Follows is a list of M.S. Building Science and Sustainability alumni and their master's topics.
2010 - current:
Alexander Craghead - Blight and the Younger City: Unraveling the Motives and Methods of Redevelopment
Graduation Date: 2015
Giuseppina Forte - One Fabric, Different Scales, Multiple Agents: The Case of Cabucu de Cima, Sao Paulo Brazil
Graduation Date: 2015
Antony Kim - Architectural Lighting and Circadian Health: Developing a Framework for a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
Graduation Date: 2015
Anisha Gade - Street Spectacle: Fremont’s Festival of India Parade and the Transformation of a Silicon Valley Suburb
Graduation Date: 2014
Swetha Vijayakumar - The Birth of a Mega Spectacle: Theme Park Temples in 21th Century India
Graduation Date: 2014
Jessica Brown - Lost in the City: Missing Persons and Unidentified Bodies in Nineteenth-Century New York
Graduation Date: 2013
ioana Chinan - Altering the “Socialist” Facade: Personal Property and Residents’ Appropriation of Balconies
Graduation Date: 2013
Amelia Brooke Ritzenberg - California canneries AND wOMEN’S wORK, 1910’S TO 1930’S: tHE cASE OF eMERYVILLE’S dEL mONTE pLANT #35
Graduation Date: 2013
Shahrzad Shirvani - Reconstruction of National Identities in “Trapped Spaces” of Memory: The Case of Iran-Iraq War
Graduation Date: 2013
Stacy Farr - The Interplay Between Historic Preservation Theory, Practice, and Policy in the Effort to Preserve Two Bay Area Working-Class Neighborhood Bars
Graduation Date: 2012
Eva Hagberg - Up Close and Personal: Architectural Digest, Angelo Donghia, and the New Idiom of Intimacy
Graduation Date: 2012
Ayda Taghikhani Melika - The Myth of Karbala: Socio-Political and Spatial Practices in contemporary Tehran
Graduation Date: 2012
Corey Daniel Schnobrich - Furniture, Eye Level and Communication
Graduation Date: 2012
Eliana Mohammad Abu-Hamdi - The Reinvention of Amman: Heritage-conservation, Privatization and consumer Modernity
Graduation Date: 2011
Jeremy Osiris Fisher - Deep Energy REtrofits Ten California Case Studies
Graduation Date: 2011
Anna Gloria Goodman - Historicizing the Housing Problem and Social Housing Producton in Morocco
Graduation Date: 2011
Paola Kaia Rizzuto - Haret Hreik and Al-Saha Traditional Village: Case Studies in the Lebanonization of NGO’s within Hezbollah’s Islamic Milieu (al-haha al-Islamiyya)
Graduation Date: 2011
Aravind Unni - Reading the “Muslim Space” in Bombay Through Cinema
Graduation Date: 2011
Amina Yousef Al-Kandari - The Impact of Gender in Shaping Mall Spaces in Kuwait
Graduation Date: 2010
Orit Ben Assa - The Effect of Local Neighborhood Spaces on Sociability and Trust in Diverse Neighborhoods
Graduation Date: 2010
Catherine Elizabeth Covey - Cuzco (re) Imagined through Narratives of Power, Conquest, and Commodification
Graduation Date: 2010
Marilyn Ruth Novell - The Never-Finished Starter Home: A Case STudy of Concord Park, a California Suburb, 1950-2010
Graduation Date: 2010
Shawhin Roudbari - Reimag(in)ing a Soviet City: New Construction and Disruption of the Soviet Urban Order in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Graduation Date: 2010
Mao Ye - Architectural Elements of Virtual Architecture/Environment In Cyberspace (backdate 5/14/2010)
Graduation Date: 2010
2000 - 2009:
Alia Alkhayer - Extra-legal Housing of Low Income Population in Damascus: Emerging Solutions for current Reality
Graduation Date: 2009
Hsin-Hsien Chiu - intelligent Home Care Environments for the Elderly (backdate to12/19/2009)
Graduation Date: 2009
Mona Damluji - Baghdad’s New Geography: The Spatial Practices of Sectaria Politics, 2003-2007
Graduation Date: 2009
Joseph Michael Godlewski - Alien and Distant: Rem Koolhaas on Film in Lagos, Nigeria
Graduation Date: 2009
Georgia Lucille Lindsay - Architectural Taste and Status: an Exploratory Survey
Graduation Date: 2009
Jonathan Yorke Bean - Between ARchitecture and Advertising L. Morgan Yost, FAIA
Graduation Date: 2008
Shannon Elizabeth Brown - Building Memory and State Legitimacy: Commmemorative WWII Architecture in the Former Yugoslavia
Graduation Date: 2008
Karim Omar Abdel Aziz El Gendy - Sustainability Practices in Egypt: An assessment of Contemporary Low Energy Design Practices
Graduation Date: 2008
Lavina Olomay Cecelia Liburd - Heritage and the (in) visibility of History in Basseterre, St. Kitts-Nevis
Graduation Date: 2008
Susanne Elizabeth Cowan - The Village Ideal: Spatializing Reform in Angelo-American Planning
Graduation Date: 2007
John Delthelbert Goins III - The Corner of Cope Street: Maximizing and Ensuring Choice Through a Socio-Spatial Community Development Practice
Graduation Date: 2007
Fernando Enrique Herrera - Graphic Representations of the Design Process in Architecture: Diagramming Rural Social Housing Projects in Chile
Graduation Date: 2007
Yieheerah Yun - The Development Paradox in Cheonggyecheon Restoration
Graduation Date: 2007
