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Theses/dissertations from 2011 2011.

Aging with Independence and Interaction: An Assisted Living Community , Steven J. Flositz

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Wayfinding in Architecture , Jason Brandon Abrams

Phenomenology of Home , Lidiya Angelova

Do You Have A Permit For That? Exposing the Pseudo-Public Space and Exploring Alternative Means of Urban Occupation , Adam Barbosa

Architecture as Canvas , Monika Blazenovic

Women and Architecture: Re-Making Shelter Through Woven Tectonics , Kirsten Lee Dahlquist

Re-Connecting: Revitalizing Downtown Clearwater With Environmental Sensibility , Diego Duran

Livable Streets: Establishing Social Place Through a Walkable Intervention , Jeffrey T. Flositz

Upgrading Design: A Mechatronic Investigation into the Architectural Product Market , Matthew Gaboury

Emergent Morphogenetic Design Strategies , Dawn Gunter

Re-Tooling an American Metropolis , Robert Shawn Hott

The Rebirth of a Semi-Disintegrated Enterprise: Towards the Future of Composites in Pre-Synthesized Domestic Dwellings; and the Societal Acceptance of the Anti-In Situ Architectural Movement , Timothy James Keepers

Architectural Symbiosis , Tim Kimball

Elevating Communication , Thao Thanh Nguyen

PLAY: A Process-Driven Study of Design Discovery , Kuebler Wilson Perry

AC/DC: Let There Be Hybrid Cooling , Christopher Podes

The Third Realm: Suburban Identity through the Transformation of the Main Street , Alberto Rodriguez

From Airport to Spaceport: Designing for an Aerospace Revolution , Paula Selvidge

Perceiving Architecture: An Experiential Design Approach , Ashley Verbanic

(im•print) A Material Investigation to Encourage a Haptic Dialog , Julie Marie Vo

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

The Sleeping Giant: Revealing the Potential Energy of Abandoned Industry Through Adaptive Transformation , Wesley A. Bradley

Community Service Through Architecture: Social Housing with Identity , Karina Cabernite Cigagna

Building a Brighter Future Through Education: Student Housing for Single Parent Families , Carrie Cogsdale

Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design and Technology (C-HMD+T): Biomimetic architecture as part of nature , Isabel Marisa Corsino Carro

Dyna-Mod Constructing the Modern Adaptable Home , Sarah Deardorff

Memory - Ness: The Collaboration Between a Library and Museum , Kelsey Doughty

Promoting Cultural Experiences Through Responsive Architecture , Shabonni Olivia Elkanah

Urban-Eco-Filter: Introducing New Lungs to the City of Beijing , Carlos Gil

Sustainable Planning and Design for Ecotourism: Ecotecture Embraced by the Essence of Nature on Amboro National Park, Santa Cruz-Bolivia , Claudia P. Gil

Revitalization and Modernization of Old Havana, Cuba , Mileydis Hernandez

Framework for Self Sustaining Eco-Village , Eric Holtgard

Condition / recondition: Reconstruction of the city and its collective memory , C Lopez

Architecture of materialism: A study of craft in design culture, process, and product , Logan Mahaffey

Incorporating solar technology to design in humid subtropical climates , Andres Mamontoff

"RE-Homing": Sustaining housing first , Jennifer McKinney

Devised architecture: Revitalizing the mundane , Jason Novisk

A greener vertical habitat: Creating a naturally cohesive sense of community in a vertical multi-family housing structure , Justin Onorati

Visualizing sound: A musical composition of aural architecture , James Pendley

Biotopia: An interdisciplinary connection between ecology, suburbia, and the city , Jessica Phillips

Cultural visualization through architecture , Fernando Pizarro

Experience + evolution: Exploring nature as a constant in an evolving culture and building type , Robin Plotkowski

Nature, daylight and sound: A sensible environment for the families, staff and patients of neonatal intensive care units , Ana Praskach

School work environment: Transition from education to practice , Shane Ross

ReLife: Transitional Housing for Victims of Natural Disaster , Alexander B. Smith

Form and Numbers: Mathematical Patterns and Ordering Elements in Design , Alison Marie Thom

