This thesis seeks to explore, through making. The object of this making is, as Kahn has said, house. as opposed to a house; or, the house type seen as a generative tool rather than as a singular definitive manifestation of some set of circumstantial needs. The house is the one intellectual model in architecture which can bring to thinking in design a set of questions in which dwelling in its richest sense can be studied. Questions of how dwelling is made more possible through the configurations of architecture without the necessity of introducing artificial symbolic structures which cast the physical, material reality of architectural elements into a secondary level of significance, are raised in this thesis through the making of six house types. The houses are made as a series and are seen as typological structures in which the configuration of possible ways of dwelling are sketched. / M. Arch.

This project is an attempt to reconstruct a residential neighborhood in the old downtown Washington, D.C. The design tries to transform a deteriorated old commercial block to a lively residential neighborhood by introducing attractive urban characters to the area while maintaining the existing context. / Master of Architecture

This thesis delineates how the process of "certified rehabilitation" can be applied by the architect to acquire tax savings and quality control on the rehabilitation of a historic building. Theory and principle are applied to a specific case. To strengthen the architect's and the planner's awareness of governmental guidelines, approaches are suggested to benefit the client and improve the potential for "adaptive reuse" with emphasis on lighting. This thesis shows, by example, how economics and building methods can enhance Historic Preservation. / Master of Architecture

This thesis illustrates a design process which is dependent upon the investigation of context as a means to establish an order for the integration of a multifaceted urban environment into a cohesive whole. / Master of Architecture

This is a study of a mixed-use project on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The city of Washington has a unique sense of spaciousness and visual coherence as a result of the plan established tor the city by L'Entant. The 20th Century with the advent of the automobile and highrise construction techniques, has changed the conception of Washington from that envisioned by L’Enfant. The overlapping of radial and gridiron street systems has also created some conflicts within the city. During President Kennedy’s administration the government undertook the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue. The goals and objectives of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation have influenced the program that was established for this project. The second major factor behind this project is the desire to create a building flexible enough to accept change gracefully. ln an urban context the ability to provide for "choice, change and growth"¹ allows a building to adapt to the inevitable transformations which occur around it. / Master of Architecture

When one thinks of an architect, one usually visualizes a building; its facades, materials and spaces within. Architects, however, have shown an interest in interior and accessory design for decades. Furniture, lamps, rugs, ceramics, flatwear, and more are components that allow an architect to make a more cohesive statement about his or her architecture. / Master of Architecture

A design is proposed for a library located on a comer site in a downtown area of some historical importance. The character of the surrounding buildings demanded that the library acknowledge its context. This acknowledgement occurred through the use of an axial organization from the site and a transformation of formal elements from the surrounding buildings. Included are developmental sketches; transformational drawings; plans, elevations and sections of the library; photographs of surrounding buildings; and frames from a computer-animated ”fly-through” view of the library. / Master of Architecture

A place to live for a family and guests which structures the landscape and whose form is generated from ideas about small scale informal urban relationships. / Master of Architecture

A pathway to go from the profane to a village of higher aspirations. A House of Visual Arts and an existing school of architecture flank the pathway as the realm of the mundane is received into the world of the sublime. Rows of trees define streams of space flowing into a reservoir of space, gateways marking the points of transition. From the reservoir, these gateways frame the distant mountains giving the urban room a location. The room itself is essentially empty, for it is hardly a statement but, rather, the preparation for one. The room is for the life of the academic village. Giving order where disorder reigned, providing clarity where ambiguity prevailed, bringing unity where discord was the norm, furnishing hierarchy, meaning, moments of movement and pause, MAKING A PLACE. / Master of Architecture

In the school there is meeting. If you thought of the nature of a school, you would never have a corridor in a school. You would have a hall in a school. Where it is a meeting place for people not in any way obligated to each other, have no source of being judged. And it becomes in a way the student's classroom. The corridor can never aspire to be a hall. But the hall can aspire to be of such importance equal to that of the library which is probably the most important part of school. Because the book is an offering...offerings of the mind. / Master of Architecture