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- Throughout the semester:Advising meetings with individual faculty advisers to guide production and iterative refinement of design work (architectural analytical drawings and/or physical models), and edits to digital presentation made in fall term HAA Thesis Thesis Presentations.
- March 14, 2025, 12:00 pm EST: Submission of final senior thesis design project including digital images and written text as a single PDF file (see “Submission Requirements for Honors Consideration”).
- March 28, 2025 (date subject to change and TBC):Participation in a gallery-style final presentation with faculty and peers after submission of thesis. The design presentations for the gallery-style event should include an updated digital presentation comprised of the project title, author’s name, the most current versions of all elements listed below in the Final Project Requirements (with the exception of the Written Manifesto which should be consolidated to a single slide containing 3-4 sentences of a thesis statement capturing the topic of study, a position on this topic, your claim about design agency to address this topic, and specifically, what design elements you’ve explored in your thesis in this address). Students may elect to also print or plot selected original design drawings they produced (analytical or projective) from their digital presentation to pin up in the space. Likewise, students are encouraged to bring any sketch and/or final models they have created to display as well.
- April 14, 2025: Preparation of a digital file for a 24 x 36” poster summarizing the thesis to be exhibited in the HAA department for the academic year to follow. A suggested template will be provided and a workshop will be held on March 25 (2025, date subject to change and TBC) for assistance with poster preparation. Examples of previous posters can be found here (AY21-22), here (AY22-23), and here (AY23-24).
Submission Requirements for the Design Thesis Project (due March
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2025, 12:00 pm EST)
A single multi-page PDF file labeled with student’s full last name and first initial should be submitted. It should contain the following elements and should incorporate thesis research and design work from both fall and spring terms.
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