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Dissertations in Preparation
(Space)Ship of Fools? Esoteric Practices and the Management of Human and Nonhuman life in a Planetary Society
“Art Needs to Go Public”. Dan Graham Pavilions and the Evolution of a Critical Idea and Practice, 1964-2022
The Child in the City: Play, Architecture, and Urbanism in Modern Kuwait, 1960-1980
A Study of Geometry and Representation in Modern Arab Architecture: The Case of Sayed Karim and Rifat Chadirji
The Architecture of Natural Conditioning in Hot-Humid Climates: Architectural Ethnography study of Hijazi traditional dwellings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Challenging Orthodoxy: The Idea of Facade of The Philadelphia School Architects
Dissertations Defended
Beginning Again with the Classical Orders: Rhythms of Justice, Nature, and Architecture
Genres of Situated Architectural Theory: Autotheory, Dialogue, and Site-Theory
Geometry and Topology: Building Machine Learning Surrogate Models with Graphic Statics Method
Human Dimensions of Building Performance: Sensing, Modeling, and Predicting Indoor Environmental Quality
Thinking, Seeing, Practicing: From the Smithsons to Scott Brown and Venturi
From Gardens to Regions and Back Again: The Career of Warren H. Manning and the Practice of Landscape Architecture