1.

Discuss the changes that we have seen in the social housing architecture over
the past decade

2. Discuss the nature of middle class architecture and its place in modern society

3. Explain how recent mortgaging agreements affect architecture

4. Explain how airport designs can be made to make the terminals more efficient,
giving reasonable examples

5. Explain how the architectural designs of ancient churches were influenced by

art

6. Discuss how the destruction of the urban landscape is manifesting in the region
you live in

7. Discuss some of the challenges that poor workmanship can render to a project

8. Explain the ethical boundaries that professional architects have to be bound by

in their line of work

9. Given the opportunity to advise a project manager on constructing in a swampy

area, how would you advise them to proceed?

10. Discuss some of the challenges that are associated with skyscrapers

11. Explain some of the benefits of using technological models in architectural

diagrams

12. Criticize some of the programs that are currently available in the market for
use in architectural designs

13. Describe some of the key points that you need to focus on when drawing a
palatial house

14. What is the role of the governing body of architects in the industry?

15. Provide an accurate description of an architectural model that would be

appealing to a religious client

16. Discuss the difference in the design of houses in cold areas and warm areas

17. Explain how computer aided design has improved the work of architects over
the years

18. Discuss some of the 19th century architectural designs that are still in use
today
Modern and historical landscapes.

Urban aesthetics and new trends in urban design.

Eco-friendly development.

3D Pedestrian Flow Modeling.

Sensing, Monitoring, Modeling and Adapting the Urban Micro Climate.

Deconstructing Eisenman: Cultural presemantic theory and social realism.

Discourses of Futility: Expressionism in the works of Archigram.

Sub dialectic desemanticism and constructivism in the works.

Sub constructivism and De-objectivism: Crucifying the cross.

Waste as a Resource – Urban Metabolism.

3D Indoor space analysis for way finding.

The Urban Heat Island (UHI).

Campus Project.

The mobility of People.

Optimal Cycling Infrastructure.

Solar Energy Potential Calculation.

New design methodologies.

Preservation methods of architectural heritage.

Urban property and regeneration.

Building multicultural cities.

Urban design and health.

Spatial changes in big cities.

Design of infrastructure as a reflection of public policy.

Coding the urban form.

Designing density: increasing functionality through flexibility in family neighborhoods.

Resurgent Networks of cities.

Suburban Revisions.

Urban design in the wake of deindustrialization.

Urban Mobility: Transference and Public Transit.

The role of technology in changing how a city works.

Who owns the street, pedestrians or cars?

Skyscrapers the wrong solution to density concerns.

Ensuring a flexible urban future.

Environmental change and urban equity.

Urban ecology.
Spatial planning policy.

Is the idea of harmony with the surrounding limiting architectural development?

What is the place of enclosures in present-day architecture?

Is local influence on materials and design killing creativity?

The future shape of cities.

Communities and engagement.

Open exhibitions.

Modern Marketplace.

When is a design labeled as intrusive?

Is architecture about creativity or economy?

Should heights correspond with surrounding buildings?

Too many signs are becoming irrelevant

Are there natural alternatives to lighting signage?

How to identify utility facilities in an eco-friendly manner.

Urban Street Design.

Public plazas.

Fanbox (refer Rio Olympic fanbox of last year).

Stadiums infrastructure,
Art galleries (like Biomuseo).
Turning waste into resources: Rethinking the way we discard things.

Designing out waste – Exploring barriers for material recirculation.

Vestiges of urban spirit Isfahan’s urban fabric through socio-spatial transformations.

Separations in Multi vocality: Reconfiguring Dialogue through Design.

Critical Soviet Design: Senezh studio and the utopian imagination in late socialism.

A marketing design approach to destination development.

Suburban Navigation Structural Coherence and Visual Appearance in Urban Design.

URBAN SEGREGATION AND URBAN FORM From residential segregation to segregation

in public space.

Evolving Urban Culture in Transforming Cities Architectural and Urban Design in a Fluid
Context.

Light Design: Outdoor Urban Public Places – Urban Lighting: Design and Technologies.

Changjie Chen: Parallelizing the Execution of ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tools to

Improve the Performance of Computing and Processing Massive Geographic
Datasets: A Heuristic Research on Big Data Processing in the Planning Field

Yingfei Huang: Impact of Accessibility to Rail Transit on Commercial Property

Values: A Case Study of the Miami Metrorail

Yehan Xu: Adaptation Strategies for Sea Level Rise: Case Studies and
Application to Coastal Town of Cedar Key, Florida

Jingru Zhang: A Parcel-Level Analysis of Coastal Hazard Impact on Manatee

County’s Residential Lands: An Integrated Application of GIS, Hazus-MH and
Land Use Plan
Scott Rothberg: Evaluating Community Design for the Conservation of Fire
Dependent Ecosystems and Regional Processes

Kevin Szatmary: The Impact of Bicycle Facilities on Single Family Residential

Property Values: Evidence from Alachua County, Florida

David Wasserman: Evaluating Carsharing Potential: Developing Transportation

Options for the Future

Ruoying Xu: How the Built Environment Affects Elderly Travel Behavior: An
Activity-Based Approach for Southeast Florida

Rong Zeng: Integrated Natural and Built Environment Strategies for Adapting
to Sea Level Rise: Case Studies, Evaluation Framework, and Application to
Coastal Small Towns in Florida

Leilei Duan: Exploring the Use of Three-Dimensional Urban Simulation to

Model Form-Based Codes Regulations

Benjamin Lytle: The Anticipatory Effects of Commuter Rail on Economic

Development in Orange County, Florida

Sean Reiss: Using the Landscape to Identify Tipping Points and Thresholds to
Assess Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise for Informing Adaptation Planning in
Levy County, Florida

Briana Ozor: Playing Games: Building Capacity for Coastal Adaptation through
Role-Play

Amy Cavaretta: Examining the Viability of Transportation Development to

Reduce Urban Poverty in the Developing World through Accessibility: The
Case of Kibera – Nairobi, Kenya

Caitlin Cerame: Agriculture of the Middle: A Feasibility Assessment for A Local

Food Distributor in North Central Florida
Angela Coullias: Barriers and Facilitators of Walkability: Analysis of Street
Networks and Urban Design Characteristics Around Central Florida Elementary
Schools

Taehoon Ha: Comparative CPTED Analysis of Residential Communities in

Pangyo and Yatap Towns in South Korea

Ashley McGehee: A Case Study of Redevelopment Strategies: Creative

Revitalization of the South 8th Street Corridor in Fernandina Beach, Florida

Elizabeth Nocheck: Connecting Site Safety, Design, and Management:

