I was drawn to the colossus of criminal man. The wealth of penal history, theory, experimentation, and questions made me reconsider some widely held assumptions. Illustrations of sixth century Italian monasteries show single carceri, the more severe being for more heinous offenders.The common use of these carceri in Europe belie reports that early ...

The creation of public space in the modern American city has been a persistent problem. This thesis is a revival of the problem of defining and creating public space. My choice of site is an abandoned urban parcel of land which housed the State of Ohio's Penitentiary for 150 years. The characteristics of the site which are of particular interest are ...

Using the idea of an architectural design thesis as praxis, two buildings were designed to both talk about and perform the thesis. The ideas at work in the project include consideration of objects, people, places and things in shifting relationships with each other. Using collecting and collections as a starting point, these relationships are made ...

The commute by automobile, as it happens in Houston Texas, is a spatial envelope. This envelope widens and narrows based on a set of variables: position, traffic, speed, and time of day, and it changes from day to day. The project is a study of and an intervention into this spatial envelope of the commute. The intervention takes the form of a gas ...

Prefabrication has become embedded in architectural culture and methodology over the last century. It has been widely successful in mass produced trailer homes and the fabrication of isolated systems used in traditional construction. Despite this, "prefab" has proved much more difficult to make financially viable for custom single-family homes. This ...

This thesis proposes the creation of a greater sense of community in today's city through housing form. The lost vitality of the traditional mixed-use city is considered retrievable through the planning of the collective realm, accommodating the pedestrian as well as the automobile. The study involves the means by which housing form allows the ...

Over the course of the last few centuries human use and settlement has restricted many natural ecosystems to isolated clusters. Our Third nature---the biota and natural environments that accompany modern human uses---has become the connective tissue---a medium ill suited to this unintended new function. Consequently, the last thirty years have seen ...

In the introduction to his research on "The Contemporary City" Rem Koolhaas observes, "the unavoidable fragmentation of the existing city, has led to a displacement of the centre of gravity of urban dynamics from the city centre to the urban periphery."$\sp1$ City peripheries now display common characteristics: an apparently erratic juxtaposition of ...

Spaces in video. Layering of spaces. Interaction of layers. Edits of interactions. Events as edits. Layers of events. Light from televisions. Televisions as bodies. Bodies in places. Places of interactions. Interactions of tactility. Tactility of video. Video in spaces. Every day the medium of the moving image presents us with a world of spaces that ...

The city block is private, (figure work production) The city park is public. (field play celebration) This project represents a new layer within the city which is both private and public. This layer overlaps both the private block structure as well as the public park. There are some public elements within the private block. There are some private ...