class of 2023 800×600 – Karen Kensek
MBS Thesis Projects
Please enjoy the range of topics that the 2023 Master of Building Science students researched over the past year.
ARCH698B_AlexanderRobinson_LufanHu_Cover – Lufan Hu
Designing Flow
This studio focuses on the design, development, and application of design and community engagement practice for the Los Angeles River Integrated Design Lab and the G2 & G1 parcels. The…
thumbnail – Francesca Picard
Buildings, Drawings, Objects, and Tectonics
In this section we discussed tectonics as a topic of interest. We evaluated tectonics through four topics: Problem (What), Context (Where), Technique (How), and Theory (Why). The aim of thesis…
Cover Photo_FangzhouNi – Fangzhou Ni
Plate Tectonics
To “see” architecture, or feel the space of a room, is to see beyond the surface that bounds it—the material from which that surface is constructed, to its intentionality, meaning…
ARCH 793b_JohnSouthern_RunyuWang_CoverPhoto – Runyu Wang
Collage Polemics and Operative Fictions
Collage polemics and operative fictions allow the designer to choose many narrative paths in order to arrive at a visual argument. Visual aesthetics and wordsmithing play an important role, not…
Arch793__YaohuaWang_SiqiZhang_Thumbnail – Siqi Zhang
Tectonics of Many
This section works with the proposition that contemporary space is not singular but rather an assemblage of many spaces that overlap and are superimposed. It is the coexistence of multiple…