Thesis defences 2012

Winter 2012

January

13.01.12 - Brian A Urbanik - The Map is Not the Territory

13.01.12 - Vien Nguyen - Too Much Information

16.01.12 - Peter C. Graham - The Parametric Facade: Optimization in Architecture through a Synthesis of Design, Analysis and Fabrication

March

02.03.12 - Ryan Ollson - Urban Actuation: Public Space as a Catalyst for Urban Revitalization

21.03.12 - Terry Hon-Tai Sin - Architecture at Play: The Magic Circle and Flow in Video Game Spaces

April

05.04.12 - Heather Kathleen Brown - A Giant's Quiet Decay: The Latency of Superior North

25.04.12 - Elisia Neves - Fertile Grounds: Cultivating an Identity Through Architecture

30.04.12 - Miklos Csonti - A Riparian Portal

30.04.12 - Suzanne Harris-Brandts - Contesting Limits

30.04.12 - Matt Schmid - Stochastic Lattice | A Generative Design Tool for Material Conscious Free Form Timber Surface Architecture

Spring 2012

May

02.05.12 - Liam David Renshaw Brown - Death in the City: The St. Lawrence Funeral Centre

09.05.12 - Christopher James Snazel Knight - Raising Islands

June

18.06.12 - Ian S. Huff - Walmart 2.0

July

24.07.12 - Alejandro Fernandez - In The Fields: the Fun Palace, Co-creation, and the Digital City

25.07.12 - Christina Karney - The House of Ontario: Restoring Meaning and Identity to Queen's Park

25.07.12 - Katie Kuzan - Journey to the Centre of the Shield

25.07.12 - Lida Arbabi - The House of Uncommon Grounds

August

07.08.12 - Emily Claire Balaban - Oh The Places We'll Go: The Game of Children's Spaces

10.08.12 - Kathryn Bell - Echoes of Industry: Reinterpreting Artifacts of the Lachine Canal

10.08.12 - Andrea Larisa Nagy - Tomorrow's Airport Today: A Holistic Approach to Modern Terminal Design

Fall 2012

September

19.09.12 - Aleksandra Popovska - Lost River: The Artefacts of Toronto's Garrison Creek

26.09.12 - Erika Kulbach - A Contemplation on the Ideal Built Environment of Ethical Tourism

October

11.10.12 - Sarah Khalid - The Future of Food in Suburbia

November

07.11.12 - Bill Chan - How Should We Live: An Alternative Process of Land Development for Chinese Villages

December

11.12.12 - Adam Brady - MALLOCALYPSE: the loss of great space

13.12.12 - Angelito Junior Huang - On Resurfacing: A Case for a Cultural Renaissance

13.12.12 - Omar Al-Mahdy - Medina: Reviving Place Identity through Public Space

17.12.12 - Jieun Lee - (de)militarized zone: faction space as borderline landscape

18.12.12 - Jessie Towell - The Other 90%: Infrastructural Components for the Masses, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

19.12.12 - Jason Child - Beyond the Minimum: A Durable Emergency Shelter