Martian Modules: Design of a Programmable Martian Settlement , Craig A. Trover

Redesigning the megachurch: reintroduction of sacred space into a highly functional building , Javier Valencia

Aquatecture: Architectural Adaptation to Rising Sea Levels , Erica Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Landscape as Urbanism , Ryan Nicholas Abraham

Architectural Strategies in Reducing Heat Gain in the Sub-Tropical Urban Heat Island , Mark A. Blazer

A Heritage Center for the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Linking the Community and Tourism Through Culture , Islay Burgess

Living Chassis: Learning from the Automotive Industry; Site Specifi c, Prefabricated, Systems Architecture , Christopher Emilio Emiliucci Cox

Permanent Supportive Housing in Tampa, Florida: Facilitating Transition through Site, Program, & Design , Nicole Lara Dodd

School as a Center for Community: Establishing Neighborhood Identity through Public Space and Educational Facility , Fred Goykhman

Reestablishing the Neighborhood: Exploring New Relationships & Strategies in Inner City Single Family Home Development , Jeremy Michael Hughes

High-Rise Neighborhood: Rethinking Community in the Residential Tower , Benjamin Hurlbut

reBURB: Redefining the Suburban Family Unit Under a New Construction Ecology , Matthew A. Lobeck

Blurring the Disconnect: [Inter]positioning Place within a Struggling Context , Eric Luttmann

Socializing Housing Phased Early Response to Impromptu Migrant Encampments In Lima, Peru , Raul E. Mayta

Knitting of Nature into an Urban Fabric: A Riverfront Development , Thant Myat

An Address, Not a Room Number: An Assisted Living Community within a Community , Gregory J. Novotnak

Ecological Coexistence: A Nature Retreat and Education Center on Rattlesnake Key, Terra Ceia, Florida , Richard F. Peterika

Aging with Identity: Integrating Culture into Senior Housing , Christine Sanchez

Re-Establishing Place Through Knowledge: A Facility for Earth Construction Education in Pisco, Peru , Hannah Jo Sebastian

Redefining What Is Sacred , Sarah A. Sisson

Reside…Commute…Visit... Reintegrating Defined Communal Place Amongst Those Who Engage with Tampa’s Built Environment , Matthew D. Suarez

The First Icomde A Library for the Information Age , Daniel Elias Todd

eCO_URBANism Restitching Clearwater's Urban Fabric Through Transit and Nature , Daniel P. Uebler

Urban Fabric as a Calayst for Architectural Awareness: Center for Architectural Research , Bernard C. Wilhelm

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Creating Healing Spaces, the Process of Designing Holistically a Battered Women Shelter , Lilian Menéndez

A prototypical Computer Museum , Eric Otto Ryder

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Architecture Masters Theses

RISD’s Master of Architecture program is one of the few in the US embedded in a college of art and design. Here, architecture is taught in a way that understands the practice of design and making as a thoughtful, reflective process that both engenders and draws from social, political, material, technological and cultural agendas. The program aims to empower students to exercise their creativity by understanding their role as cultural creators and equipping them to succeed in the client-based practice of architecture.

The degree project represents the culmination of each student’s interests relative to the curriculum. A seminar in the fall of the final year helps focus these interests into a plan of action. Working in small groups of five or six under the guidance of a single professor, students pursue individual projects throughout Wintersession and spring semester. Degree projects are expected to embody the architectural values that best characterize their authors as architects and are critiqued based on the success of translating these values into tangible objects.

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Theses from 2024 2024

Reform Craft | Re-Form Clay , Katherine Badenhausen

Narrative Structures , Theodore Badenhausen

Room to Grieve: The Space of Solace in Public Life , Lauren Blonde

Frontier: Land, Architecture, and Abstraction , Jacob Boatman

Rhythm of Space , Brian Carrillo

Searching for the Hyperobject: Crystals as Transscalar Vehicles , Jay Costello

Unconditioning Air , Weijia Deng

(Matter)ial Revolution , Aleza Epstein

Building the Body , Jasmine Flowers

House Calls , Gregory Goldstone

Culinary community: Collaborative Relationship Building through Improvisational Fine Dining , Victoria Goodisman

