Kyle Jensen will defend is thesis entitled “Optimizing Structure: An Investigation into Lightweight Structures” on Tuesday April 21, 2015 at 6:00 PM Lawrence Cummings Lecture Theatre (ARC 1001). His research which explores the potential for tensile structures to reduce a building’s embodied energy and improve sustainable architectural practices.
Holland Young’s thesis entitled “Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter” explores how storytellers use overlapping real and fictional architectural environments in order to propel narrative and precipitate an immersive experience for an audience. Her defence will take place on Friday March 27, 2015 10:00 AM in the Main Lecture Theatre.
Paula Lee defends her thesis entitled Living beyond Subsistence on Tuesday, March 24th at 5PM in the ARC Loft. Her work re-imagines the singular idea of home as functional space in the low-income tower context of 200 Wellesley Street East, Toronto through the design of a mediating social space.
“We fold memories of the dead into the space of the living. We embrace death, even while we turn away from it.” Deborah Wang’s thesis entitled Phantom Limb presents a series of encounters with death, and a reflection on loss, in photographs and sculptures. Her defence is on Monday March 23, 2015 at 3:00PM in room ARC 110.
Stephen Wenzel will defend his thesis entitled Cycle City: Generating a Cycling Culture in Toronto on Monday February 9th at 12pm in room 2026. His thesis investigates how the design of cycling infrastructure can act as a catalyst for a the growth of a cycling culture.
Kathryn Schwartzkopf will defend her thesis “No Common Ground: Atlas of Resistance and Control during the 2010 Toronto G20 Summit” on Monday January 19th at 6pm in the Lecture Hall. Her work focuses on how crowds moved through and appropriated space in downtown Toronto during the protest demonstrations, examining how the security apparatus reconfigured the space of the city in order to control public movement.
Zhuoyi (Joy) Zhang defended her thesis, Migrants, Urban Village and an Open Community –
A case of Yangji, Guangzhou, China on Friday December 12, 2014 10:00 AM ARC 2026
Talayeh Hamidya will be defending her thesis, MAKING THE CITY, at 82 Divadale Drive in Toronto on Friday, December 12, 2014, at 2 pm. Four projects were undertaken as experiments for examining the effectiveness, techniques and possibilities within Tactical Urbanism.
Alireza Takook will defend his thesis, the narrative of a destructive natural phenomenon depicting an architect’s evolving understanding of the natural world, on December 10 at 10 am in the Architecture Loft.
Chanel Dehond will be defending her thesis entitled A series on Monday, December 8th, at 6pm in the Loft, BYOP (Bring Your Own Pillows) as we will be getting cozy on the ground in darkness.