These projects examine new forms of urbanism and question the “urban” as an analytical category of social and spatial organization. Although the city is often assumed to be a static form, its parameters have shifted historically, requiring the development of new questions about the range of technical, formal, and social operations for architecture and urbanism. Does the “urban” still have valence in an increasingly homogeneous global landscape? Do different forms of urbanism emerge from different social, economic, and historical contexts? How do we understand the opportunities and limitations of architecture in a new urban field? Among the challenges explored by thesis projects in this Advisory Group are gentrification, climate change, suburbanization, urban renewal, the place of “nature” in the design process, the impact of new high-speed infrastructures, and the aesthetics of exercise. This required students to re-examine their tools and develop strategies to link attributes previously understood to be either separate from one another or external to the design disciplines.
May 6, 9:00 AM
- Elena Echarri Myers
Rethinking Home Waste: A New Model for Residential Waste Management - Elena Whittle
Re-Designing Gentrification: Designing for the Displaced - Soravis Nawbhanich
Dis[solution] Bang Kachao: Harmonizing Nature’s Order and Chaos through Architecture
Additional Reviewers:
- Terrance Goode
- Susan Henderson
May 6, 1:00 PM
- Amanda Brunner
An Urban Revitalization: Rebuilding American Cities After Urban Renewal - Tianyi Hang
Super Rural: Farm Towns between Capital and Commodification - Matthew Alpert & Daniel Raphael
Fitness through Socialization: Fitness, Whimsy and the Urban Park - Anja Pajevic
Suburban Morphologies: Transforming Postwar Suburbs with Distorted Typologies
Additional Reviewers:
- Fei Wang
- Elizabeth Kamell
