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“Translation is taking on new forms this year, whether turning datasets into spatial proposals, physical models into digital systems, or environmental inputs into architecture. Across these varied approaches, architecture becomes a means of inquiry, grounded in making and attuned to both digital and material conditions.”

— Jackilin Hah Bloom, Graduate Thesis Coordinator

Over three days of reviews, 72 thesis students will present and engage their work in dialogue with over 80 guest critics from within and outside the discipline, alongside 17 faculty thesis advisors. This year’s projects will be alive with ideas and possibilities. We invite you to explore the work on view throughout the halls of SCI-Arc for an additional two weeks as part of the 2025 Graduate Thesis Exhibit.

“In a world that often struggles to imagine a different future, creativity in architecture becomes an act of hope, a way to envision, shape, and insist on possibilities beyond the present. Creation demands risk, vision, and responsibility; it asks us not only to understand what is wrong, but to imagine what could be right and to build it. In the face of global challenges that often seem overwhelming, the creative act becomes a form of resistance, of hope, and of agency. Especially in architecture, where the built environment reflects and shapes human experience, the power to design new possibilities is a necessity, not a luxury.”

— Elena Manferdini, Graduate Programs Chair