Textile Tectonics: Shaping Space Through Soft Studies , Lela Gunderson

Hong Kong’s Architectural Resistance: Practice Through Research , Jingjing Huang

“Modern Nomads”: Unfolding Domesticity , Yifan Hu

Mind Follows Matter , Fiona Libby

Curb Appeal , Eric Liu

Dreampool , Xia Li

Atelier Interloper , Isabel Jane Marvel

Entre Manos Y Barro: Innovando Con Tradición , Jose Mata

Patchwork: 76km between Juárez and El Paso , Naheyla Medina

The Dollhouse , Kristina Miesel

A Dispatch from the Site Office , Adrian Pelliccia

Infinite Plane: Metaphysical Architecture + Digital Space , Isabella Ruggiero

Icons of Solitude: Peace, Quiet, and the Urban Condition , Jack Schildge

Beyond the Idle Machine: Spatio-Subjective Architecture , Andrew Schnurr

snowstorm , Caleb Shafer

Corner Revolution: Beyond “skynet”, Brightening Grey space and Building Security , Caimin Shen

Living Surfaces , Ryan R. Sotelo

THE RUNIS: HOW CAN SOCIAL REMIDATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL REMEIDATION BE LINKED THROGUH ARCHITECTURE? , Tayu Ting

Entropic Accumulation , Abby Tuckett

What does water want? , Julia Woznicki

Design With Decay , Charlotte Wyman

LifeLink , Yuan Yuan

Architecture As A Carbon-Based Practice , Qixin Yu

Theses from 2023 2023

Ghost Hotel , George Acosta

Cohabitation x Adaptation, 2100: A Climate Change Epoch , Kyle Andrews

Reintroducing Hemp (rongony) in the Material Palette of Madagascar: A study on the potential of Hemp Clay components and its impact on social and ecological communities. , Henintsoa Thierry Andrianambinina

Norteada- En Busca De un Nuevo Norte. Cocoon Portals and the Negotiation of Space. , Kimberly Ayala Najera

Decolonial Perspective on Fashion and Sustainability , Haisum Basharat

Psychochoreography , Nora Bayer

Whale Fall·Building Fall , Jiayi Cai

Means and Methods: Pedagogy and Proto-Architecture , Daniel Choconta

The Miacomet Movement , Charles Duce

Unpacked: Consumer Culture in Suburban Spaces , Jaime Dunlap

you're making me sentimental , Chris Geng

Myths, Legends, and Landscapes , Oromia Jula

Old and New: Intervention in Space and Material , Yoonji Kang

Urban Succession: an ecocentric urbanism , Anthony Kershaw

An Architect's Toolkit for Color Theory , ella knight

WAST3D POTENTIAL , Andrew Larsen

Sustainable Seismic Architecture: Exploring the Synergy of Mortise-and-Tenon Joinery and Modern Timber Construction for Reducing Embodied Carbon , Cong Li

Recipes for Building Relationships , Adriana Lintz

Water Relations, Understanding Our Relationship to Water: Through Research, Diagrams, and Glass , Tian Li

Exploring Permanent Temporariness: A Look into the Palestinian Experience through Refugee Camps , Tamara Malhas

A Study of Dwelling , Julia McArthur

Appropriate that Bridge: Appropriation as a way of Intervention , Haochen Meng

Toronto Rewilded , Forrest Meyer

Confronting and Caring for Spaces of Service , Tia Miller

Reorientation , Soleil Nguyen

The De-centering of Architecture , Uthman Olowa

[De]Composition: Grounding Architecture , Skylar Perez

Soft City: Reclaiming Urban Public Spaces for Play , Jennifer Pham

We Have a (Home) - Co-operative Homes for Sunset Park , Lisa Qiu

The Incremental Ecosystem: Hybridizing Self-Built + Conventional Processes as a Solution to Urban Expansion , Shayne Serrano

Liberdade para quem? - Layered Histories , Vanessa Shimada

Tracing as Process , Lesley Su

The Design of Consequences , Yuqi Tang

On the Edge of the "Er-Ocean" State , Mariesa Travers

Beyond the White Box: Building Alternative Art Spaces for the Black Community , Elijah Trice

