Since many students often ask for free advise or topic suggestions for their Thesis I figured why not just offer it up and have students work on issues Architectors are Interested in.
Suggested Topic List:
What is the difference between diagrams, branding, and architecture?
When does a rebellious/fun/revolutionary firm become mainstream and does it matter?
Design solutions and urban regulation proposals for dead malls.
What is architectural criticism today?
What do you call an architecture graduate without a license professionally?
Does architectural licensure matter?
What is Virtue in architecture today?
You're Welcome!
anonitect
Jun 7, 15 6:03 pm
Maker space and urban farm, combined, with an educational component.
Farnsworth, House or Submarine?
Pruitt Igoe, a Rush to Judgement?
Increased Mental Illness in Occupants
of Brutalist Buildings.
awaiting_deletion
Jun 7, 15 7:41 pm
Volunteer love this one - Farnsworth, House or Submarine?
is this the inspirational image?
curtkram
Jun 7, 15 8:06 pm
i think Robert Venturi, not really tacky. would be better as
venturi is almost alright
flatroof
Jun 7, 15 8:17 pm
Building a better Brunch: A Spatial Analysis
Housing for Hikikomori's and their Waifus
Catrik Meowmacher: Purrametrics and the City
Donna Sink
Jun 7, 15 10:24 pm
Purrametrics is hilarious.
How about:
Giant Tubes: The Redundancy of Circulation in the Networked City.
awaiting_deletion
Jun 8, 15 7:04 am
Learning from HGTV
awaiting_deletion
Jun 8, 15 7:08 am
Bob the Builder and/or Peter Eisenman: a Practical DIY Deconstructionism and Suburbs in History to Memory - a Critical Projection of Deck Building and Paper Architecture
awaiting_deletion
Jun 8, 15 7:11 am
what is concept?
Marc Miller
Jun 8, 15 9:14 pm
The fool proof method to being sane as possible while completing your thesis.
1- Determine the A-list or "reach" offices where you want to be employed and look at the work. Identify styles or trends (corporate neo-skyscrapers, co-working spaces, new urban space types,,etc).
2- Determine your "safeties" and look at the work they have completed. Look at the really messy stuff that no one wants on the website (eg. Toilet renovations at the local community college).
3- Find an appropriate "crisis" that is shared between the A list and the safeties (Plumbing chases and building circulation and public space).
4- Make a thesis that is so compelling that the A-list will take note ("Humble Spaces: Public Infrastructures for Private Bodily Functions").
The really important steps:
A- Is this a history (I am looking at how the historic relationship between lobby spaces and elevators creates "awkward moments," which require civil behavior that is similar to urban space)?
B- Is this a design (Restrooms are often overlooked as public spaces. This thesis explores how these spaces may be designed to interact with other "common spaces" to address issues of of identity, gender and body that are commonly seenbon the street at the microscale of the skyscraper floorplate)?
That decision will help to push the format. Book versus drawings, drawings on a wall, drawings in a book, text formatting, etc. Is there a standard format in the school or program? Point being, imagine the finished product and let that help to frame deliverables.
Make a calendar of deliverables for yourself and be honest. If you aren't going to make that evocative section of the restrooms being used in 2 days, don't write that down as a deadline. And figure in time for corrections (shit happens).
The last point (which is the most important) is that you should love your topic. A thesis is a monster that will beat you up if you allow it to do so, and a topic you are not invested in is one way to head down the path of pain.
And remember, the goal isn't to just make pretty renderings, but to make the A-list think of something they have always seen, just not "that way."
b3tadine[sutures]
Jun 8, 15 9:50 pm
Gas House - Gas Chamber | Glass House mash-up.
chigurh
Jun 8, 15 11:09 pm
a museum for cars that looks like a car.
citizen
Jun 9, 15 12:20 am
The Brady/Libeskind Conundrum: Split-Level Raunch in an Epoch of Anthropocene Obscenity
Non Sequitur
Jun 9, 15 7:29 am
Musical Solution to Homelessness: Urban street furniture that converts into wind and percussion instruments.
