Aleksander Adam De Mott 53 Joseph DeRicco 54 Jixiang Dong 57 Yingxu Fan 61 Wenxin Feng Irmak Fermen Yunrui Gao 64 175

Jing Gu 69 David Perry Harkavy 73 Yukuang Hu Adam Johnson 86 Clare Catherine Knecht 101 Yang Lan Jiahui Liang Jiashu Lyu 113 Taro Leslie Matsuno 116 William Walker Merrill 118 Veena Praphulla Shah 139 Benjamin Shelby Small 144 Jessica Camille Smith 145 Kelsey A Smith 146 Evan Julian Sparkman 147 Stephany Taylor Stumphauzer 149 Yuwei Tu 156 Leigh Grace Wills Wanyun Zhang Qingqing Zhou 171 Sicheng Zhou Master of Landscape Architecture

Lois Colleen Brennan 38 Aleksander Adam De Mott 53 Rebecca Reid Farnsworth

Junhong Fu 63 Rebecca Claire Hinch 79 Leah Austin Kahler 87 Christine Jane Lee 106 Bo Li Chaoming Li 107 Weiqi Li 108 Jiajing Lyu 112 Elizabeth Brown Needham Xiaoxuan Ren 131 Jiaqi Wang 157 Pin Hui Wang Xinyu Wang 159 Janie Forsyth Day Whitworth Lei Wu 163 Master of Urban + Environmental Planning

Meghan Asbury Maya Rain Beeler Balassa 32 Caitlin Alyssa Caum 40 Jinzhao Chen 44 Henry Austin Cohen Anna Leah Drumheller 59 Carolyn Louise Heaps 74 Kevin Christopher Kask Kyle Paul Kelly 88

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Adam Khdach 92 Stephen Anthony Milone 122 Harrison Browning Premen 127 Mary-Michael Robertson Michael Salgueiro 137 Janie Forsyth Day Whitworth Archer Osborne Willauer 160 Doctor of Philosophy in the Constructed Environment

Weaam H H Kh H Alabdullah 28 Fatmah M. Behbehani 35 Zihao Zhang 170

Graduate Fall 2020 Master of Architectural History

Jessie Danielle Meager Master of Architecture

Colin William Frazier 62 Sihan Lai Yu Li Zimo Ren 132 176

Taha Suhrawardy 150 Ye Tao Master of Landscape Architecture

Biyu Chen Shaoyu Chen Jingyi Hu Jingjing Ji 84 Jingjing Lai 105 Po Yi Lin 111 Zheyu Liu Yuyin Sun Xinyu Tu 155 Tian Wang Zhilu Wang Chunchun Wu Bingling Xu Binyu Yang Xingyu Yang Xuefei Yang 167 Huining Zhou Master of Urban + Environmental Planning

Julian Hyter Hannah Marie Kemp Andrew Joseph Knuppel 103

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Doctor of Philosophy in the Constructed Environment

Zhe Dong Kevan Joseph Klosterwill

Undergraduate Spring 2021 Bachelor of Architectural History

Shaheen Alikhan 29 Anna Hickman 77 Veronica Rita Merril 117 William Alexander Milone 123 JaRhonda Roberts Bachelor of Architecture

Gabriel Illdefonso Andrade Jessica Taylor Auer 30 Baheshta Azizi 31 Reagan Connor Bowles 37 Lauren Yvonne Brown 39 Lauren Ann Cheetham 41 William Robert Clark 47 Mira Christina Davis 52

Alejandro Javier Di Napoli-Castañeda 55 Angel Diaz 56 Yudi Dong 58 Hayden Elliott Duncan 60 James Gregory Fay Marina Georgea Gianakopoulos 66 Dylan Zane Glenwood Gibbs 67 Omer Mohamed Gorashi 68 Summer Lynn Harding 72 Matias Hendi 75 Bridget Maria Heppes 76 Zoe Stella Hicks 78 Bihong Hu 80 Julia Laura Hunger 81 Kenton Emerson Huntsinger 82 Christopher Squire Raymond Hurst 83 Mary Margaret Key 89 Katherine Margaret Kilgore 90 Leah Caitlyn Kirssin 91 Lindsay Claire Knights 102 Kyle Koury 104 Daniel Toole Legare Elizabeth Grace Liberatore 109 Xinyi Lin 110

