Basrai, Zameer
2009 |
"The New Citizens: A Study in Architectural Identity of Public Philanthropic Institutions Built by Two Isma`ili Communities in Contemporary Bombay" |
Demerdash, Nancy
2009
PhD student, Princeton University (entering Sept. 2009) |
"Mapping Myths of the Medina: Orientalist Visions, French Colonial Urbanism, and the Politics of Heritage in Marrakesh"
winner of the SMArchS Thesis Prize May 2009 |
Khorakiwala, Ateya
2009
PhD student, Harvard University (entering Sept. 2009) |
"The State of Roads Post Independence Public Works"
winner of the SMArchS Thesis Prize May 2009 |
McMahon, Catherine
2009
PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (entering Sept. 2009) |
"Between Nature and Artifice: The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979)" |
Ge, Wenjun
2008 |
"Social Congestion in Shanghai: A Urban Housing Designed on Its Sections" |
Jalia, Aftab
2008 |
"Refiguring the Sketch: The Nari Gandhi Cartographic" |
Lo, Melissa
2008
PhD Student, History of Science, Harvard University |
"Ideal Pathologies: Jean-Marc Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (1831-1854)" |
Rahmlow, Rebecca
2008
Architectural staff member, Centerbrook Architects and Planners, LLP |
""Indigenous" | "Vernacular" Negotiating an American History for Modernism Through the Lens of the Architectural Exhibition" |
Weld, Linda
2008 |
"Silent Partners and Missing Links: History, Architecture and the Challenge of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum" |
Akhtar, Saima
2007 |
"Shangri La: Architecture as Collection" |
Al Husseini, Dalia
2007 |
"Aqaba's Old Town: Proposed Model for Community Development within the Aqaba Special Economic Zone" |
Arkaraprasertkul, Non
2007
Doctoral Student in Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, U.K.; Harvard-Yenching Doctoral Scholar |
"Shanghai Contemporary: The Politics of Built Form" |
Capdevila Werning, Remei
2007
PhD Candidate, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona |
"Construing Reconstruction: The Barcelona Pavilion and Nelson Goodman's Aesthetic Philosophy" |
Elshahed, Mohamed
2007 |
"Facades of Modernity: Image, Performance and Transformation in the Egyptian Metropolis" |
Kivlan, Anna
2007 |
"An Eye for Vulgarity: How MoMA Saw Color through Wild Bill's Lens" |
Minosh, Peter
2007
Adjunct Design Faculty, Wentworth Institute of Technology |
"Moderate Utopias: The Reconstruction of Urban Spaces and Modernist Principals" |
Turker, Deniz
2007
PhD student, Harvard University |
"The Oriental Flaneur: Khalil Bey and the Cosmopolitan Experience" |
Liss, Alyson
2006 |
"The Rhetoric of Architecture and the Language of Pleasure: The Maison de Plaisance in Eighteenth Century France" |
Palleroni, Sergio
2006 Founder, BaSiC Initiative; Visiting Associate Professor, UTexas, Austin |
“The Valle del Yaqui Housing Project: Building the Capacity of Yaqui Women to Help Themselves” |
Touloumi, Olga
2006
PhD student, Harvard University |
"The prison of Regina Coeli: a laboratory of identity in the Post-Risorgimento Italy" |
Verbeeck, Kenny
2006
Project Engineer, Ney & Partners |
"Randomness as a Generative Principle in Art and Architecture" |
Dietz, Thomas
2005
Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, Chicago, IL |
"The Road from Pope to King: Il Corso Vittorio Emanuele II" |
Etemad Yousefi, Arash
2005
Independent Scholar |
"Medieval Islamic and Gothic Architectural Drawings: Masons, Craftsmen and Architects" |
Francisco, B. Scott
2005
Associate at HOK Advance Strategies |
"Usable Space" |
Heinemann, Michaela (Svea)
2005
Competition Manager, [phase eins] |
"A Culture of Appropriation: Strategies of Temporary Reuse in East Germany" |
Moore, Nikki
2005
