M.Arch Thesis 2025

Co-Designer   Thom Moran    

Taubman College produces an annual thesis book documenting the graduating Master of Architecture class’s work. For the 2025 edition, the design is centered around the Emil Lorch column, a fragment that stands in front of the college, quietly marking the passage of generations. The column is a recurring motif throughout the book, becoming a symbol of continuity between past and future theses.

The book records the graduating work, but more importantly, it circulates. Copies move through studios and are handed to new students who use them to see what came before. Over time, the books form an informal archive of ideas and ambitions, connecting one class to the next.

Dimensions 38

Year   Fall 2024 + Winter 2025
Team   16 students
 

Dimensions is the student-produced journal of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College published annually since 1987. Dimensions 38 was designed over the course of an academic year by a group of sixteen students. Students produce the entire journal, including: soliciting work, choosing contributors, organizing content, designing layouts, content editing, copy editing, and completing the proofing and printing process with the press. D38 was printed and bound in Michigan with a run of 2000 copies.

Our team iterated cyanotype transfers and aligned the prints to correlate with phases of the book. From green to blue, raw to processed, and draft to print. The sections of the journal are drawn from Richard Serra’s Verb List: to manifest, to distill, to impress, to translate, and to reflect.

Agora 18

Year   Fall 2024 + Winter 2025
Team   16 students
 

Past covers were quiet fields of color, simple and still. This year, the theme was community, so I began with a few small figures, scattered across the page.

They walk, pause, drift apart, and circle back together, each carrying its own rhythm. Slowly they multiply, their paths weaving and overlapping until the page hums with movement. There is no pattern to guide them, no line to contain them, yet in their gathering something emerges. They are many and one at the same time, a quiet celebration of togetherness that is felt rather than explained.