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SESSION STUDENT THESIS TITLE THESIS COMMITTEE REVIEWERS

9:00 - 9:45 ACT Cube Christopher Martin In Pursuit of Sound Antón García-Abril; Marc Downie, Paul Steenhuisen Pierre Belanger, Dawn Finley; Ana Miljacki (E15-001)

10:00 - 10:45 A2 Suk Lee MIT i2: idea incubator Antón García-Abril; Simon Frommenwiler, John Ochsendorf Alex Anmahian, Pierre Belanger, Igor Marjanovic, Ariane Harrison; Nasser Rabbat B2 Robert White Courtroom Characters, Architectural Drama: William O’Brien Jr.; Mark Jarzombek, Jesal Kapadia Ed Eigen, Dawn Finley, Amanda R. Lawrence; Timothy Hyde, Nader Tehrani A Play in Several Acts C2 David Moses The Williston Time Capsule Miho Mazereeuw; Arindam Dutta, Cristina Parreno Amale Andraos, John McMorrough, El Hadi Jazairy, Hashim Sarkis

10:55 - 11:40 A3 Beomki Lee [ME]morial Antón García-Abril; Renee Green, Caitlin Mueller Alex Anmahian, Amale Andraos, Ed Eigen, Mariana Ibañez, Igor Marjanovic; Timothy Hyde B3 Susanna Pho Kipple Kaboodle: Reincarnating Suburban Stock Arindam Dutta; William O’Brien Jr., Rafi Segal Pierre Belanger, Dawn Finley, El Hadi Jazairy, Hashim Sarkis; Andrew Scott C3 Shiyu Wei Let’s Meet at the Civic Center! Brandon Clifford; Mark Jarzombek, John Ochsendorf Ariane Harrison, John McMorrough, Amanda R. Lawrence; Nader Tehrani, Nasser Rabbat

11:50 - 12:35 A4 Julian Ocampo Salazar Scale: Architecture in Five Jumps Antón García-Abril; Joel Lamere, Jeremy Alain Seigel Simon Frommenwiler, Amanda R. Lawrence, Igor Marjanovic, Pierre Belanger, El Hadi Jazairy; Nasser Rabbat, Andrew Scott, Nader Tehrani B4 Tyler Stevermer Preposthuman: An Architectural Propaedeutic for Brandon Clifford, Caroline Jones; Ariane Lourie Harrison, Amale Andraos, Alex Anmahian, Ed Eigen, Dawn Finley, Mariana Ibañez, John McMorrough; the Digitially Enhanced Mark Jarzombek Timothy Hyde 12:35-1:30 LUNCH

1:30 - 2:15 A5 Maya Taketani PLAYTIME in the Manipulated Landscape Joel Lamere; Mark Jarzombek, Miho Mazereeuw Alex Anmahian, Ed Eigen, Ariane Lourie Harrison, El Hadi Jazairy, Amanda R. Lawrence, John McMorrough, Hashim Sarkis B5 Dave Miranowski un/Common Ground Rafi Segal; Ana Miljacki, William O’Brien Jr. Amale Andraos, Piere Belanger, Dawn Finley, Simon Frommenwiler, Mariana Ibañez, Igor Marjanovic; Timothy Hyde, Nader Tehrani

2:25 - 3:10 A6 Jasmine Kwak Living Large: Alternative Model for Urban Living Ana Miljacki; William O’Brien Jr., Rafi Segal Amale Andraos, Alex Anmahian, Dawn Finley, Mariana Ibañez, Amanda R. Lawrence, John McMorrough, Hashim Sarkis; Timothy Hyde B6 Rena Yang Atmospheric Interventions Brandon Clifford; John Fernández, Kazys Varnelis Pierre Belanger, Ed Eigen, Simon Frommenwiler, Ariane Lourie Harrison, El Hadi Jazairy, COFFEE BREAK Igor Marjanovic; Nader Tehrani

3:30 - 4:15 A7 Jie Zhang Diplomatic: Letter from the Architectural Enclave Arindam Dutta; Antón García-Abril, Miho Mazereeuw, Amale Andraos, Ed Eigen, Dawn Finley, Simon Frommenwiler, Mariana Ibañez; Nader Tehrani Gediminas Urbonas B7 Laura Schmitz Silo Transformations: Design Strategy For Adaptive Rafi Segal; Brent Ryan, Anne Spirn Alex Anmahian, El Hadi Jazairy, Amanda R. Lawrence; Timothy Hyde Reuse of Hyper-Specific Form C7 Tyler Crain Disturbance Grounds Skylar Tibbits; Matthew Bunza, Geoff Manaugh Pierre Belanger, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Igor Marjanovic, John McMorrough, Hashim Sarkis

