Monday and Thursday are studio days. On these days in particular, the third floor undergraduate studio is filled with a frenetic energy of design, research, and exploration. Students can usually be found talking excitedly with design professors and classmates in a habitat saturated with trace sketches, study models, and empty coffee cups. Every week we’ll share […]

THESIS WORK features Kate Jackson’s development of her thesis HOUSE (CRAFT) which proposes a “relocatable” housing typology for the millennial generation which appropriates underutilized parking lots to build vibrant communities.

Amr El-Bahrawy will defend his thesis, “A House of No Importance: The rise and fall of Nasr City’s middle class extended family houses” on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 11:00 am in ARC 2026. The thesis critically explores the relocation of middle-class, intergenerational households in urban apartment building typologies in the Cairene residential district of Nasr City to emerging suburban developments on Cairo’s periphery.