Exploring and Applying CPTED Principles in Planning Policies and Practices for
Green Township, Ohio

Brittaney Ross: The Role of Community Schools in Family Friendly

Communities: Case Study of the Qutzkyallee Educational Mile in Berlin,
Germany

Josette Severyn: Accessing Transit in the Tower Road Triangle: An Evaluation

of the Built Environment and Bus Stop Accessibility

Caitlin White: Creating Bicycle Friendly Universities: An Analysis with

Recommendations for the University of Florida

Amanda Douglas: Evaluating Transportation Access to Healthy Food Sources:

A Rapid Health Impact Assessment in Alachua County, Florida

Shayna Gershman: An Evaluation of Public Participation Techniques Using

Arnstein’s Ladder: The Portland Plan

Russell Provost: A Statewide Analysis of the Interaction between the Built

Environment and Travel Behavior Using Geographically Weighted Regression

Kenwyn Harrilal: Using Hazus-MH and ArcGIS for A Parcel-Based Case Study
of the Effects of Sea Level Rise In the Tampa Bay Region With A Detailed
Analysis of Residential Parcels In Pinellas County, Florida
Douglas McDuffie: Evaluating the Factors of Developing Gainesville’s
Innovation Economy

Hannah Rogers: Bo Diddley Community Plaza: An Evaluation and Suggestions

for Redesign

Hongtao Xie: An Indicator System to Evaluate Built Environment Performance

for Waterfront Regeneration

Sarah Benton: (Un)safe and (In)secure at Home: Variations in Residential

Security in Brazil

Brian Caper: Big Changes in A small County: A Case Study of Economic

Development in Wyandotte County, Kansas

Forrest Eddleton: Communication of Past Adaptation: Using Local History in

Rural Planning for Sea Level Rise

Daniel Greenberg: Corridor Revitalization in Sarasota: A CPTED Catalyst

Proposal

Gareth Hanley: Local Economic Impacts of Airport Operations: An Economic

Impact Assessment for the West Orange Airport Authority

Lara Holimon: Did School Concurrency Affect the Location of Residential

Development?: An Analysis of School Concurrency in Alachua County, Florida

Kevin Ice: Vampire Analysis of Hillsborough County: A Spatial Representation

of Oil and Mortgage Vulnerability

Angeline Jacobs: Regulatory Barriers and Opportunities in Developing

Cohousing: An Investigation Into Small, Medium and Large Counties in Florida

Ivelisse Justiniano: Downtown Revitalization in Caguas, Puerto Rico Case

Studies, Best Practices and Recommendations

Robert Narvaez: Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Integrating

Agricultural Urbanism into Communities
Allison Schutes: Green Space: A Catalyst for Economic Development?

Max Shmaltsuyev: Cruising for Parking in Downtown Miami

Nicole Anderson: Creating Efficiency: An Examination of the Allocation of

School Facilities Resources in the Chicago Public Schools

Shivani Aserkar: Use of GIS Modeling for Creating Alternate Future Scenario
Focusing on Integrating Urban and Transportation Decisions for Polk and
Highlands County, Florida

Brenden Baitch: Assessing the Power of Sunshine: A Multicase Qualitative

Study of Solar Energy

Michele Janiszewski: Industry Cluster Analysis in Order to Promote Productive

Business Development in Western Orange County, Florida

Brett Lackey: Brain Drain to Brain Gain: A Comparative Local Economic

Development Analysis of the Creative Class in Gainesville, Florida Using
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

James Beeler: Security Planning for Public Spaces: Testing a Proposed CPTED
Rating Instrument in Berlin, Germany

Lidiane Behlau: Construction Waste and Self-Help as an Alternative to

Enhance Housing Affordability: a Case Study of a Housing Project
Implemented in Ibipora, State of Parana, Brazil

Kevin Biegler: Examining Successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Implementation

Models to Develop a Pre-Implementation Criterion (PIEC): An Application to
Ft. Collins, Colorado and Gainesville, Florida

Christina D’Auria: A Sustainable Approach to the Urban Design and

Development of Innovation Square, Gainesville, Florida

Curtis Dubberly: Determining the Effects of Jacksonville’s Enterprise Zone

Laura Erdely: Suburban Retrofit: Simulated Application of Sprawl Repair on
Orlando’s Most Promising Edge City

Charles Gibbons: Sub-Prime to Suboptimal: Realized Effects of the Foreclosure

Crisis on Neighborhood Quality in Hillsborough County, Florida

Blake Harvey: Modeling Infill and Urban Growth to Evaluate Agricultural

Conversion in Lake County, Florida

Joshua Hoffman: Public Perceptions of Rail Transit in the Community of

Winter Park, Florida: Sunrail Comes to Town

Christen Hutton: Transit-Oriented Development Case Study Policy Analysis: A

Comparative Study of Programs and Policies across the United States

Taehwan Hyeon: A Study on the Characters of the New Town Project in the
Context of the Compact City: The Case Study of Wangsimni New Town
Project in Seoul

Jacob Kain: Light Rail Transit in a Shrinking City: Defining Success for
Detroit’s Woodward Avenue Light Rail

Shane Laakso: A Comparison of Sustainability in Greenfield Development

under Form-Based Codes and Euclidean Zoning Regulations: A Case Study of
St. Lucie County, Florida

Dixue Li: Effects of Street Pattern on Frequency of Traffic Crash: A Case Study
of Gainesville, Florida

William Lisska: The Effectiveness of Psychological Traffic Calming: A

Comparative Case Study of Two Neighborhoods in Alachua County, Florida

Amy Long: Life Cycle Assessment Analysis of Coal versus Nuclear Power in
Levy County, Florida

Xing Ma: The Implementation of Urban Growth Boundary and its Effects on
Local Housing Affordability: Portland, Oregon, As a Case Study
Jessica Mackey: A Comparison of Parking Policies: A Cast Study of Fort
Lauderdale, Florida

Tanner Martin: Economic Growth in Pensacola, FL – A GIS Based Assessment

of Redevelopment Policy, 1996 – 2010

Jay McLeod: Residential Future Land Use Planning in South Florida: Regional
Analysis of Nine Counties

