Undergraduate Thesis 2023

The Undergraduate Thesis Reviews return to campus on Saturday, April 23, 2023. The fifth-year B.Arch students, under the guidance of Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator Maxi Spina, will present projects completed during their final year, throughout an immersive, in-person Undergraduate Thesis event.

Each year, UG Thesis prepares fifth-year B.Arch students to articulate, propose, and defend their ideas and positions on architecture as well as engage with professionals as peers and colleagues.  A public platform during which over 70 jurors, critics, and architecture professionals converge to discuss, debate, and dispute emerging questions in architecture, UG Thesis at SCI-Arc has been—since its founding—an integral element to the school’s pedagogy, celebrating the remarkable accomplishments and ingenuity of the graduating class.

Topics students inquired into through their thesis projects this year represent a vibrant cross section of the cultural moment—from the design of architecture for the neurodiverse to waste remediation of buildings to the idea of campuses as sites of democratic and experimental pedagogy. This year’s thesis class uniquely highlights the discipline’s efforts to deepen its agency and entanglement with contemporary issues.


Please join us on April 22 at SCI-Arc to celebrate the boundary-pushing work of SCI-Arc’s 2023 Undergraduate Thesis class.

Undergraduate Program Co-Chairs
Kristy Balliet
Marcelyn Gow

Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator
Maxi Spina

Thesis Advisors
Karel Klein
Peter Testa
Russell Thomsen

History + Theory Advisors
Erik Ghenoiu
Marcelyn Gow

Assistant Teacher
Orin Torati