PhD Candidate, Philosophy and Media Studies, The European Graduate School |
" Between Work: Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser and Jacques Martin" |
Mosier, Lisa
2005 |
“The Morisco House in Granada: Cultural Transition and Domestic Space” |
Saad, Philippe
2005 |
“Writings for Acquisition, Alexandria, Egypt” |
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Kallipoliti, Lydia
2004
PhD student, Princeton University |
“Dross: Re-genesis of diverse matter—a design post-praxis” |
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Diaz-Borioli, Leonardo
2003
PhD student, Princeton University |
SMArchS
thesis: "Tilting the Mirror: Packaging Spanish Architecture
in Late Nineteenth Century California" |
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Lee, Tonghoon
2002
Goody Clancy, Boston, MA |
"Architecture and Tactility: Peter Zumthor's
Thermal Baths in Vals and the Hybridization of the Two Motifs of
Tactility--Materiality and Movement" |
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Ramirez-Jasso, Diana
2002
PhD candidate, Harvard University |
"The Aesthetics of Concealment: Weegee in
the Movie Theater (1943-1950)" |
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Wong,
Winnie Won Yin
2002
PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"The Industry of Aesthetic Realism: Product
Placement in the Hollywood Film" |
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Yusaf, Shundana
2001
PhD candidate, Princeton University |
"Monument Without Qualities" |
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Camerlenghi, Nicola
2000
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge |
"Michelangelo's Liberia Secreta"
Received PhD from Princeton University |
|
Corm, Tamara
2000 |
""La Revelation m'est venue de l'Orient"
Henri Matisse" |
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Hoeffler, Michelle
2000 |
"The Moment of William Ralph Emerson's Art
Club Boston Art Culture" |
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Lai, Constance
1999
Designer, Page and Turnbull, San Francisco, CA |
"Charles Eames and Communication: from Education
to Computers" |
|
Miller, Carl
1999 |
"The Problem with Harmony: Architectural Constructs
of Proportionality, Music and the Modulor in the 1950's" |
|
Grigor, Talinn
1998
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University |
"Construction of History: Mohammad-Reza Shah
Revivalism, Nationalism, and Monumental Architecture of Tehran,
1951-1979"
MIT PhD completed 2005 |
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Erten, Erdem
1998
Assistant Professor and Vice-chair, Department of Architecture, Izmir Institute
of Technology |
"Questioning Horatio Greenough's Thoughts
on Architecture"
MIT PhD completed 2004 |
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Kanipak, Omer
1998 |
"Modernism and Dwelling: Residential Architecture
in Early Republican Turkey" |
Katsavounidou,
Garyfallia (Fyllio)
1998
Architect, City of Thessoloniki |
SMArchS
thesis: "Invisible Parentheses: Mapping (out) the City and Its
Histories" |
|
Leiter, Jeffery
1997 |
"Erich Mendelsohn: Constructing an Image of
Modernity between Expressionism and the 1920's avant-garde" |
|
Takenaka, Akiko
1997
Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Chicago |
"The Construction of War-Time National Identity:
Japanese Pavilion at New York World's Fair 1939/40"
Received PhD from Yale University |
|
Bilsel, S.M. Can
1996
Assistant Professor History of Architecture, University of San Diego |
"From Scientific Framing to Architectural
Reconstruction: The Creation of an Ideal Image at Didyma"
Received PhD from Princeton University. |
|
Datey, Aparna
1996 |
"Cultural Production and Identity in Colonial
