MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
Julianne Guevara—RAIC Student Medal & RAIC Honour Roll
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Julianne Guevara—RAIC Student Medal & RAIC Honour Roll
About the Awards:
RAIC Student Medal:
For a student graduating from a professional degree program in each accredited University School of Architecture in Canada who, in the judgment of the faculty of the respective School, has achieved the highest level of academic excellence and/or has completed the outstanding final design project/thesis for that academic year.
RAIC Honour Roll:
For those students who have achieved high academic standing in the top 10% of their graduating class.
ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVISM AND THE PHILIPPINES: ON THE SELF-BUILT AND SELF-PUBLISHED
Resistance to colonialism by architects has included attempts to define a national architectural identity countering western hegemony, but often panders to bourgeois interests. A more transformative resistance is achieved by centering architectural culture and practice in the day-to-day struggles of oppressed communities. This thesis questions the agency of the architect in these revolutionary movements and explores how to apply the tools of architecture to activism in the context of informal settlements in the Philippines.
The study of the zine as a tool of communication and activation is carried out at two scales, maintaining continual dialogue between medium and message. First, as a form of self-publication, the zine is used to expose and educate on injustice, making the conversation on politics and architecture more accessible to the public. Then, as an architectural investigation, the zine becomes a design tool in itself, influencing a more ephemeral and radical architecture.
Read the full thesis at julianneguevara.com
RAIC Student Medal:
For a student graduating from a professional degree program in each accredited University School of Architecture in Canada who, in the judgment of the faculty of the respective School, has achieved the highest level of academic excellence and/or has completed the outstanding final design project/thesis for that academic year.
RAIC Honour Roll:
For those students who have achieved high academic standing in the top 10% of their graduating class.
ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVISM AND THE PHILIPPINES: ON THE SELF-BUILT AND SELF-PUBLISHED
Resistance to colonialism by architects has included attempts to define a national architectural identity countering western hegemony, but often panders to bourgeois interests. A more transformative resistance is achieved by centering architectural culture and practice in the day-to-day struggles of oppressed communities. This thesis questions the agency of the architect in these revolutionary movements and explores how to apply the tools of architecture to activism in the context of informal settlements in the Philippines.
The study of the zine as a tool of communication and activation is carried out at two scales, maintaining continual dialogue between medium and message. First, as a form of self-publication, the zine is used to expose and educate on injustice, making the conversation on politics and architecture more accessible to the public. Then, as an architectural investigation, the zine becomes a design tool in itself, influencing a more ephemeral and radical architecture.
Read the full thesis at julianneguevara.com