Translational Placemaking: The Diasporic Archive , Alia Varawalla

Unearthing Complexity: Tangible Histories of Water and Earth , Alexis Violet

Ritual as Design Gesture: Reimagining the Spring Festival in Downtown Providence , wenjie wang

Spatial Reveries , Alexander Wenstrup

Public-ish , Aliah Werth

Phantom Spaces , Craytonia Williams II

Navigating Contextualism: An architectural and urban design study at the intersection of climate, culture, urban development, and globalization Case Study of Dire Dawa , Ruth Wondimu

Green Paths - On the Space In-Between Buildings , Hongru Zhang

Blowing Away , Ziyi Zhao

Uncovering Emotional Contamination: Five Sites of Trauma , Abigail Zola

Theses from 2022 2022

Revisionist Zinealog : a coacted countercultural device , Madaleine Ackerman

Reengineer value , Maxwell Altman

Space in sound , Gidiony Rocha Alves

Anybody home? Figural studies in architectural representation , David Auerbach

An atlas of speculating flooded futures ; water keeps rising , Victoria Barlay

Notes on institutional architecture ; towards and understanding of erasure and conversation , Liam Burke

For a moment, I was lost ; a visual reflection on the process of grief and mortality within the home , Adam Chiang-Harris

Remnants , Sarah Chriss

A thesis on the entanglement of art and design , Racquel Clarke

Community conservation & engagement through the architecture of public transportation , Liam Costello

Sacred pleasures : a patronage festival of the erotic and play , David Dávila

Caregivers as worldbuilders , Caitlin Dippo

Youkoso Tokyo : Guidebook to a new cybercity , Evelyn Ehgotz

Home: a landscape of narratives ; spaces through story telling , Tania S. Estrada

A digital surreal , Michael Garel-Martorana

Moving through time , Anca Gherghiceanu

Rising to the occasion : a resiliency strategy for Brickell, Miami , Stephanie Gottlieb

Food for an island : on the relationships between agriculture, architecture and land , Melinda Groenewegen

Towards a new immersion , Kaijie Huang

Astoria houses: a resilient community , James Juscik

Healing the Black Butterfly: reparation through resources , Danasha Kelly

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• Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Foreign Dissertations Search the CRL Catalog for dissertations already held at the Center. If a foreign dissertation is not at CRL, UCLA's Interlibrary Loan Service will request that CRL acquire it for your use. This special issue of Focus on Global Resources describes CRL's extensive collection of foreign dissertations.
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Selected Dissertations — Architecture and Urban Design

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• The search for a theory in architecture : Anglo-American debates, 1957-1976 / Louis Martin. Thesis--Ph.D.; Princeton University, 2002.
• Affordable Housing in High Opportunity Areas : Insights for Fair Housing Advocates / by Emmanuel Proussaloglou Thesis--M.U.R.P.; University of California, Los Angeles, 2023.
• Connecting Pico : a study of alternatives to re-knit the Pico Neighborhood that was divided by the I-10 freeway in Santa Monica, California / by Cecilia Garcia Urban Planning Project (M.A.)--UCLA, 2010.
• Streetscape improvement recommendations: CRA/LA Cleantech Corridor / by Daniel Caroselli Urban Planning Project (M.A.)--UCLA, 2011.
• Politics and the adoption of local development policies in Southern California cities / by Todd Andrew Donovan Dissertation--Ph. D.; University of California, Riverside, 1991.
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Artificially Alternate Bauhaus: Gremlins of Function, Body, and Pattern , Madeline Alves and Erin Zearfoss

White Picket Possibilities: Socially, Economically and Environmentally Reshaping Suburbia , Brendan Carroll

Assemblage Dwelling: A Radical Migrant Domesticity in Urbanity , Protik Choudhuri

Paradigms of the Post-Natural: Depicting Alternative Futures , Andrea De Haro and Charlotte Bascombe

Weathering with: Afterlife Treatment of Architecture , Tianhui Li

Toxic Glacier: Confronting Our Society's Consumerism Culture , Valeria Otero Lopez

The Way of Water: A Cultural Revival , Mariana Munoz

Museum of the Mechanical Eye: The Phenomenology of Perception in Architecture , Isabela Sierra