Brittany McMullen: The Economic Impact of Parks on Residential Property

Values: Evidence from Gainesville, Florida

Robert Murphy: Virtues Unfulfilled: The Effects of Land Value Taxation in

Three Pennsylvania Cities

Myles O’Keefe: Affordable Housing and Transit-Oriented Development: A

Comparison of Observed Policy Findings with Those of the City of Tampa

Sarah Perch: Community Garden Barriers: A Grounded Theory Study of

Gainesville, Florida

Reginald Pierre-Jean: A Methodology for Exploring the Relationship between

Intersection Form Factors and Traffic Crashes using Geographically Weighted
Regression

Tamashbeen Rahman: Bus Rapid Transit and Heavy Rail: A Comparison for
Transit-Oriented Developments in South Florida

Lindsay Rizzo: Urban Design and Marketing: How Cities Can Use Spatial
Qualities to Attract Baby Boomers

Anelkis Royce: Urban Legalization: The Effects of Legalization on Land Value

in Southern Areas of Bogota, Colombia

Crystal Torres: Evaluating the Potential Effectiveness of Community

Redevelopment Agencies to Improve Socio-Economic Conditions within the
Redevelopment Area: A Cast Study in Gainesville, Florida
Justin Willits: Bus Rapid Transit in Montgomery, County, Maryland:
Determining Stop and Station Locations in Specified Corridors

Kristina Wright Bowen: Participation and Predictability: A Comparative

Analysis of Processes and Outcomes of the Form-Based Codes and Previous
Conventional Zoning Codes of Miami, Florida and Denver, Colorado

Wencui Yang: Analysis on Correlation between Urban Form Factors and

Children’s Walkability to School

Sulhee Yoon: Finding Food Deserts Based on Food Access Index and
Transportation Modes: Case Study of Sarasota County, FL

Yuyang Zou: GIS-Based Future Land Use Hurricane Storm Surge Hazard
Analysis: A Case Study for Volusia County, Florida

1. Residential Satisfaction in High-Rise Buildings.

2. An Evaluation of Non-Classroom Spaces of Private Elementary Schools.
3. Between De constructivist Architecture and Hyper-Historicism.
4. Retrofitting Existing Mass Housing for Energy Efficiency.
5. An Evaluation of Junction Details with Transparent Sheets in Furniture Design.
6. Day lighting Evaluation in Office Buildings.
7. A Study on the Interactions between Life Styles.
8. Scheduling Problems in Architectural Design Process.
9. The interaction of reinforced concrete skeleton systems and architectural form
subjected to earthquake effects.
10. A Method to Design Kinetic Planar Surface with Mathematical Tessellation
Techniques.
11. Bio-inspired design of a kinetic node for adaptable structures.
12. Waterfront Development – Beach Convention and Exhibition Center.
13. Design of Ruled Surfaces.
14. Construction of Time Conception in Architectural Realm.
15. A Critical view of Sustainable Architecture.
16. Determination of Place Concept in the Reproduction Process of Built Environment.
17. Analytical Study of the Design Potentials in Kinetic Architecture.
18. Transformation of Meaning of Architectural Space.
19. Installation Art, the Contemporary House, and the Critique of Subjectivity.
20. Method of Morphological Analysis of Urban Housing Pattern.
21. Design and Analysis of Reconfigurable Double Curved Surfaces.
Architectural projects are classified into the following famous categories:

 Urban planning and infrastructure

 Cultural facilities
 Leisure and fun facilities
 Public offices, buildings and institutions
 Houses
Some popular topics which can be selected for an architectural thesis are:

 Development of waterfront property

 Creation of low cost housing
 Heritage museums
 Airport functioning
 Cinema and theatre architecture
 Skyscraper design
 Suburban homes for multifamily
 Aquarium-Aqua design and display
 Gaming and Animation studio
 Multimedia film city
 Lightning excellence centre
 Marine park design
 MTRS study and station
 Convention centre
 Modern art museum
 Automobile training centre
 Archaeological survey institute
 School of art and design
 Bus terminal cum commercial complex
 Luxury beach facing apartments
 Bio climatic buildings
  Cruise terminal design
 Cricket stadium display
 Media centre
 Resort design
 Disaster management institute
 Television and film institute
 Polo retreat
 Educational institute for rural children

Climate change: effects on existing projects and impacts on future ones.

The gothic style in architecture: examples of the modern renovation.

A self-sustaining urban ecosystem: a dream or the near future?

New materials: new possibilities for an architect.

3D printing: a great possibility for research and innovation in a construction industry.

Biomaterials in architecture: limitless application possibilities.

Using the water surface: the future of marine architecture.

Modern perception of landscape design: fresh ideas and useful solutions.

Soil analysis: how to use new technologies to build safely?

Natural surrounding: improving a landscape vs. fitting a building into it.

Building outside Earth: buildings to live, grow food, and store supplies.

New technologies in architecture: how digital applications help solve real issues.

Religious building styles: a comparison between churches, mosques, and temples.

Eye-catching constructions in big cities as symbols of the modern era.

Scandinavian architecture: buildings as true symbols of progress.

Solar energy and buildings: does the solar panels look fashionable?

Family houses: energy-efficiency as a current trend.

Low-cost housing: affordable solutions.

Akbar, Jamel A., web page

Ministry of Higher Education, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
… PhD, 1984, fund grp: ia, document title: Responsibility and the Traditional Muslim Built
Environment (N. John Habraken)

Akšamija, Azra, web page

Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… PhD, 2011, fund grp: ia, document title: Our Mosques Are Us: Rewriting National History of
Bosnia-Herzegovina through Religious Architecture (Nasser Rabbat)

al-Hathloul, Saleh Ali, web page

Chief Executive Officer, S. Alhathloul Development Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
… PhD, 1981, fund grp: ia, document title: Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Phsical
Environment: The Arab-Muslim City (Stanford Anderson)

Allaback, Sarah, web page

Managing Editor, Library of American Landscape History
… PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: The writings of Louisa Tuthill--cultivating architectural
taste in nineteenth-century America (Stanford Anderson)

Allais, Lucia, web page

Assistant Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University
… PhD, 2008, fund grp: ch, document title: Will to War, Will to Art: Cultural Internationalism and the
Modernist Aesthetics of Monuments, 1932-1964 (Mark Jarzombek)

Anderson, Christy, web page

Associate Professor, University of Toronto St. George
… PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: Inigo Jones's Library and the Language of Architectural
Classicism in England, 1580-1640 (David Friedman)

Anderson, Glaire D., web page

Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
… PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: The Suburban Villa (munya) and Court Culture in
Umayyad Cordoba (756-976 CE) (Nasser Rabbat)

