Graduate Thesis Exhibit: Liberty Annex

April 30, 2011 10:00 AM – 05:00 PM
Taubman College Liberty Annex
305 W. Liberty St. Ann Arbor MI

Architecture master students from University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning have on display thesis projects at Taubman College’s Liberty Annex, 305 W. Liberty St., in Ann Arbor. The thesis’ students work was reviewed April 29-29, 2011, and the exhbibit is free and open to hte U-M community, public and guests.

2011 Thesis Project Honors:

• Ryan Donaghy
• Christopher Holzwart
• William Liow
• Jessica Mattson
• Andrew Powers
• Melinda Rouse
• Alivia Stalnaker
• Kyle Strugeon
• Katie Grace Wirtz

Studio Topics and Faculty:

• AGENCY: McLain Clutter, Keith Mitnick
• DIGITAL MANIA: Jason Young, Perry Kulper
• M***** WORLD: Robert Adams, Dawn Gilpin
• STORMFRONT: Kathy Velikov, Geoffrey Thün
• LOCAVORACIOUS: Neal Robinson, Matthew Schulte

Guest Critics:

• Alicia Imperiale, Temple University
• Dora Epstein Jones, SCI-Arc
• Sandy Isenstadt, University of Delaware
• Mark Linder, Syracuse University
• Chip Lord, Professor Emeritus, UCSC, Founding Partner, Ant Farm
• John May, UCLA
• Kiel Moe, Northeastern University
• Carol Moukheiber, University of Toronto
• Juan Rois, University Nacional de Rosario
• Mark Wasiuta, Columbia University
• Steven A. Hardy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

2011 M.Arch. Thesis Students:

Nana Adja-Sai / Thom Affeldt / Bryan Alcorn / Jonathon Bailey / Lauren Barry / Ted Bazydlo / Brianne Benness / Michelle Bennett / Jonathan Blair / Theresa Broderick / Maureen Brudzinski / Xuanru Chen / James Chesnut / Snow Chin / Bradley Cooper / Lindsay Cooper / Elisa Cotelo / Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum / Katie Cressall / Emil Cuevas / Ann-Germaine Danz / Sara Dean / Ryan Donaghy / Nathan Doud / Jarret Fishman / Christopher Gerdes / Amna Hassan / Ashley Hetrick / Christopher Holzwart / Greg Hoogland / Anthony Michael Hrusovsky / Ning Hua / Denise Huang / William James / Grant Jeffries / Nathan Johnson / Ashwini Kamath / Ta-Chih Kao / Frank Kava / Sunhyung Kim / YoungJoo Kim / Emily Ko / Winnie Lam / Beatrice Lau / James Lee / Kahyun Lee / Sang Hoon Lee / William Liow / Kai Liu / Kitty Nga Ting Lo / F. Parke Macdowell / Jessica Mattson / Michael McBean / Amy McNamara / Whitnie Noxon / Nisha Patel / Jessie Peksa / Sarah Petri / Noah Posthuma / Andrew Powers / Sarah Rabe / Kelly Raczkowski / Ville Riikonen / Melinda Rouse / Cecilia Roussel / Sarah Rowse / Amy Rydleski / Ayesha Sarfraz / Lisa Sauve / Julie Savage / Dorothy Schwankl / Samantha Senn / Jacqueline Shaw / Lauren Shirley / Matthew Slingerland / Derek Sloane / Adam Smith / Brad Smith / Josh Smith / Alivia Stalnaker / Kyle Sturgeon / Jono Sturt / Chao-Wei Su / Michelle Tang / Diana Tomova / Yi-Ying Kate Tsai / Jennifer Tucker / Megha Vadula / Charles Veneklase / Erica Wannemacher / Christopher Wheeler / James Wilson / Katie Wirtz / Robert Yuen / Adam Zawalich / Jiayi Zhang / Gang Zhou / Wenchao Zhou

About Thesis:

Thesis is a required studio wherein students develop their thesis research and design interests toward a thorough and complete spatial project. The thesis option is completed in two components: a three-credit-hour seminar in the fall term and a six-credit-hour thesis studio in the winter term. The thesis option is an independent study opportunity for those students who are sufficiently mature and self-motivated to benefit from self-directed creative work. Students deploy design thinking and investigative skills, cultural diversity exploration and research applications. The thesis interest, statement of intent, and research is developed, reviewed and approved by faculty thesis review committee in the spring seminar.