Volunteer
Jun 9, 15 8:00 am
Waterproof cardboard boxes, a housing solution for student-loan debtors. There is the Bauhaus style (flat roof), the parametric (the sides lean in and out) the brutalist (really heavy cardboard with ice-pick holes for windows), and so forth.
Donna Sink
Jun 9, 15 9:45 am
You guys are coming up with great ideas, here! I'm LOLing.
Patrik Schumacher, from his OpEd here: My idea is to focus on architecture’s communicative capacity via the re-foundation of architectural semiology as agent-based parametric semiology, utilizing a generalized crowd modelling – life process modelling – to explore how agents with frame-dependent behavioural scripts can be coordinated via information-rich environments.
I feel like this is a longer explanation of the thesis idea I posted above: Giant Tubes: The Redundancy of Circulation in the Networked City.
Non Sequitur
Jun 9, 15 10:26 am
^ you had me at Giant Tubes.
Miles Jaffe
Jun 9, 15 10:34 am
Parametricism 3.0
Miles Jaffe
Jun 9, 15 11:25 am
Morphology of Crumpled Paper as a Systemic Design Basis for Architecture
Wilma Buttfit
Jun 9, 15 11:32 am
Wooden Dodecahedrons: New Cool Places to Sit.
Marc Miller
Jun 9, 15 11:41 am
"Sure to Fail: A critique of the thesis advisor selection process."
Miles Jaffe
Jun 9, 15 12:21 pm
Less is a Chore: Contributing to Global Productivity
x-jla
Jun 9, 15 12:57 pm
Can Midgets power the future? Human hamster wheels for a sustainable future + auto mall
awaiting_deletion
Jun 9, 15 9:16 pm
dirty ninjas practicing architecture.....straight out of dane-mart
chigurh
Jun 9, 15 9:24 pm
Peking decorated duck + drive in.
anonitect
Jun 9, 15 10:15 pm
tintt, I think that you're on to something really profound, but we shouldn't forget that wooden dodecahedrons are also awesome for looking at, and maybe even standing in. I don't think that anyone should try to climb them, though; they don't seem that sturdy.
midlander
Jun 9, 15 10:23 pm
Stairway to Heaven: High Rise Abattoirs as a Complement to Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Miles Jaffe
Jun 9, 15 10:48 pm
Architecture Because We Can
Miles Jaffe
Jun 9, 15 10:53 pm
Modeling Virtual Reality: Using Virtual Reality to Model Virtual Reality.
Miles Jaffe
Jun 9, 15 10:56 pm
Back Doors and Basement Bedrooms: Strategies For Keeping Domestic Staff Out Of Sight
101 Ways to Design a Leaky Building using Parametrics
archanonymous
Jun 10, 15 10:31 pm
All Bjarke and no Bite: Ontology of Branding in Architecture.
chigurh
Jun 10, 15 10:46 pm
Architecture - What is it good for?
by: Art Vandelay
awaiting_deletion
Jun 11, 15 7:10 am
/\ now stuck in my head "war!" funk band sounds "what is it good for!" funk band sounds "absolutely nothin!" funk band sounds.....Edwin Stirr.....
Donna Sink
Jun 11, 15 8:51 am
The Plants Always Win: Strategies for Destroying the Planet So We Can Stop Pulling Weeds
Miles Jaffe
Jun 11, 15 9:21 am
Incentivized design of emergent hyperbolic markets via interactive synergies of dynamic equilibria, elastic morphologies, scalar rhizomatic grids and hybridized Neo-Fordist algorithms.
gruen
Jun 11, 15 11:20 am
I think that wins the thread Miles, er, I mean, Patrick
Non Sequitur
Jun 11, 15 11:48 am
"scalar rhizomatic grids"
Oh my...