Andreotti, Libero, web page

Professor of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
… PhD, 1989, fund grp: rt, document title: Art and Politics in Fascist Italy: The Exhibition of the
Fascist Revolution (1932) (Stanford Anderson)

Artan, Tülay, web page

Professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
… PhD, 1989, fund grp: ia, document title: Architecture as a Theater of Life: Profile of the 18th
Century Bosphorus (Stanford Anderson)

Asfour, Khaled S.
Associate Professor, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
… PhD, 1991, fund grp: ia, document title: The Villa and the Modern Eygptian Intelligentsia: A
Critique of Conventionalism (Stanford Anderson)

Ballon, Hilary, web page

… PhD, 1985, fund grp: rt, document title: Architecture and Urbanism in Henri IV's Paris(Henry
Millon)

Banerji, Shiben, web page

Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
… PhD, 2015, fund grp: ur, document title: Inhabiting the World: Architecture, Urbanism, and the
Global Moral-Politics of Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin (Arindam Dutta)

Beischer, Thomas G.
Lecturer, Stanford University
… PhD, 2004, fund grp: ch, document title: Great Expectations: Provisional Modernism and the
Reception of J.J.P. Oud (Mark Jarzombek)

Bentel, Carol Rusche, web page

Partner, Bentel & Bentel, Architects/Planners AIA; Adjunct Professor, Webb Institute
… PhD, 2017, fund grp: ch, document title: Addressing the People: Architecture as a Medium of the
Fascist Narrative of National Identity, Case del Fascio, 1922-1943 (Mark Jarzombek)

Bentel, Paul L., web page

Partner, Bentel & Bentel, AIAs, and Associate Professor, Columbia University
… PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: Modernism and Professionalism in American
Architecture 1919-1932, 1992 (Stanford Anderson)
Bhatt, Ritu, web page
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
… PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: On the Epistemological Significance of Aesthetic Values
in Architectural Theory (Mark Jarzombek and Stanford Anderson)

Bible, Ann Vollmann

Education Coordinator, Family Programs, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
… PhD, 2008, fund grp: rt, document title: Cakewalking into Representation: Gabriele Münter's
America Travels (1898-1900) and art of Dailiness (Mark Jarzombek)

Carson, Juli, web page

Professor of Art, Programs in Art History, Critical Theory and Curatorial Practice, University of
California at Irvine and Director, UCI's University Art Galleries
… PhD, 2000, fund grp: rt, document title: Excavating Discursivity: Post-Partum Document in the
Conceptualist, Feminist, and Psychoanalytic Fields (Michael Leja)

Çelik Alexander, Zeynep, web page

Associate Professor, University of Toronto
… PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: Kinaesthetic Impulses: Experience, Knowledge, and the
Body in German Aesthetics, 1871-1918 (Mark Jarzombek)

Chewning, J. A., web page

Associate Professor of Design, School of Design, University of Cincinnati
… PhD, 1986, fund grp: ch, document title: William Robert Ware and the Beginning of Architectural
Education in the United States, 1861-1881 (Henry Millon)

Christ, John X., web page

Visiting Assistant Professor, Plymouth State University, New Hampshire
… PhD, 2004, fund grp: rt, document title: Painting a Theoretical World: Stuart Davis and the Politics
of Common Experience in the 1930s (Michael Leja and David Friedman)

Cowherd, Robert, web page

Associate Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology
… PhD, 2002, fund grp: ch, document title: Cultural Construction of Jakarta: Design, Planning and
Development in Jobotabek, 1980-1997 (Stanford Anderson)
Demchenko, Igor, web page
… PhD, 2015, fund grp: ch, document title: Heritage of the Red Orient: Theories and Practices of
Architectural Restoration in Soviet Central Asia (1920-1991) (Mark Jarzombek)

Desmond, J. Michael, web page

Professor, Louisiana State University
… PhD, 1996, fund grp: rt, document title: A Clearing in the Woods: Self and City in Frank Lloyd
Wright's Organic Communities (Stanford Anderson)

Eigen, Edward, web page

Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
… PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: Between Stations and Habitations: The Architecture of
French Science at the Shore, 1830-1900 (Stanford Anderson)

Erten, Erdem
Associate Professor, Izmir Institute of Technology
… PhD, 2004, fund grp: ch, document title: Shaping "The Second Half Century": The Architectural
Review 1947-1971 (Mark Jarzombek)

Fadan, Yousef Mohammed

Assistant Professor and Vice Dean, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
… PhD, 1983, fund grp: ch, document title: The Development of Contemporary Housing in Saudi
Arabia (1950-1983): A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence under Conditions of Rapid
Change (Stanford Anderson)

Fatsea, Irene, web page

Assistant Professor, National Technical University of Athens
… PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: Monumentality and Its Shadows: A Quest for Modern
Greek Architectural Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Athens (1834-1862) (Stanford Anderson)

Fenske, Gail, web page

Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation, Roger Williams
University, Bristol, RI
… PhD, 1988, fund grp: ch, document title: The Skyscraper Problem and the City Beautiful: The
Woolworth Building (Stanford Anderson)
Ferng, Jennifer, web page
Assistant Professor, University of Sydney
… PhD, 2012, fund grp: ch, document title: Nature's Objects: Geology, Aesthetics, and the
Understanding of Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Mark Jarzombek)

Fichner-Rathus, Lois, web page

Professor of Art and Art History Coordinator, The College of New Jersey
… PhD, 1981, fund grp: rt, document title: Jack Tworkov's Work from 1955-1979: The Synthesis of
Choice and Chance (Wayne Anderson)

Francis, Razan, web page

Visiting Faculty, Bennington College, VT
… PhD, 2014, fund grp: ia, document title: Secrets of the Arts: Enlightenment Spain's Contested
Islamic Craft Heritage (David Friedman)

Freeman, Nan, web page

Artist and Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
… PhD, 1979, fund grp: rt, document title: Jasper Johns: 'False Start' and his Painting before
1964 (Wayne Anderson)

Gephart, Emily, web page

Visiting Faculty, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
… PhD, 2014, fund grp: rt, document title: A Dreamer and A Painter: Visualizing the Unconscious in
the Work of Arthur B. Davies, 1890-1920 (Caroline Jones and Michel Leja)

Grignon, Marc, web page

Professor, Art History, Department of History, Laval University, Quebec
… PhD, 1991, fund grp: ch, document title: Loing du Soleil: Architectural Practice in Canada during
the French Regime (Stanford Anderson)

