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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

DIRECTOR/CEO

Hernán Díaz Alonso

VICE DIRECTOR/CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER

John Enright

GRADUATE PROGRAMS CHAIR

Elena Manferdini

GRADUATE THESIS COORDINATOR

Jackilin Hah Bloom

ASSISTANT TEACHER

Aram Radfar

TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Suleyman Aminzada Hongyue Dai

HISTORY + THEORY ADVISORS

John Cooper Erik Ghenoiu Marcelyn Gow

DESIGN ADVISORS

Matthew Au Herwig Baumgartner Jackilin Hah Bloom Ramiro Diaz-Granados David Eskenazi Damjan Jovanovic Zeina Koreitem Elena Manferdini Eric Owen Moss Anna Neimark David Ruy William Virgil Devyn Weiser Andrew Zago
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Jack Wasielwski

Advisor: Damjan JovanovicMA2
 

Husks are best mutated with raves.  

ok lol. 

You’ve been parsing your way through the forest for fifteen minutes, and no one has stopped you yet. Are you late? Maybe. Or maybe it’s been happening forever. Your boots crunch through pine needles and old leaves, feeling wet and dry at the same time. The air hums thick. 140 BPM climbs louder… louder. 

Welcome to the sonic bath, where bodies co-regulate, distanced from their high-pressure daily programs. It’s sweaty and absurd, yet deliberate. It might not make sense yet, but that’s okay. You’re new! The important thing is you made it. 

Husk Rave is a para-fictional Appalachian forest rave, an ideal proving ground for portable, modular constructions. At its center, the DJ deck rests on an altar of aluminum extrusions, snaking cables, and 3D-printed hardware. Light enough to carry, holy enough to matter. Archetypal figures tend the space: the_dj_priest cloaked in black, the_hum_anchor fused to a subwoofer in prayer, or the_clip_angel documenting from the roof of an RV. 

Here, the forest floor is more than a dance arena; it's a site for communal torpor management, forging bonds that last in husked terrains. You may arrive as a newcomer but stay long enough and you might be building the next session of mass with us. 

 
Husk Rave Blue Graphic Introduction
DJ Booth Detail Render Rave 1
DJ Booth Detail Render Rave 2
DJ Priest Render
Hum Anchor Render
Entry Path Render
Arrival Render
Tree Sigil Render
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