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5 theses, Assignment Posts

Axel, Baek

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1. LEED does not promote good practice of sustainability

2. Using local ‘non green’ materials is more sustainable than imported ‘green’ materials

3. Health and environmental calamities can be greatly resourced and helped by responsible architects through architectural means and procedures.

  • “Butaro Hospital / MASS Design Group” 06 Sep 2011. ArchDaily. Web. Accessed 25 Jan 2015.
  • “Building Green in Sakhnin.” Israel Environment Bulletin. TAEQ Organization, 2010. Web. Acessed 25 Jan 2015.
  • Tomasulo, Matt. Walk [Your City]. Walk [Your City]. 2015. Web. Accessed 25 Jan 2015 <https://walkyourcity.org/>.
  • SWINE. “Can City.” SWINE. SWINE. 2013. Web. Acessed 25 Jan 2015.
  • “Informal Urban Communities Initiative.” University of Washington. 2014. Architects w/o Borders-Seattle. Web. Accessed 25 Jan 2015.
  • Architecture sans frontieres. ASF International .2015. Web. Accessed 25 Jan 2015 <http://www.asfint.org/>.

4. Food security and scarcity is a rising and current issue in Asia, in which architecture is the key solution to the problem and benefit in various scales.

5. Computers and computer aided design have expanded the realm of architectural design

 

5 theses, Assignment Posts

Tyler Rafferty, Alice Stewart Castner, Alison Robinson

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  1. Architects detail to digital fabrication leads to deception.
  2. Affordable housing’s location is pertinent to its success. ­
  3. From an architectural standpoint, a “poor door” is an efficient solution to separating function in a residential tower.
  4. Demolishing The American Folk Art Museum is a wasteful solution to the expansion of MOMA.
  5. The future of the perpetually abandoned Divine Lorraine Hotel holds the key to North Philadelphia’s revival.
5 theses, Assignment Posts

5 Theses (Valerie Alvarado, Laura DeLuca, Rebecca Lefkowitz)

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1. The extensive process of licensure to become an architect should be reimagined in order to supplement the ability of women to become practicing architects.

  • Coleman, Debra. Architecture and Feminism. New York: Princeton Architectural, 1996. Print.
  • Sherry Ahrentzen, “The ‘F Word in Architecture: Feminist Analyses in/of/for Architecture,” Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourse and Social Practices, ed. Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
  • Leslie Kanes Weisman, “Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto,” Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics 3 (1981).
  • Diana Agrest, “Architecture From Without: Body, Logic, and Sex,” in Architecture From Without: Theoretical Framings for a Critical Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.
  • Ahrentzen, Sherry, and Linda N. Groat. 1992. “Rethinking Architectural Education: Patriarchal Conventions and Alternative Visions from the Perspectives of  Women Faculty.” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research  9(2):1–17.
  • Anthony, Kathryn H. 2001. Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. 1984. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from Their Nineteenth‐Century Beginnings to the 1930s. New York: Knopf.
  • Struglia, Rachel. 1996. “Alternative Approaches to Urban Planning: Jane Jacobs and Feminist Urban Planners.” In Public and Private Places, ed. Jack L. Nassar and Barbara Brown, 61–71. Edmond, Okla.: Environmental Design Research Association.

2. More focus should be put on the construction of navigational tools in urban design in order to create more meaningful, interactive environments.

  • Lingis, Alphonso. “The Weight of Reality.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (2002): Print.
  • Bowring, J., (2006). T”he smell of memory : sensorial mnemonics.” In The Landscape Architect, IFLA conference papers May 2006. Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
  • Bruno, Giuliana. Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film. London: Verso, 2002. Print.
  • Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1960. Print.
  • Arthur, Paul, and Romedi Passini. Wayfinding: People, Signs, and Architecture. New York: McGraw-Hill Book, 1992. Print.
  • Werner, Steffen, and Laura E. Schindler. “The Role of Spatial Reference Frames in Architecture: Misalignment Impairs Way-Finding Performance.” Environment & Behavior. SAGE Journals. Web. 25 Jan. 2015.

3. The historically stagnant suburban-style grocery store design should be re-imagined to maximize the consumer experience.

  • “Consumer-driven trends center on convenience, health, and smaller stores in 2015.” Supermarket News, 13 December 2014.
  • Freeman, Mark and Alison Freeman. “Online Grocery Systems Design through Task Analysis.” Journal of Enterprise Information Management 24, no. 5 (2011): 440-454.
  • Baker, Brian and Jeanne Banyas, John Mitchell, Shawn Sheehan. “The Urban Grocery Store.” University of Cincinnatti Community Design Center. 2004.
  • Praskey, Sally. “The 3 Rs: REFORMAT, REMODEL, REDESIGN.” Canadian Grocer 120, no. 8 (10, 2006): 28-29,31-34.
  • Foote, Denise. “Makeover Madness: In the Face of Competition, the Grocery Store Puts on a New Face.” Canadian Grocer 113, no. 3 (04, 1999): 16-17.
  • Boswell, Brannon. “No More Miles of Aisles.” Shopping Center World 29, no. 12 (11, 2000): 28.

4. The centrally-located Civic Arena site should be developed for an urban hub that unifies Pittsburgh’s unique multi-modal transportation system.

  • Harte-Maxwell, Monika. “A Suburban Transportation Hub Prototype.” Order No. MR51991, Carleton University (Canada), 2009.
  • Gallimore, Mark. “The Business and Politics of Mass Transit in Pittsburgh, 1902–1938.” Order No. 3419351, Lehigh University, 2010.
  • El-Geneidy, Ahmed. “The use of Advanced Information Technology in Urban Public Transportation Systems: An Evaluation of Bus Stop Consolidation.” Order No. 3169481, Portland State University, 2005.
  • Zhong, Chen, Stefan Mueller Arisona, Xianfeng Huang, Michael Batty, and Gerhard Schmitt. “Detecting the Dynamics of Urban Structure through Spatial Network Analysis.” International Journal of Geographical Information Science 28, no. 11 (Nov 02, 2014): 2178-2199.
  • Crowley, Gregory J. “Contentious Urban Development: Pittsburgh Cases.” Order No. 3117760, University of Pittsburgh, 2003.
  • “Lower Hill Development Project-Overview.” Pittsburgh Sports and Exhibition Authority, 21 May 2014.

5. Gentrification creates a negative atmosphere amongst the native residents of that neighborhood and disposes of job opportunities for that existing community.