AWARDS
September 2022
Dicle Taskin’s dissertation “The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70” was honored with the 2022 Carter Manny Writing Award.
September 2022
Jessica Puff received the 2022 Carter Manny Research Citation for her dissertation “Settler Colonialism and the National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History and Historic Preservation Policy in the Pacific Islands.”
MILESTONES
September 2023
Yi-Chin Lee Dissertation Proposal Presentation
09.15 from 9:30 to 11:30a Saarinen conference room
April 2023
Kimia Erfani successfully defends dissertation, “Age, Place, and Health: Understanding the Role of Environmental and Technological Innovations in Enhancing Older Adults’ Quality of Life”
March 2023
Hyeonsoo Kim successfully defends dissertation,
“Economic Feasibility of Achieving Net-Zero Energy in Residential Buildings in the USA.”
December 2022
Yi-Chin Lee passes the preliminary exams and achieves candidacy
November 2022
Bader Albader successfully defends dissertation, “Spatializing the Knowledge Economy: The Campus as a Discursive Project, Parallel Project, and More-than-Institutional Project“
March 2021
Jieqiong Wang successfully defends dissertation, “Reimagining Shenzhen Urbanism: Villages-in-the-City, Architecture Biennales, and Modern City-Building”
March 2021
Alaa Algargoosh successfully defends dissertation, “Aural Architecture as Affect: Understanding the Impact of Acoustic Environments on Human Experience”
January 2021
Weican Zuo passes the preliminary exams and achieves candidacy
December 2020
Irene Brisson successfully defends their dissertation, Speaking, Gesturing, Drawing, Building: Relational Techniques of a Kreyòl Architecture
October 2020
Irene Brisson receives the 2019 Carter Manny dissertation writing award
August 2020
Jessica Puff passes the preliminary exams and achieves candidacy
PhD Symposium | March 17, 2023
The 2023 Symposium gathers Ph.D. research on the “Phygital,” a term that spans the “three I’s” of immediacy, immersion, and interaction, and the reality that occurs at their convergence. Immediacy ensures the synchronous occurrence of events. Immersion determines one’s presence and experience within their environment. Interaction emphasizes the need for communication. Through this collaborative event, students will share their interest in methods of research that include history, theory, design studies, digital and material fabrication, computation, robotics, and the convergence of their research within Phygital Frameworks. The Symposium will feature external guests, Olon Dotson, Daniel Cardoso, and Masoud Akbarzadeh, to a conversation about Phygital Frameworks and their impacts on Architecture, Technology, Human, & Non-Human Society.
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Architecture PhD students conduct their own research, pushing the limits of the discipline and enhancing the profession. Our program is unusually broad in its methods, including humanities, social science, and engineering methods sometimes in the same project. Students work in labs, travel to talk with builders, and visit archives. The rotating exhibit gives a sense of the work of one student.
TAUBMAN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING
UNIVERISTY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR
UNIVERISTY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR