University of Pennsylvania School of DesignFall 2013

GALEN PARDEE

“Among the laws that rule human societies, there is one that seems more precise and clear than all others. if men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of

associating together must grow and improve”

-Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“He wanted to be Moses here - he gave us democracy. He is not a political man, but in disguise he has given us the institution for

democracy, from where we can rise”

- On Louis Kahn, My Architect (2003)

MUSEUM EXTENSION + CIRCULATION

SHARED RESIDENCE IN CAMBRIDGE

KENMORE SQUARE FILM ARCHIVE

GOLDMAN-SCHWARZ RENOVATION

MIXED MEDIA + OTHER PROJECTS

PORTFOLIO20 Pages on 10 spreads2006 - 2012

HARVARD CAREER DISCOVERYSUMMER 2011

HIDDEN + REVEALED VIEWS CONCEPT MODEL

MUSEUM EXTENSION + CIRCULATION

VIEW CORRIDORS

CURATING A NARRATIVE THROUGH CIRCULATION

The museum extension uses the circulation of the room to tell a story, using a series of partial reveals culminating in a final, panoramic view of the outside at the top. As patrons enter, they are presented with a choice: they can ei-ther take the stairs down to the door to exit, or follow the exhibition path up the levels. As they move through the upper floors, they are presented with restrained, curated vistas. The aim is to emphasize specific, acute elements of the city as a whole, just as the works of art in a museum are informative yet still incomplete views into time, place, and culture. The jag-ged walls of the building provide these teasing views, and the irregular landings frame views downwards onto the circulation below.

HARVARD CAREER DISCOVERYSUMMER 2011

GESTURAL CONCEPT + PROGRAMMATIC DIVISION

SHARED RESIDENCE IN CAMBRIDGE

1 FLOOR

PRIVATE (ORANGE) VS SHARED (GREY) SPACE

2 FLOOR 3 FLOOR 4 FLOOR

PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL SPACE IN THE DOMESTIC SPHERE

The dual residence project highlights the need to address the issues of public and private space in the most intimate of programs: the cli-ents’ homes. The envelope of the building was derived from the paths of two people passing one another in a confined hallway, and the nonverbal negotiation that occurs between the two parties as they adjust to one another. The clients’ program spaces twist past each other, addressing the front and the back of the site in turn. Square windows allow light into the public areas, while narrow windows provide privacy in bedrooms and personal space. The two fami-lies’ domestic lives are kept separate, however opportunities for mingling and socializing re-main.

HARVARD CAREER DISCOVERYSUMMER 2011

SITE COLLAGE + MASSING CONCEPTS

KENMORE SQUARE FIM ARCHIVE

AXONOMETRIC SECTION + CIRCULATION EROSION (BLUE)

AN URBAN OASIS, WITH CIRCULATION ON DISPLAY

For the film archive and library, I was inspired by the similarities between the Kenmore site and Paris’ Axe Historique (Historical Axis). The build-ing provides a quiet, reflective space in which the patrons can explore icons of both film and the city sur rounding the site, while preserv-ing green space. The museum is broken into three structures: a four-story tower, a ground-level theater, and a three-story high cantilever. Frosted glass skylights and large windows turn the internal circulation into a spectacle for museumgoers and pedestrians alike. Exterior circulation erodes pathways around and over the structure, preserving pedestrian access to public transit and creating new routes to the elevated park. This cantilever not only provides a calm oasis amid the chaos of Kenmore, but also a viewing deck for the park belt and icons surrounding the site.

FA 23B, ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING & DESIGNBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYSPRING 2011

GOLDMAN-SCHWARZ RENOVATION

ADMINISTRATIVE (RED) + TEACHING SPACE (GREEN)

RENOVATION

ORIGINAL

CREATING IDENTITY AND EXPANDING FUNCTION Goldman-Schwarz currently has three main deficiencies: first, the envelope allows no inter-action with the wetlands site on the north and west. Second, the massing leaves a void in the south campus ignoring opportunities to for-malize the southern entrance of the university. This informs the third shortcoming: a lack of operational space for the faculty and students. Charged with renovating this building, I kept these three issues in mind. Large windows overlook the wetlands, and a second floor patio allows the site to penetrate into the envelope, reminding students of the natural beauty that surrounds them. Sharp an-gles push back against the flowing circular form of Spingold Theater, rising above the treeline and carving a unique presence in the campus fabric. These two large buildings frame the en-trance to the heart of campus, creating a portal between the parking lots and train station to the South and the campus center to the North.Finally, the addition of a two-story gallery space where the courtyard once existed allows for so-cializing and teaching in a shared display space, which was once unusable for most of the aca-demic year. Simplified circulation facilitates the movement of large sculptures, paintings, and equipment. A second floor of classrooms al-lows for specialization of teaching rooms and accommodates any increase in enrollment. The new Goldman-Schwarz provides improve-ments over the old in form, site use, and most importantly function.

STANFORD, WASHINGTON DC, BOSTON, ITALY2005-2012

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MIXED MEDIA + OTHER PROJECTS

CASE 1: THE UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND1895-1903

CASE 2: ENGLAND AND GERMANY1896-1911

CASE 3: THE UNITED STATES AND THE USSR1960-1963

CASE 4: THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA1996 - PRESENT

WAR, PEACE, AND THE POWER TRANSITION: MANAGING CHINA’S PEACEFUL RISE CRAFTING A THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK

“It is perfectly logical for states to fear their eventual decline, especially if it benefits a rival. However, there is no reason to assume that war is the only way to assuage these fears, especially not in the nuclear era. By highlighting a small set of factors that can mitigate the natural tendencies towards war, I hope to provide a concise estimate of the chances for Sino-American rapprochement in the coming years...

Each theory of power transition has predictive ele-ments whose presence may make a given power tran-sition more or less peaceful, and by extracting those “peace factors”, I hope to create an accurate, predic-tive model of what a peaceful power transition should look like...

Our five peace factors (threat prioritization, dissat-isfaction with the current international system, the speed of the transition, nuclear weapons, economic entanglement) will be put to the test in the successive chapters. We will examine the impact of these peace factors on our three historical cases in order to gauge their actual historical salience, and then apply those most important factors to the current state of affairs between the United States and China.”

Nuclear Weapons

Speed of Transition

Threat Prioritization

Economic Entanglement

Dissatisfaction

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MIXED MEDIA + OTHER PROJECTS

Political science or social justice work denoted in red 1 Arch in Arezzo, ink on paper, Arezzo Italy Summer 20072 En Garde, oil on canvas, Sea Ranch CA Fall 20063 Shaded Doorway, oil on canvas, Stanford Uni-versity Summer 20064 Mass Action Camping on the Boston Com-mon, Boston MA 2009. (Leadership Campaign Brandeis Campus Coordinator; photograph courtesy Students for a Just and Sustainable Future/ The Leadership Campaign) 5 Sustainability Mural, Brandeis University, la-tex paint on plaster, Boston MA 2009. (Project for Students for Environmental Action with James Bartolacci, Brandeis ‘12) 6 “War, Peace, and the Power Transition: Man-aging China’s Peaceful Rise.” High Honors, Brandeis University, Academic Year 2010-2011 (Brandeis Politics Department Honors Cohort)