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Architecture in the Marketplace of Ideas: Copyright and its "Chilling" Effects
(Rice University, 2009)
This paper questions the applicability of current legal standards of copyright to
architectural works. Copyright law, as currently written, does not address the unique needs and
design practices common to the field of ...
Sustainability at Fondren Library
(Rice University, 2017)
The purpose of this project was to broadly evaluate the environmental performance of Fondren Library, its spaces, and its practices. For this particular case study, I focused on energy use, featuring lighting, air conditioning, ...
Socialism and Representational Utopia: Club of the new social type
(Rice University, 2017)
This paper studies the “Club of the New Social Type” by Ivan Leonidov in 1928, a research study project for a prototype of workers’ club. As a project in the early stage of Leonidov’s career, it embodies various sources ...
Hyatt Regency Court Case: How the defense could have won
(Rice University, 2017)
Amplified Encounters at High Speed
(Rice University, 2011)
This thesis expands upon the dialogue between speed and architecture, investigating how architecture reinterprets the linear city, originally defined by the continuous fabric of the freeway and more recently reconfigured ...
Making Waste Public
(Rice University, 2009)
This thesis questions the boundaries that define waste as a public or private
dilemma, investigating these boundaries as productive sites for the imagination
of social life. Learning from methods of processing, conveyance ...