MBS Thesis Projects
Please enjoy the range of topics that the 2023 Master of Building Science students researched over the past year.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
