Master of Architecture Theses
Every spring, graduating M.Arch students are invited to defend an independent thesis. This is an optional track within the M.Arch program, in which students work closely with a committee of faculty members to develop their research, program and project, producing both written and visual responses. Visiting critics offer feedback at milestone reviews throughout the fall and spring, culminating in the final thesis defense. Written theses are also published on the university's Scholarworks platform.
2023
Music as a Tool for Ecstatic Space Design
Creating Dormitories with a Sense of Home
The Tectonic Evaluation and Incorporation of the Design Process in 3D Printed Buildings
Making is Thinking: Using Composite Timber Construction to Foster Collaboration Between Architects, Builders, and Engineers
Designing for the Unhoused: Finding Innovative and Transformative Solutions to Housing
Investigating Design-Functional Dimension of Affordable Housing with Prefabrication on Dense Suburbs of Chelsea, MA.
Architecture of Extraction: Imagining New Modes of Inhabitation and Reclamation in the Mining Lifecycle
Utopian Thought and Architectural Design
Nature Inspired Architecture
Building Hygge In-Roads into Incremental Living
Sustainable Architecture in Athletics: Using Mass Timber in an Old-Fashioned Field
Off-Grid Living Structures for the Normative Society: Shifting Perception and Perspectives by Design
The Evolution of Chinese Supermarkets in North America: An Alternative Approach to Chinese Supermarket Design
Refreshing Refinery: An Analysis of Victorian Architecture and How to Translate its Elements for Contemporary Architecture
After Iconoclasm: Reassessing Monumental Practices and Redesigning Public Memorials in Twenty-First-Century Massachusetts
Earthen Materials in Organic Forms: An Ecological Solution to the Urban Biosphere?
Adaptive (Re)purpose of Industrial Heritage Buildings
The Food Hub as a Social Infrastructure Framework: Restitching Communities in Boston After the Pandemic