Thesis defences 2020

Winter 2020

January

• 06.01.20 - Andrea Quinn - Awakening Beauty: Meaning in Contemporary Catholic Architecture
• 06.01.20 - Shanne Nathaniel Stines - Fragments of Sobriquet
• 07.01.20 - Michelle Bullough - Of the River: Unraveling Imaginaries of Water & Resilience in Metro Manila

February

• 10.02.20 - Kexin Tan - Tian-jing: Hunan skywell compounds in modern China

March

• 18.03.20 - Brian Chen - The Double Edge of Ironic Architecture

April

• 01.04.20 - Michelle Dingley - The Path Less Taken: the Intersection of Narratives and the Icelandic Landscape
• 03.04.20 - Amal Dirie - Nomadic Passage: Water Conservation and Land Preservation
• 03.04.20 - Soo Jung Woo - An Architectural Implementation of Topology Optimization Guided Discrete Structures with Customized Geometric Constraints
• 03.04.20 - Group Defence Day
  • Ye Sul Cho - Smart Aging: How Smart Materials in Architecture Can Respond to Changing User Needs
  • Zahra Falamarzi Khanehzenyani - Robotic stacking: structurally informed free-form timber structure system using standard and non-standard components
  • Alex Gontarz - The Fabrication Commons: Creative Agency Through Intuitive Interfaces
  • Madeleine Slaney - The Newfoundland Root Cellar: Adapting Passive Strategies for the New Corner Store
• 06.04.20 - Shabaan Khokhar - The Means of Relief: Transitional Housing in the Region of Waterloo
• 07.04.20 - Omar Ferwati - Fault Traces: Civilian Architectural Responses in the Syrian Civil War
• 14.04.20 - Syeda Nadia Nahrin Shahed - Poetics of Water
• 23.04.20 - Anna Katrina Davies Jarvis - Farming the High Seas: An adaptive approach for the inhabitation of oceanic recirculation gyres
• 29.04.20 - Anton Kogan - (Post)Colonial Tectonics: reflections on relations in Indigenous spatial practice between the Beautiful Waters and Willow River

Spring 2020

May

• 06.05.20 - Shamir Kiran Panchal - Tracing Timber
• 12.05.20 - Jessica Hanzelkova - The Artifacts of No-Place
• 12.05.20 - Logan Steele - Encountering the Waterlands: Stories of Environment, Animals and Architecture in the Ahiak
• 13.05.20 - Elaine Tat - The Unbounded School: Education Beyond the Walls
• 14.05.20 - Roksena Nikolova - Re-Territorializing Park-Monument of The Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship
• 21.05.20 - Muhammad Tahir Pervaiz - Mediation: Resonating between the Organic and Inorganic

June

• 05.06.20 - Dani Kastelein - We Belong With the Water: Mobility, temporal habitation, rituals, and other 'incidental' elements surrounding fish harvesting traditions of Indigenous communities in Southern Georgian Bay - A Graphic Novel
• 16.06.20 - Amina Lalor - in a good way: (Re)grounding Contextual Narratives on Turtle Island

August

• 05.08.20 - James Callan Wilson-Delafield - Where Ravens Dream: Encountering Property in Relation

• 07.08.20 - Group Defence Day

  • Ailin Adelinik - In the Shadow of an Oak Tree : A place to heal for women of Sarpol Zahab city

  • Vishakh Samuel Alex - Towards A Reparations Ecology: Ecosystem design narratives for rewilding and regenerating desecrated lacustrine landscapes in Tláhuac-Xico, Mexico City

  • Antonia Stanev - Dwellings for the Goryan: Re-crafting Bulgarian Post-Soviet Identity at the Site of the Friendship Monument

  • Erica Burgsma - Seeking Renewal: The Value of Nature and Pausing in Shifting our Focus Inward

  • Ogbe David Ogbe - The Temple Of Afrobeat(s): Re-Imagination of The New Afrika Shrine

  • Justin Jones - A New Wilderness Lookout: Reimagining the Fire Lookout for Ecological Stewardship and Community Engagement

  • Christina Varriano - Co-Existing: Exploring Commercial Laneways in Downtown Toronto as a Network for Public Spaces

  • Winona Li - Toronto's Last Mile Delivering to Communities in Public Urban Spaces

  • Rola El-Sayes - It's ON at Ontario Place - Or is it?

• 10.08.20 - Group Defence Day

  • Nazanin Behboodikhah Moghadam Tehrani - The Future of Warehouses

  • Woo Hyun Chung - The Essence of Objects and Architecture

  • Rui Hu - A Living Room for Milton

  • Nima Karami - Reclaiming Construction Waste: An interface for robotic stacking of irregular components in compression-only structures

  • Ilhan Ozdemir - Anatolian Regional Modernism A Proposal for Regional Residential Prototypes for Black Sea, Cappadocia and Aegea

  • Hollie Sin - Retrofitting Suburbia: A Move Towards Multigenerational Living

• 12.08.20 - Kelsey Nicole Malott - Revitalizing The Sunset Strip: Learning from Rock 'n' Roll on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard

Fall 2020

September

• 03.09.20 - Mia Milanovic - IF STONES COULD SPEAK Destruction, Preservation and Memory the case in Kosovo and Metohija
• 11.09.20 - Iynas Mazyad - The Caravan Citizens: Spatial resistance and resilience in the refugee camp of Za’atari - a Graphic Novel
• 14.09.20 - Julian David Leon Acosta - Informal Progressions. A comparative analysis of Lima and Medellin informal settlements 
• 15.09.20 - Sarah Catherine Hunter - Assessing the Potential of Integrating the Health Impact Assessment in Normative Architectural Practice in Order to Promote Population Health and Health Equity in Design Decision-Making

December

• 04.12.20 - Simon Leroux - A Classification of Wide Seasonal Range (WiSR) Cities for Early-Stage Decision Making in Public Space Design
• 08.12.20 - Haley Gamble - Socioculturally Focused Reclamation: Reimagining the Post-extraction Landscape of Giant Mine
• 09.12.20 - Jasdeep Multani - Redefining the Classroom: Incorporating Sensory Cognizant Design Strategies
• 15.12.20 - Group Defence Day
  • Kate Elizabeth Brownlie - The Home is a Place for Living: Fifteen Conversations About Inhabitation, Adaptation, and the Rehabilitation of Toronto’s Post-War Apartment Buildings
  • Marco Chow - Transitioning in Place: Designing a Co-operative Development for Homeless Families in Ottawa
  • Jesse Croll - Hybrid Bivouac: High-Modulus Composite Membranes for Portable Shelters
  • Jie Jie Huang - Site Finding in a Complex Urban Landscape
  • Chieh Yu Hung - Natural Grieving, a Method of Preservation: Implementing Natural Burials in Ontario’s Greenbelt
  • Sean Sy Quach - Ecological Infrastructures - Reconnecting The Fragments of Garrison Creek through Four Frameworks
  • Nathanael Scheffler - Let’s Make Good Stuff: Combatting planned obsolescence and junk by relearning repair, maintenance, and personal agency over the things around us
  • Yu-Chu Su - From Industrial District to Interface City: Re-imagining the Corrugated Metal Sheds of Taiwan
  • Wayne Yan - Many Rooms: Mixed Use Reimagining Church Redevelopments in Vancouver
  • Winston Yew - Beta-Testing Architecture

• 17.12.20 - Hagop Terzian - A Guide for Foreign Trained Newcomer Architects: Identifying barriers to re-licensure in Canada

• 17.12.20 - Victoria Mantha-Blythe - The Witch’s House