Archive of MED Research
2024
2023
Brunno Douat “To Open A Clearing: Cultivating Spaces of Endurance in the Upper Amazon” Advisor: Ana Maria Duran Calisto
George Papamatthaiakis (Papamattheakis) “Operation Summer Care: Territories of the stewardship-hospitality complex” Advisor: Keller Easterling
Juliana Biancardine “Overseeing Amazonia: Environmental Media of Brazilian Grounds” Advisor: Keller Easterling
2022
Alex Klein “Coastal Assemblage: Towards a Practice of Adaptation” Advisor: Elihu Rubin
Mila Samdub “Maximum Governance: Managerial Populism and Violent Infrastructures in the New India” Advisor: Keller Easterling
Tianyi Hang “Beside Yingzao: An Index of Chinese Building Traditions” Advisor: Amy Lelyveld
Devi Nayar “House as Ritual: Stories of Gender, Space, and Caste in Colonial Kerala” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
2021
Cayce Davis “Continuous Extremes: Architecture of Uncertainty in Poland.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Laura Pappalardo “Mapping Grounds for Reparations in Jaraguá Peak.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Mary Carole Overholt “Space-Praxis: Towards a Feminist Politics of Design.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Alexander Kim “The Weight of a Selfie: Influence, Interface, & Invitation in the Image Economy.” Advisor: Brennan Buck.
2020
2019
Maia Adele Simon “Reconstructing the Nation: Large-Scale Architectural Projects in Astana 1998-2018.” Advisor: Kishwar Rizvi.
Dina Taha “What is the Time in Mecca? Clock Towers and the Transformation of the Temporal Culture in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.” Advisor: Kyle Dugdale.
Jonathan Hopkins “Democratizing Development: Addressing wealth inequality and exclusionary urbanism in the American city through popular sector participation in real estate.” Advisor: Elihu Rubin.
Zingqiu Zhang “Representing the City: visual media and interdisciplinary inquiry in urban research and experiments 1954-2019.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Jack Hanly “Managing the Well/Managing the Town: Petro-capital, Late Modernism, and the Environmental Professional.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
2018
Jia Weng “Waste in the Water Machine.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Shuyi Yin “Preservation at War: Cultural Heritage and Its Media.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
2017
Daphne Agosin “Morphological Definitions of Street Theater, 1968 – 1985.” Advisor: Karla Britton.
Gregory Cartelli “Strategic Model Theater: The Urban Training Facility and the (re)Production of the City, 1942-2016.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
2016
Geneva Morris “Life in One Room: Small Space Living Typologies, 1940-2015.” Advisor: Elihu Rubin.
Shivani Shedde “Making (In)visible: Spatial Governance in Kolar Gold Fields, 1873-2016.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Preeti Talwai “Self, Space, Screen: Embodied Relationships in Hybrid Retail Environments.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
2015
Benyameen Ghareeb “Housing Crisis in Kuwait: Toward a Viable Alternative.” Advisor: Todd Reisz.
Eric Rogers “The New Deal and ‘The Economy.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Andrew Ruff “Architecture of the Unknown Symbols, Projections, and Speculative Worlds.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Brent Sturlaugson “Housing Power on Pine Ridge Reservation.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
2014
Anuj Daga “Traversing Geographies.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Ayeza Qureshi “Mapping Power: the Political Instrumentality of the Map in Karachi.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Britton Rogers “Obsolescence or Renewal: New Haven Confronts De-Industrialization at Long Wharf.” Advisor: Elihu Rubin.
Daniel Snyder “Ornament: to love, seduce, submit.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Jessica Varner “Co-Evolution Quarterly: Ecology, Exchange and Expertise.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
2013
Saga Blane “XS: Diary of an artist collaborative.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Juana Salcedo “Taming El Dorado: Planning Misadventures in the Venezuelan Guana, 1951-1964.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
2012
Matthew Gin “’Ein Platz und einer Idee’: Designing, Building and Diffusing the 1972 Munich Olympics.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Andreas Kalpakci “Unleashing Citizenship: Paul Otlet, Democracy and the Organization of Space.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Amanda Marquit “At Home in America: An Examination of Motels and Trailers as Low-Income Housing on Commercial Thoroughfares.” Advisor: Elihu Rubin.
David Sheerin “Covert Space: National Security Infrastructure in Northern Virginia Technology Corridor.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
2011
Eero Puurunen “Assessing Environmental Sustainability of Urban Plans. Case Study Helsinki.” Advisor: Michelle Addington.
