gradthesis.sciarc.eduGrad Thesis 2023

Information INFORMATION EXHIBIT EVENTS STUDENTS INFORMATION INFORMATION Aligned with the first week of the fall term, Graduate Thesis at SCI-Arc cultivates an inevitable link between the theses of outgoing graduates and the curiosity of incoming students. The weekend of reviews gives graduate thesis students an invaluable platform to articulate, propose, and defend their work to the SCI-Arc community and beyond. 97 students and 21 faculty advisors will converge with an array of invited guest critics from within and outside the discipline of architecture, to review, debate, and contemplate the provocations of this year’s thesis projects. This year’s graduate thesis projects at SCI-Arc are rooted in a profound understanding of the persistent social, technological, and climatic challenges we face globally,” notes Jackilin Hah Bloom, Graduate Thesis Coordinator. Students have established new capacities to address these issues, not from a problem-solving approach, but one that focuses more on crafting novel processes and frameworks to enhance our understanding of the built environment. While each project represents a unique and personal exploration, collectively, this year’s thesis projects will invigorate discussions around technology, building, and ecology.” Special thanks to all the constituents at SCI-Arc who help to make all Graduate Thesis events happen. DIRECTOR/CEO Hernán Díaz Alonso VICE DIRECTOR/CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER John Enright GRADUATE PROGRAMS CHAIR Elena Manferdini GRADUATE THESIS COORDINATOR Jackilin Hah Bloom ASSISTANT TEACHER Richard Mapes TEACHING ASSISTANTS Kelly Dix Van Benjamin Elmer HISTORY + THEORY ADVISORS John Cooper Erik Ghenoiu Marcelyn Gow DESIGN ADVISORS Matthew Au Kristy Balliet Jackilin Hah Bloom Ramiro Diaz-Granados David Eskenazi Soomeen Hahm Damjan Jovanović Karel Klein Zeina Koreitem Karen Lohrmann Elena Manferdini Rachael McCall Eric Owen Moss Anna Neimark Casey Rehm David Ruy Marcelo Spina William Virgil Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Graduate Thesis 2023 · SCI-Arc · Home Events Students Lexicon Exhibit Emily Dinnerman, M.Arch 1 Lieven Baert, M.Arch 1 Maria (Meli) Vasquez, M.Arch 1 Haocun (Joseph) Zou, M.Arch 1 Jack Freedman, M.Arch 2 Charite Carballo, M.Arch 1 Matthew Hunt, M.Arch 1 Jenny Cook + Hanna Park, M.Arch 2 Mackenzie Champlin, M.Arch 1 Kyle Zufra, M.Arch 2 Jingbo Huang, M.Arch 1 TeKuei Huang, M.Arch 1 Arthur Modine, M.Arch 2 Piyush Panchal, M.Arch 2 Sizhe Lu + Zeyu Wang, M.Arch 2 Man Shu, M.Arch 2 Xinyuan Yue, M.Arch 2 Yiyou Zhou, M.Arch 2 Zarina Farmer-George, M.Arch 2 Wonjae Lee, M.Arch 1 Wei-Hung Chen, M.Arch 2 DOWNLOAD MAP Events 09/10 remote 09/11 remote 09/11 LIVE 09/12 remote Rewatch SCI-Arc GT2021 Spin Room Expanding the Archive presents the work of SCI-Arc’s 2021 Graduate Thesis students. Emerging out of a time of crisis and transformation, the architectural projects featured in this film expand not only what is included within architecture, but also how to do the work of architecture in the present, how to speculate, how to engage in current issues, and how to communicate architecture’s purpose to the wider world. SCHEDULE FINAL REVIEW WEEKEND Friday, Sept. 8: 2:00pm – 5:45pm Saturday, Sept. 9: 9:30am – 1:15pm, 2:30pm – 6:15pm Sunday, Sept. 10: 10:00am – 1:45pm SUMMER SYMPOSIUM TRIO SCI-Arc faculty convened to exchange ideas on the visionary themes shaping this year’s graduate thesis projects – the interplay of AI and imagination, understanding building as an action and a form, and the artistic dimensions of ecology. Techniques of Imagination Wednesday, May 31 Damjan Jovanovic (moderator), Marcelyn Gow, Karel Klein, Elena Manferdini, Casey Rehm WatchBuilding a Blank Wednesday, June 28 Anna Neimark (moderator), Matthew Au, Mira Henry, Dwayne Oyler, Florencia Pita, Andrew Zago Aesthetics of Ecology Wednesday, July 29 David Ruy (moderator), Enric Ruiz-Geli, Timothy Morton, Shuruq Tramontini Watch2022 GEHRY PRIZE ALUMNI THESIS TALK Each year Grad Thesis at SCI-Arc is honored to welcome back the previous year’s Gehry Prize recipients to share insights from their thesis journey with the current students. Sue Choi and Ian Wong, both from the 2022 M.Arch 1 program, and Sophie Akoury from the 2022 M.Arch 2 program presented their successful thesis projects and shared valuable insights into the process, workflow, and challenges they encountered. Alumni Thesis Talk Wednesday, July 19 Week 11 Alumni Thesis Talk & Mixer Wednesday, July 27th 4:00pm, Keck Hall(reception outside afterwards) Week 15 Rehearsal Review Wednesday, August 24th FINAL REVIEW WEEKEND Saturday – Sunday, September 10th & 11thARCHIVE Watch Week 02 PLANET THESIS Symposium Wednesday, May 26 6pm – 8pm SCI-Arc’s annual Graduate Thesis symposium, PLANET THESIS will probe the thesis work being done at the school, develop it through collective thinking, and respond to the question of what constitutes an architectural thesis here and now in the present moment of summer 2021, in the company of invited guests, faculty, and students. Moderated by Graduate Thesis coordinators Kristy Balliet, John Cooper, and the avatar. Live Chat Friday, May 28 2 PM A student forum for peer to peer discussion revolving around sets of thesis projects. Week 03 Live Chat Friday, June 4 2pm A student forum for peer to peer discussion revolving around sets of thesis projects. Watch Week 04 Matt Checkowski Passing Ships: Making Moments on a Changing Landscape Monday, June 7 2pm – 3pm Featuring an introduction by SCI-Arc Graduate Programs Chair Elena Manferdini, Checkowski will discuss his work, which convenes at the intersection of storytelling, design, and technology, as an exploration of the fleeting nature of modern language. Live Chat Friday, June 11 2 PM A student forum for peer to peer discussion revolving around sets of thesis projects. Watch Week 05 Asset Display / Review Wednesday, June 16 10am For the Asset Display all students develop a displayable asset of their project. The display asset can be an image, model, or image-model. The asset should describe elements such as context, building scale, material investigation, scene of animated sequence (in the case of movie thesis), detail, etc. The aim is that it advances the work from the early abstract ideas and investigations and moves into a projection of the Thesis project. Watch Week 06...