Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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The Regeneration of Lake George: A New Library for St. Cloud
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Outdoor activities play an important role in everyone’s lives. As a child, I was able to count on an assortment of activities provided at St. Cloud’s Lake George Park Recreation Area. Within the past decade, this area ... -
A Home to Run to: YWCA Shelter Complex for Fargo, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)The purpose of this thesis project is to create a place for the Young Women’s Christian Association to provide assistance to troubled women and children in the Fargo area and surrounding communities. This project will ... -
NDSU Hockey Arena: A Gateway to Community and Athletics
(North Dakota State University, 2005)NDSU Club Hockey was established in 1983. The success of the program was seen at a national level as NDSU teams won national championships in seven of their first eight seasons. With the help of faculty and students, ... -
Color, Light, Form & Sound: A New Religious Building for Common Ground Church
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Commonly, the word 'church' is most often associated with Christians, and the word 'church' is both defined as the building for worship, as well as the congregation. The religious building is a space used to worship and ... -
Creating Something Old: Bringing New Housing Back Within City Limits
(North Dakota State University, 2005)How long should a building last; twenty years, thirty years? What if a building is still standing? There is a better answer than demolition and forgetting. Buildings can be rebuilt, reused and recycled back into ... -
Science Museum of Fargo: A Study of the Social Values of Cultural Buildings
(North Dakota State University, 2005)There are certain values that have been assigned throughout history to cultural buildings that are dedicated to the arts and sciences. The result of a search to further understand these values will lead to architectural form ... -
Contemporary American Culture & Architecture in Relation to the Use, Intake, and Characteristics of Advertisements and the Media: A Research Institution and Public Information Center
(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 ... -
Air and Space Museum of Minnesota: A Recreation of History Through Architecture
(North Dakota State University, 2005)At 10:35 am, December 17, 1903 for a mere 12 seconds, changed our future forever. The discovery of flight was one of the greatest accomplishments during the 20th century and should be celebrated in such a way. The ... -
Building Community: A Mixed Use Urban Redevelopment Project With an Emphasis on Community Sustainability, St. Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)This thesis will be a study of mixed use facilities in an urban area in an effort to find a design that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but encourages community growth and development. Research will look into reasons ... -
Olympic Stadium for New York City, 2012
(North Dakota State University, 2005)New York City offers the Olympic movement the chance to tell a very powerful story. It has eight million of the most culturally diverse people in the world. This diversity can only be strengthened by the influence the ... -
Cohousing: Housing the Boomers
(North Dakota State University, 2005)With the largest generation coming close to the retirement age, there is a high demand for new communities aimed at appealing to the baby boomers and the future generations. Throughout this project, elements such ... -
Movie House: Fantasizing the Ideal, Saint Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2005)The focus for this thesis project is the need to represent the real or fantasize the ideal in an urban environment with the design of a multi screen movie house. Designing a structure which involves a transition from the ... -
South Central High School: Redefining Community
(North Dakota State University, 2005)My proposal is for the design of a new high school that would consolidate the schools of Colome, Gregory, Burke and eventually, Bonesteel-Fairfax. I am interested in designing for the rural educational philosophy. The ... -
Bully Pulpit Club House & Retreat
(North Dakota State University, 2005)Historic Medora is a unique mix of spectacular scenery, wildlife, outdoor adventure, entertainment, dining and shopping nestled in the beautiful North Dakota badlands. Located just 3 miles south of Historic Medora lies ... -
For the Need
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Architecture is often thought of as a grand, expensive undertaking – one reserved only for the privileged and for those who can afford to build huge houses, breathtaking museums, and playthings for the rich. However, ... -
Thinking Ahead: Preparing Young Minds for a Future World
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Change occurs in a variety of ways. Sometimes overnight, sometimes silently over years. Consider the revolutions of the past forty years. Those in 2020 alone. Ponder the magnitude of changes our children will experience ... -
Church of the New and the Old
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Churches undoubtedly serve as an inspiration for many architects. Their emotional and physical presence to move people is undeniable. However, we can see a shift in their design and meaning through time. As the world ... -
Intergenerational Urban Renewal
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Across the United States, there are cities and towns that have been crippled with rundown and abandoned buildings or lots around their downtown district. Often, nothing is done to fix this problem which leads to these ... -
Elysian
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Common methods of education in the United States have proven to meet the basic needs of academics for students over the last several decades. Most students leave high school with most of the necessary tools to enter the ... -
Play and the Public Realm
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Play is what makes us human. Play provides new perspectives which are required. Play promotes relationship, of those close to us and those in public, both needed relationships. We are more connected than ever in the modern ...