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School of Visual Arts presents ten senior thesis interior design projects

Dezeen School Shows: a  community hub with commercial and residential programme spaces inspired by Haitian culture is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the School of Visual Arts .

Also included is a funeral centre with multi-functional spaces and botanical elements and an educational therapy centre inspired by the structure of fungi .

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Institution: School of Visual Arts School: BFA Interior Design: Built Environments Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee

School statement:

"The 2024 SVA Interior Design: Built Environments Senior Thesis offers an immersive and comprehensive exploration tailored for aspiring interior designers.

"This course addresses a diverse array of project types, enabling students to integrate multiple design disciplines and methodologies.

"Through this integration, students will craft sensitive and aesthetically engaging interpretations of our built environment, emphasising sustainability and ethical responsibility.

"By focusing on these core values, students will develop the skills to create spaces that are not only visually appealing but also environmentally conscious and socially responsible, preparing them to be leaders in the field of interior design."

Miss Tomato by Qian Jessie Wang

"Miss Tomato is a disruptive culinary landmark that not only redefines the world of ketchup but is also a multifaceted culinary destination that combines creativity, art and sustainability, located in the bustling Chelsea neighbourhood of New York City.

"It features a tomato rooftop farm, a ketchup factory, a ketchup retail store and a tomato-themed restaurant.

"In the design of the spatial structure, I skilfully borrowed the structural cross-section of a tomato, making the building itself resemble a giant, life-affirming tomato.

"The red tomato skin skylight dome in the atrium is like a ripe tomato glistening in the sunlight – the red sunlight adding a touch of vivid colour to the whole space.

"Miss Tomato brings a feast for the senses – here you can taste pure tomato sauce, discover endless food possibilities and embrace a new way of life."

Student: Qian Jessie Wang Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: qwang14[at]sva.edu

The Aqua-Riff by Xueyi Cyrus Wang

"The Aqua-Riff is a one-of-a-kind waterfront music venue dedicated to creating an ideal entertainment environment for music lovers, especially heavy metal maniacs and local musicians.

"It was transformed from an old and unused parking garage located on the edge of Jersey City, west coast of the Hudson River, through selective utilisation and demolition of the existing structure.

"The Aqua-Riff injects the raw energy of old-school heavy metal into the coastline of Jersey City and invigorates the tedious neighbourhood through its unconventional outlook."

Student: Xueyi Cyrus Wang Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: xwang55[at]sva.edu

Total Community by Meixi Xu

"Involving local communities in Harbin's urban cultural heritage conservation projects is seen as a critical component of successful historic preservation efforts.

"My thesis proposal not only preserves the historical and cultural heritage of the area, promoting the city's unique identity but also ushers in a modern lifestyle and facilities to the community and neighbourhood.

"The project strives to manifest the Total Community concept, where the cultural heritage is protected, preserved and revitalised in an intuitive and bonding environment."

Student: Meixi Xu Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: mxu1[at]3sva.edu

The Bridge by Charlotte Chuyan Zhou

"The vision for The Bridge is to design a versatile shared space that accommodates both the elderly and younger generations, facilitating meaningful connections between them.

"This is achieved through a dual-purpose approach: allocating time slots for each demographic, providing tailored activity spaces and strategically designing overlapping time periods to encourage intergenerational interactions.

"I seek to bridge the generational gap by creating a public space that serves as a conduit for the sharing of traditions, experiences and stories, ultimately reinforcing the bonds between different groups of people and ensuring the continuity of the cultural heritage."

Student: Charlotte Chuyan Zhou Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: czhou10[at]sva.edu

One Eighty Point by Annabella Vilchis

"Located in the heart of Williamsburg, New York, One Eighty Point stands as a beacon within younger communities, integrating expansive indoor and outdoor environments.

"Adjacent to NYCHA housing, this urban oasis features a vibrant sunken skatepark on the ground level, complemented by a free-roaming gathering space on its second level.

