Current Students
Zach Clegg
Bachelor of Science, Architectural History and Theory, University of Utah, 2017
Proposed topic: Architecture and narrative
Kelly Daviduke
Master of Library and Information Science, University of Washington, 2008
Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Oberlin College, 2003
Proposed topic: Recent design competition drawings and how the disparate nature of these records affects the historian’s ability to understand and contextualize the proposals.
Nicholas de Vry
Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology: Archaeological Science, University of Washington, 2017
Proposed topic: History of building modification and re-use in Seattle
Samar Makhlouf
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Damascus, Syria, 1988
Proposed topic: Historic preservation and cultural heritage in the contemporary Middle East.
Saba Fatima
Master of Architecture, Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University, 2020
Proposed topic: Environmentally resilient urban infrastructure, housing, communities
Jarvinen Amelia
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 2011; Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2021
Proposed topic: Re-negotiating the relationship between queer and architecture
Bobbie Koch
Architectural Studies, South Dakota State University
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2021
Proposed topic: Indigenous architecture
Jordan Legan
Environmental design, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2020
Proposed topic: Firefighting and the Built Environment
Saloni Rege
Bachelor of Architecture, Asmita College of Architecture, Mumbai University, 2019
Proposed topic: Architectural journalism
Amrita Vinod
Bachelor of Architecture, Tkm College of Engineering, Kerala. 2020
Proposed topic: Socio-cultural dimensions of architecture in India
Samuel Wood
Bachelor of Arts in History, Bates College, 2012
Proposed topic: The development of urban neighborhoods and public parks during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America, analyzing the design, human impact, and continue adaptation.
Graduates
Judy Bowes
Ph.D. Student, UW CBE
Thesis: Birds and the Built Environment, (2020).
Committee: Alex Anderson, Ann Huppert, Kaeli Swift
Judy joined the PhD Program in the Built Environment in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington during the fall of 2021.
Gregory T. Woolston
Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Minor in Arabic, Middlebury College, Vermont
Thesis: Reading the White Spatial Imaginary in the Redevelopment of Yesler Terrace, (2020).
Thesis Committee, Brian McLaren, chair; Mark Purcell, Megan Ybarra
Greogory is currently a graduate student, Sociology at UCSC
Deepthi Bathala
Ph.D. Student in Architecture, University of Michigan
B.Arch, Department of Architecture, College of Architecture Trivandrum, Kerala University 2016
Research Assistant Department of Architecture, College of Architecture Trivandrum 2017
Thesis: Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture, (2019).
Ellen Dement Hurd
Bachelor of Arts, American History and Art History, Vanderbilt University
Thesis: Rebuilding a Nation: Cherokee Tribal Architecture, 1839-1907 ,(2019).
Committee: Jeffrey Ochsner, Louisa Iarocci
Ellen is currently Certified Local Government Coordinator, Tennessee Historical Commission, Nashville, TN, 2021-
Architectural Historian/Preservationist, Jacobs Engineering, Atlanta, 2020-21.
Samar Makhlouf , 2019
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Damascus, Syria, 1988
Thesis topic: Historic preservation and cultural heritage in the contemporary Middle East.
Samar is currently Plans Manager at Murray Franklyn.
Jeff Murdock
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2004
Bachelor of Science in Business, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Thesis topic: Robert Reichert and regional architecture in the Pacific Northwest. ,(2019).
Thesis committee: Jeffrey Ochsner and Brian McLaren.
Jeff is currently Advocacy & Education Manager at Historic Seattle.
Babita Joy
Master of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2009
Bachelor of Architecture, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India, 2006
Thesis: ‘Structure’ as Conceptual Rigor: The Collaboration of Cecil Balmond and Rem Koolhaas (2018)
Thesis committee: Ken Oshima and Tyler Sprague
Babita is currently in the PhD Program in the Built Environment in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.
Britt Bandel-Jeske
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2013
Bachelor of Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University, 2000
Thesis: A Sham Delight has no Exchange Value: Henri Lefebvre and the evolution of Bernard Tschumi’s early architectural theory, (2016).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Bob Mugerauer.
Amit Ittyerah
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2010
Bachelor of Architecture, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India, 2005
Thesis: Delocalization: The Highway Apparatus, (2016).
Thesis committee: Vikram Prakash (chair) and Nicole Huber.
Amit joined the PhD program in Architecture at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2016.
Eric Voytko
Bachelor of Science in Building Construction, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013
Thesis Prize
Thesis: Urbanism and Social Transformation in Peter the Great’s Russia, (2016).
Thesis committee: Ann Huppert and Elena Campbell.
Supasai Vongkulbhisal
Master of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
Bachelor of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008
Thesis: Primitivism, Regionalism and the Vernacular in Le Corbusier’s Middle Years, 1929-1945, (2016).
Thesis committee: Alex Anderson and Brian McLaren.
Supasai joined the PhD Program in the Built Environment in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington during the fall of 2016.
