The Bachelor of Architecture program at KSU is a 5-year, NAAB accredited, first professional degree in architecture, leading to eligibility for licensure (Architectural Registration Exam).
The B.ARCH Program is centered on the ten-semester studio sequence that proceeds from the basic fundamentals of design and architecture, through the technical aspects of building and comprehensive design, to investigations of the urban condition. It culminates in the fifth year's exploration of architecture as a form of design research. Reinforcing the studios are sequences in design communication, architecture culture, structure, environmental technology and professional practice. Collectively, they provide the more holistic understanding of the design process necessary for the production of functional and meaningful architecture.FAQ's
This collection was started with the graduates of the Spring 2017 semester, after the consolidation between Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University was final (July 2015).
Time to Submit your Thesis?Undergraduate Theses from 2023
Origami in Design : How can origami inform the design of the kinetic façade system?, Nicolas Ackerman
BIO-BASED BLUEPRINT: GROWING ARCHITECTURE USING [NATURAL POLYMERS], Jennifer Adame
Adaptive Assemblies: A Scalable Solution to Atlanta's Housing Crisis, Claudia Aguilar
Bio-As:Biophilic Redesign of the Residential Home, Nadia Alexander
Storytelling Through Design: Using Elements of Storytelling to Inform Architectural Narratives, Yonni Baker
The Integration of T.O.D. Principles in Relation to Built Form: Connecting Suburbia and Urbia, Kim Yen Banh
Interconnective Corridors: From Institutional to Educational, Jaylan Burgess
Accessory Dynamic Unit - The Accessory Home to Meet the Needs of Our Time, Ryan Cheape
Urban Integration, Daylan Cowart
Breaking the Stigma: Challenging the mental health crisis through a new way of designing a recovery facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, Lindsey Denig
INDIVIDUAL FOR HOUSING, Hayden Tyler Dill
Desert Safe Haven, Deja Dortch
CoLiving: Bringing Social Spaces Back Offline, Helen Dymek
The Other Place, Simona Floyd
Embedding Wellness Center: An Architecture that Promotes Healing and Well-Being, Kathryn J. Folger
Playful Learning: The Disposition of Architecture as Pedagogy, Alyssa Franklin
Archi-Comics, Timothy Gatto
Festive Space, John C. Goddard
Sustainable Urban Community, Camilo Gonzalez Contreras
The Gardens of Baltimore, DeVaughn Jackson
Reinventing Greyfields, William Jones
Stories Untold: Riddim of A Contemporary Creole Architecture, Rolando Joseph
Designing Home: Pedagogy of Proportion + Geometry, Connor Joyce
Empowering Communities through Food Entrepreneurship and Creative Placemaking, Bailey Kijek
Reactivating and Energizing Districts Through Enhancement and Adaptive Reuse, Cody Kucharski
Convalesce, Grace Kunst
A Ludic Generation: Bridging Architecture, Games, and Technology for More Playful Spaces, Jade Lefebvre
Symbols of the Sacred, Jonathan LeRoux
Stadiums Redefined: Connecting Stadiums to their Communities, Jonathan Linssen
Choreographic Urban Space, Maria Fernanda Lopez
Perspective Sky: A New Architectural Typology for Astronomy, Brendan Lydic
The Dwelling and The Shed: Redefining the Homestead, Ryan Mattox
Essential Peak: Multi-sensory design aimed to reduce stress, Simone McKibben
10 MINUTE CITY -REINVENTING WAYS TO MOVE AROUND THE CITY VIA SCOOTER, Emily Melchor
Urban Anchors: Reviving the "Motor City", Alan Mota Lopez
Moving Gardens: Self-Sustaining Small Scale Housing, Shai Nibbs
Reverence for Life and Death: A New Cemetery Typology, Ashlyn Olmstead
RESTITUTION: RESTORATION OF A POST-COLONIAL IDENTITY THROUGH MEMORIAL ARCHITECTURE, Toyin Olurebi
Core Connections: Stitching Together the Heart of Atlanta through the Redevelopment of Underground Atlanta., Amari Parrish
ALTER[NATIVE] HOUSING: PREFABRICATED HOMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, Aayushi Patel
Motown [RE]Vival: The Use of Culinary and Urban Farming to Revitalize the Dying City of Detroit, Keilani M. Patton