and Post-Colonial Madras, India" |
|
Hassan, S. Faisal
1995
PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Pan-Orao and Historical Necessity: Adjusted
Frames and Optical Settlement" |
|
Morshed, Adnan
1995
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America |
"Dialectics of Vision: The Voyages of Louis
I. Kahn"
MIT PhD completed 2002 |
|
Rizvi, Kishwar
1995
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Yale
University |
"The Shrine if Shaykh Safi al-din Ishaq in
Arbedil (1501-1629 CE)"
MIT PhD completed 2000 |
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Scensor, Sean
1995
Architect and Associate, Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc. |
"Irving Gill: the House for Marie Chauncey
Dwight Clarke in Santa Fe Springs, California (1919-22)" |
|
DeBartolo,
III, Jack
1994
DeBartolo Architects, Phoenix |
"The Perception of Illumination: The Phenomenological
Dimension of Natural Light in the Making of the Urban Sanctuary" |
|
Holmes, Jeffrey
1994
Architect, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, New York, NY |
"Vsevolod Meyerhold: Modernism, Mass Culture
and the Russian Avant Garde Stage" |
|
Pyla, Panayiota
1994
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus |
"Revisiting Scientific Epistemology in Architecture:
'Ekistics' and Modernism in the Middle East"
MIT PhD completed 2002 |
|
Al-Masri, Wael
1993
Partner, Dar Al-Orman (planners architects engineers) |
"Architecture and the question of identity:
Issues of self-representation in Islamic community centers in America" |
|
Beshir, Tarek
1993 |
"Architecture Beyond Cultural Polictics: Western
Practice in the Arabian Peninsula" |
|
González, Robert
1993
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Tulane University |
"Sunset Magazine: In Search of a House for
Western Living"
Received PhD from University of California, Berkeley |
|
Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona
1993
Senior Lecturer, Architecture
and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
"Erich Mendelsohn: From Berlin to Jerusalem"
MIT PhD completed 2002 |
|
Pedret, Annie
1993
Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago |
"Within the Text of Kahn"
MIT PhD completed 2001 |
|
Ahmed, Imran
1992
Director, Real Estate Investment Banking, Global Corporate Finance,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. |
"The Journey from New Delhi to Islamabad:
Dependence and Subversion in the Ambivalent Expression of Nationhood." |
|
Evans, J. Christopher
1992 |
"Imminence and Immanence: Embodied Meaning
in Architectural Experience" |
|
Keyvanian, Carla
1992
|
"Manfredo Tafuri's Notion of History and its
Methodological Sources: From Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes"
MIT PhD completed 2000 |
|
Kotab, Basel
1991
Architect, HOK, Toronto, Canada |
"Spatial Layering: An Effect of Cubist Concepts
on 20th Century Architecture" |
|
Deser, Abigail
1990
Architect and Theatre Production, New York City |
"Defining the Public: Three Moments of Audience
Address in 20th Century Artistic Production." |
|
Ikonomides-Doumbas, Agis
1990
Architect, Athens |
"Adaptive Reuse and the Museum: Installing
a Museum in a Preexisting Shell"
Winner of
"Outstanding SMArchS Student" for 1990; Awarded Ralph Adams Cram Award
for 1990 |
|
Jarrar, Sabri
1990
Architect, Steffian Bradley Architects, London; PhD candidate, Oxford University |
"A Memory Syndrome: Selfhood and Otherness
at the Wailing Wall" |
|
Kazzaz, Tarek
1990
Associate Professor, Architecture, American University in Beirut |
"A Critique of the Logic of Consumption in
Postmodern Architecture: The Museum as a Case Study" |
|
Mejel, Jalal
1990
Deputy General Manager, Tossco, LTD, Amman, Jordan |