"Churches, with their sacred ambience, prescribe specific behavioural codes – likewise, libraries maintain an air of constraint, often associated with authority, and cafés meticulously monitor access, predominantly catering to paying patrons.

"The facility will allow for structured and unstructured interactions and experiences that will nurture and stimulate physical, emotional and mental growth for the next generation of great New Yorkers."

Student: Annabella Vilchis Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: avilchis[at]sva.edu

Re-Mind by Wenxi Vivian Liu

"This therapy centre means to adopt adaptive reuse of historic sites of the Smallpox Hospital, located on Roosevelt Island.

"I aim to transform this space into a sanctuary for modern mental wellbeing, offering a place to rejuvenate the mind, reduce stress, provide education and promote function.

"The design approach is to create a comprehensive, personalised experience with a special focus on 'magic mushroom' sessions through an environment that truly embraces nature.

"Its core design weaves a theme of illusion, with the texture of the façade growing out of the site's collapse by mimicking the structure of a fungus, creating a captivating effect of light and shadow."

Student: Wenxi Vivian Liu Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: wliu7[at]sva.edu

LI8N 88 by Yunfei Lisa Zhang

"My thesis project LI8N 88 aims to honour cultural heritage and serve as a community hub, drawing inspiration from the Chinese Lion Dance among other elements.

"My hometown is Shanghai, China, a bustling international metropolis that combines traditional elements with modern skyscrapers in its architecture.

"I hope to inject fresh vitality into the Chinatown community with my designs while preserving cultural heritage elements.

"The lion dance is a traditional Chinese performance featuring dancers that mimic a lion's movements, often accompanied by drumming and cymbals – it is believed to bring luck and prosperity during festivals and celebrations."

Student: Yunfei Lisa Zhang Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: yzhang82[at]sva.edu

Farewell Retreat Centre by Yuhan Judy Wang

"The Farewell Retreat Centre is a funeral centre primarily focusing on 'gathering' as its central theme, aiming to cultivate a deep sense of unity among individuals.

"It aims to redefine the traditional view of 'final death', from a feared inevitability to an occasion to celebrate the memory of the deceased.

"The initiative uses botanical elements to create a tranquil atmosphere, with multi-functional spaces to meet the varying needs of visitors."

Student: Yuhan Judy Wang Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: ywang190[at]sva.edu

Mache by Brianna Toussaint

"The word 'mache' is a homonym in Haitian Creole, which means 'to walk' and refers to a market.

"Mache is a home of social and cultural gathering that revitalises the community of Little Haiti by nestling vibrant and enticing courtyards between the buildings that make up the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.

"Mache ensures the increase in density to this historical neighbourhood block with both commercial and residential programme spaces, remaining true to the marketplace's origin and serving the community members as a haven of comfort and security to those who seek it."

Student: Brianna Toussaint Course: Senior Thesis Instructors: Gita Nandan and Anthony Lee Email: btoussaint[at]sva.edu

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Parsons School of Design MFA Interior Design Thesis

Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design | Thesis 2011

Focused design research on an aspect of the interior design field that is most significant to each individual student is the focus of graduate thesis. With the guidance of thesis faculty, research and investigation aim to advance the theoretical, technical, material and/or formal state of knowledge in the field of interior design. Thesis projects, which culminate in both a design proposal and a supportive written text, involve rigorous analytical thinking, critical questioning and coherent project development. These explorations synthesize some of the most important issues relevant to the field today. An acute understanding of environmental impact, human health, behavior and perception, social responsibility, historical precedent, theoretical understanding, material investigation and artistic methodologies are explored. Innovative methods and designs result in these first thesis projects.

20 Thesis topics related to Residential Design

A residence is one of the first projects any architecture student is asked to design as part of the curriculum , as a residence is one of the first examples of architecture we all see and so many of us are fortunate to live in. Residential projects may seem very easy to comprehend and design, but the various types of residences that are in use today and the different user groups they are targeted towards make it a vast topic, something that requires huge amounts of research to design. 