Grigor, Talinn, web page

Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
… PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: Cultivat(ing) Modernities: the Society for National
Heritage, Political Propaganda, and Public Architecture in Twentieth-Century Iran (Arindam Dutta
and Stanford Anderson)
Haglund, Karl
Regional Planner, Metropolitan District Commission, Boston
… PhD, 1997, fund grp: ch, document title: Inventing the Charles River Basin: Urban Images and
Civic Discourse in Boston, 1844-1994 (Stanford Anderson)

Hamadeh, Shirine, web page

Associate Professor, Rice University
… PhD, 1999, fund grp: ia, document title: The City's Pleasures: Architectural Sensibility in
Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Stanford Anderson and Cemal Kafadar)

Haughey, Patrick, web page

Professor of Architecture History, Savannah College of Art & Design
… PhD, 2009, fund grp: ch, document title: The Archive on the Hill: The Presidential Library and the
Architecture of American History (Mark Jarzombek)

Hays, K. Michael, web page

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
… PhD, 1990, fund grp: ch, document title: Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The
Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer (Stanford Anderson)

Hedrick, Christian, web page

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Architecture, Northeastern University
… PhD, 2014, fund grp: ia, document title: Modernism with Style: History, Culture and the Origins of
Modern Architecture in Berlin, 1780-1870 (Nasser Rabbat)

Hill, Kara, web page

Architect and President, Kara Hill Studio
… PhD, 1992, fund grp: ia, document title: Pascal-Xavier Coste (1787-1879): A French Architect in
Egypt (Stanford Anderson)

Isenstadt, Sandy, web page

Associate Professor, University of Delaware
… PhD, 1997, fund grp: ch, document title: "Little Visual Empire": Private Vistas and the Modern
American House (Stanford Anderson)
Israel, Janna, web page
… PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: The Picture of Poverty: Cristoforo Moro and Patronage of
San Giobbe, Venice (David Friedman)

Jarzombek, Mark, web page

Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, MIT
… PhD, 1986, fund grp: ch, document title: Leon Baptista Alberti: The Rhetoric of Cultural
Criticism (Kurt W Forster)

Kang, Hong-Bin
Director, Seoul History Museum, Seoul, South Korea
… PhD, 1980, fund grp: ch, document title: Environmentalism: Philosophical Sources of 19th
Century Urban Thought (Stanford Anderson)

Karimi, Z. Pamela, web page

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
… PhD, 2009, fund grp: ia, document title: Transitions in Domestic Architecture and Home Culture in
Twentieth Century Iran (Nasser Rabbat)

Kauffman, Jordan, web page

Lecturer, Boston University
… PhD, 2015, fund grp: ch, document title: Drawing on Architecture: The Socioaesthetics of
Architectural Drawing, 1970-1990 (Mark Jarzombek)

Keyvanian, Carla L., web page

Associate Professor, Auburn University
… PhD, 2000, fund grp: ch, document title: Charity, Architecture and Urban Development in Post-
Tridentine Rome: The Hospital of the SS. ma Trinita' dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti (1548-
1680) (Henry Millon)

Koss, Juliet, web page

Associate Professor of Art History, Scripps College
… PhD, 2000, fund grp: rt, document title: Empathy Abstracted: Georg Fuchs and the Munich Artists'
Theater (Stanford Anderson)
Kraynak, Janet L., web page
Lecturer and Director, MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University
… PhD, 2001, fund grp: rt, document title: A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman 1965-1974(Michael
Leja)

Kroiz, Lauren, web page

Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
… PhD, 2008, fund grp: rt, document title: New Races, New Media: The Struggle For A Modern
American Art, 1890-1925 (Caroline Jones)

Kubo, Michael, web page

Assistant Professor, University of Houston
… PhD, 2018, fund grp: ch, document title: Architecture Incorporated: Authorship, Anonymity, and
Collaboration in Postwar Modernism (Mark Jarzombek)

Kully, Deborah
… PhD, 2011, fund grp: ch, document title: Speculating on Architecture: Morality, the New Real
Estate, and the Bourgeois Apartment Industry in Late Nineteenth-Century France (Erika Naginski
and Mark Jarzombek)

Lamprakos, Michele, web page

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland; Architect and Founder, Palimpsest, LLC, Springfield,
MD
… PhD, 2006, fund grp: ia, document title: Conservation and Building Practice in a World Heritage
City: The Case of Sana'a, Yemen (Nasser Rabbat)

Last, Nana, web page

Associate Professor, University of Virginia
… PhD, 1999, fund grp: ch, document title: Images of Entanglement: Wittgensteinan Spatial
Practices between Architecture and Philosophy (Mark Jarzombek)

Lee, Sanghun
Associate Professor, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
… PhD, 1996, fund grp: ch, document title: Technology and Form: Iron Construction and
Transformation of Architectural Ideals in Nineteenth Century France, 1830-1889 (Stanford
Anderson)
Legault, Réjean, web page
Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
… PhD, 1997, fund grp: rt, document title: L'Appareil de L'Architecture Moderne: New Materials and
Architectural Modernity in France (1889-1934) (Stanford Anderson)

Lenssen, Anneka, web page

Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
… PhD, 2014, fund grp: ia, document title: The Shape of the Support: Painting and Politics in Syria's
Twentieth Century (Nasser Rabbat)

León, Ana María, web page

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
… PhD, 2015, fund grp: ch, document title: Surrealism for the Masses: Housing the Unconscious
from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, 1938-1960 (Mark Jarzombek)

López, John F, web page

Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
… PhD, 2013, fund grp: ch, document title: The Hydrographic City: Mapping Mexico City's Urban
Form in Relation to Its Aquatic Condition, 1521-1700 (David Friedman)

Lopez-Duran, Fabiola, web page

Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Rice University
… PhD, 2009, fund grp: ch, document title: Eugenics in the Garden: Architecture, Medicine, and
Landscape from France to Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century (Arindam Dutta)

Lum, Eric, web page

Online Director, Academy of Art University
… PhD, 1999, fund grp: ch, document title: Architecture as Artform: Drawing, Painting, Collage, and
Architecture, 1945-1965 (Mark Jarzombek)

Lunn, Margaret Rauschenbach

Fiber Artist
… PhD, 1983, fund grp: rt, document title: G.-Albert Aurier, Critic and Theorist of Symbolist
Art (Wayne Anderson)
Marefat, Mina, web page
Principal, Design Research; Lecturer, Georgetown University
… PhD, 1988, fund grp: ia, document title: Building to power: architecture of Tehran 1921-
1941 (Stanford Anderson)

