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An apprentice making a tile mosaic inside MPTW, 1989.
Thesis: Cyrus Yerxa
Thesis: Yerxa
Action photo: Conducting GPR scan downside of the beam
Capstone Studio Taliesin West: Materials + Materialities
HSPV 7210
Transverse section looking west with photo, drawn by Alyson Rock.
Documentation II: Heritage Recording and Site Analysis
HSPV 601
(left): Before picture of the Auction Hall (F), 1972; (right): After picture of the Auction Hall (F), 2022.
Thesis: Namrata Dadawala
Thesis: Dadawala
Venn Diagram relating 32 documents dedicated to maintenance practices and their overlapping categorization as guides, guidelines, manuals, and regulations. (Source: Cohan, 2023)
Thesis: Colin Cohan
Thesis: Cohan
Rowhouse types found on North 31st Street. Rowhouse type 2C was identified as the most challenging case for cooling and used as a base case for further studies.
Thesis: Alyson Rock
Thesis: Alyson Rock
HSPV 7010: Carbondale
HSPV 7010: Carbondale
This photomicrograph shows a sample of the original shutters exhibiting a series of monochromatic cream paint layers. The sample is captured using different light-passing imaging techniques - visible light on the left and UV visible with a DAPI filter (365 nm) on the right. The magnification used for the image is 40x on the Zeiss Axion 5 fluorescent microscope.
Thesis: Nicola Macdonald
Thesis: Macdonald
Cellblock 12, Eastern State Penitentiary. The deterioration of the exterior wall assembly of Cellblock 12 was the impetus for this thesis. The stucco has failed on the south side, exposing structural clay tile behind it.
Thesis: Cameron Moon
Thesis: Moon
HSPV 7010: Eastern State Penitentiary
HSPV 7010
Children Riding Overbrook Trolley, 1908, West Philadelphia. (Source: Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection)
Thesis: Faye Messner
Thesis: Messner
The Lotus Shelter, unknown date. Photo Source: Desert Shelters Collection, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, Scottsdale, AZ.
Thesis: Jane Nasta
Thesis: Nasta
Thesis: Danele Alampay
Thesis: Alampay
Diagram of variations of the Flying Africans folktale.
Thesis: Allison Nkwocha
Thesis: Nkwocha
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
Kids at the playhouse at the Kingsessing Recreation Center in 1957. Source: Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation Archive.
Rethinking Public Space Capstone Studio
HSPV 7210
The Vignette Showcases the Interior of Hung Far Low at the Portland Chinatown Museum
Thesis: Haoyi Shang
Thesis Shang
HSPV 701-201: Downtown Selma
HSPV 701-201
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
HSPV 7010: Henry Ossawa Tanner House Studio
HSPV 7010: Tanner House
The proportion of WHS Cultural sites that have received updates to their original designation in the total number of properties.
Thesis: Xinyu Dong
Thesis: Dong
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
Contextualizing HBIM: a Venn Diagram comparing the relationship between Architecture and Preservation, and BIM and HBIM.
Thesis: Shixin Zhao
Thesis: Zhao
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