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About



On behalf of the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, welcome to the 2020 Graduate Architecture Thesis Reviews. During this past year, students have been critically engaging the ever-changing cultural landscape that shapes our discipline. Compared to previous cohorts, this group of students is experiencing and confronting global challenges that outpace and exceed the scope of research proposed in the fall. This context makes the discursive space and experimental spirit unique to thesis more relevant and urgent than ever. Now, as we celebrate this graduating class and the culmination of their time at the college, we hope this group of urban activists, spatial practitioners, and visual instigators will share their insights and newfound curiosities through future work.

There are nine thesis groups whose topics, methods, and sites range broadly. The 91 projects featured here are the result of a thesis development seminar in the Fall 2019 term and a studio in the Winter 2020 term. For the first time, the final reviews will take place online.

We hope you enjoy the work.

Cyrus Peñarroyo
Assistant Professor
2019–2020 M.Arch Thesis Coordinator

2019–20 Thesis Faculty


Clement Blanchet
Bryan Boyer
Matias del Campo
El Hadi Jazairy
Perry Kulper
Sandra Manninger
Keith Mitnick
Tsz Yan Ng
Cyrus Peñarroyo
Roy Strickland
Jono Sturt

Invited Critics


Behrang Behin – Behin Ha
Ian Bogost – Georgia Institute of Technology
Bryan Cantley – California State University, Fullerton
Alexa Carlson – Michigan Robotics
Nat Chard – The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL
Shelby Doyle – Iowa State University
Jessy Grizzle – Michigan Robotics
Jia Yi Gu – SpinaGu
Sarah Hearne – UCLA and Cal Poly San Louis Obispos LA Metro
Lydia Kallipoliti – The Cooper Union
Ed Keller – Parsons School of Design
Conrad Kickert – University of Cincinnati
Neil Leach – Florida International University
Christopher Marcinkoski – University of Pennsylvania
Philippe Morel – École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture
Jose Sanchez – University of Southern California
Virginia San Fratello – San Jose State University
Jacqueline Shaw – Rhode Island School of Design
Roland Snooks – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
Jason Young – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Philip Yuan – Tongji University

Super Jury


Dana Cupkova – Carnegie Mellon University
Mason White – University of Toronto
Mimi Zeiger – SCI-Arc

2019–20 Thesis Students

Luis Arjona
Christian Austin
Areeba Bawani
Shahryar Beyzavi
Allison Booth
Mackenzie Bruce
Wenjing Cen
Xuanxiao Chen
Yanci Chen
Kenneth Cheng
Karun Chughasrani
Gabrielle Clune
Maggie Cochrane
Emmanuel Cofie
Ryan Cohn
Roberto Corpus
Jonathan Craig
Scott Crandall
Yaqi Dai
Ismet Zeynep Damgacioglu
Jacqueline Daniel
Valeria De Jongh
Richard Deutsch
Kungang Ding
Timothy Do
Maksim Drapey
Rhoda Du
Philip Elmore
Amlin Iqbal Eshita
Kemper Fagan
Edward Falkowski
Sydney Farris
Alyssa Fellabaum
Michael Ferguson
Freddy Foote
Vama Garrimella
Lovejeet Gehlot
Austen Gillen-Keeney
Mary Greenert
Jingya Guan
Nick Hennessey
Bryan Hicks
Ruisong Huang
Chris Humphrey
Wan-Yu Hung
Julia Jeffs
Yetao Jiang
Harsheen Kaur
Madeline Kil
Rebecca Koshner
Austin Kronig
Da Eun Lee
Linda Lee
So Young Lee
Anhong Li
Zhong Li
Tianci Liang
Xin Liu
Yanhao Liu
Yijia Liu
Yiru Liu
Zhipeng Liu
Lorie Lonchamp
Yue Lu
Weiling Luo
Beiyi Ma
Abirami Manivannan
Daham Marapane
Andrea Marquez
Delaney McCraney
Reed Miller
Baekgi Min
Sawson Waheed Mokhtar
Canqi Mu
Apurva Muralidhar
Anisha Naik
Keerti Nair
Yousun Nam
Marco Nieto
Isman Pal
Zaiyang Pan
Anjelica Perez
Rinika Prince
Fa Zhe Ren
Jeffrey Richmond
Lucas Rigney
Sydnee Rigsby
Harshwardhan Saini
Jenny Scarborough
Adam Schueler
Kum Wai Victoria See
Anika Shah
Asya Shine
Elizabeth Sinyard
Tristan Snyder
Yang Kelsey Song
Yubei Song
Abby Stock
Haopeng Sun
Xinlu Sun
Yiying Tang
John Vieweg
Anh-Thu Vuong
Dongya Wang
Nishang Wang
Helen Yue Wang
Jiasun Wei
Cameron Williams
Rachel Williams
Austin Wiskur
Chuchu Wu
Ruxin Xie
Jiaqi Xin
Hengjun Xu
Sichang Xu
Zhaoxuan Yang
Jiawei Yao
Victoria Yu
Yining Yuan
Yiran Zhao
Mingdi Zhou
Xueying Zhu

2019–20 Architecture Faculty

Ellie Abrons
Zain Abusier
Robert Adams
Arash Adel
Mania Aghaei Meibodi
Laida Aguirre
Sean Ahlquist
María Arquero de Alarcón
Clement Blanchet
Craig Borum
Bryan Boyer
James Chaffers
McLain Clutter
Jacob Comerci
Matias del Campo
Robert Fishman
Adam Fure
Liz Gálvez
Harry Giles
Dawn Gilpin
Lars Gräbner
Linda Groat
Matīss Groskaufmanis
Sharon Haar
Peter Halquist
Christina Hansen
Melissa Harris
Andrew Herscher
Eric Hill
Irene Hwang
Daniel Jacobs
El Hadi Jazairy
Lars Junghans
Douglas Kelbaugh
Michael Kennedy
Jong-Jin Kim
Joy Knoblauch
Adam Koogler
Perry Kulper
Steven Lauritano
Yojairo Lomeli
Ann Lui
Jen Maigret
Steven Mankouche
Sandra Manninger
Robert Marans
John Marshall
Jonathan Massey
Mick McConnell
Kit McCullough
Malcolm McCullough
Wes McGee
John McMorrough
Julia McMorrough
Eduardo Mediero
Mark Meier
Meredith Miller
Keith Mitnick
Andrew Moddrell
Thomas Moran
Upali Nanda
Mojtaba Navvab
Catie Newell
Tsz Yan Ng
Bryan Norwood
Young-Tack Oh
Ana Morcillo Pallarés
Cyrus Peñarroyo
Mary-Ann Ray
Gina Reichert
Neal Robinson
Mireille Roddier
Jonathan Rule
Joel Schmidt
Anya Sirota
Lydia Soo
Roy Strickland
Jono Sturt
Geoffrey Thün
Anca Trandafirescu
Christian Unverzagt
Kathy Velikov
Peter von Bülow
Hui Wang
Claudia Wigger
Glenn Wilcox
Craig Wilkins
Jean Wineman
Laura-Anne Wong
De Peter Yi
Claire Zimmerman
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