4:25 - 5:10 A8 Sayjel Patel 3-DJ : Sampling as Design Skylar Tibbits; Marc Downie, Mark Goulthorpe, Terry Knight Amale Andraos, Amanda R. Lawrence, John McMorrough, Hashim Sarkis; Rania Ghosn B8 Evelyn Ting Plain Objects William O’Brien Jr.; Arindam Dutta, Gediminas Urbonas Dawn Finley, El Hadi Jazairy, Igor Marjanovic; Nader Tehrani C8 Trygve Wastvedt Heliocentric Architecture Joel Lamere; Christoph Reinhart, Andrzej Zarycki Alex Anmahian, Ed Eigen, Simon Frommenwiler, Ariane Lourie Harrison; Timothy Hyde

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW IN THE WINTER GARDEN Guest Reviewers

AMALE ANDRAOS, Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School DAWN FINLEY, Associate Professor at Rice School of Architecture and as predominant forms of contemporary urbanization. El Hadi holds a McMorrough’s current work focuses on articulating the modalities of of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, has taught at numerous a principal of Interloop A/D, an architecture and design office in Doctorate of Design from Harvard, a Master of Architecture from Cor- world making (the apocalyptic, the utopian, the pastoral, and the realist) universities including the Princeton University School of Architecture, Houston, Texas. Her teaching includes graduate and undergraduate nell, and a Bachelor of Architecture from La Cambre in Brussels. Prior at play in contemporary design narratives (in architecture, as well as film, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania studios with a focus on working and learning environments, healthcare to his appointment at the University of Michigan, El Hadi was Lecturer fictions, and games). Design School and the American University in Beirut. Her recent design policies and infrastructures, and design for aging Americans. She also at MIT, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard. El Hadi is a founding studios and seminar have focused on the Arab City, which has become co-teaches a graduate course on digital visualization and communi- editor of the journal New Geographies and editor-in-chief of NG4: Scales HASHIM SARKIS, has been appointed the new Dean of the School of the subject of a series of symposia entitled “Architecture and Represen- cation. Her writings and design work have been published in journals of the Earth. Some of his recent work has been published in Journal of Architecture and Planning at MIT. He served on the Harvard faculty tation” held at Studio-X Amman in 2013 and at the university’s New and newspapers including: The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Cultural Geography, GSD Platform, Topos, Journal of Architectural Edu- from 1998-2014, where he was the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Ar- York campus in the Fall of 2014. Her publications include the recent Log5, ID Magazine, Perspecta 34 and 38, Architectural Record, and Archi- cation, and MONU. chitecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies, Director of the Aga Khan 49 Cities, a re-reading of 49 visionary plans through an ecological lens, tecture. She has an M. Arch from Rice University and a B.S. Arch from Program for Islamic Architecture and a full professor from 2002. He has Above the Pavement, the Farm!, and the forthcoming Architecture and University of Michigan. AMANDA REESER LAWRENCE, Assistant Professor, Northeastern taught courses and design studios in architecture and urban design that Representation: the Arab City. Andraos is a co-founder with Dan Wood of University College of Arts, Media and Design. Lawrence received a doc- emphasize the importance of design in its cultural context across a broad WORKac, a 35-person architectural firm based in New York that focuses SIMON FROMMENWILER, MIT Visiting Faculty, is an architect and torate in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard University, an range of geographic locations. Sarkis received his BArch and BFA from on architectural projects that re-invent the relationship between urban founding partner of HHF Architects and associate professor at the ENSA MArch from Columbia University, and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from the Rhode Island School of Design, his MArch from Harvard, and his and natural environments. She received her Masters Degree from the Strasbourg in France. HHF was founded in 2003 by Tilo Herlach, Simon Princeton University, with a major in Architectural History. Lawrence PhD in architecture from Harvard. Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and her B.Arch from Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler. Since then, HHF have realized is a founding co-editor of the award-winning journal, PRAXIS, the only McGill University in Montreal. numerous projects in Switzerland, Germany, China, France, Mexico and non-commercial architectural publication of contemporary American the USA. The scope of work ranges from urbanism and large-scale con- architecture. Lawrence’s research focuses on a close reading of archi- MIT REVIEWERS ALEX ANMAHIAN, AIA, MIT Visiting Faculty, is co-founder of Anma- struction to public pavilions and interior design. HHF has been honored tectural form—both contemporary and historical—with a particular hian Winton Architects (AW). Since it was formed in 1992, AW has com- with numerous national and international awards. Simon was a visiting interest in theorizing the role of influence. Her current research focuses ANA MILJACKI JOEL LAMERE pleted a broad range of notable institutional, commercial, and residential professor from 2011 – 2013 at ENSA Strasbourg, where he has been an on the British architect James Stirling (1924-92), and her book James ANTÓN GARCÍA-ABRIL MIHO MAZEREEIW projects in the US and abroad. Alex and co-founder Nick Winton direct associate professor since 2013. Stirling: Revisionary Modernist was published by Yale University Press in BRANDON CLIFFORD CAITLIN MUELLER the design of all projects at AW, including buildings, industrial objects, the fall of 2012. ARINDAM DUTTA WILLIAM O’BRIEN JR. and furniture. The firm’s work has been published widely and has been ARIANE LOURIE HARRISON, Critic at Yale School of Architecture and JOHN