MS – History, Theory, and Society Alums

Following is a list of MS History, Theory, and Society alums and their masters topics. You can also refer to the list of PhD alum dissertations for a broader range of research topics.

2023

Kent Johnson – Architecture on the Periphery & People at the Center: Episodes from L.A.’s Low-Income Housing

Anthony Reyes – Queer Remembrance: Political Motivations in Monuments and Memorials Advisors: Andy Shanken and Greig Crysler

Samuel Shpall – Architectural Education (un)Bound: Crossings Between Design, Research, and Representation

2022

Chandra Laborde – Spiritual Environmentalism in Druid Heights: Between Preservation and Composting

Erica Vinson – Air Management in the Domestic Interior

Sunyoung Lee – The Utilization of Visual and Multi-sensorial Technology in Architecture for Engaging with the Visitor

2021

Monica Lamela Blazquez – Rave Assemblages: Itineraries of Leisure in Post-Franco Spain

2020

Nicole Donna Santiago – A History of the Modern American Architectural Archive in Two Case Studies

2019

Schools Without Walls: Redefining the Architecture of Learning in Postwar Elementary Schools in the United States, 1945-1975 – Michelle Sunyoung Min

Landscapes of Domestic Labor: gender, race, and power in La Condesa – Tania Osorio Harp

A Temporary Utopia: Leatherdyke Space – Kara Morgan Plaxa

2018

Sedentary: A Critique of Task Chair Geometries and Culturally Enforced Sitting in Classrooms and Offices – E.J. Rosen

2015

Blight and the Younger City: Unraveling the Motives and Methods of Redevelopment – Alexander Craghead

One Fabric, Different Scales, Multiple Agents: The Case of Cabucu de Cima, Sao Paulo Brazil – Giuseppina Forte

Architectural Lighting and Circadian Health: Developing a Framework for a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) – Antony Kim

2014

Street Spectacle: Fremont’s Festival of India Parade and the Transformation of a Silicon Valley Suburb – Anisha Gade

The Birth of a Mega Spectacle: Theme Park Temples in 21th Century India – Swetha Vijayakumar

2013

Lost in the City: Missing Persons and Unidentified Bodies in Nineteenth-Century New York – Jessica Brown

Altering the “Socialist” Facade: Personal Property and Residents’ Appropriation of Balconies – Ioana Chinan

California canneries and women’s work, 1910’S TO 1930’S: The case OF Emeryville's Del Monte Plant #35 –Amelia Brooke Ritzenberg

Reconstruction of National Identities in “Trapped Spaces” of Memory: The Case of Iran-Iraq War – Shahrzad Shirvani

2012

The Interplay Between Historic Preservation Theory, Practice, and Policy in the Effort to Preserve Two Bay Area Working-Class Neighborhood Bars – Stacy Farr

Up Close and Personal: Architectural Digest, Angelo Donghia, and the New Idiom of Intimacy – Eva Hagberg

The Myth of Karbala: Socio-Political and Spatial Practices in contemporary Tehran – Ayda Taghikhani Melika

Furniture, Eye Level and Communication – Corey Daniel Schnobrich

2011

The Reinvention of Amman: Heritage-conservation, Privatization and consumer Modernity – Eliana Mohammad Abu-Hamdi

Deep Energy Retrofits Ten California Case Studies – Jeremy Osiris Fisher

Historicizing the Housing Problem and Social Housing Producton in Morocco – Anna Gloria Goodman

Haret Hreik and Al-Saha Traditional Village: Case Studies in the Lebanonization of NGO’s within Hezbollah’s Islamic Milieu (al-haha al-Islamiyya) – Paola Kaia Rizzuto

Collecting Occupant Presence Data for Use in Energy Management of Commercial Buildings – Benjamin Rosenblum

Reading the “Muslim Space” in Bombay Through Cinema – Aravind Unni

2010

The Impact of Gender in Shaping Mall Spaces in Kuwait –Amina Yousef Al-Kandari

The Effect of Local Neighborhood Spaces on Sociability and Trust in Diverse Neighborhoods – Orit Ben Assa

Cuzco (re) Imagined through Narratives of Power, Conquest, and Commodification – Catherine Elizabeth Covey

The Never-Finished Starter Home: A Case Study of Concord Park, a California Suburb, 1950-2010 – Marilyn Ruth Novell

Reimag(in)ing a Soviet City: New Construction and Disruption of the Soviet Urban Order in Dushanbe, Tajikistan –Shawhin Roudbari

2000–2009
1990–1999