Mela: Vessels of Ephemeral Architecture , Neha Tummalapalli

Threshold Tectonics: Reclaiming Space through Geomorphological Design , Amreeta Verma

Linear Waltz with Nature: A Self-supporting Infrastructure in Nature , Shangkun Zhong

Material Contentions; Negotiating the Image of Civic Space , Emmei Gootnick and Coumba Kante

Remembered Spaces: Reframing Architecture from Body to Building , Shaan Lyngdoh Lakshmanan

CIRCUIT CITY: From Wasteland to iLand , Tina Lim and Jiuye Yan

Radicalization of the Spectacle: Fostering Free Artistic Expression Through Architecture , Mackenzie Lubin

Maps!: Living with Ghosts , Ximeng Luo and Shihui Zhu

Unearthed: Architect Invades Time Square with Soil , Megha Murali

Vesseled Cultures; Figures of Diasporic Comforts , Ying Na Li, Rachel Ly, and Skylar Sun

DEBRISIA , Alice Rong, Jing Ying Chin, and Tanya Tungkaserawong

Composite Cohousing: Hacking Colonial Vernacular , Heather Skinner

Contaminated Mycoscapes: designing with living organisms , Maria Gutierrez and Elise Zilius

Hip Hop Urbanist Reconstructions: Strategies & Tactics for Spatial Reparations , Isaac Howland

Dissolving Realities: An Endless Domestic Landscape , Hanzang Lai and Phang Lim

Living Memories: Rethinking Remembrance , Timothy Mulhall

Terra Dispositions: A Lithospheric Investigation of Wet-Matter , Alec Rovensky

MORE THAN JUST A FANTASY: LITERARY FANTASY AS AN ARCHITECTURAL TOOL , Kae Schwalber

Socializing Vacancy: An Architectural Thesis , Greg Winawer

Incu-Bus: A live-working internet incubator , Muci Yue

Neo Collectivism: Public Space Design for the Intergenerational Community , Shu Zhang

Hidden Realities , Nashwah Ahmed and Prerit Gupta

Uncomfortably numb , Camila Andino and Daniela Andino

Alternative Shelters , Sukhmann Kaur Aneja

Alternative Americanisms , Ella Michelle Arne

Folie a Cinq: Performative Systems Exhibited through Theatrical Means. , Madison Cannella

Occupy , Nitya Charugundla

Subterranean Intermission , Yiwen Dai

Architecture of Narrative , Yinem Day

ReThinking Home Waste , Elena Echarri Myers

15th Ward North , Baxter Hankin

Manifested Tectonic 'In Search of Theatricality' , Ching Huen Leung

Continuous Interior Space Architecture , Natasha Liston-Beck

Spatializing Erasure: Forging a New Commemorative Typology , Sarah Quinn and Isabel Munoz

Bunker Reclamation , Demosthenes Sfakianakis

An Agricultural Ruin , Patrick Smith

Truth Games , Hanneke Van Deursen

re-designing gentrification , Elena Whittle

Building Reconfigurations , Alex Allen and Scott Krabath

Territories of Matter: Revealing the Economies and Ecologies of Aluminum , Noah Anderson

Towards a Floating Urbanism: Adapting to Water as a New Ground , Chris Autera

Dwellings for a Digital Nomad: Radical Mobility , Tala Ayoubi

Growing above the city: Application of open-source urban agriculture system to different boroughs in NYC , Jiyoon Bae

But Soft! Fabricating Adaptive Urbanism , Caroline Barrick, Arezo Hakemy, and Sabrina Logroño

Casting Contradictive Landscapes: The objects of an Obsolescent* Future , Sarah Catherine Beaudoin

Embracing the American Atlantis: Designing for a Post-Disaster New Orleans , Mikayla Beckwith and Katherine Truluck

Blurring the Divide: Architecture that Encourages Socially Inclusive Urban Environments , Erin Benken

Your Second Home: Re-thinking of Post-disaster Housing , Evelyn Brooks

Death of a PostHuman , David Bullard and Carolina Hasbun Elias

Learning from Wes Anderson: On Artificial Memory and Detail , Abigail Campion

Activating Place: America’s Former Beer Capital , Elise Chelak

Adaptive Layers: Preservation in high speed urbanism , Yuanyue (Alex) Chen

Re*Presenting Dharavi: Activism and Agency of Architecture in Informal Settlements , Ahnaf Chowdhury and Anuradha Desai