Matteson, M. Benjamin, web page

Adjunct Faculty, Wentworth Institute of Technology
… PhD, 2014, fund grp: ch, document title: Between Architectures: Institutionalization and
Architectural Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century Poland (Mark Jarzombek)

Maxim, Juliana, web page

Associate Professor and Director of Architecture Program, University of San Diego
… PhD, 2006, fund grp: rt, document title: The New, the Old, the Modern. Architecture and its
Representation in Socialist Romania 1955-1965 (Stanford Anderson)

Mazarakis, Valeria
Architect and Independent scholar
… PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: José Rafael Moneo Vallés: 1965-1985 (Stanford
Anderson)

McLaren, Brian L., web page

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture, University of Washington
… PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: Mediterraneità and Modernità: Architecture and Culture
during the Period of Italian Colonization of North Africa (Mark Jarzombek)

Michailidis, Melanie
… PhD, 2007, fund grp: ia, document title: Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance: Monumental
Funerary Architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (Nasser Rabbat)

Moffat, Isabelle
Independent art historian and critic, Berlin, Germany
… PhD, 2002, fund grp: rt, document title: The Independent Group's Encounters with Logical
Positivism and Searches for Unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition (Leo Marx)

Moon, Iris Jee, web page

Assistant Curator, Metropolittan Museum of Art, New York
… PhD, 2013, fund grp: rt, document title: Ornament after the Orders: Percier, Fontaine and the Rise
of the Architectural Interior in Post-Revolutionary France (Mark Jarzombek)

Morshed, Adnan Z., web page

Associate Professor, The Catholic University of America
… PhD, 2002, fund grp: ia, document title: The Aviator's (Re)Vision of the World: An Aesthetics of
Ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama (Stanford Anderson and Mark Jarzombek)

Muzaffar, M. Ijlal, web page

Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design
… PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: The Periphery Within: Modern Architecture and the
Making of the Third World (Mark Jarzombek)

Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona
Associate Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
… PhD, 2002, fund grp: ch, document title: Isrealizing Jerusalem: The Encouter Between
Architectural and National Ideologies 1967-1977 (Mark Jarzombek)

O'Brien, Jim
Architect, Jim O'Brien Architects
… PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: Possibilities for Architectural Production Under
Capitalism (Mark Jarzombek and William Mitchell)

Oen, Karin, web page

Assistant Curator, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
… PhD, 2012, fund grp: rt, document title: Admonition and the Academy: Installation, Video, and
Performance Art in Reform Era China (Caroline Jones)

Okoye, Ikem, web page

Associate Professor, University of Delaware
… PhD, 1995, fund grp: ch, document title: 'Hideous' Architecture: Feint and Resistance in Turn of
the Century South-Eastern Nigerian Building (Stanford Anderson)

Orbay, Iffet
Ceramicist, Quebec
… PhD, 2001, fund grp: ia, document title: Istanbul Viewed: The Representation of the City in
Ottoman Maps of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Stanford Anderson and Gulru
Necipoglu)

Osman, Michael, web page

Associate Professor, UCLA
… PhD, 2008, fund grp: ch, document title: Regulation, Architecture and Modernism in the United
States, 1890-1920 (Mark Jarzombek)

Otero-Pailos, Jorge, web page

Professor and Director of Historic Preservation, GSAPP, Columbia University
… PhD, 2002, fund grp: ch, document title: Theorizing the Anti-Avant-Garde: Invocations of
Phenomenology in Architectural Discourse 1945-1989 (Mark Jarzombek)

Pai, Hyungmin
Professor, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
… PhD, 1993, fund grp: ch, document title: From the Portfolio to the Diagram: Architectural
Discourse and the Transformation of the Discipline of Architecture in America, 1918-1943(Stanford
Anderson)

Pedret, Annie, web page

Associate Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
… PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: CIAM and the Emergence of Team 10 Thinking, 1945-
1959 (Mark Jarzombek)

Pereira, Claudio Calovi, web page

Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
… PhD, 1998, fund grp: ch, document title: Architectural Practice and the Planning of Minor Palaces
in Renaissance Italy: 1510-1570 (David Friedman)

Pezolet, Nicola, web page

Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal
… PhD, 2013, fund grp: rt, document title: Spectacles Plastiques: Reconstruction and the Debates
on the "Synthesis of the Arts" in France, 1944-1962 (Caroline Jones)

Pollak, Martha, web page

Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
… PhD, 1984, fund grp: ch, document title: The Seventeenth Century Urban Expansion of
Turin (Henry Millon)

Presutti, Kelly, web page

Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
… PhD, 2017, fund grp: rt, document title: Terroir after the Terror: Landscape and Representation in
Nineteenth-Century France (Kristel Smentek)

Pyla, Panayiota, web page

Associate Professor, University of Cyprus
… PhD, 2002, fund grp: ia, document title: Ekistics, Architecture, and Environmental Politics, 1945-
1976: A Prehistory of Sustainable Development (Stanford Anderson and Mark Jarzombek)

Rabbat, Nasser, web page

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… PhD, 1991, fund grp: ia, document title: The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341: Reconstructing
Architecture from Texts (Stanford Anderson)

Rizvi, Kishwar, web page

Associate Professor, Yale University
… PhD, 2000, fund grp: ia, document title: Transformations in Early Safavid Architecture: The Shrine
of Shaykh Safi Al-Din Ishaq Ardabili in Iran (1501-1629) (Nassar Rabbat and Gulru Necipoglu)

Rogers, Sarah
Independent Scholar
… PhD, 2008, fund grp: rt, document title: Postwar Art and the Historical Roots of Beirut's
Cosmopolitanism (Nasser Rabbat and Caroline Jones)

Savas, Aysen, web page

Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
… PhD, 1994, fund grp: ch, document title: Between Document and Monument: Architectural
Artefacts in the Age of Specialized Institutions (Stanford Anderson)

Sayed, Hazem
App Developer
… PhD, 1987, fund grp: ia, document title: The Rab' in Cairo: A Window on Mamluk Architecture and
Urbanism (Stanford Anderson)

Schmidt, Sebastian, web page

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Architecture and the Humanities, Rice University
… PhD, 2017, fund grp: ch, document title: From Global War to Global Cities: Planning, Art, and
Post-WWII Urban History in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo (Mark Jarzombek)