"'Falling Upon Deaf Ears:' The Case of Colloquial
Architecture" |
|
Abu-Hantash, Tawfiq
1989 |
"Ibn Khaldun and the City: A Study of the
Physical Formation of Medieval Cairo" |
|
Ali, Mohammed
1989 |
"The Use of Precedents in Contemporary Arab
Architecture, Case Studies: Rasem Badran and Henning Larsen" |
|
Bernier, Beatrice
1989
Architect, Boston |
"Fashion, City, People" |
|
Brady, Noel
1989 |
"Towards the Poetic" |
|
Chung, Yueh-minne
1989
Architect, independent practice, Y M Chung Architecture Studio,
Berkeley, CA |
"Columns and Walls: The Interplay between
Structure and Space" |
|
De Costa, Alfred
1989 |
"A Reinterpretation of 'Sense of Place': A
Study of the Stone Town Zanzibar" |
|
el-Khoury, Rodolphe
1989
Chair of Architecture, California College for the Arts |
"The Architecture of Montage: A Critical Inquiry
into the Work of Machado/Silvetti" |
|
Koukoutsi-Mazarakis, Valeria
1989
Office of Rafael Moneo, Cambridge |
"Residences Secondaires: How Eisenman Houses
Fictive Structures of History"
Awarded "Outstanding S.M.Arch.S. Student" for 1989; Honorable
Mention, International Competition for 'The New Acropolis Museum',
1990 |
|
Nasri, Muhammed
1989 |
"Research Programs on Geometry and Ornament:
A Case Study of Islamicist Scholarship" |
|
Silberberg, Ross*
1989 |
"The Architectural Design Studio as a Method
of Inquiry: A Pedagogical Model of the Development of Architectural
Knowledge" |
|
Teh, Joo Heng
1989
Architect, William Lim Associates, Singapore |
"A Theory of Persistence in City Form: Bursa,
a Case of the Ottoman City in Turkey" |
|
Ashraf, Kazi
1988 |
"Architecture as Evocation of Place: Thoughts
on An Archtectural "Beginning" in Bangladesh" |
|
Greeley, Robin
1988
Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Connecticut |
"Image,Text and the Female Body: Rene Magritte
and the Surrealist Publication"
Received PhD from University of California, Berkeley |
|
Khan, Sikander
1988 |
"In Search of A Diretion in the Contemporary
Architecture of Arabia" |
|
Lewis,
Hilary
1988
PhD Candidate, Urban Planning, GSD, Harvard University |
"The Rhode Island State House: The Competition
(1890-1892)" |
|
Martin, Louis
1988
Professor, Department of Art History, University of Quebec at Montreal |
"Architectural Theory after 1968: Analysis
of the Works of Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi"
Received PhD from Princeton University |
|
Moustafa, Amer
1988 |
"Architectural Representation and Meaning:
Towards a Theory of Interpretation" |
|
Nagaya, Toshiaki
1988
Architect, Sanwa Research Institute Corporation, Tokyo |
"Sei'ichi-Shirai and the Subjective Method
of Synthesis" |
|
Nissen, Anne
1988 |
"From the Cheney House to Taliesin: Frank
Lloyd Wright and Feminist Mamah Borthwick" |
|
Taylor, Rives
1988
Architect, Hoover & Furr, Houston; Assistant Professor, Architecture,
University of Houston |
"The American College and its Architecture:
An Institutional Imperative" |
|
al-Harithy, Howayda
1987
Associate
Professor, Architecture, American University, Beirut, Lebanon |
"Architectural Form and Meaning in Light of
Al Jurjani's Literary Theories" (Awarded 1987 "Outstanding S.M.Arch.S. Student," MIT)
Received PhD from Harvard University |
|
Asfour, Khaled
1987
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Misr International
University, Cairo, Egypt |
"Dealing with the Incompatible!" |
|
Sakr, Yasir
1987
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Jordan, Amman |
"The Mosque between Modernity and Tradition:
A Study of Recent Design of Mosques in the Muslim World"
Received PhD from University of Pennsylvania |
|
Cann, Betsy
1986
Architect, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
"The Lawn and the Forest: Architectural Landscape