Paintings without Frames: The Role of Augmented Reality in Art Galleries , Laura Clark

Finding a New Center: A Study of Neo-Industrial America , Juliet Domine and Virginia Paulk

Speculative Spoliation: Spolia as an instrument of locus making & identity mediation , Amelia Gan

On Nothing , Rutuja Ganoo

Reconceptualizing the Urban Artifact , Ricardo Rodriguez Huerta

A Material Affair: The Intimacy between Materials and Affective Space , Rex Hughes and John Mikesh

Mediating Propagated Consumption: Integrated Shielding for a Wireless World , Olivia Humphrey

Re-Imagine Air: Transforming Zoning Around Landmarks , Brian Hurh

Getting There: The Return of a Public Infrastructure , Yun Qing Hu and Sizhe Wang

Built in Weather: Architecture in Ephemeral Landscape , Hanseul Jang

Atmospheric Architecture: Virtual Possibility of the Picturesque , Yuqi Jin

Eldgos: The Terra-Forming Earth , Sangha Jung and Young Joon Yun

playingGround: Towards a Seriously Playful Architecture , Anita Lamisi Karimu

re-Treeting Detroit: Return of a blighted city back to nature , Nivedita Keshri and Shreeya Shakya

EncyclAPPedia: Confronting SideWalkLabs Digital Physical Community , Katharina Elisa Körber

Material Density: A Radical Approach to Adaptive Reuse , Madeline Laberge

Building Industry: Relinking Tangible and Intangible , Weibin Lao and Xiaobai Zhao

Falling Ground: Underground Osmosis , Byungryoung Lee

The Denuded Image: A Critique of the After-Image , Danya Li

The Treachery of Architectural Matter , Weiqiao Lin

2047 City: Hong Kong’s Identity in a Space of Disappearance , Mike Liu and Raul Sadhwani

Spatial Agency for Migrant Workers: Rethinking the Dynamics of Urban Villages in China , Yan Liu

The PostModer Hermits , Xuechen Li

Political Archipelago: Repoliticizing Post-Umbrella Revolution Hong Kong , Dora Yui Kei Lo

Amazon Vertical City: The fulfillment center of the future , Jessica Casero Lopez

Fantasy Park: Mode of Reality , Sai Lyu

False Actually: Constructing the False-Hyper-Real in the Quotidian American Landscape , Rose Maalouf

Topologies of Historic Typologies: Radical Transformations to Historic Preservation , Ian Masters

Architectural Ecotone: The Edge Effect , Holly Metzger and Tara Nuqul

Emoji Disorder , Doria Miller and Irving Shen

P.E.T.S.: Personal. Empathic. Topological. Series. , Ian Mulich and Jose Sanchez

Territorial Transgressions: The (New) New Jersey , Ryan Oeckinghaus

Public Space with Character: A Late, Late, Entry- Chicago Library Competition , Kokeith Perry II

Vimana: A Crisis of Translation , Apoorva Rao

Urban Rangers: The Scope of Medellin through Informal Waste Collection , Christina M. Rubino

Sunset.zip: A new proposal in architectural reconstruction , Ethan Russell-Benoit and Wilson Slagle

An Intelligent Smart City , Erik Sanchez

Sinoconn: Merchandising of Architecture and Rearmament of Labor , Furui Sun

The Disputed Territories: An Alternate History , Rasan Taher

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List of architecture dissertation topics

The architecture dissertation takes you on a ride where you are questioning what exists, and you are the one to address and answer what you want to change or architecturally contribute to. While brainstorming the architectural topic, you need to be very composed about your interests and aspirations. In this process, being integral with ongoing living trends and contextual issues will lead you towards making your architecture dissertation relevant and impactful. Here are a few categories to help you choose your design forte and then sink into the hustle and celebrate the phase of your architecture dissertation.

