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Dissertations - Defended
Beginning again with the Classical Orders: Rhythms of Justice, Nature, and Architecture
2023
Antonios Thodis
Genres of Situated Architectural Theory: Autotheory, Dialogue, and Site-Theory
2023
Ali AlYousefi
Geometry and Topology: Building Machine Learning Surrogate Models with Graphic Statics Method
2023
Hao Zheng
Human Dimensions of Building Performance: Sensing, Modeling, and Predicting Indoor Environmental Quality
2023
Nan (Nancy) Ma
Thinking, Seeing, Practicing: From the Smithsons to Scott Brown and Venturi
2022
Taryn Mudge
From Gardens to Regions and Back Again: The Career of Warren H. Manning and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
2022
Kostantinos Alexakis
Hans Scharoun, Neues Bauen, and the Chinese Werkbund: The Search for Post-perspectival Space
2022
Liyang Ding
Making Measurements and Crafting Evidence: the Architect-as-Surveyor in the 1920s-1940s
2022
Lori Gibbs
Life on the Border: Constructing the México-US Borderlands, 1961-1971
2021
Germán Pallares-Avitia
Reading and Writing a Garden, Materials of a Garden Made in Germantown, Pennsylvania (1683–1719)
2021
Miranda Mote
Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, 1949-1961
2019
Dalal Musaed Alsayer
A Pictoral Vision of Space: Looking at Modern Architecture in China through Landscape Painting
2018
Linfan Liu
Development of a Methodology for Fast Optimization of Building Retrofit and Decision Making Support
2018
Pengyuan Shen
Detailing Worlds: A History of Architectural Particulars, 1755-1899
2018
Eric Bellin
The Articulate Envelopes of Renzo Piano and Kengo Kuma
2016
Ariel Genadt
The Promenades of Paris: Alphand and the Urbanization of Garden Art, 1852-1871
2015
Gideon Fink Shapiro
Architecture, Advertising and Corporations, 1929-1959
2010
Grace Ong Yan
Tracing the Integrations of Race and Style Theory in Nineteenth-Century Architectural Style Debates: E. E. Viollet-le-Duc and Gottfried Semper, 1834-1890
2009
Charles L. Davis II
Jane Jacobs, American Architectural Criticism, and Urban Design Theory, 1935–65
2009
Peter L. Laurence
Exchange of Forces: Environmental Definition of Materials in the Works of Vitruvius, Alberti, Le Corbusier, and Peter Zumthor
2009
Esra Sahin Burat
Towards a Critique of an Architectural Nahdha: A Kuwaiti Example
2008
Asseel Al-Ragam
Architecture in the Manner of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ornamental Excess and the Apotropaic Function of Grotesque Representations
2005
Franca Trubiano
The Perambulations of Hadrian: A Walk Through Hadrian's Villa
2005
Michael Ytterberg
The Image of Function: Architectural Diagrams in Handbooks and Normative Practices in the Twentieth Century
2003
Paul Emmons
The Hermit's Hut: A Study in Asceticism and Architecture
2002
Kazi K. Ashraf
From History to Posterity: The œuvres Complètes of Jacques-François Blondel and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
2002
Ramla Benaissa
Architectural Temperance: Spaniards and Rome 1700-1758
1999
Victor Deupi
Henry van de Velde on Rational Beauty, Empathy and Ornament
1998
Elie Haddad
Oskar Schlemmer's Vordruck: The Making of an Architectural Body for the Bauhaus
1998
Marcia F. Feuerstein
The Heart of Whiteness: The Discussion of Color and Material Qualities in American Architectural Journals Around 1930
1995
William W. Braham
An Urban-Conscious Rapid Wind Downscaling Model for Early Design Stages
Jihun Kim
Simply American: Simplicity in Architectural Arrangement, Construction, And Standards, 1820-1920
Fred Esenwein
Publications by Penn Arch PhDs
BIO/MATTER/TECHNO/SYNTHETICS: Design Futures for the More than Human
Actar, 2024
Franca Trubiano
Histories of Architecture Education in the United States
Routledge, 2023
Peter L. Laurence
The Contested Territory of Architectural Theory
Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2023
Elie Haddad
Building Theories, Architecture as the Art of Building
Routledge, 2023
Franca Trubiano
Modern Architecture in a Post Modern Era
Lund Humphries Publishers, 2023
Elie Haddad
The Great Padma: The Epic River that made the Bengal Delta
ORO Editions, 2023
Kazi K. Ashraf
The Urban Housing Handbook
John Wiley, 2023
Victor Deupi
Pavilion Living: Architecture, Patronage, and Well-Being
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2023
Victor Deupi
Expanding Field of Architecture: Women in Practice Across the Globe
2022
Marcia F. Feuerstein
50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
Rizzoli, 2021
Gideon Fink Shapiro
Emilio Sanchez Revisited: A Centenary Celebration of the Artist's Life and Work
LnS Gallery, 2021
Victor Deupi
Pan-Arab Modernism: A History of Architectural Practice in the Middle East, 1968-2018
Actar, 2021
Dalal Musaed Alsayer
Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1975
Birkhäuser, 2021
Victor Deupi
Wineries of the World: Architecture and Viniculture
Rizzoli, 2021
Victor Deupi
Stables: High Design for Horse and Home
Rizzoli, 2021
Victor Deupi
Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices
Routledge, 2020
Paul Emmons
Race and Modern Architecture A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020
Charles L. Davis II
Emilio Sanchez in New York and Latin America
Routledge, 2020
Victor Deupi
Building Brands: Modern Architecture and Corporations
Lund Humphries Publishers, 2020
Grace Ong Yan
Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures
ORO Editions/AR+D, 2019
Franca Trubiano
Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Charles L. Davis II
Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity
Routledge, 2019
Paul Emmons
Transformations in Classical Architecture: New Directions in Research and Practice
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2018
Victor Deupi
Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture
Routledge, 2018
Paul Emmons
Locations: An Anthology of Architecture and Urbanism
ORO Editions, 2017
