Browsing Architecture Theses by Title

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    • Community Bridge 

      Olson, Emily (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      The traumatizing effects of homelessness on families can have long lasting consequences, especially for children who often miss considerable amounts of school due to their newly disrupted life. Without a solid education, ...

    • Community Design and Development by Necessity 

      Keszler, Lynn (North Dakota State University, 2006)
      The project will entail a planned community for the poor citizens who live in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The development will include developing and sustaining a community through housing, public services, and ...

    • Community Design Build 

      Pauley, Dani (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis provides some answers to the question, how might a restorative community-based residential design build center/curriculum be created where the structure itself resonates with the embedded values of such an ...

    • Community Focused Urban Renewal 

      Verschelde, Cody D. (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Cities across the nation continue to develop and grow, but in many, rundown industrially zoned lots tend to be left alone and become an eyesore. These sites need to be better utilized by the community living around them. ...

    • Community Identity: Re-connecting City + River 

      Nies, Shane (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      This project will examine a growing city’s historical origin that has been lost. The typology will be community center and library accompanied by a bridge/site rennovation. The guiding idea is that the design will be ...

    • Community, Culture, & Compassion: Creating Space for Exchange & Community Building 

      Davy, Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Every person has a different background and personal perspective. This background shapes how we perceive and interact with others in our daily lives. Can shared spaces and experiences shift our perspectives and make us ...

    • Compressed Agriculture Initiative 

      Homic, Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Increasingly within urban population growth there is a greater demand on the agricultural resources needed to keep these populations properly fed. As these stresses on the agricultural space and supply chain increase, ...

    • Computational Community: An Aggregation Based Modular Housing Development 

      Thomson, James III (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      How can computation and aggregation-based design tools be utilized in the creation of a modular housing development? Using existing computer modelling and computational programming tools, such as Rhinoceros and its plugin ...

    • Concerning the Masked in Architecture 

      Bales, Fernando (North Dakota State University, 2010)
      The thesis responds to the statement that queries the role of the designer and asks whether or not one can "unmask" that which has been covered up by our tendencies in the way we live. The typology being a master-builder ...

    • Concertare: An Architectural Rediscovery of Spiritual Harmony in a Secular World 

      Rybacki, Anna (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Every day, billions of tiny little miracles occur just to give us another breath. From a microscopic level of your heart getting the energy it needs to beat 100,000 times a day to the cosmic level of the rotation of Earth ...

    • Confluence: A Vision of Growth, Sustainability, and Hope for the Small Town of Cairo, Illinois 

      Currie, Robert (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Small towns across the United States are facing several social, economic, and environmental challenges. Declining and aging populations, inadequate or lack of housing, and struggling economies are some of the many ...

    • Connected by Nature: Linking the Public to Science 

      Smith, Emerson (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      As human development increasingly puts pressure on the natural environment, research into how to mitigate damage will be more vital than ever. Despite this, society chooses to ignore the advice of experts and disregard the ...

    • Connecting US 

      Ford, Taylor (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      Imagine experiencing multiple different cities and cultures within a single day. In Europe, this is easily accessible, partly because of the close proximity and small scale of countries, but also because of their means ...

    • Contemporary American Culture & Architecture in Relation to the Use, Intake, and Characteristics of Advertisements and the Media: A Research Institution and Public Information Center 

      Brandel, Jennifer (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      By analysis of the contemporary American Culture, specifically media driven consumerism, architecture can be informed and designed to react to and embrace current trends. In order for architecture to be as ubiquitous as ...

    • Continuum 

      Trojan, Joshua (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      As a contemporary society, we pursue sustainability to mitigate environmental unbalance. However, we rarely reflect on the temporal and cyclical nature of our existence, which exposes the premise of sustainability; continuance ...

    • Contrasting History 

      Jensen, Jared (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      This graduate thesis examines the inherent meaning in a constructed building and using that to find a new purpose for that building that embraces its style, age, and purpose. Through this connection with history, the ...

    • Cooling Off Social Meltdown 

      Shibuya, Hajime (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      These days many problems are discussed worldwide including the environmental, cultural, and economic fields. Pollutions from industrial exhausts are killing not only the ecological environment but for us, human being. ...

    • Courage campus - a place of healing and re-discovery 

      Avard, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis will help develop a place where armed force members can begin to reconnect back to society. Architecture will be used to create a safe haven for service members andfamilies who have been affected by horrifying ...

    • Coworking and the Social Office 

      Nohr, Matthew (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      Our community is an integral part of our identity and our relationship with one another gives us purpose. Architecture constructs the environment and so constructs our interactions. This thesis explores how architectural ...

    • Cradle for change : finding the space between home and homelessness 

      Economos, Jason (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis is about creating a place where the poor and homeless can live without fear of where the money for their living arrangements is coming from and where they can be taught useful skills for reintegrating into ...