A building and its environment can work together to express unity and harmony. The concept behind my project stems from the specific nature of a public place and its needs. These elements, synthesized through a process of transformation and redefinition, bring the building as close as possible to its architectural reality. My thesis is that the awareness of order is achieved when an object has established a language that clarifies its existence. / Master of Architecture

The thesis of this project focuses on the defining of an edge of the university; thereby denoting a limit as to how far the university can extend. The wall is proposed to define that edge. The tower is a result of a visual dialogue between the wall and the light well that cuts through it. / Master of Architecture

This thesis developed from a concern to see the individual as part of a larger whole. In a wall, pieces come together to form a stronger whole; as do rooms join together to form apartments, apartments join together to form houses, houses join together to form a wall that defines the street. / Master of Architecture

What is architecture and to what does it aspire? It is the human endeavor which creates places that stimulate the senses. A touch, a scent, a sound, a sight (light and darkness)—each serves to make one more keenly alive. The senses, too. can arouse memories. In this house there are three paths. Each path captures a particular part of the natural environment to arouse sensations. The path that goes through the family rooms is the path of light and darkness. Two light-wells above channel the sun onto the path. As one walks down this path, one sees bright spots coming from the light-wells, marking the entrance to the living and dining rooms. Once one arrives at either entrance. one can also feel the warmth of the sun. The path to the bedrooms is the path of smell and sound. In the spring, one smells the wild flowers as the breeze carries their fragrance across the path through the windows on either side. In the summer. one hears the birds play among the long stems of the flowers. In the fall, the dry stalks brush quietly against each other in the wind. The path to the studio makes direct contact with all parts of the natural environment. On this path, one smells the air of the different seasons. The orange light gently glows on the walls and the path as evening approaches. In the fall,showers of leaves cascade in the wind. / Master of Architecture

To establish the in-between is to reconcile conflicting polarities. Provide the place where they can interchange and you re-establish the original twin phenomena. Aldo Van Eyck The thesis of this project focuses on the transition between a town and campus. The proposal is made for a shared urban room or plaza space that demarks the meeting place of the inherently different orders of the town and campus. Here a tower is proposed to better define the existing plaza space between four academic buildings. Finally, a wall reaching towards the town from the plaza space is proposed as an element of connection that defines a unique place between the town and campus. / Master of Architecture

A simple element that is repeated in a thoughtful, organized manner, can generate a whole that is greater than the sum of the individual elements. Conversely, a large ungainly project can be generated out of the repetition of smaller more manageable parts. This principle is explored in this thesis on a range of scales from town blocks to details. / Master of Architecture

The School of Homeric Studies is thing apart; a numbered artifice of pieces, and this is a place apart: a place of song, a place of anger, a place of prayer. / Master of Architecture

The nature of Architecture, as it could exist at the edge of a river, was investigated through the design of a Center for Performing Arts located on the design of a Center for Performing Arts located on the Potomac River. Site analysis, functional requirements and structural feasibility were among the considerations utilized in arriving at the proposed design. The Center is comprised of three theaters, restaurants, a marina, administration offices, guest suites, and their ancillary spaces. Six stair towers support a thick wall which is situated at the river’s edge. Stage areas for the theatres were located within the wall between pairs of towers, with seating on one side of the wall and backstage areas on the other. A serpentine “riverwalk” connects the towers and four plazas, encouraging public use of the river’s edge. Parking is provided by a crescent-shaped garage which also serves as a buffer to the adjacent expressway traffic. / Master of Architecture

Architecture can be made from a memory, an image that has embedded itself in the mind of the maker. This image cannot, however, be invoked without commitment and investigation. For, unless its tectonic manifestation is made credible, it remains forever unreal, existing only in a subjective, referential realm, never becoming architecture. / Master of Architecture

"The immeasurable is the one thing that captivates the mind: the measurable makes very little difference.” Kahn Transition could be thought of as the only constant—life being in itself a transition, composed of a myriad of inseparable transitions—a continuum of events "taking place." This work imagistically explores the evocative nature of transition place as it is manifested in architecture, art, and poetry, and prepares an architectural place for the transitions of life. / Master of Architecture