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Aligned with the first week of the fall term, Graduate Thesis at SCI-Arc cultivates an inevitable link between the theses of outgoing graduates and the curiosity of incoming students. The weekend of reviews gives graduate thesis students an invaluable platform to articulate, propose, and defend their work to the SCI-Arc community and beyond. 97 students and 21 faculty advisors will converge with an array of invited guest critics from within and outside the discipline of architecture, to review, debate, and contemplate the provocations of this year's thesis projects.

“This year's graduate thesis projects at SCI-Arc are rooted in a profound understanding of the persistent social, technological, and climatic challenges we face globally,” notes Jackilin Hah Bloom, Graduate Thesis Coordinator. “Students have established new capacities to address these issues, not from a problem-solving approach, but one that focuses more on crafting novel processes and frameworks to enhance our understanding of the built environment. While each project represents a unique and personal exploration, collectively, this year's thesis projects will invigorate discussions around technology, building, and ecology.”

Special thanks to all the constituents at SCI-Arc who help to make all Graduate Thesis events happen.

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Hernán Díaz Alonso

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John Enright

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Elena Manferdini

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Jackilin Hah Bloom

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Richard Mapes

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Kelly Dix Van Benjamin Elmer

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John Cooper Erik Ghenoiu Marcelyn Gow

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Matthew Au Kristy Balliet Jackilin Hah Bloom Ramiro Diaz-Granados David Eskenazi Soomeen Hahm Damjan Jovanović Karel Klein Zeina Koreitem Karen Lohrmann Elena Manferdini Rachael McCall Eric Owen Moss Anna Neimark Casey Rehm David Ruy Marcelo Spina William Virgil
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Kai Daniels

Zeina Koreitem

Convivial Relations

 

Gathering and foraging as an architectural device…

Reclamation of material and private space for communal activity...

Space making as a ritual process of inventory...

“If you haven’t got something to put it in, food will escape you—even something as uncombatitive and unresourceful as an oat”- Ursula Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

—-

You can see it from Lincoln Park Ave, right past Broadway. It disappears as you head toward Flora Ave right after the the little convenience store market, and suddenly you’ll feel surrounded not only by hills, but by residencies, some more articulated than others. Turning up Flora Ave, it is still shy, pulling up to a patch of grass to park your car, your bike, you butt for a brief rest. Depending on the time of day, you might have some twinkling lights give you further direction, but if you’re me, it might be dawn, or just after midday, and you’ll know to follow the staircase next to the floating wire fence up up up, around a corner, and up some more until you're at last facing the gate that seemed like a vague possibility just a few streets ago.

This landscape continues beyond its fenced boundary, but you’ve been gifted a microcosm, a little bit of undeveloped terrain that has been busy collecting some things. There are piles everywhere. Along the edges metal poles, c-channels, scaffolding, wood, shelled furniture, screens, stones, burrows, and pathways you’ve forged amongst the weeds, small at first, but more defined with trampling, until you cut down the weeds and what has been collected is carved up and territorialized, all at once this container has compartments. You begin to add to the piles, unloading your bundles, a blanket, a pot, your measuring tape and the package that is your notebook and post-its. And then the people come, one after another and you’re not sure how many will make it up that hill, but they all do despite your questionable specificity, and suddenly the container is buzzing. The birds of course are still chirping, and some of the people wander off, up up up nearer to the stones, in order to hear them, but mostly they volley laughter back and forth, making more piles, piles of themselves, of blankets, of food this time, and in their grouping new circulations get layered on the old ones.

And how gorgeous, that in this layering, this periodical convening, the act of spatial differentiation integral to the concept of architecture is immediately legible as we craft ephemeral containers to hold our variance. 

 
 

Image of Site from Lincoln Park Ave.

 

Loose Configuration of Objects Foraged From Various Sources

 

Corrugated Sheet Metal Foraged on Site

 

Bucket of Wood Foraged From Site

 
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