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Connor Phillips Lowden Ian Douglas MacPherson 114 Jolie Magenheimer 115 Samuel Augustine Maguire Elizabeth Anne Miller 119 Esteban Morinigo-Spalding 124 Nicholas James Norton 125 Isabella Marina Padilla 126 Patrick Bay Penny Maria-Emilia Proano 128 Gabriella Rose Ragano 129 Heather Ann Reid 130 Trenton Kenneth Rhodes 133 Ellie Katherine Riley 134 Ana Gabriela Rodas 135 Genesis Marisela Rodgers 136 Evelyn Ruth Saunders Luciano Schiavone 138 Chenan Shen 140 Madison Glenn Sparks 148 Yahya Zidan Suid ChenCheng Tao 151 Taylor Alexander Thompson 152 Bridget Jaclyn Thornberry 153 Devon Ann Trepp 154 Nancy Chen Wang 158

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Alexander Tristan Wright 162 Chenyang Xia 166 Cheyenne Kiana Yamada 168 Fernando Andres Zavala Emily Marie Zekany 169 Bachelor of Urban + Environmental Planning

Habiba Ayman Elnagdy Caroline Wilson Gaenzle DMitri Armand Johnson Sojung Kim Mary Gallagher Nealon Madison Elizabeth Zook

Undergraduate Fall 2020 Bachelor of Architectural History

Yuchu Cui 151 Bachelor of Urban + Environmental Planning

Andrea Michelle Almassy Maggie Campbell Alexander Lee Eitler Caroline Hall Stoerker 179

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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:

Sicheng Zhou

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:

Ali Salman Rashdi

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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:

Shaheen Alikhan Veronica Rita Merril 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:

Michelle Anne Colbert Hannah Wolfe In recognition of a Master’s Candidate who has exhibited superior performance in pursuant of the degree, the Architectural History Faculty Book Award is presented by the faculty of Architectural History to:

Kari Samantha Sigmon 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:

Michelle Anne Colbert Kari Samantha Sigmon

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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:

Gabriel Illdefonso Andrade Alejandro Javier Di Napoli-Castañeda Hayden Elliott Duncan Dylan Zane Glenwood Gibbs Xinyi Lin 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:

Baheshta Azizi In recognition of undergraduate design excellence, the Faculty of Architecture Award for Design Excellence is presented to:

William Robert Clark Angel Diaz Yudi Dong Zoe Stella Hicks Mary Margaret Key Leah Caitlyn Kirssin Genesis Marisela Rodgers Luciano Schiavone Yahya Zidan Suid

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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:

Lauren Yvonne Brown Mira Christina Davis Taylor Alexander Thompson 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:

Adam Johnson 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:

Benjamin Shelby Small 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:

Leigh Grace Wills

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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:

Sicheng Zhou In recognition of graduate design excellence, the Faculty of Architecture Award for Design Excellence is presented to:

Jacob Paul Blankenship Ya-Hsin Chiang Joseph DeRicco Colin William Frazier Yunrui Gao Yukuang Hu Taro Leslie Matsuno Zimo Ren Jessica Camille Smith Kelsey A Smith Evan Julian Sparkman Stephany Taylor Stumphauzer Ye Tao Wanyun Zhang 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:

Veena Praphulla Shah Jessica Camille Smith

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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:

Rebecca Claire Hinch Jingjing Lai 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:

Shaoyu Chen Leah Austin Kahler 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:

Shaoyu Chen In recognition of service to the school community and outstanding academic achievement, The 2020 Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture award is presented to:

Rebecca Reid Farnsworth

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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:

Jingjing Lai In recognition of exemplary design research, the Faculty of Landscape Architecture Award for Research Excellence is presented to:

Lois Colleen Brennan In recognition of exemplary design innovation, the Faculty of Landscape Architecture Award for Design Innovation Excellence is presented to:

Elizabeth Brown Needham

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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:

Caroline Hall Stoerker 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:

Mary Gallagher Nealon In recognition of outstanding academic achievement in the graduate Planning Program, the American Planning Association Outstanding Student Award is presented to:

Carolyn Louise Heaps 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:

Michael Salgueiro

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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:

Veena Praphulla Shah

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Certificates Historic Preservation Certificate

Urban Design Certificate

Master of Architectural History

Master of Architecture

Michelle Anne Colbert Yao Jiang Hannah Wolfe

Somrita Bandyopadhyay Yuwen Chen Ya-Hsin Chiang Wenxin Feng Veena Praphulla Shah

Master of Architecture

Harshita Batra Jiashu Lyu Leigh Grace Wills Qingqing Zhou

Master of Landscape Architecture

Biyu Chen Junhong Fu Jingyi Hu Jingjing Ji Chaoming Li Weiqi Li Zheyu Liu Jiajing Lyu Xinyu Tu Tian Wang Xinyu Wang Zhilu Wang Binyu Yang Xuefei Yang Master of Urban + Environmental Planning

