Category: Theses
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Building the Ivory Tower
Sokbom Hong TO ASK WHAT ARCHITECTURE IS is to ask what makes architecture architectural. The thesis’ research question thus turns from the illusion of an object towards the modality that allows something to appear as architecture: the architectural. Consequently, the ‘architectural’ discourse that the thesis seeks to initiate is shifted away from the traditional design…
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Sheltering Alternative Futures
Feihao Zhang Although appearing remote and isolated, polar and space architectures are always interconnected with the rest of the world. On May 11, 1957, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd passed away in Boston, marking the end of the Heroic Age of polar exploration and following the deaths of Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Scott, and others.…