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  • Delray: A Case Study in Declining Immigrant Neighborhoods 
    Koleszar, Austin J. (2019-06-03)
    Immigrant neighborhoods are often industrial and when the production moves, the factory closes, or the city deindustrializes these communities lose their cultural density. These communities are the key for 2nd & 3rd ...
  • Democratic Impermanence 
    Ryan, Sean (2012-05-17)
    Democracy is a word that generally provokes perceptions of freedom, choice, or the understood ability to have an effect on your environment. However, the actual composition of our physical environment is largely the product ...
  • The Dependency of Production 
    Allick, Christopher (2013-06-05)
    The allure of industrialization has captivated the imagination and interest of architects since the early days of mass production. New industrial processes allowed for high quality goods to be produced at a rapid pace ...
  • Design as a Community Catalyst - Rebuilding Downtown Identities 
    Reynolds, Scott (2014-05-16)
    Thriving Post-World War Two America created cities that were no longer dependent upon America’s major city centers, but rather a network of regional developments. Highways allowed metropolitans to rapidly expand and engulf ...
  • Designers, Builders, Users: Messing with Mainstream Architecture 
    Noto, Andrew (2012-05-17)
    The built environment is representative of a society’s health. It grows and diminishes with economic changes and largely affects social behavior. Therefore it is easy to ascertain that healthy and vibrant built environments ...
  • Design for the Public-Private Threshold 
    Autrey, Logan (2019-05-22)
    This research aims to make interpretations of how we define the public and private in contemporary domestic spaces. It will address how due to the age of modernization, the age of industrialism and consumerism, we have ...
  • Designing for Loss 
    Hoppe, David (2012-05-17)
    Floods are the number one most common natural disaster in the United States. Each year they kill hundreds of people and cause billions of dollars in damages to both the natural and the built environment. They are both ...
  • Designing for the Site 
    Smith, Christina (2014-05-20)
    From mountains and hills to valleys and plains, there exists a variety of landscapes of which act as the resting place for architectural designs and buildings. However, when selecting a site on which to construct, the ...
  • Designing the Message 
    Allan, Johanna (2012-05-17)
    “Brands are persuasive lifestyle packagers, powerfully focused on molding our ideas about what our identity should be.” (Klingmann, 2007, p. 2) Many companies use brand identity to persuade people to buy their product, but ...
  • Designing War/An Architecture of Defense & Destruction 
    Suschak, Alison (2013-11-15)
    An institution built around destruction and war can off er insight and innovation into architecture and construction processes. Temporary and permanent military occupation impacts the surrounding environment and community ...
  • Design + Making 
    Cephas, Jana (2012-05-17)
    Drawing is at once a mark made upon a surface and a derivation of meaning from the making of the mark. A cursory look suggests that drawing is merely a communicative medium not dissimilar from written language; the drawing ...
  • Desmond Landing: Riverfront Catalyst 
    Pulcer, Christopher (2015-04-28)
    This is a yearlong study researching, analyzing, and designing the concept of how the riverfront can become an anchor for a city’s economic development from an otherwise unused and abandoned area. The study observes ...
  • DESTINATION: Building a Foundation for Mass Transit 
    Tomlinson, Trevor L. (2012-05-17)
    DESTINATION: Building a Foundation for Mass Transit Every building we design today is designed to incorporate the automobile in some way. Parking must be considered and proportional to the building occupancy. The footprint ...
  • Detroit_Link 
    Neiling, Ryan (2012-05-17)
    The decentralization of many metropolises began decades ago when people began moving from the city center to suburban areas. This effectively reduced the number of people concentrated in one area in case of nuclear war, ...
  • Detroit: Urban Housing [re]Considered 
    Liburdi, Carlo (2012-05-17)
    Detroit's urban landscape transcends all inherent notions of what an urban landscape should resemble. It is within the framework of Detroit's tattered urban fabric that this investigation takes place. The concept of hard ...
  • Diaspora Directed Development 
    Islam, Farhana (2019-06-07)
    Based on home visits and family interviews and inspiration from traditional Bangladeshi housing forms and concepts, this thesis introduces new housing typologies to accommodate the various types of Bangladeshi-American ...
  • Digital playhouse: thresholds of visual and tactile bodies 
    Seyferth, Staci Lynne (2012-05-17)
    With the increasing speed of our society as our technologies grow, we have become increasingly static in the use and understanding ofour physical bodies as we allow technology to go beyond the simple theory ofmimicking the ...
  • [DIS]connection/[RE]connection 
    Carpenter, Bryan (2012-05-17)
    This study looks at how people or places become disconnected over time and the carious reasons for such an action. As the surrounding contexts change, places and/or people lose their relationships with their adjacent people ...
  • Display 
    Laszczyk, Andrew (2013-06-12)
    This thesis is an investigation into the phenomena of display. Through an understanding of this particular phenomena, the relationship between a thing’s perceived meaning and its positioning in the built environment can ...
  • Dissolving Boundaries: a catalytic approach to ameliorate Belfast, Northern Ireland 
    Harrison, Jessica (2012-05-17)
    This thesis is aimed to develop a large scale program, for a place whose essence is inherently filled with a schism of political and religious turmoil, and provide an opportunity for amelioration and conciliation. The ...

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