Category: S – M – L – XL

This thesis reconceptualizes the stadium as a continuous urban system rather than a singular, event-driven object. Conventional stadiums operate at extremes, intensely occupied during events yet largely vacant in everyday conditions, resulting in spatial, economic, and social inefficiencies within the city. This project proposes an integrated model in which stadiums are embedded within residential, commercial, […]

In an era where architecture is increasingly consumed as image—accelerated by digital production, AI-generated renderings, and social media—the discipline privileges the polished final output while obscuring the labor, iteration, and uncertainty that produce it. This thesis challenges the authority of the final image, proposing instead a representational practice that exposes architecture as an ongoing process […]

Garett Lee | Ryan Tyler Martinez This thesis reimagines architecture’s role in a post-flood world where the city becomes both a cultural memory and ecological frontier. Moving beyond infrastructural strategies of resistance, it adopts speculative design as a method to envision how life, settlement, and ritual might evolve within an amphibious terrain. The project constructs […]

Natural order is characterized by infinite complexity, omnipresent interconnectedness, and immeasurable softness, qualities that often resist direct translation into the built environment. This thesis will investigate how the adoption of living systems into architecture, particularly across diverse scales of public life, could create more symbiotic, adaptive, and sustainable communities, ultimately imagining a built environment that […]

Concrete remains one of the most versatile and effective building materials, particularly suited to the climatic and geologic conditions of Los Angeles, offering fire resistance, seismic performance when reinforced, and thermal mass. Yet its environmental cost is substantial, accounting for roughly 8% of global carbon emissions, and its durability complicates repair, adaptation, and disassembly. In […]

Name: Chloe Kaplan Kristensen Thesis Advisor: Ryan Tyler Martinez Thesis Statement: Dwelling In Between explores how architectural interventions can blur the boundary between private domestic life and the public realm. By extending the intimacy, care, and everyday life of the home into urban space, this thesis redefines dwelling as a collective condition shaped by rituals […]

This thesis investigates how graphic systems can operate as primary generators of architectural elements. Rather than treating graphics as representational tools that describe a building after it is conceived, the project inverts the conventional sequence where graphic design becomes the origin of spatial, material, and tectonic decisions. The project is driven by a series of […]