2024-11-21T15:08:03-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150276334/woodbury-graduate-addresses-the-importance-of-water-infrastructure-for-california-droughts-in-their-thesis-water-infra-culture Katherine Guimapang 2021-08-04T17:42:00-04:00 >2022-02-02T16:29:48-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/bd/bd92e505c85df4354f450972f8b2f5c7.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Summer of 2021 has proven to be another challenging season. However, during this time, architecture students have continued to persevere. By adjusting, exploring, prototyping, and expanding their architectural perspectives, students have used the events taking place in their daily lives to push and challenge the issues facing the industry today. To learn more about these students and the work produced, we continue with our ever-so-popular <a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1223266/thesis-review" target="_blank"><strong><em>Archinect Thesis Review</em> series</strong></a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>We begin our Summer 2021 iteration by connecting with <a href="https://archinect.com/woodbury" target="_blank">Woodbury School of Architecture</a> B.Arch graduate <a href="https://archinect.com/khunhein" target="_blank">Khun Hein</a>&nbsp;where he discusses his thesis,&nbsp;<em>WATER INFRA-CULTURE</em>. "Droughts are a significant concern in the present and future, which is exacerbated by ongoing climate change," shares Hein. "Extracting underground water from aquifers in desert conditions is necessary for humans to adapt to the changes we are experiencing in our climate [...] My thesis raises ethical questions and challenges our assumptions about it...</p>