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Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1986	Chery Peterson	MArch		NA 25 Th3432	Frank Lloyd Wright's Iowa Usonians.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1987	Robin Esta Abrahams	MArch		NA 25 Th34648	Museum addition design: a whole greater than the sum of the parts, an addition to the Henry Gallery.
	James A. Burt	MArch		NA25 Th34717	A storefront rehabilitation program for Walla Walla.
	Lisa Kennan-Meyer	MArch		NA25 Th35339	Gene Zema: Northwest Architect.
	Lindsay, Anne Louise	MArch		NA25 Th34950	Evolution of the Faculty Club on the University of Washington campus: 1909 through present.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1988	Mark Elster	MArch		NA25 Th35572	The missing piece: a hotel for Occidental Park.
	Andrew C. Rocker	MArch		NA 25 Th36212	A mixed-use building in Seattle's International District.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1991	Theresa A. Dir	MArch	Pyatok	NA25 Th39411	A new life for an Eastlake historic landmark.
	Mark A. Molinaro, Jr.	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th39802	An initial design proposal for the UW-Tacoma.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1992	Thomas Aquinas Conway	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th40728	Lessons in context: University of Washington-Tacoma, Union Station district.
	Mary E. Shaughnessy	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th40914	Industrial revolution: an adaptive reuse of the versatile Pacific Shipyard in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1993	Jonathan Eric Brandt	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th41213	The new Belle Hotel: a hybrid building for Belltown.
	Diana Lynn Wogulis Keys	MArch	Dubrow	NA25 Th41328	Single room occupancy (SRO) hotels: Seattle's past, present and future.
	Sarah Leith Meskin	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th41376	Altering a monument, retaining the memories: the adaptive reuse of Denver's Evans School for nursing.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1994	Alexa Layani Berlow	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th42312	Enduring elements of neighborhood urban form: the case of the corner store in Wallingford, Seattle.
	Barbara Kim Gray	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th42152	Neighborhood landmarks: an expression of community history.
	Anne F. Kastel	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th42445	A case for neighborhood conservation in Seattle.
	Frederick Teodoro Marcial	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th42496	Cultural continuity and the space between: the assembly of a marketplace.
	Jennifer Ann Meisner	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th42511	The future of Rosyln, Washington: preservation of a vernacular town.
	Frances Amelia Sheridan	MUP	Ryan	NA9000 Th42847	Apartment house development on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill prior to World War II.
	Rose Marie Wong	PhD	Ryan	NA9000 Th42630	Sweet cakes, long journey: a social and urban history of Portland, Oregon's first Chinatown.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1995	John F. Favazzo	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th44126	Is historic preservation aiding or hindering the survival of traditional stone carving?: an investigation in the field.
	Janet Longenecker	MArch	Nyberg	NA25 Th43597	Taking place: a study of the residential architecture of John Yeon.
	Peter Mattson	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th43609	Reordering the room: the remaking of Seattle's Eagles Temple building: a proposal for adaptive reuse.
	Andrew A. Phillips	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th43338	Washington Hall: a case for urban adaptive continuity.
	Catherine D. Power	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th43343	An addition to the Cornish College of the Arts' Kerry Hall.
	Eugenia Woo	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th43767	History doesn't always stand still: earthquake preparedness and preservation planning in King County, Washington.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1996	David R. Peterson	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th44465	Permanence and transience: determining the value of temporary non-iconic buildings on the University of Washington campus.
	David T. Spangler	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th45144	Burnham & Root in Tacoma: conservation of the Pacific National Bank building through adding-on and adaptive re-use.
	Kim Margaret Sykes	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th45467	Mexican public space: promoting cultural continuity in the Zocalo.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1997	Virginia Gerhart Brumback	MArch	Nyberg	NA25 Th46120	Reconciliation of architecture and preservation: continuity in the culture of place, Stralsund, Germany.
	Erin M. Doherty	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th45542	Jud Yoho and the Craftsman Bungalow Company: assessing the value of the common house.
	Leah Cheryl Greenblat	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th46519	Seattle's Madison Street corridor: a proposal for locating a series of interpretive history projects along the Madison Street corridor.
	Amy Scarfone	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th45997	Monument and memory: the Oklahoma City memorial international design competition.
	Jacqueline C. Smith	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th46017	The Crypta Balbi site: the importance of place and the continuity of change in Rome's historic center.
	Margaret Stanton	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th45654	Transforming the traditional house: extending and adapting the patterns of Alexandria, Virginia.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1998	Melissa F. Abbuhl	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th47704	Contextual modernism: market-rate housing in the Pioneer Square Historic District.
	Geoff E. Anderson	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th47022	Continuity of life: the adaptive reuse of historic warehouses for the University of Washington Tacoma.