Schwarzer, Mitchell, web page

Professor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
… PhD, 1991, fund grp: rt, document title: Adolf Loos and Theories of the Practical Arts in 19th
Century Austria and Germany (Stanford Anderson)

Sezer, Yavuz, web page

Lecturer, Istanbul Bilgi University
… PhD, 2016, fund grp: ia, document title: The Architecture of Bibliophilia: Eighteenth-Century
Ottoman Libraries (Nasser Rabbat)

Sheren, Ila, web page

Assistant Professor, Washington University on St. Louis
… PhD, 2011, fund grp: rt, document title: Portable Borders/Mythical Sites: Performance Art and
Politics on the US Frontera, 1968 - 牐獥湥䡴ऀ儀 (Caroline Jones)

Siler, Todd, web page

Artist, inventor, author
… PhD, 1986, fund grp: rt, document title: Architectonics of Thought: A Symbolic Model of
Neuropsychological Processes (Stanford Anderson)

Siry, Joseph M., web page

Professor, Weslayan University
… PhD, 1984, fund grp: ch, document title: The Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago(Stanford
Anderson)

Steiner, Hadas A., web page

Associate Professor, University at Buffalo-SUNY
… PhD, 2001, fund grp: rt, document title: Bathrooms, Bubbles, and Systems: Archigram and the
Landscapes of Transience (Mark Jarzombek)

Stieber, Nancy
Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston
… PhD, 1986, fund grp: ch, document title: The Professionalization of Housing Design: A Study of
Collectivism and Cultural Pluralism in Amsterdam, 1909-1919 (Stanford Anderson)

Tohme, Lara, web page

Lead Academic Director, West Campus, Undergraduate Advising and Research, Stanford University
… PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: Out of Antiquity: Umayyad Baths in Context(Nasser
Rabbat)

Tuerk, Stephanie, web page

Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… PhD, 2016, fund grp: ch, document title: Utilité publique: Architecture, Urbanism, and Aesthetic
Reform in Turn of the Century France (Mark Jarzombek)

Uchill, Rebecca, web page

Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
… PhD, 2015, fund grp: rt, document title: Developing Experience: Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions,
from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States (Caroline Jones)

Udovicki-Selb, Danilo, web page

Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
… PhD, 1995, fund grp: rt, document title: The Invention of the 1937 Paris Exhibition: An Exhibition
Without Style (Stanford Anderson)

Urban, Florian, web page

Professor and Head of Architectural History and Urban Studies, Glasgow School of Art
… PhD, 2006, fund grp: ch, document title: The Invention of the Historic City -- Building the Past in
East Berlin 1970-1990 (Mark Jarzombek)

Vicario, Niko, web page

Assistant Professor, Amherst College
… PhD, 2015, fund grp: rt, document title: Import/Export: Raw Materials, Hemispheric Expertise, and
the Making of Latin American Art, 1933-1945 (Caroline Jones)

Vronskaya, Alla, web page

Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
… PhD, 2014, fund grp: ch, document title: The Productive Unconscious: Architecture, Experimental
Psychology and Techniques of Subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935 (Mark Jarzombek)

Vujosevic, Tijana, web page

Assistant Professor, University of Western Australia
… PhD, 2010, fund grp: ch, document title: Architectures of the Everyday in 1920s and 1930s
Russia (Mark Jarzombek)

Weiss, Kirsten
… PhD, 2008, fund grp: ch, document title: The Face of the German House: Modernization and
Cultural Anxiety in 20th Century Architectural Photographs (Mark Jarzombek)

Wendelken, Cherie
Independent Scholar
… PhD, 1994, fund grp: ch, document title: Living with the Past: Conservation and Development in
Post-War Japanese Architecture and Town Planning (Stanford Anderson)

Wheeler, Katherine, web page

Assistant Professor, University of Miami
… PhD, 2007, fund grp: ch, document title: The Reception and Study of Renaissance Architecture in
Great Britain, 1890-1914 (Mark Jarzombek)

Whiting, Sarah M., web page

Dean and Professor, Rice University
… PhD, 2001, fund grp: ch, document title: The Jungle in the Clearing: Space, Form and Democracy
in America, 1940-1949 (Stanford Anderson)

Widrich, Mechtild, web page

Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
… PhD, 2009, fund grp: rt, document title: Performative Monuments: Public Art and Commemoration
in Postwar Europe (Caroline Jones and Martha Buskirk)
Wong, Winnie Won Yin, web page
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
… PhD, 2010, fund grp: rt, document title: After the Copy: Creativity, Originality and the Labor of
Appropriation--Dafen Village, Shenzhen, China (1989-2010) (Caroline Jones)

Wong, Y.C., web page

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
… PhD, 1999, fund grp: ch, document title: The Geodesic Works of Richard Buckminster Fuller
(1948-68) (The Universe as a Home of Man) (Stanford Anderson)

Wortham-Galvin, B.D., web page

Associate Professor, Clemson University
… PhD, 2006, fund grp: ch, document title: Mythologies of an Everyday American Landscape: Henry
Ford at the Wayside Inn (Mark Jarzombek)

Yahya, Maha, web page

Director, Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut, Lebanon
… PhD, 2005, fund grp: ia, document title: Unnamed Modernisms: National Ideologies and Historical
Imaginaries in Beirut's Urban Architecture (Mark Jarzombek and Philip Khoury)

1. Should modern architecture be utilitarian or aesthetic?

2. Who should be at the forefront – Architect or architecture?
3. What role does architecture play in development of formative minds?
4. A take into the different styles of Australian houses through the last 2 centuries
5. Is Modern Architecture wearing an invisibility cloak? Should things actually be
so minimal?
6. A tour through the changing architecture in Britain and the impact of diverse
nationalities on it
7. How much is the impact of restrictions imposed on architect; courtesy land
rules, topography limitations and council alerts? –
8. The various environmental steps taken by modern architect and its
sustainability
9. Elaborate on the innumerable potential of designs on spaces –
10. Building of architecture

1. Discuss the nature of middle class architecture and its place in modern society
2. Explain how recent mortgaging agreements affect architecture
 3. Explain how airport designs can be made to make the terminals more efficient,
giving reasonable examples
4. Explain how the architectural designs of ancient churches were influenced by
art
5. Discuss how the destruction of the urban landscape is manifesting in the region
you live in
6. Discuss some of the challenges that poor workmanship can render to a project
7. Explain the ethical boundaries that professional architects have to be bound by
in their line of work
8. Given the opportunity to advise a project manager on constructing in a swampy
area, how would you advise them to proceed?
9. Discuss some of the challenges that are associated with skyscrapers
10. Explain some of the benefits of using technological models in architectural
diagrams
11. Criticize some of the programs that are currently available in the market for
use in architectural designs
12. Describe some of the key points that you need to focus on when drawing a
palatial house
13. What is the role of the governing body of architects in the industry?
14. Provide an accurate description of an architectural model that would be
appealing to a religious client
15. Discuss the difference in the design of houses in cold areas and warm areas
16. Explain how computer aided design has improved the work of architects over
the years
17. Discuss some of the 19th century architectural designs that are still in use today
18. Explore the concept of abstract expressionism, in comparison with architecture
and artistic expression
19. Imagine that you have been invited to provide a motivational talk to students
who are just about to make their pick of courses. Explain how you would
encourage them to take a course in architecture, highlighting some of the
benefits of taking this course over all the others available to them.
20. Editing architecture: architect as mediumistic being.

