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PHD THESIS TITLES
2005  

Ela Cil

Research Assistant, Yıldız Technical University, Turkey

“Exploring the construction of the identities of Kula, a place in Aegean Anatolia”

Winner Distinguished Dissertation Award, TCAUP
   
2004  

June D. Komisar

Assistant Professor, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University, Canada

“Innovation in Brazilian architecture:  the churches of colonial Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais”

Winner Distinguished Dissertation Award, TCAUP
   
2003  

Victoria Behner Turkel

Senior Exhibition Designer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

“Identity, status, and power:the architecture of contemporary art exhibition in Los Angeles”

   

Carrie R. Wilson

“The Edification of the citizen: the relationship between architecture, political representation and the making of the public realm”

   
2001  

Fernando L. C. Lara

Assistant Professor, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, University of Michigan

“Popular modernism: An analysis of the acceptance of modern architecture in 1950s Brazil”

Winner Distinguished Dissertation Award, TCAUP
   
1997  

Ethel S. Goodstein

Associate Dean, School of Architecture, University of Arkansas

“The image of a southern city: Architecture, culture, and sense of place in New Orleans, 1884-1984”

   
1996  

Kuan-Chu Wei

Nanhua University, Taiwan
“Frank Lloyd Wright: Orientalism in his thought and its historical sources”
   

Iakovos Potamianos

Assistant Professor, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
“Light into architecture: Evocative aspects of natural light as related to liturgy in Byzantine churches”
   
1995  

Wesley Janz

Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Ball State University
“Building cultures by designing buildings: The corporate elite, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Eero Saarinen”
   

Jean La Marche (ArchD)

Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Buffalo
“The Subject of Architecture”
   

Vassiliki G. Mangana

Adjunct faculty, New Jersey Institute of Technology, School of Architecture
“Westernization and Hellenicity: Form and meaning in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1850-1940”
   
1993  

Jin Feng

“Beyond form and structure: A study of the paleographic and poetic reflections of the meaning and experience of Chinese architecture”

   
1990  

Richard Kevin Dozier

“Tuskegee: Booker T. Washington's contribution to the education of Black architects”

   
1986  

David H. Sachs (ArchD)

Professor, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University

“The Work of Overstreet and Town: the Coming of Modern Architecture to Mississippi (Southern Renaissance, Louisiana)”

   

Mark B. Orlowski (ArchD)

“Frank Furness: Architecture and the Heroic Ideal”

   
1985  

Sung-Woo Kim

“History and Design of the Early Buddhist Architecture in Korea”

   
1975  

Rainer Hanns Tolzmann (ArchD)

“Objective Architecture: American Influences in the Development of Modern German Architecture”

   
1974  

Sidney K. Robinson (ArchD)

Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago

Professor, Taliesin FL Wright School of Architecture

“Composed Places: Taliesin and Alden Dow’s Studio”