	Melanie B. Como	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th46725	Form follows function: the adaptive re-use of a neighborhood meeting hall.
	Carole Davison	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th47096	Seattle's "Restaurant Maids": an historic context document for Waitresses' Union, Local 240, 1900 to 1940.
	Matt Dubbe	MArch	Nyberg	NA25 Th47763	A House for Catherine: preservation of traditional American residential architecture.
	Erin Leigh Gettis	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th47533	The Ellensburg Arts Center: an adaptive reuse of an abandoned hotel.
	Dean A. Kralios	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th47223	Continuity and change: a field station in a Greek mountain village.
	Andrea Masotti	MUP	Ochsner	NA9000 Th47270	The adaptive reuse of Seattle's historic Cooper Elementary School: balancing development, community, and preservation goals.
	Stacy Patterson	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th47290	Interpreting the history of Chinese labor on the Fremont Cut through public art.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
1999	Maya M. Foty	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th48238	Evolution of a culture: design for a museum of emigration in Budapest.
	Rachel L. King	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th48028	Preserving the essence of artifact: development of a train museum in Port Townsend.
	Stephanie Kingsnorth	March	Ochsner	NA25 Th48901	Cause and effect: the social and cultural evolution of a Seattle landmark.
	Tung-Ming Lai	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th48656	Preserving the Himalayan culture-a Himalayan heritage memorial in Nepal.
	Nazila Merati	MLA	Dubrow	SB 472 Th48057	Lost landscapes of health: the evolution of the western tuberculosis sanatorium, 1890-1950.
	Lars Scharnholz	MArch	Clausen	NA25 Th48728	Changing concepts of regional modernism in the Pacific Northwest: the architecture of Henry Klein.
	Rebecca Walls	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th48520	Growing and gathering: an adaptive re-use plan for Greenwood Greenhouse.
	Meredith A. Wirsching	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th48536	For the common good: redefining the Fremont Carnegie library.
	Caryn Alys Yamamoto	MArch	Hildebrand	NA25 Th48126	Evolution of type: a reinterpretation of the traditional Japanese tea house.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2000	Peter Jesse Aylsworth	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th49211	Preserving our rural landscape: farm worker housing as an opportunity for revitalizing small farm ownership.
	Jennifer Markham Caudle	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th49058	Reemergence of a company town: development of a new visitor center in historic Newhalem, Washington.
	Saithiwa Ramasoot	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th49469	Negotiating with architectural heritage: design solutions for new buildings in a historic campus.
	Amy E. Williams	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th49557	Building on the oval: planning for the Mills College campus.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2001	Tammy Allison Felker	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th50351	The company town revisited: historic Port Gamble, Washington, as a retirement community.
	Genna Nashem	MUP	Kasprisin	NA9000 Th50794	Fields and faith.
	Connie Walker	MUP	Dubrow	F897.K5 W26 2001	National Register multiple property nomination: identification and evaluation of cultural resources associated with Bainbridge Island Nikkei (1883-1942).
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2002	Kirste Johnson	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th51808	Bridging the gastronomic gap: a method for preserving the Olympic Oyster as foodstuff.
	Christine Edstrom O'Hara	MLA	Streatfield	SB472 Th51886	Palos Verdes Estates and Balboa Park: a critical evaluation of the Olmsted Brothers' western design model.
	Sarah E. Sodt	MUP	Dubrow	NA108.S45 S63	Neighborhood historic surveys: a manual to guide the development of neighborhood surveys, including a prototype survey of the University District.
	Jade Takashima	MLA	Dubrow	SB472 Th52215	Seattle on guard: the militarization of public space during World War II.
	Anna Hosticka Tamura	MLA	Dubrow	SB472 Th51638	Gardens below the watchtower: gardens and meaning in World War II Japanese-American internment camps.
	Kristin E. Taylor-Foley	MArch	Palleroni	NA25 Th51319	Remembering the Gran Hotel Trotcha: historic preservation in Havana, Cuba.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2003	Elizabeth Dodrill	MLA	Streatfield	SB472 Th52862	Reconsidering preservation values in planning for the treatment of cultural landscapes: interpreting the historic layers of an Olmsted garden through the historic analysis and design process.
	Rich Gilbert	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th52886	Garlic Gulch: interpreting the history of Seattle's Rainier/Atlantic neighborhood, 1903-2003.
	Kaisa Marketta Jolkkonen	MUP	Abramson	NA9000 Th52575	Regional cultural landscape assessment for preservation and land use: lessons from the Hame County pilot project, Finland.
	Kimber L. Keagle	MArch	Dubrow	NA25 Th52318	The preservation of food and building in Washington State: an adaptive reuse project.
