Stephanie Boutari will be defending her thesis entitled Second Skin: Painting Architecture on Monday December 1st at 2PM in the Loft. Her work, which was also featured in Design at Riverside’s Masters Works 2014, is a creative and conceptual inquiry into the role of surface or skin in architectural theory and practice.
50:50 Sovereignty, Price, Density, Efficiency – Housing-led Economic Urban Expansion in Hong KongAbstract by Kam-Ming Mark TamHong Kong is an ideal laboratory in which to study relationships between economy and architecture. In this city, tremendous power is held by both the state and in private capital. Urban form may be read as a tangible spatial manifestation both calculated and inadvertent, of a historic model of economic development since its origins as a colonial outpost living in borrowed times....
ABSTRACT by Caitlin Perry The Annapolis Valley Region is home to a rich and varied landscape. Agriculture, historic sites, the Bay of Fundy Shore, and the inland forests are just some of the aspects that together make up this unique region. Yet this exquisite region is under threat from the dual challenges of depopulation and unconsidered development leading to the loss of its essential historical and environmental character. These are quintessential rural problems and feed...