David Rinehart, 2011 - “Ambientismo and the Modern Style in the Architecture of Marcello Piacentini.” Advisor: Stanislaus von Moos.
Jimmy Stamp “Architecture in Media Rez.” Advisor: Emmanuel Petit.
2010
Nathan Bright “Architecture of Movement. The drawings of Peter Cook and Bernard Tschumi, 1973-81.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Caglar Tombus Ozlem “National Identity, Power and Architectural Culture: Three Cases in Ankara and Istanbul.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
David Sadighian “Informing Publics: Museums, Mass Media, Informatics, 1964-1977.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Zachary White “Transformations of Home: Chicago Architecture as Fairy Tale, 1976 - 1980.” Advisor: Emmanuel Petit.
2009
Olga Pantelidou, 2009 “Transaction Space: Architecture, Banking, Law, and Technology.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Iben Falconer, 2009 “Architecture Nation: Branding Denmark through Architecture.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Luke Cohen, 2009 “Topologies: Art and Architecture Discourses in and out of Minimalism.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
2008
Kathleen John-Adler “Ecological Humanism: Ian McHarg and Design with Nature.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Alan Brake, 2008 “Wanderer Amid Ruins: Reflections on W.G. Sebald’s Urban Vision.” Advisor: Dietrich Neumann.
Elizabeth Bishop “The Infrastructure of Empire: London’s Liquid Networks.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
2007
Enrique Ramirez “Built to Destroy.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Federica Vannucchi “Superstudio: Discorsi Per Immagini.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Molly Steenson “The Architecture is the Sketch.” Advisor: Emmanuel Petit.
Britt Eversole “Progetto e Impero.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
McLain Clutter “Imagineering New York.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
2006
Leslie Ryan “Seeing through Water. Waster and Forgetfulness in Olin’s Pine Swamp, Hamden, Connecticut.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Frida Rosenberg “Shifting Identity in Swedish Urban Structure from Folkhemmet to Globalization.” Advisor: Emmanuel Petit.
Sara Stevens “Systems of Retail: The Bigger Box.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Joy Knoblauch “Architecture and Contingent Subjectivity. Robin Evans’ Theories and Designs, 1963-1982.” Advisor Peggy Deamer.
2005
Rosamond Fletcher “Negotiating the Interface: Communication and Collaboration in Building Technology, from Graphic Manuals to Software.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Daniel Barber “People’s Park; or, the Crisis of Humanist Architectural Environmentalism.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Francesca Russello “Little City, Big Plans: Stories of Asbury Park, New Jersey.” Advisor: Dolores Hayden.
2004
Brad Walters “The Maintenance of Modernity: Cleaning Postwar Paris, 1944-54.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Michael Lee Poy “Own Earth. A biography of the earth in black narratives.” Advisor: Hazel V. Carby.
Li-Han Hong “Observing Shadows.” Advisor: Lauren Kogod.
Valerie Casey “The Museum’s Object. An analysis of contemporary museology.” Advisor: Sandy Isenstadt.
Kanu Agarwal “Ahmedabad: Media Portraits.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
2003
Hope Svenson “Modern Visions: Visionary Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, 1960.” Advisor: Sandy Isenstadt.
Fatma Neyran Turan “Detecting Latent Landscapes.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Simone Brott “Subjectivizations: Deleuze and Architecture.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
2002
Chris Wellman “Towards a New Christian Architecture.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Joseph P. Ferrucci “Italy on the Move: The Role of the Railway Under Fascism.” Advisor: Christy Anderson.
Ralph Bagley “Adventures in Airporting.”
2001
Cyrus Subawalla ““RITA” And Indian’s Perspective on Dwelling.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Pamela McGirr “Architectural Theatrics: 20t Century Scripts.” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Chieh-Chyi Lin “Building a “Chinese” Legacy: Architecture in Post World War II Taiwan, 1945-1995.” Advisor: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
Roy Kozlovsky “Zionist Planning. From Script to Statehood (1896-1956).” Advisor: Keller Easterling.
Kay Edge “Consuming Typologies: Airport, Arena and the Calculus of Retail.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
AnnMarie Brennan “The Ambiguous Size of a 10 oz. Can.” Advisor: Lauren Kogod.
1999
Jacqueline M. Ivy “Constructing and Exhibit: Where Film and Exhibition Design Intersect.” Advisors: Peggy Deamer (primary), Brigitte Peucker (secondary)
Brendan D. Moran “Ernesto N. Rogers’ Casabella-continuita: The Emergence of Themed Issues.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Erik Vogt “The Stillpoint Garden” Advisor: Patrick Pinnell.