Asylum In America: Designing a Relief Center for Social Integration, Edgar Plascencia
UNI_FORM SPACE: EXPLORING ENVIRONMENT THROUGH FASHION+ARCHITECTURE, Alanzo Price
Printing The Future, Wyatt Proudfoot
Re . visiting the machine for living, Vincent Ramos
Safer Favelas through Urban Redevelopment: Keeping kids of the street, and away from criminal life, Thayna P. Rocha
Wasteful to Useful: Investigating the metamorphosis of textile for construction methods, Elizabeth Rodriguez
Remedy Space: A Children's Interactive Hospital Retreat, Ivanna Rodriguez
Mutualism in Architecture, TJ Rottenberg
Building Unity; Design Framework for Inclusive New Urbanism, Chad Sharp
Modular Adaptivity : The Plug-In Apartment, Bryce Stegmayer
Activating Non-Place, Noah Stogner
Architecture and Harm Reduction : an Unconventional Approach to Detox, Anna Studdard
Lightning Up Lives - Architecture as Conductor, Andrea Suros
MANUFACTURED EXURBIA, Elijah Swift
A Floating City_A Solution to Rising Sea Levels, Dalavanh Thanasouk
Participatory Frame: Discrete Architecture for Displaced Community, Ana Valdez Tello
Enabling the Intellectually Disabled Mind through Architecture, Edward J. Voorhees IV
Capturing the Atmosphere, Jan Wachenfeld
FILLING THE GAPS, Sam Walden
Finding Uhuru, Joanna Waliuba
Analogous Architectural Habitat, Brandon Watkins
Parametric Acoustics, Joseph Wiggins
The Bahay Kubo Alternative, Reesa Winters
Undergraduate Theses from 2022
[F]REE-[DOM] SPACE: Trauma-Informed Planning and Place Making Within Women and Children's Rehabilitation Centers, Rodolfo Alcaraz-Navarrete
Reconnecting A Disconnected City : Through Placemaking Strategies, Gabriel Arroyo
Proposing a second life - (adaptive reuse) for underutilized condemned masonry buildings in Cuba, Fernando Asamoa
Nature, Growth & Design: Architectural Investigations into the Role of Space-Making, Tate Baker
Flexible Dwellings, Petra Basic
COLLECTIVE MODULARITY: A MODULAR DESIGN FOR DISASTERS, Bishop Boening
AQUATIC ARCHITECTURE, Jonathan Bonaparte
WORKING MODULAR | the MODULAR system that crosses the boundary between micro and macro OFFICES, Enrique Brimmer
A Kit for Kids - Revitalizing Low-Income Communities by Embracing the Younger Generation, Anirose Burge
Repurposing Storage: Spatial Transformation of Self Storage, Tina Cerda
Urban Mitigation and Adaptation: Ecological Design Strategies for Flood Resilient Environments and Community Health in Athens, MaKenna Chambers
The Labyrinth Archetype, Zachary Chimoff
Service Hub: An Adaptive Reuse Advancing Communities and the Hidden Population, Biancha Claritt
Seaport City Adaptation: Buenaventura's Settlements, Mariana Corredor
Green Dream: How Nature Can Inform the Design of a Performative Skin System, William Cottrell IV
Architecture as Medicine: Designing Spaces for the Mind, Body, & Spirit, Tyler Cox
Floating Edge: Modular Living, Jonathan Cruz
Sheltered City: A Prevention For Homelessness Through Sheltered Designs, Kena Fairfax
Transformative Architecture Through Kinetic Mechanisms, David Feregrino Rodriguez
Where Dreams Begin: Challenging the Architecture of Migrant Detention, Pablo Garcia
Reclaiming Identities | A Cultural Center for the Tachi Yokut Tribe, Emily Harrington
Art For Healing: An Exploration of Spaces to Facilitate Arts for Therapeutic Healings, Ana Gabriela Hernandez Delgado
Design Diplomacy - Cooperative Living, Kameren Horton
A Quarry in the Urban Landscape: Building Down in Architecture, Derrick Kafunda
DIY; Strategic Sustainable Homes Rethinking Ghana's Housing Crisis, Michelle Leal
Urban Arteries, Erin Machado
Chattahoochee River Front: Creating a Public Space for the City of Atlanta, samantha manders
Modularity and Architecture: a Framework for Space, Hanny Marone
Exploring the Use of Re-Forming Concrete, Moritz Meditz
VIDA: Community Center in the Heart of Bogota, Juan Sebastian Mejia Ceballos
Transparency in Architecture: Reflecting the Practice of Democracy in City Halls, Ana Mendoza
Borderline Re-Order: Negotiating the Edge between City and Greenspace, Jeremy Taylor Morgan
Incremental Formality: Where Formality and Informality Meet, Rodrigo Neyra Velarde
Beirut's Burden, Joelle Osta