Tip of the old cap to that one.
awaiting_deletion
Jun 11, 15 8:21 pm
a post critical analysis of Miles Jaffe's Chapter 5 of his post doctoral thesis mash-up with PS: Incentivized design of emergent hyperbolic markets via interactive synergies of dynamic equilibria, elastic morphologies, scalar rhizomatic grids and hybridized Neo-Fordist algorithms
chigurh
Jun 11, 15 9:38 pm
rhizomatic projections and the cartesian grid, a socially responsible solution to those living under poverty level.
awaiting_deletion
Jun 11, 15 10:20 pm
Rhizome! "We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much." Deleuze & Guattari.
snooker-doodle-dandy
Jun 11, 15 10:53 pm
Covered Wagons in a circle...now there must be meaning to that.....scratchin head.
shaileee
Jun 12, 15 1:24 am
few of the current trending topics may be
1. Shelter designs for the disaster victims
2. Innovative Energy efficient Shelter homes
awaiting_deletion
Jun 12, 15 6:36 am
why architects do shelters now and not buildings and its economic indicator as shown on archinect salary poll
Miles Jaffe
Jun 12, 15 12:06 pm
Why Buildings Don't Matter: The Critical Importance of Theory In Architecture
Since many students often ask for free advise or topic suggestions for their Thesis I figured why not just offer it up and have students work on issues Architectors are Interested in.
Suggested Topic List:
What is the difference between diagrams, branding, and architecture?
When does a rebellious/fun/revolutionary firm become mainstream and does it matter?
Design solutions and urban regulation proposals for dead malls.
What is architectural criticism today?
What do you call an architecture graduate without a license professionally?
Does architectural licensure matter?
What is Virtue in architecture today?
You're Welcome!
Maker space and urban farm, combined, with an educational component.
Robert Venturi, not really tacky.
I'd suggest combining unexpected programmatic elements:
* homeless shelter + high-end restaurant
* post office + bar
* church + sex shop
* car repair shop + liquor store
Stupid idea
Farnsworth, House or Submarine? Pruitt Igoe, a Rush to Judgement? Increased Mental Illness in Occupants of Brutalist Buildings.
Volunteer love this one - Farnsworth, House or Submarine?
is this the inspirational image?
i think
Robert Venturi, not really tacky.
would be better as
venturi is almost alright
Building a better Brunch: A Spatial Analysis
Housing for Hikikomori's and their Waifus
Catrik Meowmacher: Purrametrics and the City
Purrametrics is hilarious.
How about:
Giant Tubes: The Redundancy of Circulation in the Networked City.
Learning from HGTV
Bob the Builder and/or Peter Eisenman: a Practical DIY Deconstructionism and Suburbs in History to Memory - a Critical Projection of Deck Building and Paper Architecture
what is concept?
The fool proof method to being sane as possible while completing your thesis.
1- Determine the A-list or "reach" offices where you want to be employed and look at the work. Identify styles or trends (corporate neo-skyscrapers, co-working spaces, new urban space types,,etc).
2- Determine your "safeties" and look at the work they have completed. Look at the really messy stuff that no one wants on the website (eg. Toilet renovations at the local community college).
3- Find an appropriate "crisis" that is shared between the A list and the safeties (Plumbing chases and building circulation and public space).
4- Make a thesis that is so compelling that the A-list will take note ("Humble Spaces: Public Infrastructures for Private Bodily Functions").
The really important steps:
A- Is this a history (I am looking at how the historic relationship between lobby spaces and elevators creates "awkward moments," which require civil behavior that is similar to urban space)?
B- Is this a design (Restrooms are often overlooked as public spaces. This thesis explores how these spaces may be designed to interact with other "common spaces" to address issues of of identity, gender and body that are commonly seenbon the street at the microscale of the skyscraper floorplate)?
That decision will help to push the format. Book versus drawings, drawings on a wall, drawings in a book, text formatting, etc. Is there a standard format in the school or program? Point being, imagine the finished product and let that help to frame deliverables.
Make a calendar of deliverables for yourself and be honest. If you aren't going to make that evocative section of the restrooms being used in 2 days, don't write that down as a deadline. And figure in time for corrections (shit happens).