1998
Anne Bernard “Surface Sounding: Navigating Fluid Organizations.” Advisor: Laura Kurgan.
Rosemarie Buchanan “Uncovering the Discrepancies Between Rhetoric and Practice: Koolhaas’ Campus center at Mies’ IIT.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Elisbeth Colwell “The Role of Working Drawings in Architectural Practice, 1830-1930” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Dean S. Sakamoto “Interim Sites. An Urban Art and Architecture Project.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Anne Raleigh Perkins “Reflections of the City. Transformations in Quattrocento Urbanism and the City of Urbino.” Advisor: Peggy Deamer.
Charles Wittock “Architects Can Built a Network but can the Network Build?” Advisor: Peggy Deamer (primary) Robert S. Frew, Laura Kurgan (secondary)
1997
1996
1995
Thomas B. Forget “Virtual Obscura. Cinema and the City.” Advisor: Alan Plattus.
David Henderson Haney Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Peter Soland “Notes from Orange Street. Figuring in the American City.” Advisor: Alan Plattus.
1994
Andrew Holmes “City Lights. An Urban Tragedy in Four Acts.” Advisor: Patrick Pinnell.
Stuart Brodsky
Joy Wulke “Tow Years at Yale.”
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen “Achtung Architektur! Study on Contemporary European Architecture – The Austrian Connection.” Advisor: Karsten Harries
Edward B. Samuel “Myth and Architecture.” Advisor: Kent Bloomer
1993
I-Fei Chang “Architectural Notations: Reconception and Redirection.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Andrew Anker “Projecting into Space: Western Landscape Stereographs and the Victorian Interior.”
Andrew Meyers
David Perkes
J. Douglas Bootes “The Language of Craftmanship in Industrial Design.” Advisor: Patrick Pinnell
1992
Kelly Carlson-Reddig “Intention and Materiality in the texts of Gottfried Semper and Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc.” Advisor: Alan Plattus.
Marion Converse Winkler “Rebuilding the Suburbs: a Case Study of North Branford, Connecticut.” Advisor: Alan Plattus.
Christin Magar
Converse Winkler
1991
David M. Becker “Stimulation Versus Contemplation in American Architecture and Drama.”
Joseph William Moore “Leon Battista Alberti: Building in the House of Saturn.” Advisor: Alan Plattus.
Linda Staler-Talty “Reclaiming Lost City Fragments.” Advisor: Alan Plattus.
1990
Daniel Naegele “Rowe’s Erection: A Private Proscenium and the Elliptic Illustrations of College City.” Advisor: Alan Plattus.
Peter J. Siegrist “Accelerating the Adoption of Energy-Conserving Technology in the Construction Industry.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
Debra Lynn Coleman “Escape from Arbitrariness.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
1989
1988
Richard Ezra Delaney “Architectural Programming for Theatres.” Advisor: William Warfel (principal) Peter Millard (secondary).
Mark Linder “Architecture or Edification. Architectural Theory and the New Pragmatism of Richard Rorty.” Advisor: Alan Plattus (principal) Kent Bloomer, Cornel West (secondary).
William Brian Marquard “Maybeck’s Christian Science Church.”
Jennifer Whitley Smith “Politics and Professionalism: The Making of the Connecticut Capitol, 1872-1879.” Advisor:Kent Bloomer (principal) George Hersey (secondary)
Elizabeth Benson Swenson “Transitional Housing.”
1987
Gretchen Breese “Beliefs and the Symbolic Potential of Material Forms.” Advisor: Louis Dupre
Hwa-Fong Wang “Body, Ontology and Architecture.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
1986
Lisa Broudy “The Art Museum and its Architecture.” Advisor: Susan P. Castenas.
Timothy Culvahouse “Materiality and Architectural Criticism.” Advisor: Alexander Purves.
Richard Lanier “Landmarks of the Vertical City.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
1985
Bruce Coldham “Sustainable Communities: Strategies for design.” Advisor: Donald Watson
Richard Munday “Architecture and Writing.” Advisor: J. Hilllis Miller.
Vincent Rotge “Dynamics of Zoning of Central City Revitalization.” Advisor: Walter De S. Harris.
1984
Frederick Groen “The Nature of Romantic Ornament.” Advisor: Kent Bloomer.
Kamin Blair “Boomtown: Architecutre, Urbanism, and Power in Downtown Houston.” Advisor: Donald Watson (principal), Vincent Scully (secondary).
Jeffrey J. Monroy “Architecture as Re-Presentation: A Critique of Contemporary Classicism.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
1983
Enrique Larranaga “Towards an Architectural Theory of Dwelling in Hispanic-America.” Advisor: Walter De S. Harris.
