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Modos encompasses a selection of extracts from design theses by graduating Master of Architecture (Professional) students from the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning, New Zealand’s leading tertiary provider for architecture / built environment.

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Wendy Xie

Intergenerational Mix: Reimagining Housing for an Ageing Population

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Liam McCann

A Third Operator: Re-conceiving the Rural-Urban Threshold in Suburban Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

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Sarah Barnes

Architectural Drawing: It is an Action

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Lei Chen

Alibaba Jiangnan Megalopolis: A Sustainable Dystopia

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Yuyue Zhang

The Un-forgetful Land

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Amy Robertson

Contemplative composition in landscape: a mark making methodology

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Rishav Sarmah

Where You From? Bridging the Cross-Cultural Identities of India and Aotearoa

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Djordje Nikolic

Harnessing Unconventional Acoustics: Fostering Alternative Approaches to the Interpretation of Music and Sound Art

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Yeri Lee

Artistic Crime: Dematerialise to Defamiliarise

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Nicki Han

Our Naked Traces

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Maxine Goon

Social Dreamers: A Collaborative Pedagogy

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Lise Jansen-Luke

One of these is not like the other

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Kaea Kerkin

Recompose, Reconfigure the Resilient Marae: Kei te Tautiaki o ngā Tāngata

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Xiyu (Melissa) Xiao

Meta Rome

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Yunjung Kim

Treasured Memory

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Emily Lawrie

Beige Expression

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Carys Collins

Building on a Wobbly Foundation: A Post-(Sub).Urban Dream Brokerage in Green Bay

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Billy Wallis

A House of Wild Dreams and Dumb Schemes

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Daniel Ho

Perplexing Artifacts: Towards a Fusion of Art and Architectural Creative Practice

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Nicola Chang

The Learning Anatomy: A Performative School of Architectural Bodies

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Jessica Long

Forming Ambiguity

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Ethan Aish

Wood, Wedges, Joints, and Jigs: CNC Milling a Pavilion with Low Grade Timber

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Philip Lee

The Vulnerable Cities of Light

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Imogen Gentles

Rupturing the Void: The Revitalisation of Neglected Site and Creative Culture

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Clover Li

Exploring the Edge: High Sensation Seeking in Aotearoa's Landscape

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Shay Klaassen

How will mixed reality technology reactivate the declining urban retail environment?

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Ariel Wang

Dreamland of Huizhou: The Revitalisation of Huizhou Rural Community

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Finn Johansson

Eco-Logic: Regenerative Housing for Aotearoa New Zealand

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Reuben Jenkin

HOUSEPLANTS - A Housing Production and Design Assembly System

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Will Martel

The Ooze

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Joshua Bovill

We Can’t See the Wood for the Trees: Complexity and Contradiction in Aotearoa

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Jade Celeste Boyle

Dissolving The Edge: Fragmenting The Architectural 'Norm'

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Nicole Wu

(Rural) Wonderland: Instances of Domestic Counterurbanisation in the Age of the Planetary City

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Iman Raza Khan

Reviving the Spirit: an Architectural Reflection of Sacred in the Secular

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Charis Yang

Soniferous Garden: exploring the reciprocity between architecture and sound

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Janae Van Panahon

The Experiential 'Sublime': Inhabiting the threshold between Reality and the Imaginary

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Taylor Daly-Jones

Novus Venustas – The New Beauty

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Tal Rabinovich

Pursuits of Happiness Within the Urban Everyday

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Patrick Sanford

Education vs Regulation: Expanding the Architect’s Role in the Design of Modern Learning Environments

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Irene Mu

Capturing those rhythm of Flow - a new airport on the Manukau Harbour

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Léon Forgues

Back to basics: A tiny house settlement intertwining Māori values

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Chloe Travers

Wairua of the Whenua: A Journey of Reconnection through Ōkere Falls

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Mitzi O'Brien

Yes, No, Maybe: An Architectural Application of Compositional Choice Tactics

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William Chen

Do architects dream of artificial scenes? An eclectic collection of uncanny spaces and experiences

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Joy Hunter

An Ephemeral Garden: Escapism and Architecture Beyond Reality

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Nadine Samaraie

Rearranging Sediment: A Scale Shifting Pursuit of Pleasure

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Cynthia Dong

Rethinking Myers Park as an Urban Open System

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