	Brice Maryman	MLA	Dubrow	SB472 Th52630	The Skagit talc mine: rediscovering the lost mining history of the North Cascades.
	Reuben M. McKnight	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th52641	Embracing change in older buildings: the historical significance of residency with commercial additions.
	Lisa Kalhar Melton	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th52955	Preserving Green Bluff's cultural and agricultural heritage.
	Craig Montgomery	MUP	Dubrow	NA9000 Th52961	Preserving Notrees: preservation and interpretation of west Texas oil camps.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2004	Amanda Mary Robertson Austin	MArch	Hildebrand	NA25 Th53870	Preservation and adaptive re-use of Thayer Barn: a home for art in the Snoqualmie Valley.
	Liz Birkholz	MLA	Dubrow	SB472 Th54303	Ecological guidelines for rehabilitating landscapes: managing change in coastal zones.
	Kathryn L. Chamberlain	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th54322	Computer-mediated communications research center: a physical architecture for the exploration of virtual reality.
	Kevin Stender	MUP	Kasprisin	NA9000 Th5346	Seattle central waterfront design: guiding the development of a historically aware and pedestrian friendly public realm.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2006	Tara Ballentine	MUP	Kasprisin	NA9000 Th55641	A look at the past, present, and future roles of historic preservation in Seattle's central waterfront.
	Pamela Derry	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th56330	New life for old libraries: a study of recent library additions and an addition to Seattle's University Branch Library.
	Andrea Flower	MUP	Wagner	NA9000 Th56645	Collaborative conservation in Mount Baker neighborhood.
	Carly Mendelssohn	MArch	Ochsner	NA25 Th56445	Interventions at Manzanar: history, memory, and interpretation of a site of Japanese American internment.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2007	Alison Cornell Blake	MLA	Rottle	SB472 Th57032	Considering the greater good: a landscape architecture-based critique and proposal of tools for use with context-sensitive design and solutions in the pre-design phases of transportation projects.
	Heather Hines	MUP	Kasprisin	NA9000 Th57561	Conservation districts as a preservation tool: responding to Seattle's neighborhood plans.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2008	Amanda J. Bell	MLA	Robertson	SB472 Th58231	Chititu Creek: The landscape history of an Alaskan mining district.
	Nicholas J. Kindel	MUP	Ryan	NA9000 Th59005	Brew Uses for Old Buildings: The Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings as Microbreweries in the Pacific Northwest.
	Aaron R. Luoma	MLA	Way	SB472 Th58437	Ecological and cultural landscape preservation: an appliqué quilt of Allentown, Washington.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2009	Aron Desmond Johnson	MArch	Merlino	NA25 Th59928	Seattle's Food Insecurity: Reinvigorating King County's Historic Agricultural Landscapes with a 21st Century Paradigm.
	Amanda Rose Lewkowicz	MArch	Iarocci	NA25 Th5923	The Architecture of Protest: A Dispersed Monument for the World Trade Organization Protests in Seattle.
	Jessica L. Miller	MArch	Merlino	NA25 Th60298	RepairLab: Empowering a Culture of Adaptive Reuse in Pioneer Square's Sinking Ship.
	Jie A.J. Yang	MUP	Abramson	NA9000 Th60088	Beyond New Heaven and Earth: Historic City-Center Redevelopment in Qingdao, China.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2010	Cecelia Gunn	MUP	Chalana	not in library	Protecting Seattle's Auto Row: Next Steps for the Pike Pine Conservation District [professional project].
	Emily Davis Slotnick	MUP	Chalana	not in library	Impact Mitigation of Commercial District Streetscape Revitalization Projects [professional project].
	Stephanie Weeks	MArch	Iarocci	NA25 Th61631	Puncture, Peel, Wrap: Preservation and the Performing Arts on Ballard's Industrial Waterfront.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2011	Jennifer LaBerge	MArch	Iarocci		Sense[ability]: A Multi-Layered Design Approach to B. F. Day Elementary.
	Kelly Laleman	MS Arch	Iarocci		Lost Lake Park: Perceiving Site History through a Recreation Landscape on Lake Union.
	Elisa Renouard	MS Arch	Cohan/Strauss		Socio-Cultural and Architectonic Continuity. Responsive Intervention for Genius Loci: Orte (VT) Italy.
	Jeana Wiser	MUP	Chalana		Seattle's Historic Unreinforced Masonry Buildings: Mapping, Developing Strategies and Policy Recommendations to Support a Seattle URM Program.
Year	Name	Degree	Chair	UW Libraries Catalog No.	Title
2012	Kathleen Kemezis	MS Arch	Ochsner		Not What Meets the Eye: Re-examining reconstruction in postwar Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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