Category: ARCH 691a: Heritage Conservation Thesis Preparation and Thesis

Artesia is situated in the southeast part of Los Angeles County. Over time, it has become one of the most renowned locations for South Asian culture in California. In the 1970s, South Asian immigrants, mostly from India, began immigrating to this area because of the inexpensive housing and employment opportunities. Over time, Pioneer Boulevard over […]

Aline Barnsdall is often remembered solely for commissioning Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House, yet this narrow association obscures her broader legacy as a cultural activist and civic visionary. This thesis reclaims Barnsdall’s significant contributions, particularly her advocacy for working women and marginalized communities, by reinterpreting Barnsdall Art Park not only as an architectural site, but […]

This thesis explores Lincoln Heights Jail in Los Angeles, California to discuss the intersection of heritage conservation and carceral geography; geographical engagement with spaces, practices and experiences of confinement and coercive control. This thesis also highlights the important social histories of Cisgender and Queer Women in Los Angeles. Los Angeles has long been proclaimed a […]

At the heart of Riverside, California, two neighboring sites, Mt. Rubidoux and the Spring Rancheria, tell vastly different stories of memory, power, and erasure. This thesis examines how preservation practices have been weaponized to elevate Mt. Rubidoux into an iconic city landmark while neglecting the neighboring Indigenous Spring Rancheria, despite both sites once forming a […]

While sites like Manzanar and Tule Lake have become central to the public memory of Japanese American incarceration during World War II—often serving as destinations of dark tourism where visitors engage with curated narratives of trauma—many lesser-known internment and detention sites in California, such as those at Griffith Park, Tuna Canyon, and Santa Anita, remain […]

The Earthworks movement of the 1970s was a pivotal moment in contemporary art that merged sculpture with the natural landscape. Created to break out of the confines of the commercial art world and redirect focus away from gallery-based art, Earthworks were created at a large scale, using natural materials located on remote sites. Earthworks pose […]