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CCA Presents the 2010 Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, by Sarah Owens
Representative works from 32 California College of the Arts graduates of the Master of Architecture Program will be showcased during the Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition, which runs May 6–15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage on the San Francisco campus. An opening reception is scheduled for May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
The Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition is part of the college’s 2010 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, which presents thesis work from graduates in all seven of the college's graduate programs.
This year’s Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition projects are based on a diverse set of ideas, such as considering the urban effects global production has had on cities that are no longer industrial and understanding how a building can be recognized as a type of archive.
Monica Ty's A Silent Hand of Comfort: Architecture’s Role in Grief addresses how built forms can facilitate recovery from loss. According to her artist statement: “In fusing together psychology and architecture, the project proposes an architectural response to the dual process model, a psychological model of grief work in which architecture allows for both confrontation and avoidance.”
Leah Marthinsen’s project, Dissonant Utopias, aims to explain “the urban impacts of global production on formerly industrial cities.” She explains, “The project proposes a new model of urban redevelopment that incorporates both production and consumption, both local and global scales, in order to reconcile broad utopian visions with the ambiguity, flexibility, and dissonance that characterize lived urban experience.”
These students and others have been developing their thesis projects during a two-semester course sequence that is introduced in the third year of the program. Students are required to devise an advanced thesis through research, analysis, and design.
Prior to the exhibition, students present their projects to a juried panel for critique as part of the Master of Architecture Thesis Project Reviews, which take place April 23 and 24, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., in the Nave on the San Francisco campus.
See a complete list of 2010 Graduate Thesis Exhibition events.
Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition
May 6–15
Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage, SF campus
10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Opening Reception: May 6, 6–9 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Participating Architecture graduates:
Acosta, Jon-Christopher
Aldrich, Annelise
Barlow, Dylan
DeLeon, Ripon
der Bedrossian, Laurice
Diaz, Anthony
Dunham, Sarah
Gardini, Christopher
Gibson, Jessica
Greer, Noah
Gregory, Geoffrey
Hobstetter, Sarah
Hofstetter, Charlotte
Jackson, Elizabeth
Jenkins, Brandon
Khakpour, Pouya
Lee, Ryan
Ma, Charles
Marthinsen, Leah
Marugan, Pedro
Mates, Ariane
Perez-Green, Joseph
Renaker, Pearl
Schwartz, Zohar
Shimada, Yukihisa
Stuenkel, Jessica
Ty, Monica
Wallack, Elizabeth
West, Megan
Wolkoff, Jessica
Wongkalasin, Ravadee
Yu, Rachael
About California College of the Arts
Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (CCA) is noted for the interdisciplinarity and breadth of its programs. It offers studies in 20 undergraduate and seven graduate majors in the areas of fine arts, architecture, design, and writing. The college offers bachelor of architecture, bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of architecture, master of arts, master of fine arts, and master of business administration degrees. With campuses in San Francisco and Oakland, CCA currently enrolls 1,800 full-time students. Noted alumni include the painters Nathan Oliveira and Raymond Saunders; the ceramicists Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, and Peter Voulkos; the filmmaker Wayne Wang; the conceptual artists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim; and the designers Lucille Tenazas and Michael Vanderbyl.