Kazi K. Ashraf
Becoming Jane Jacobs
Penn Press, 2016
Peter L. Laurence
Re-Living the City
Actar, 2016
Gideon Fink Shapiro
Energy Accounts: Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate, and the Future
Routledge, 2016
William W. Braham
Architecture and Systems Ecology: Thermodynamic Principles for Environmental Building Design
Routledge, 2016
William W. Braham
Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent: Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature
Routledge, 2015
Rumiko Handa
Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome 1700-1759
Routledge, 2015
Victor Deupi
An Architect in Bangladesh: Conversations with Muzharul Islam
Loka Press, 2014
Kazi K. Ashraf
City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America
University of Minnesota Press, 2014
Alison Bick Hirsch
Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture
Ashgate, 2014
Ann Marie Borys
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010
Ashgate, 2014
Elie Haddad
Design and Construction of High Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice
Routledge, 2013
Franca Trubiano
Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style
Routledge, 2013
William W. Braham
The Hermit's Hut: Architecture and Asceticism in India
University of Hawaii Press, 2013
Kazi K. Ashraf
Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation
Park Books, 2013
Alexander Eisenschmidt
John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape
Routledge, 2013
Jody Beck
Architecture as a Performing Art
Ashgate, 2013
Marcia F. Feuerstein
Designing Dhaka: A Manifesto for a Better City
Loka Press, 2012
Kazi K. Ashraf
The Cultural Role of Architecture: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Routledge, 2012
Paul Emmons
The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-Opening Jameson's Narrative
Ashgate, 2012
Nadir Lahiji
Unclosure: Design for a Workstation at Uluburun
VDM Verlag, 2011
Esra Sahin Burat
The Complete House and Grounds: Learning from Andrew Jackson Downing's Domestic Architecture
The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011
Caren Yglesias
Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry
Institute of Contemporary Art, 2011
Anne Griswold Tyng
La Villa
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Thomas Edward Beck
The Penn Resolution: Educating Urban Designers for Post-Carbon Cities
Penn Design and The Rockefeller Foundation, 2011
Peter L. Laurence
ARCHITECT: The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own
Blackdog and Levanthal, 2010
Grace Ong Yan
When Modern Was Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge
Routledge, 2010
David Henderson Haney
Nothingness: Tadao Ando's Christian Sacred Space
Routledge, 2009
Jin Baek
Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan
Routledge, 2010
Zhongjie Lin
Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City
Routledge, 2009
Marina Lathouri
Towards a Draped Architecture: Theatricality, Virtuosity, and Ambiguity in Contemporary Architecture
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009
Açalya Allmer
Figures of Death and Life in the Architecture of Grandjean de Montigny: Resemblances, Homologies and Remembrances as Epistemic Devices in Creative Processes
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009
Milton Vitis Feferman
Architectural Spatiality: The Dialectic between the Concepts of Raum and Bekleidung
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009
Tonkao Panin
Medici Gardens: From Making to Design
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
The Architectural Design Special Volume "Made in India"
The Architectural Design, 2007
Kazi K. Ashraf
Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino: Post-War Italian Architects and the Relevance of Their Work Today
Mellen Press, 2006
Keith Evan Green
Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory
Routledge, 2007
William W. Braham
Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture: Academia Eolia Revisited
Routledge, 2006
Barbara Kenda
The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture
University of Washington Press, 2006
Alex Thomas Anderson
Utopias and Architecture
Routledge, 2005
Nathaniel Coleman
Vitruvio Ferrarese: De Architectura
F.C. Panini, 2004
Claudio Sgarbi
New Classicism: The Rebirth of Traditional Architecture
Rizzoli, 2004
Elizabeth Meredith Dowling
Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village
Princeton Architectural Press, 2003
Robert Mellin
Modern Color/Modern Architecture: Amédée Ozenfant and the Genealogy of Color in Modern Architecture
Ashgate, 2001
William W. Braham
Kenchikugai no shikō: kon wajirō ron
ドメス出版, 2000
Izumi Kuroishi
The Salk Institute
Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
Daniel S. Friedman
Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture
Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
Nadir Lahiji, Daniel S. Friedman
To Live in the New World: A.J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening
MIT Press, 1997
Judith K. Major
Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century: A Personal and Intellectual Biography
Yale University Press, 1996
Harry Francis Mallgrave
Ensaio sobre a razão compositiva: uma investigação sobre a natureza das relações entre as partes e o todo na composição arquitetônica
AP Cultural, 1995
Edson da Cunha Mahfuz
Changing Places: ReMaking Institutional Buildings
White Pine Press, 1995
Marcia F. Feuerstein
Ontology of Construction: On Nihilism of Technology in Theories of Modern Architecture
Cambridge University Press, 1994
Gevork Hartoonian
Monsters of Architecture: Anthropomorphism in Architectural Theory
Rowman & Littlefield, 1991
Marco Frascari
Space in Architecture: The Evolution of a New Idea in the Theory and History of the Modern Movements
Van Gorcum, 1978
Cornelis van de Ven
Industrial Archeology: A New Look at the American Heritage
Penguin Books, 1978
Theodore Anton Sande