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• Urban Architecture
• Industrial Architecture
• Public Architecture
• Hospitality Architecture
• Religious Architecture
• Cultural Architecture
• Commercial Architecture
• Healthcare Architecture
• Educational Architecture
• Residential Architecture

As per the categories below is the list of architecture dissertation topics:  

1. Co-living Housing ( Residential Architecture )

In the age where earning a living is of more priority than living in families, co-living spaces are here to stay. Co-living housing schemes, not only encourage sharing space, but also sharing culture, social life, and philosophy even across generations. This design topic has the scope of uplifting the work from home culture and offering affordable ideas which respond to the collective lifestyle.  

2. Multi-functional Urban Squares ( Urban Architecture )

With the increasing population, the world faces land scarcity and a rise in concrete jungles. But some places have been solving this problem by introducing multi-functional urban squares. Thus, while accommodating urban facilities, this concept also offers recreational facilities. The topic allows fulfilling the urban requirement with shades of green in the cityscape.  

3. Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) Design (Transportation Architecture)

Urban cities with efficient transit systems develop quickly in terms of technology and economy. Architecture dissertation for mass transit challenges one to dictate movements of city residents through designing it to be less chaotic and more engaging. Along with technological aspects, one can instigate environment-friendly public transport proposals.

4. Waste Management Center ( Industrial Architecture )

An increase in urban population led to an increase in urban waste, which is not treated well in cities. An architecture dissertation in waste management could be a game-changer for rethinking urban environments to be sustainable. It grants exposure to materials that can be recycled or reused and also towards the scale, acoustics, and circulation around the machines installed for waste management.

5. Community Center ( Public Architecture )

Community centers often are the result of the empathetic need in society. Architecture has always amazed society with its contribution to community development. Not only in rural areas but also in the urban vicinity we live requires such centers to address the mental health of urban dwellers. It is a context-driven topic where one can showcase their sensibility towards neglected social issues of any observed region.

6. Redefining Hotels and Resorts (Hospitality Architecture)

Hotel Architecture has been initiated to become the face of the city and reflects nuances of the city culture, history, and style. Hospitality has always been a diverse concept, from greeting to offering meals, and architecture has magnificently contributed to constantly adapting this diversity. This kind of architecture dissertation topic confronts one to be pitch-perfect in the functional planning and circulation of spaces and at the same time create a statement design.

7. Temple Complex of the Future (Religious Architecture)

The temple architecture involves ample customs and traditional beliefs while considering the hierarchy of spaces. Such topics evoke a sense of narration to remodel the temples that will be as captivating in the future as they are today. Hence, to design for the religious activities performed today and fathom the design response of future cohorts is the gap to be bridged.

8. Retracing the Identity of Crematorium (Public Architecture)

The death phenomenon has always been dark and desolate, and crematoriums reflect this with utmost peculiarity. Although, along with time, the idea of death has transformed quite spiritually, and there is a rising need to imprint that intangibility in the tangible space of cremations. This topic challenges to mold human perspectives towards life and death by attempting to retrace them.   

9.  Eco-Museum (Cultural Architecture)

Lately, museums have evolved in varied typologies from general science-art-history museums to an intervention of Virtual Reality in the museums. However, eco-museums encourage observation and learning of the social, cultural, and natural ties of the place and the people and highlight sensitivity towards the welfare of the ecosystem. This typology of architecture dissertation attempts to connect with the visitors through awareness activities expanding the community distantly.

10. Revitalizing Local Markets (Commercial Architecture) 

Markets are a place of constant engagement and community encounters. Analyzing markets post-pandemic, one can sense the need to organize these congestions. Thus, while designing a market, it is essential to adapt to the current needs, achieve a sustainable design, and recreate engagement. 

11. Animal Shelter and Veterinary Care ( Healthcare Architecture )

While we are busy designing for our needs, being thoughtful for the ecosystem is equally crucial. The architecture dissertation dedicated to natural life around us apart from fulfilling the never-ending demands of humans’ could direct towards eco-sensitive design. The animal habitats are not something they can compromise on, and when they need to be treated by veterans, they face difficulties with the environment around them.

