Buffalo was one of America’s most prominent manufacturing cities until its decline after the mid–20th century. Its industrial structures, both revolutionary and globally iconic, served as precedents for modernist architecture. A few pivotal government interventions in Buffalo si…
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This dissertation is a cultural and social history of concrete, the second most consumed material on earth after water. It explains how the industry emerged in the United States, with cement industrialists taking lessons from unlikely teachers, including cotton manufacturers, sc…
The Sicán polity (AD 750 - 1375) developed in the middle La Leche Valley on the north coast of Peru. This dissertation presents the results of a comprehensive program of fullcoverage high-resolution pedestrian survey, with systematic surface collections and architectural mapping…
This research combines traditional archaeological analysis with lidar data to investigate infrastructure, residential architecture, and neighborhoods in a completely new way. Taken together, these analyses show the shape and form of this city during its apogee in CE 650, while p…
This thesis explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of dwelling in the city using rhythm as a tool to critique politically and socially imposed patterns and the built environments they produce, as well as to propose more equitable and emancipatory possibilities. A ho…
The scope of this piece of work is to reflect upon a series of past and recent publications as well as those in progress referring to innovations in architectural education which has already led and/or might lead to major shifts in future practices. This is an opportunity for th…
Macedonia and Thrace were a geographically expansive and culturally intertwined crossroads for people, goods, and ideas in the northeast corner of the ancient Mediterranean. During their integration into the Roman Empire (2nd century BC - mid-1st century AD), Macedonia and Thrac…
From the 9th-5th centuries BCE (Early Iron Age through Early Republican period), Rome changed drastically from a collection of hut compounds into a substantial urban center. While historically this time period has offered little archaeological material, recent excavations in Rom…
From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, the social movements of the past decade have, without being in explicit dialogue with one another, resembled the same march into the public street. Despite the breadth of the cultural, political, and t…
This is a study about Egyptian architectural culture. It asks how did Egypt's architectural modernism converge with the country's political transition from monarchy to military republic? After 1952, the self-proclaiming revolutionary regime utilized architecture in its attempt t…
Scholarship on late antique cities has largely conceptualized them as singular entities, either decaying or transitioning as Roman imperial power and economic structures shifted. Improved archaeological data from urban sites, accompanied by a number of broad synthetic studies, n…
Esta tesis reflexiona acerca de los límites internos en un contexto de paisaje unitario. Se plantea un traspaso desde la noción de frontera como una línea delgada que divide recintos, de carácter administrativo, hacía la de borde como un espesor que configura lugares dentro del …
This dissertation explores the experience of arriving in the port cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the Hellenistic through the Early Roman periods, describing the historical, environmental, and architectural backgrounds of these sites and offering an outline of t…
S.H.A.M (the Syrian House of Architectural Memory) is an acronym to the word ash- Shām, or Sham which means the Levant, in general, and Damascus, in particular in the local spoken tongue.
The Nigerian city of Lagos has been the site of an unprecedented explosion in Pentecostal Christianity, even as the city's population has increased exponentially and its infrastructure has become strained. Pentecostal organizations have blanketed the city with their discourse, w…
In southwest France starting in the early thirteenth century, an estimated 500 to 700 new towns were created over the course of about 150 years. These new towns, or "bastides," were most often created on unoccupied lands and took the form of a geometric grid plan that was design…
First named by von Oppenheim over a century ago, the distinctive third millennium BC kranzhügeln, or "wreath-mound," sites of the Syrian Desert remain a poorly understood phenomenon. While archaeological investigations have been undertaken at a handful of kranzhügel -like sites …
Despite decades of archaeological excavations in the western Wādī Hadramūt and its tributaries, when compared to its neighbors in Southwestern Arabia, the Pre-Islamic kingdom of Hadramūt is poorly understood. The interior Wādī Hadramūt of the Islamic period is even less well kno…
A comprehensive characterization of Old Kingdom settlement is difficult to glean from the hints of urbanism known from the few archaeological sites from this period that have been excavated. This study takes in the settlements associated with pyramid complexes of the Old Kingdom…