Land settlement

The goal of this project is to examine the shifting perspectives of the environment within Virginia from the attempted settlement at Roanoke until the eighteenth century, to assess how environmental thought and action changed over time. The thesis argues that early English autho…

Since 2005, when the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its opinion deeming the Israeli Separation Wall and settlements illegal, there have been significant developments in the nonviolent methods adopted for countering Israeli occupation. While Palestinian nonviolent resi…

This thesis develops a theory of translation in architecture, and explores the history of cross-cultural exchanges that transformed the residential culture in Turkey and Germany through the agency of immigrants, travelers, collaborating local architects and international student…