12. Urban Campus (Educational Architecture)

Urban campus weaves itself into the urban fabric such that the students coming from distant places feel a part of the city. They aim to offer distinctive curricular experiences through providing spaces to learn, work, play, and integrate themselves into fun learning. This topic liberates you to plan a wide range of functional spaces like R&D labs, libraries, cultural areas, cafes, canteens, etc., and integrate themselves to create a vibrant and energetic environment.

13. Reinventing Villages (Residential Architecture)

Rural development scouts to create affordable and sustainable living conditions for the residents. They lead a simple life with contentment and vulnerability towards nature. In response, recreating vernacular housing and providing them with basic amenities like health and sanitation, educational and communal facilities, electricity, and gas supply with proper maintenance could fulfill Gandhiji’s ideal village initiative. 

14. Disaster Relief Housing (Residential Architecture)

Disaster Relief calls for emergent architecture during natural calamities or even wars or terror attacks. Such a dissertation topic requires crisp research on building materials that can be prefabricated, recyclable, easily available, and assembled at such times. This topic is not limited to modular buildings and can innovate for concentration camps to resolve the issue. 

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PhD Dissertation: Architecture in Philosophy; the understanding of architecture as a contemporary art form in structuralism and phenomenology

It is a widely accepted fact that architecture functions in the space as fixation, condensation, exclamation mark. In its individual realizations, architecture is a point of coalescence of the knowledge of the time and space, of art and technique, of social and economic system. As a specific artistic expression, it employs principles, and to actualize them in the space, it always requires sensitivity of a designer. Its expressivity, inscribed in stone, wood, metal or another building material, can be read in its totality only if we know, beside individual tectonics, the code or the context of an architectural expression. Contemporary architecture is essentially defined by a radical cut brought in the space by modernist architecture in the first half of the 20th century. Because modernist architecture is so deeply related to prior epochs, it is difficult to understand this sharp change without a delineation of the historical semantic levelling of architecture. The first part of the dissertation thus offers a theoretical trajectory of the term architecture from the Antiquity to the present, arguing that modernist architecture finds its origins in the time of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment in architecture is a specifically formative period considering that architecture's fundamental demands were redefined and its essence radically reconceptualised. Modernist architecture offers solutions in space that enable a fast, economical and rational rebuilding of either demolished or increasingly over‐populated and fast growing cities. Among the paradigms of modernist architecture, rationalism is perhaps the most dominating, since it always functions through two parallel tendencies: through abstraction at the level of form with the primacy of pure geometrical lines and through technique and technological innovation. The purpose of architectural modernism, which brings the tendencies of this rationalisation into the space, is a creation of a new, open space, one that is bright, hygienic, clean, and logically and efficiently designed. These gestures can also be read as implementation of scientific technological achievements of the Enlightenment, which is the focus of the second part of the dissertation, in which the paradigms of modernist architecture are analysed. Our hypothesis is that the answers given by modernist architecture to specific symptoms of the time can be understood as indicators of the predominance of the structure das Unheimliche.

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The consequential philosophical yearning and classical architecture had acquired an exceptional significance during the culmination of ancient Greek world despite all their conflicts and crisis; which creations are still contextual. In this interdisciplinary study, an estimated ‗theory' and ‗hypothesizing' took the major motivating tributary to descend a relation between the modalities of classical philosophy and theory of aesthetics associated with ancient Greek architecture. Thus discourses from philosophy, humanities and art theories regarding Greek architectural features are brought within reach. For that, Visual, material, construction and stylistic analysis of Greek architecture have constructed the ‗What and How' of the discourse while the iconographic discussions will lead us to the answers of ‗Why'. Some supportive analyses of socio-political history, text and biographies are also deliberated to correlate and prove the evidences. Who knows, Architecture might be the memento of Greek metaphysical manifestation: where the then Greek religion, patronization form power, economy, cultural exchange, humane thought and overall, their philosophy translated into hoary stones-something which is still a mystery. Such hypotheses will distillate that how influential were these deep-sighted thoughts and made them able to constituent all these white carving-stone poetry. The philosophical responsiveness might have sprouted from the immanent interrogations in architecture through form, function and space; as a speculation of external and transcendental questions to search the ‗Ideal'. The possible coherence of architecture with philosophy without any distinct horizon in-between, which is less focused earlier, designates the originality of this dissertation.

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