Hannah Marie Kemp

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Certificates Digital Humanities Certificate Master of Architectural History

Yao Jiang Hannah Wolfe

Real Estate Design + Development Certificate Master of Architecture

Taro Leslie Matsuno Master of Urban + Environmental Planning

Anna Leah Drumheller Adam Khdach Mary-Michael Robertson

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Faculty and Staff

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School Leadership Deans Ila Berman Dean, School of Architecture Anselmo Canfora Associate Dean, Academics Allen Lee Associate Dean, Finance + Administration Betsy Roettger Assistant Dean, Student + Career Development Kyle Sturgeon Assistant Dean, Academic Support

John Comazzi Director, Design Thinking Program

Landscape Architecture Bradley Cantrell Chair, Landscape Architecture Department Michael Lee Director, Landscape Architecture Graduate Program

Urban + Environmental Planning / Urban Design / Real Estate Design and Development Ellen Bassett Chair, Urban + Environmental Planning Department

Architectural History / Historic Preservation

Andrew Mondschein Director, Urban + Environmental Planning Graduate Program

Sheila Crane Chair, Architectural History Department Director, Architectural History Graduate Program

Suzanne Moomaw Director, Urban + Environmental Planning Undergraduate Program

Andrew Johnston Director, Historic Preservation Program

Mona El Khafif Director, Urban Design Program

Lisa Reilly Director, Architectural History Undergraduate Program

Ian Klein Acting Director, Real Estate Design and Development Program

Architecture / Design Thinking

PhD

Academic Departments / Programs

Felipe Correa Chair, Architecture Department

Shiqiao Li Director, PhD in the Constructed Environment

Jeana Ripple Director, Architecture Graduate Program

Global Sustainability

Esther Lorenz Director, Architecture Undergraduate Program

Phoebe Crisman Director, Global Studies + Global Sustainability minor

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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 Alissa Ujie Diamond Benjamin Hays Allison James Andrew Johnston Gennie Keller Shiqiao Li Jill Lord Louis Nelson Betsy Purvis Erin Putalik Lisa Reilly Will Rourk Jessica Sewell Mabel O. Wilson (visiting professor) Richard Guy Wilson Architecture JT Bachman Ehsan Baharlou Manuel Bailo Pam C. Black Anselmo Canfora Margaret Cavenagh WG Clark Elgin Cleckley John Comazzi Felipe Correa Phoebe Crisman Devin Dobrowolski Robin Dripps Mona El Khafif Darcy Engle Ali Fard Angelique Firmalino Cassandra Fraser (affiliated faculty)

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Belén González Aranguren María González Aranguren Pankaj Vir Gupta José Ibarra Sanda Iliescu Matthew Jull Leidy Klotz Nana Last Shiqiao Li Lesley Lokko (visiting professor) Esther Lorenz Katie MacDonald Earl Mark Inés Martín-Robles Steve Martinez Kirk Martini Seth McDowell Charlie Menefee Luis Pancorbo Michael Petrus Lucia Phinney Jorge Pizarro Erin Putalik Jeana Ripple Betsy Roettger Jaime Sanz Kyle Schumann Bill Sherman Schaeffer Somers Katie Stranix Kyle Sturgeon Karen Van Lengen Peter Waldman Alexander Yuen Landscape Architecture Kathleen Adams Julie Bargmann

Cole Burrell Alexa Bush Brad Cantrell Leena Cho Brian Davis Marantha Dawkins Karen Firehock Nathan Foley Isaac Hametz Andrea Hansen Phillips Chloe Hawkins Ghazal Jafari Allison James Michael Lee Shanti Levy Xun Liu Michael Luegering Emma Mendel Beth Meyer Scott Mitchell Matthew Seibert Missy Vélez Urban + Environmental Planning Ellen Bassett Tim Beatley Garnette Cadogan (visiting professor) Tim Chapman Will Cockrell Tanya Denckla Cobb Alissa Ujie Diamond Frank Dukes Mona El Khafif Ali Fard Karen Firehock Luke Juday Ian Klein

Michael Luegering Fred Missel Andrew Mondschein Suzanne Morse Moomaw Chris Neale Michael Petrus Amanda Poncy Brian Richter Jenny Roe Siri Russell Louis Salomonsky Jessica Sewell Bev Wilson Barbara Brown Wilson

Staff Office of the Dean

Admission + Financial Aid

Ila Berman Dean

Cindy Kiefer Director of Recruitment, Admission + Financial Aid

Jaime Grove Satterlee 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 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 Darcy Engle Social Media + Digital Content Director 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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