The last point (which is the most important) is that you should love your topic. A thesis is a monster that will beat you up if you allow it to do so, and a topic you are not invested in is one way to head down the path of pain.
And remember, the goal isn't to just make pretty renderings, but to make the A-list think of something they have always seen, just not "that way."
Gas House - Gas Chamber | Glass House mash-up.
a museum for cars that looks like a car.
The Brady/Libeskind Conundrum: Split-Level Raunch in an Epoch of Anthropocene Obscenity
Musical Solution to Homelessness: Urban street furniture that converts into wind and percussion instruments.
Waterproof cardboard boxes, a housing solution for student-loan debtors. There is the Bauhaus style (flat roof), the parametric (the sides lean in and out) the brutalist (really heavy cardboard with ice-pick holes for windows), and so forth.
You guys are coming up with great ideas, here! I'm LOLing.
Patrik Schumacher, from his OpEd here: My idea is to focus on architecture’s communicative capacity via the re-foundation of architectural semiology as agent-based parametric semiology, utilizing a generalized crowd modelling – life process modelling – to explore how agents with frame-dependent behavioural scripts can be coordinated via information-rich environments.
I feel like this is a longer explanation of the thesis idea I posted above: Giant Tubes: The Redundancy of Circulation in the Networked City.
^ you had me at Giant Tubes.
Parametricism 3.0
Morphology of Crumpled Paper as a Systemic Design Basis for Architecture
Wooden Dodecahedrons: New Cool Places to Sit.
"Sure to Fail: A critique of the thesis advisor selection process."
Less is a Chore: Contributing to Global Productivity
Can Midgets power the future? Human hamster wheels for a sustainable future + auto mall
dirty ninjas practicing architecture.....straight out of dane-mart
Peking decorated duck + drive in.
tintt, I think that you're on to something really profound, but we shouldn't forget that wooden dodecahedrons are also awesome for looking at, and maybe even standing in. I don't think that anyone should try to climb them, though; they don't seem that sturdy.
Stairway to Heaven: High Rise Abattoirs as a Complement to Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Architecture Because We Can
Modeling Virtual Reality: Using Virtual Reality to Model Virtual Reality.
Back Doors and Basement Bedrooms: Strategies For Keeping Domestic Staff Out Of Sight
Is Sven! better than Bjarke?
Why Building Code is Stupid and so is Your Mom
101 Ways to Design a Leaky Building using Parametrics
All Bjarke and no Bite: Ontology of Branding in Architecture.
Architecture - What is it good for?
by: Art Vandelay
/\ now stuck in my head "war!" funk band sounds "what is it good for!" funk band sounds "absolutely nothin!" funk band sounds.....Edwin Stirr.....
The Plants Always Win: Strategies for Destroying the Planet So We Can Stop Pulling Weeds
Incentivized design of emergent hyperbolic markets via interactive synergies of dynamic equilibria, elastic morphologies, scalar rhizomatic grids and hybridized Neo-Fordist algorithms.
I think that wins the thread Miles, er, I mean, Patrick
"scalar rhizomatic grids"
Oh my...
Tip of the old cap to that one.
a post critical analysis of Miles Jaffe's Chapter 5 of his post doctoral thesis mash-up with PS: Incentivized design of emergent hyperbolic markets via interactive synergies of dynamic equilibria, elastic morphologies, scalar rhizomatic grids and hybridized Neo-Fordist algorithms
rhizomatic projections and the cartesian grid, a socially responsible solution to those living under poverty level.
Rhizome! "We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much." Deleuze & Guattari.
Covered Wagons in a circle...now there must be meaning to that.....scratchin head.
few of the current trending topics may be
1. Shelter designs for the disaster victims
2. Innovative Energy efficient Shelter homes
why architects do shelters now and not buildings and its economic indicator as shown on archinect salary poll
Why Buildings Don't Matter: The Critical Importance of Theory In Architecture
Miles you trumped you last thesis,fuckin A
OP1 All of your ideas are horrible.