Cassandra Blair
Bachelor of Science in Interior Design, Colorado State University, 2012
Thesis Prize
Thesis: Bodies in Space: Spatial Practice and Spatial Representations in the Work of Francesca Woodman and Gordon Matta-Clark, (2015).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Bob Mugerauer.
Jennifer Mortensen
Bachelor of Arts in Theater Design, Brigham Young University, 2008
Thesis: Reclaiming the daylight factory: A critical examination of early twentieth century industrial buildings in Dayton, Ohio, (2015).
Thesis committee: Jeffrey Ochsner (chair) and Louisa Iarocci.
Jennifer is currently communications coordinator for the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation.
Laurel Schwehr
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, 2013
Thesis: The Evolution of French Regionalism during the Interwar Period: A study of the effect of cultural and political influences on the perception of regional architecture, (2015).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Alex Anderson.
Mark Bourne
Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering, Khomeini International University, 2010
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of California-Davis, 1994
Thesis: Murin-an: Literary Description and the Interpretation of Experience in a Japanese Built Environment, (2014).
Thesis committee: Ken Oshima (chair) and Thaisa Way.
Mark joined the PhD Program in the Built Environment in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington during the fall of 2014.
Lakshmi Krishnaswamy
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Delhi, 2011
Thesis: The “Common Man Project” in the work of Aditya Prakash, (2014).
Thesis committee: Vikram Prakash (chair) and Nicole Huber.
Iheb Guermazi
Diploma in Architecture, Sidi Bou Said University, Carthage, Tunisia, 2011
Thesis: An Archeology of Postmodern Architecture: A Reading of Charles Jencks’ Work, (2014).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Vikram Prakash.
Iheb joined the PhD Program in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the fall of 2014.
Karli Pickett
Master of Arts in Art History, St. Andrews University, UK, 2008
Thesis topic: Corporate architecture in America from the postwar to the present, (2014).
Thesis committee: Jeffrey Ochsner and Brian McLaren.
Maja Babic
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2010
Thesis: Modernism and Politics in the Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-1965, (2013).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Vikram Prakash.
Maja joined the PhD program in Architecture at the University of Michigan during the fall of 2014.
Holly Taylor
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of Washington, 2002
Thesis: Grange Halls in Washington State: A critical evaluation of a vernacular building type, (2013).
Thesis committee: Jeffrey Ochsner (chair) and Kathryn Merlino.
Holly joined the PhD Program in the Built Environment in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington during the fall of 2013.
Heather LaHood
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2011
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Thesis: Silence and the Scream: Exposing Virilio’s humanism through the Architecture of Anti-Form, (2013).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Bob Mugerauer.
Heather is currently a designer at Woodhouse Tinucci Architects in Chicago, Illinois.
Allan Co
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2011
Bachelor of Architecture, Rice University, 2006
Thesis: The Urban (In)formal: reinterpreting the globalized city through Deleuze and Guattari, (2012).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Mark Purcell.
Allan is an Enterprise Rose Fellow for 2016-2018 for the Hudson River Housing Authority in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Kathleen Kemezis, M.S. H/T with Pres. Cert. 
Bachelor of Arts, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Thesis: Not What Meets the Eye: Re-examining reconstruction in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, (2012).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Jeffrey Ochsner.
Community Planner, City of McMinnville Planning Department, 2019-.
Main Street Program Director in McMinnville TN since 2017-2019.
Lori Smithey
Bachelor of Architecture, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 2004
Thesis: Fiction as theory in Ralph Adams Cram’s The Decadent, (2011).
Thesis committee: Louisa Iarocci (chair) and Alex Anderson.
Lori joined the PhD program in Architecture at the University of Michigan during the fall of 2011.
Todd Satter
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2008
Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Missouri, 1998
Thesis: Architecture as an image of thought: Deleuze, cinematic movement and time, (2010).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Bob Mugerauer.
Todd joined the PhD program in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall of 2010.
Megan Meulemans
Bachelor of Arts in Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Thesis: Oh woman, who art thou? and your house?: an exploration of Robert Mallet-Stevens, the woman and the formation of the modern house in interwar France, (2010).
Thesis committee: Alex Anderson (chair) and Louisa Iarocci.
Megan joined the PhD program in Architecture at the University of California in Los Angeles during the fall of 2014.
Tavleen Kaur
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2008
Thesis: The Bedi Samadhs in Una: an architectural study of the Samadh typology through a religious and socio-political context, (2010).
Thesis committee: Vikram Prakash ( chair) and Manish Chalana.
Tavleen joined the PhD program in Visual Studies at the University of California at Irvine during the fall of 2014.
S. Hinman Wan
Master of Architecture, University of Washington, 2012
Master of Science in Construction Management, University of Washington, 2006
Bachelor of Architecture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 2001
Thesis: The Praxis of dialectical utopianism: from the prewar Henri Lefebvre to Constant’s New Babylon, (2010).
Thesis committee: Brian McLaren (chair) and Bob Mugerauer.
Sim joined the PhD program in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago during the fall of 2011.