David R Fojo “Development Decision Making With Emphasis on Housing.” Advisor: Richard Behr.
1982
Charles Joseph DeLisio “Energy Exchanges Through the Building Envelope.” Advisor: Everett Barber.
Raymond R. Glover “Architectural Design for Daylighting through Windows.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
Renee Russo R. “Citizen Participation in the Improvement of the American Urban Environment.” Advisor: Walter De S. Harris.
1981
Robert J. Haisley “Solar Chimney Theory as Applied to Building Ventilation and Air Condition.” Advisor: Everett Barber, Jr. and Herman Krinsky.
Pirkko-Liisa Louhenjoki “The Search for a New architecture in America and Finland at the Turn of the Century.” Advisor: Vincent Scully.
Margaret Waihan Liu “Technology and Housing in Developing Countries.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
1980
G. Peyton Hall “Historical Preservation.” Advisor: Walter De S. Harris.
Joseph F. Piertz “Community-Based Housing for Persons With Disabilities.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
Kathrine H. Reynolds “Submerged Link Housing: Towards an Energy-Efficient Alternative.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
1979
1978
Judith M. Capen “Instructional Skills for Architectural Educators.” Advisor: Robert S. Frew.
Kathleen A. Dunne “Investigation into Foundation Practices for Housing.” Advisor: Herman D.J. Spiegel.
Paul D. Edmeades “Embodied Energy: A Tool in Analyzing Building and Urban Form.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
L. Hawkins Mitchell “SOHO a case study in Environmental Imagery.”
Julia Ruch “Computer Aided Space Layout Solutions.”
Toni Nathaniel Harp “Black Housing Conditions.” Advisor: Walter De S. Harris.
1977
Muthana Jamel Al-Bayaty “Proposals for new Housing Designs in Iraq.” Advisor: Donald Watson.
Hideo Saijo “Plan Type Study.” Advisor: Robert S. Frew.
1976
Gavin H. Litfin “Central City Renewal: The U.S. Experience 1949 to 1976.” Advisor: Karsten Harries.
Douglas R. Rosen “Activity Orientation and the Perception of Environmental Surfaces.” Advisor: Gary Winkel.
John Spear “Observations on the Development of a User-Responsive Urban Housing Archetype.”
1975
Michael Benedikt “The Information Field.”
Margaret Goglia “Physical Environment Organization Dynamics.”
Kazuhiro Ishii
Rye Loope “Energy use and strategy in the built environment.”
Jala Makhzoumi “Some Aspects of the Urbanization Process in Iraq.”
Hervin Romney “A Study of some aspects of the relation between culture and the dwelling with a view to architectural design theory.”
Hughes Thompson “Influences of Public Decision Making on Urban Development.”
1974
Philippe Campus “An Inquiry into a Research Method of Cognition Processes of Architectural Space.”
Nasrine Faghih “Elements of Urban Analysis.”
John Hart “Teaching Space Concepts to Primary School Children.”
Raymond Matela “Simplex Sigillum Veri.”
Hanna Shapira “A Procedure for Generating Floor Plans Computer Aided Design.”
Josef Stagg “Human and Environmental Development Through Creativity and Problem Solving.”
Peter Clegg
1973
Arthur Duncan “The Political Economy of Urban Development.”
Marie-Christine Gangneux
Francois Guerin “Form Order and Design.”
Theodore Landsmark
Sandy Moore “Experiencing Architecture.”
Jenkins Washington “Industrialization of Housing.”
Louise Meusel
1972
Nils Bruumn
John Delgado
Norma Hurt
Robert McClendon
Christopher Oji
Keiichi Okamoto
David Parish
Robert Rindler
Leon Vaughn
1971
Virginia Carroll
Sam Davis “Studey on Architecture Education.”
Dexter Bruce
David Garber
Kunihiko Hayakawa
Jack Matthews
Paul Peters
Paul Sparis
William Street
Mikiro Takagi
Michael Utsey
Judy Wolin
1970
Davis Buckley
George Bumbray
K Carbajal
Jaime Guzman
Toni Harp
Clinton Helvey
Gary Mahaffey
Ivey Nix
Carl Safe
Merlin Shelstad “A Conceptual Framework for Environmental Design.”
1969
Patricia Apps
John Badman
Albert Barokas
Michael Bignell “A Process of Reurbanization Studies of the Urban Environment.”
Peter Corrigan
Jeffrey Gault
Raymond Kaskey
James Peoples
Douglas Southworth
Ernest Van Purnell