FERNÁNDEZ JOHN OCHSENDORF awarded the highest honors within the design industry. In addition to a cofounder of Harrison Atelier in New York, an architectural research IGOR MARJANOVIC, associate professor of architecture and chair of RANIA GHOSN CRISTINA PARREÑO AW’s practice, Anmahian teaches, lectures, and serves as visiting critic at and design practice, whose recent projects include a theater pavilion at the undergraduate architecture program in the Sam Fox School, Wash- KIAN GOH NASSER RABBAT leading design schools, both nationally and internationally. He received Architecture OMI (Ghent, New York, 2014), performance designs for ington University in St. Louis, where he teaches courses in architectural MARK GOULTHORPE CHRISTOPH REINHART an M.Arch. from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a VEAL (The Invisible Dog Art Center, 2013), Pharmacophore (Storefront design, history, and theory. Marjanovic’s research examines architectural RENÉE GREEN ANDREW SCOTT B.A. in Architecture from the University of Florida. for Art and Architecture, 2011), and Anchises (Bournemouth, Bristol, pedagogy as a critical territory of wider architectural culture, and the role TIMOTHY HYDE RAFI SEGAL and New York, 2010). Harrison Atelier has been recognized for innova- of drawings, texts, exhibitions, and other visual media in the construc- MARK JARZOMBEK ANNE SPIRN PIERRE BELANGER, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture tive installation design (World Stage Design, 2013). She is the editor of tion of architectural discourses. His writings on the pedagogical work CAROLINE JONES NADER TEHRANI and Co-Director of the MDes Postgraduate Design Research Program at Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory (Rout- of Alvin Boyarsky have appeared in the anthologies Critical Architecture JESAL KAPADIA SKYLAR TIBBITS Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Cross-appointed with ledge, 2013) and has contributed to Log, Perspecta, Speciale Z, Volume. (2007) and Chicago Architecture (2005), as well as AA Files and ARQ TERRY KNIGHT the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Advanced Studies Previously, she worked for Peter Eisenman and was the editor of his Ten (2010). Together with Katerina Ruedi Ray, he co-authored Marina City: Program, Bélanger teaches and coordinates graduate courses on the con- Canonical Buildings (Rizzoli, 2008). Ariane received a Ph.D. from The Bertrand Goldberg’s Urban Vision (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), vergence of ecology, infrastructure, media and urbanism in the interre- NYU Institute of Fine Arts, an M.Arch from Columbia University, and which examines the construction of this modernist icon by means of lated fields of design, communications, planning and engineering. Since an A.B. from Princeton University. innovative representational, financial, and structural strategies. He has 2001 Belanger has been co-directing the design research organization taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he served as Interim OPSYS with Miho Mazereeuw. MARIANA IBAÑEZ, Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Iowa State University, where he University Graduate School of Design. She teaches in the architecture served as Director of the Core Design Program. He graduated summa EDWARD EIGEN, Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape core design studio sequence. Ibañez is an Argentinean architect and cum laude from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and completed his Architecture. Dr. Eigen received his Ph.D. in 2000 from MIT and his M. designer. Before attending the Architectural Association in London for diploma thesis at the Moscow Architectural Institute. Arch. in 1991 from Columbia University. He has served as an Associate her Master of Architecture, she was one of the principals of FIV Archi- Professor at CUNY since 2011 and as Assistant Professor at Princeton tectura, a firm that focused on the design and construction of ephemeral JOHN MCMORROUGH, Associate Professor of Architecture at the from 2002-2011. Dr. Eigen’s work focuses on the cultural dimension of structures for performance spaces. In 2005 she co-founded I/K Studio University of Michigan, is a researcher of contemporary architectural landscape and architecture history through a cultural geography and with Simon Kim, a research and design practice with projects in Great practices, and a principal architect in studioAPT (Architecture Project cultural studies lens. He is presently working on a book-length man- Britain, Argentina and the US. After her graduate studies, she joined the Theory). As an architect John has worked for design offices in Kansas uscript, entitled On Accident assembling a range of chapters from his Advanced Geometry Unit at ARUP before going to the office of Zaha City, New York, Boston and Rotterdam, and has taught theory and design study of the contingent, highly localized conditions for the production Hadid where she developed several projects and lead the design for the at the Yale School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of knowledge around science and nature. He has also contributed to 2012 London Olympics Aquatic Centre. the Ohio State University, the Institute of Architecture at the Universi- a number of journals, such as Assemblage, Harvard Design Magazine, ty of Applied Arts in Vienna, and University of Illinois at Chicago. He Thresholds, Perspecta, Grey Room, Log, Cabinet, Architecture and Science, EL HADI JAZAIRY, licensed architect, assistant professor of architec- received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas, a Journal of the History of Biology, Landscape and Art, and Landscapes of ture at the University of Michigan and partner of Design Earth, based in Master of Architecture (with distinction) from the Harvard Graduate Memory and Experience. Ann Arbor, MI and Cambridge, MA. His research investigates spaces of School of Design, and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Harvard University, exception­—such as institutional campuses, free zones, and city-states— where his doctoral research was on the pre-history of post-modernism.