1. Including the right amount of restrooms in large public venues

2. Designing organic structures that will withstand time

3. How to show culture in structures

4. Creating architectural beauty and purpose while staying within a budget

5. Using architecture to redefine a city

6. Updating century-old buildings without losing character

7. Cathedrals: Recreating the old world on a new world budget

8. Maximizing size in miniature homes

9. Using architecture to create healthy spaces in hospitals

10. Deconstructing the typical school to encourage creativity and collaboration

11. Architectural trends at transportation hubs

12. Outdoor architecture: Creating retreats in small urban backyards

13. The power of fresh air: Moving away from permanently closed windows in 20th
century buildings

14. Getting people to move through energizing architecture

15. The mixed-use neighborhood: Trending Up or Down

16. Educating the masses on the power of architecture: What is the best method?

17. Architecture and Climate Change. What happens when location, location, location no
longer exists?

18. Including elements of famous architects without copying their work

19. Creating healthy living spaces in third-world countries

20. Architecture and the family. The need for togetherness and privacy

1. Modern and historical landscapes.

2. Urban aesthetics and new trends in urban design.
3. Eco-friendly development.
4. New design methodologies.
5. Preservation methods of architectural heritage.
6. Urban property and regeneration.
7. Building multicultural cities.
8. Urban design and health.
9. Spatial changes in big cities.
10. The role of technology in changing how a city works.
11. Environmental change and urban equity.
12. Urban ecology.
13. Spatial planning policy.
14. The future shape of cities.
15. Communities and engagement.
Urban design thesis topics list:

1. Consider the following urban design topics that could interest you:
2. Modern and historical landscapes.
3. Urban aesthetics and new trends in urban design.
4. Eco-friendly development.
5. 3D Pedestrian Flow Modeling.
6. Sensing, Monitoring, Modeling and Adapting the Urban Micro Climate.
7. Deconstructing Eisenman: Cultural presemantic theory and social realism.
8. Discourses of Futility: Expressionism in the works of Archigram.
9. Sub dialectic desemanticism and constructivism in the works.
10. Sub constructivism and De-objectivism: Crucifying the cross.
11. Waste as a Resource – Urban Metabolism.

1. Who owns the street, pedestrians or cars?

2. Skyscrapers the wrong solution to density concerns.
3. Ensuring a flexible urban future.
4. Environmental change and urban equity.
5. Urban ecology.
6. Spatial planning policy.
7. Is the idea of harmony with the surrounding limiting architectural
development?
8. What is the place of enclosures in present-day architecture?
9. Is local influence on materials and design killing creativity?
10. The future shape of cities.
11. Communities and engagement.
Know more about Public Space Urban Design With Sexy Simplicity in
Functionality.

1. Open exhibitions.
2. Modern Marketplace.
3. When is a design labeled as intrusive?
4. Is architecture about creativity or economy?
5. Should heights correspond with surrounding buildings?
6. Too many signs are becoming irrelevant
7. Are there natural alternatives to lighting signage?
8. How to identify utility facilities in an eco-friendly manner.
9. Urban Street Design.
10. OAT.
1. Public plazas.
2. Fanbox (refer Rio Olympic fanbox of last year).
3. Stadiums infrastructure,
4. Art galleries (like Biomuseo).
5. Turning waste into resources: Rethinking the way we discard things.
6. Designing out waste – Exploring barriers for material recirculation.
7. Vestiges of urban spirit Isfahan’s urban fabric through socio-spatial
transformations.
 8. Separations in Multi vocality: Reconfiguring Dialogue through Design.
9. Critical Soviet Design: Senezh studio and the utopian imagination in late
socialism.
10. A marketing design approach to destination development.
11. Suburban Navigation Structural Coherence and Visual Appearance in Urban
Design.
12. URBAN SEGREGATION AND URBAN FORM From residential segregation to
segregation in public space.
13. Evolving Urban Culture in Transforming Cities Architectural and Urban
Design in a Fluid Context.
14. Light Design: Outdoor Urban Public Places – Urban Lighting: Design and
Technologies.

1. Discuss the changes that we have seen in the social housing architecture over the past decade
2. Discuss the nature of middle class architecture and its place in modern society
3. Explain how recent mortgaging agreements affect architecture
4. Explain how airport designs can be made to make the terminals more efficient, giving reasonable
examples
5. Explain how the architectural designs of ancient churches were influenced by art
6. Discuss how the destruction of the urban landscape is manifesting in the region you live in
7. Discuss some of the challenges that poor workmanship can render to a project
8. Explain the ethical boundaries that professional architects have to be bound by in their line of
work
9. Given the opportunity to advise a project manager on constructing in a swampy area, how would
you advise them to proceed?
10. Discuss some of the challenges that are associated with skyscrapers
11. Explain some of the benefits of using technological models in architectural diagrams
12. Criticize some of the programs that are currently available in the market for use in architectural
designs
13. Describe some of the key points that you need to focus on when drawing a palatial house
14. What is the role of the governing body of architects in the industry?
15. Provide an accurate description of an architectural model that would be appealing to a religious
client
16. Discuss the difference in the design of houses in cold areas and warm areas
17. Explain how computer aided design has improved the work of architects over the years
18. Discuss some of the 19th century architectural designs that are still in use today
19. Explore the concept of abstract expressionism, in comparison with architecture and artistic
expression
20. Imagine that you have been invited to provide a motivational talk to students who are just about
to make their pick of courses. Explain how you would encourage them to take a course in
architecture, highlighting some of the benefits of taking this course over all the others available
to them.