in the Work of Thomas Jefferson and Frank Lloyd Wright" |
|
Ransom, Shirley
1986 |
"Stained Glass: An Investigation into the
Design Potentials of an Architectural Material" |
|
Sengupta, Ranabir
1986 |
"Perception of Old Towns, Historicism, and
Temporality" |
|
Zographaki, Stephania
1986 |
"Neo-Vernacular Trends Towards the Recent
Past in Greece" |
|
Anderson, James
1985
Architect, Berlin |
"The Architecture of Hans Scharoun: Practice
1933-1945" |
|
Bonnemaison, Sarah
1985
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University |
"Lightweight Structures in Urban Design"
Received PhD from University of British Columbia |
|
Bressani, Martin
1985
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec |
"Rationalism and the Organic Analogy in Fin-de-Siècle
Paris: Auguste Perret and the Building at 25bis, rue Franklin"
Received PhD from University of Paris Sorbonne-- Paris IV |
|
Dackiw, Vladimir
1985 |
"Just Spaces, Just Places: towards a theory
of Justice for human action in time and space" |
|
Metallinou, Vivianna
1984
Architect, Vivianna A. Metallinou, Maria P. Triantafyllides &
Partners, Thessaloniki; Director, AURA Cultural Arts Center, Thessaloniki |
"Regionalism and Greek Architecture: The Architecture
of Dimitris and Susanna Antonakakis" |
|
Rudorf, Wolfgang
1984
Architect, Berlin |
"The Housing Division of the Public Works
Administration in Its Architectural Context" |
|
Shetty, Rajmohan
1984
Visiting Professor, Architecture, RPI, Troy, NY; Architect, Bombay,
India. |
"The Impact of Kinship Systems in the Generation
of House Types"
Merit Award in the 1986 King Fahd Award for Excellence of Research
in Islamic Architecture |
|
Testa, Peter
1984
Associate Professor, Architecture, Columbia University |
"The Architecture of Alvaro Siza"
also published as Thresholds 4 by MIT, Department of Architecture, 1984 |
|
Woods, Michael
1984 |
"Theory and Practise in Architecture, A Study
in Frank Lloyd Wright" |
|
Khan, Masood
1983
Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Historic Cities Support Program |
"'Informal' Architecture: An Examination of
Some Adaptive Processes in Architectural Tradition" |
|
Sarnitz, August
1982
Director, Otto Wagner Archiv, Vienna |
"Rudolph M. Schindler: Theory and Design."
Revised version published (Vienna: C.Brandstätter,1986), and as
R.M. Schindler, Architect 1887-1953 (New York, Rizzoli, 1988). |
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Akbar, Jamel
1981
Professor, School of Architecture, King Faisal University, Dammam,
Saudi Arabia; Chairman, Umran Association |
"Support for Court-Yard Houses. Riyad, Saudi
Arabia"
thesis won Merit Award in the 1986 King Fahd Award for Excellence
of Research in Islamic Architecture |
|
Kokkoris, Panos
1980
Architect, Athens, Greece |
"Taste. A Commentary on its Genesis, Nature
and Claims"
Second Prize, International Competition for 'The New Acropolis
Museum,'1990 |
|
Raynaud, Pierre
1980 |
"The Role of Design in City Form: Organic
and Planned Towns." |
|
Hays, K. Michael
1979
Professor in Architectural Theory and Director of tthe Advanced
Independent Study Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University |
"Reference, Coherence, Meaning: A Realist
Epistemology of Art" |
|
Mathews, Jonathan
1977
Borough Councillor (SDP), London Borough of Tower Hamlets; Director,
London Dock and Development Corporation |
"The Implications of Theories of Knowledge
and Meanings for Theories of Architecture)" |
|
Nicholaeff, Doreve
1976
Architect |
"The Planning and Development of Copley Square." |
|
Hubbard, William
1976
Adjunct Associate Professor, Architecture, MIT |
"A System of Formal Analysis for Architectural
Composition"
published as Thresholds 3 by MIT, Department of Architecture, 1976 |
