Notice of M.Arch. Thesis Defence (Spring 2016)

Scott Turner

Of the thesis entitled: Reclaiming Water and the Right to the City in Los Angeles: Compton Commons

Abstract:

The greater Los Angeles urban area is home to nearly 19 million people, but has local water resources that can only support a population of approximately one million. Los Angeles has always depended upon a large proportion of imported water, but severe droughts within the last three years have resulted in water shortages that have critical implications for the future of the city. In addition to these water supply issues, this thesis examines larger questions of scarcity, inequity and social justice that manifest themselves in the urban fabric of Los Angeles, a city that has the least amount of parks and public spaces of any major city in North America and has been rife with inequality, racism, poverty and crime.

The term ‘metabolic rift’, refers to the division between humanity and nature, and the resultant ecological crises wrought by industrial capitalism (Bellamy-Foster, 1999). This concept can be expanded to include all manner of socio-ecological crises produced by processes of neoliberal global capitalism. The metabolic rift is a space of exclusion and subjugation, degradation and precarity, scarcity and toxicity—an expanding territory of perpetual crisis. In examining the evolution of the urban development of Los Angeles in the context of the production of metabolic rifts and increasingly critical water scarcity, this thesis correlates the production of a capital-driven urban fabric and the expanding network of hydrological infrastructures. In this, issues of sustainability, environmental and social justice, as well as critiques of late capitalism and nature-culture discourses are interrogated.

To address issues of water scarcity, this thesis proposes a strategy of tapping into the storm water sewer network of Los Angeles, channeling this water, regarded as a waste product and a hazard, and transforming it into a resource. This water will be reclaimed through a network of constructed wetlands that perform a hybrid function as storm water management and water treatment infrastructure, as well as parks and public spaces. This design proposal also includes a mixed use development in Compton that incorporates housing, community programs and a constructed wetlands park. The ambition is propose a model that can be a robust and sustainable approach to water conservation and management, as well as a space of inclusion—a productive commons outside the territory of capitalism.

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

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Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows:

The committee has been approved as authorized by the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Defence Examination will take place:  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016                           6:30PM                BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design

A copy of the thesis is available for perusal in ARC 2106A.

Back to defences

Evelyn Ka-Kwok Lo

Of the thesis entitled: The Memory Mines

Abstract:

She is eighteen when she leaves home. She leaves shortly after her father’s inexplicable disappearance – an event she neither understands nor accepts. She does what everyone on the cusp of adulthood does: she moves abroad to forget her past. Now, ten years later, her ageing mother is taken away. The family home is empty. The young woman returns. It is here, in her childhood home, she makes the deliberate decision to remember.

Even after so many years, the house is the same. Here, her childhood memories still live, in the spaces between walls, in the cracks in the floor, in the weft of the brocade curtains. Stories are awakened with the turn of a brass handle, the swing of a glass door, the scent of sour yogurt. The memories surface of their own will, appearing suddenly, sometimes violently. She moves through the house, reliving each memory with startling lucidity. The line between her parents’ memories and her own begin to blur. She remembers things she never knew. 

The Memory Mines is a collection of memories, distorted through a child’s eyes, made fragile with time - the last traces of a fractured childhood. It is here, in her childhood home, a young woman seeks to discover the truth about her parents’ tumultuous relationship. 

The examining committee is as follows: