Graduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Cooling Machines: Exploring the Heat Mitigation Effect of Urban Trees with Computer Vision
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)As the impacts of climate change on cities become more pronounced, urban authorities are under pressure to prepare existing streetscapes for increased levels of heat stress. While many aspects of existing urban morphology ... -
Co-Authoring Beyond the Human: Disordering Architectural Processes through Play and Multi-Agent Co-Existence
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)This thesis reconsiders architectural authorship and the extended processes through which the built environment is shaped, using a series of playful, participatory interventions to expose the human-centric assumptions ... -
The Objectiles Guide to Time Travel: Re-Envisioning Building Materials as Narrative-Collecting Object-Projectiles on a Trajectory Through Space-Time
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)As the architectural discipline grapples with its role in resource depletion, carbon emissions, and waste generation, there is a growing urgency to stop sourcing new materials and to reuse materials from existing buildings ...
