Historic Preservation
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The percentage of WHS Cultural Sites that are once inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger, never inscribed, or currently on the list.
Thesis: Xinyu Dong
Thesis: Dong
Solar radiation analysis of North 31st Street.
Thesis: Alyson Rock
Thesis: Alyson Rock
Cover of the toolkit developed by the studio team. Photo source: Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation Archive.
Rethinking Public Space Capstone Studio
HSPV 7210
View of Café Diem on 8th Street, between Washington Avenue and League Street. An example of a Philadelphia rowhouse adapted for Vietnamese commercial use. Photo by Calvin Nguyen, 2023.
Thesis: Calvin Nguyen
Thesis: Nguyen
Transverse section looking west with photo, drawn by Alyson Rock.
Documentation II: Heritage Recording and Site Analysis
HSPV 601
Interior floorplan of Ivy Lodge with original room names. Image and Plan by N. Macdonald, adapted from A.J. Downing’s publication The Horticulturist "Denwood" article, published in 1851.
Thesis: Nicola Macdonald
Thesis: Macdonald
Data dissemination of a portion of the Midway HBIM model. The component’s information is listed in the table and can be called out in the model’s view.
Thesis: Shixin Zhao
Thesis: Zhao
Advocates for preservation maintenance have been active since the American Bicentennial. This wayside was placed directly outside Independence Hall shortly after the national celebrations. (Source: “NPS Reading List: Maintaining Historic Buildings,” National Park Service, 1990)
Thesis: Colin Cohan
Thesis: Cohan
An apprentice making a tile mosaic inside MPTW, 1989.
Thesis: Cyrus Yerxa
Thesis: Yerxa
Children Riding Overbrook Trolley, 1908, West Philadelphia. (Source: Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection)
Thesis: Faye Messner
Thesis: Messner
Three Black residences on Hancock Street in Portsmouth that would be demolished during the Marcy-Washington Streets Project in the early 1960s (Portsmouth Athenaeum).
Thesis: Elizabeth Donison
Thesis: Donison
Diagrams of Non-destructive Technology Analysis on the Roof Slab
Capstone Studio Taliesin West: Materials + Materialities
HSPV 7210
Diagram of variations of the Flying Africans folktale.
Thesis: Allison Nkwocha
Thesis: Nkwocha
HSPV 7010: Henry Ossawa Tanner House Studio
HSPV 7010: Tanner House
(left): Before picture of the Auction Hall (F), 1972; (right): After picture of the Auction Hall (F), 2022.
Thesis: Namrata Dadawala
Thesis: Dadawala
The Vignette Showcases the Interior of Hung Far Low at the Portland Chinatown Museum
Thesis: Haoyi Shang
Thesis Shang
The Lotus Shelter, unknown date. Photo Source: Desert Shelters Collection, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, Scottsdale, AZ.
Thesis: Jane Nasta
Thesis: Nasta
Comparative vulnerability table. This table compares the relative vulnerability of each material in the exterior walls of Cellblock 12 to hygrothermal deterioration based on material properties and potential causal factors. It shows that the stucco is the most vulnerable to hygrothermal deterioration due to its high coefficient of thermal expansion, exposure to high fluctuations in temperature and relative humidity, and high levels of constraint.
Thesis: Cameron Moon
Thesis: Moon
A pamphlet made in favor of the historic district advertising a public meeting, created by the UCHS and SHCA in 2002. From the Philadelphia Historical Commission physical archive, located at 1515 Arch Street.
Thesis: Sophie Zionts
Thesis: Zionts
HSPV 7010: Carbondale
HSPV 7010: Carbondale
HSPV 7010: Eastern State Penitentiary
HSPV 7010
Thesis: Danele Alampay
Thesis: Alampay
HSPV 701-201: Downtown Selma
HSPV 701-201
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