Kimberly Jeanette Butt - From Scattered Remnants to NAtional Park: Rosie the Riverter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park and the Reinterpertation of Richmond, California
Graduation Date: 2006
Chung On Kim - Children in Media Environment
Graduation Date: 2006
Sarah Lynn Lopez - The Remittance House: on the Cultural Landscapes of MExican Migrancy
Graduation Date: 2006
Mpho Matsipa - “Today it feels good to be an African” Neoliberal Landscapes in (post)-Apartheid South Africa
Graduation Date: 2006
Kamya Ramachandran - Neoliberal Fashioning: Urban Governance and Urban Space in Globalizing Bangalore
Graduation Date: 2006
Sarah Coston Sabiston - The Veiled Landscape of Service: Removing, Screening and MAsking Worker Housing in JAckson Hole, Wyoming
Graduation Date: 2006
Tadd Jonathan Andersen - Africa's Strange Modernity: Understanding Space in African Cities
Graduation Date: 2005
Erik Ocean Howell - Skateboarding in the Gentrifying City: Redevelopment Plazas and Skateboard Parks as Sites Of Production
Graduation Date: 2005
Mpho Matsipa - Today it Fells Good to be an African
Graduation Date: 2005
Vandini Mehta - Farm House Living: The Political Economy of a Lifestyle
Graduation Date: 2005
Steven Doctors - communality and Indifference: A Divergence of Modernist Intent and Effect at St. Mary’s Cathedral
Graduation Date: 2004
John Ristevski - An Integrated Digital Documentation MEthodology to Support Archaeological and Architectural Recording and Analysis
Graduation Date: 2004
Claire Tichi - Apartment for one: Single Women and Domestic Space in Popular Advice Literature, 1946-1962
Graduation Date: 2004
Kathleen LaMoine Corbett - Hope Set in Stone: Rural Hispanic and Anglo-American Vernacular Architecture in the Purgatorie Canyon, Las Animas County, Colorado
Graduation Date: 2003
Renu Desai - Producing Urban Informality in Mumbai: Policy, Politics, and Practice in Jari Mari and Shantiniketan
Graduation Date: 2003
Julie Sinclair Eakin - Refracted Modernities: A Representational Analysis of the Arab World Institute
Graduation Date: 2003
Eleni Paparizou - Transfer of Knowledge: A Study on Learning in the Beginner’s Design Studio
Graduation Date: 2003
Mrinalini Rajagopalan - building the Homeland: Narratives of Violence and Aesthetics in the construction of Eretz Israel
Graduation Date: 2003
Elena Tames - People and the Built Environment: USE, Appropriation and Personalization of Space in Spontaneous Settlements and Housing Projects in Mexico City
Graduation Date: 2003
Laura Anne Ackley - Innovations in Illumination at tHE Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
Graduation Date: 2002
Daniel cunin Glaser - Simulating ARchitectural Space
Graduation Date: 2002
Amy Kristine Phillips - the image of the simulated city: sim city 2000 and popular perceptions of the city
Graduation Date: 2002
Alexandra marie-louise sauvegrain - “Traditioning”: A dialectical form of architectural preservation. A case study: hanoi, Vietnam
Graduation Date: 2002
Jody rae stock - recreation on the wrong side of the tracks: working-class amusements in west oakland, 1900-1930
Graduation Date: 2002
William Philip Duncanson - Regional Development and Vernacular Architecture in Rural Nepal
Graduation Date: 2001
James Alan Herbst - Quarrying and Masonry Techniques in the “Twin” Basilcas of Roman Corinth
Graduation Date: 2001
Andrea Jean Montalbano - Artists’ and Artisans’ Live/Work Spaces: A Qualitative Study
Graduation Date: 2001
Jon Robin Norman - understanding the relationship between architecture, identity, and culture: jews and synagogues as a case study
Graduation Date: 2001
Tim Lewis Stockwell - Collaborative Characteristics of Design Teams: A Criticall Literature Review
Graduation Date: 2001
1990 - 1999:
Ana Laura Ruesjas - in the meaning of home: the courtyard house in argentina (1810-1910)
Graduation Date: 1999
Beatrice C. Benne - Web-Based Communication of Design Information For Asynchronous Design Energy Evaluation
Graduation Date: 1998
Marjan Ladjevardi - Urban Transformation: The Case of Iranians in Los Angeles
Graduation Date: 1998
Jennifer Lynn Nardone - Roomful of Blues: Jukejoints and the Cultural Landscape of the Mississippi Delta
Graduation Date: 1998
Alexander Patricio Salazar - Homelessness and the Mass media: Ideology, spatial discourse and squatting practices in san francisco
Graduation Date: 1998
Ari Dov Seligmann - Kikuji ishimoto and the shirokiya Department Store: Forging a modern architecture
Graduation Date: 1998
Jeremy Scott White - The Presence and Protest of the 1932 Bonus March in Washington : A case study of Spatial Inversion
Graduation Date: 1998
Christopher Anthony Peri - Spatial perception in Virtual Environments: visual cognition gain with head mounted displays
Graduation Date: 1997
Sofia Toufic Shwayri - Post-War Reconstruction of Urban Identity at the End of the 20th Century: The Case of the Beirut Suq al-Tawileh District
Graduation Date: 1997
Anna Timerman - Knowledge Base of Building Components
Graduation Date: 1997