Choosing a residential project as a thesis topic in the final year of B.Arch. would be like coming full circle – applying all the knowledge you have gained in the last five years on the very first project typology you were taught to design.

So, here are 20 thesis topics related to residential typology that any architecture student can take up.

1. Mixed-Use Buildings | Residential Design

With the global pandemic forcing people to stay confined in their houses, the development of mixed-use buildings with residential, commercial and office spaces all in one place will help with similar circumstances in the future. A student would need to do extensive research on how to properly combine all different places and the purposes they serve to create a building that fulfils functionality and is also aesthetically pleasing. 

Mixed-use buildings as a thesis topic will help a student when they start working because of its huge potential as a future trend in architecture.

2. Vertical Housing

With the increasing population and declining availability of open land, vertical housing is one of the best solutions available to tackle the requirements of the current and future generations. Vertical housing is residential buildings where architects arrange spaces vertically instead of horizontally, to create more units in a smaller footprint. 

These buildings also contain community areas and green spaces interspersed with the residential units to encourage people to be more social and not stay confined in their high-rise apartments .  

Using this as a thesis topic will be extremely beneficial as there are high chances of designing similar projects when students start professionally practising after getting their degrees.

3. Community living | Residential Design

One of the first markers of human beings settling down and becoming civilized is when they started living in communities with individual houses and common spaces for gathering. Since then, human beings have always preferred to live in a society. 

Be it apartment complexes with high-rise buildings , or housing estates with horizontal, community living in urban areas are a topic that can be taken up as a thesis project related to residential use. Community living will help one understand how to design spaces that can be used by different people to live together in harmony.

4. Row Houses

Row houses are defined as a series of houses connected through common sidewalls. They are a great way to build individual houses in smaller areas and with lesser materials, making them cheaper. 

Row houses might already be in use in the  USA and European countries , but they have huge potential in third-world countries and in places like India where there is a space crunch issue, making them a good thesis topic under the residential typology.

5. Tiny Houses | Residential Design

These are houses that have a total area of less than 400 ft 2 or 37 m 2 and are a good alternative to traditional houses when the available open land is smaller than average. Tiny houses have a wide variety of design considerations and this leads to innovative spaces that are multifunctional and furniture that is multi-purpose. 

Compacting a whole house in an area that is less than 400 ft 2 is a challenge that will help thesis students in designing residential areas in the future, as the availability of free land is reducing every day.

6. Shipping Container Homes

20 ft or 40 ft steel containers that have been used to carry different types of goods in ships can be used as a readymade or prefabricated skeleton to build a house. These homes are a good way to re-purpose shipping containers that have been abandoned or thrown away and are easier and faster to build as the exterior structure is already available. 

The containers can be stacked vertically or horizontally to create everything from tiny houses to mansions. Shipping container homes are an intriguing and unique residential thesis topic for students.

Yurts are portable houses consisting of a latticework of wood or bamboo covered by a round tent and have been the traditional houses for many tribes in central Asia, especially in Mongolia. Yurts are a unique aspect of vernacular architecture that can be adapted in different climates around the world with the use of more modern materials like steel for the latticework and insulating fabrics for the tent. 

Yurts as a residential thesis topic will give students a different look in a sustainable and vernacular approach to designing. 

8. Earthships | Residential Design

Pioneered by architect Michael Reynolds, Earthships are a type of passive solar earth shelter that is built with both natural and up-cycled materials. These residential units are structures built on the principle that the six human needs of energy, garbage management, sewage treatment, shelter, clean water and food can be met through environmentally sustainable building design. 

Earthships are intended to be simple, “off-the-grid” homes with minimal dependence on fossil fuels and public utilities and can be constructed by people with little building knowledge. The scope of Earthships as self-sustainable and ecological single-family residences is huge and something that can be taken up by architecture students for their final year thesis.

9. Cob Houses

These are houses built of clay, sand and straw that are recyclable and non-polluting when demolished. Cob houses are inexpensive, energy-efficient houses suitable for hot climates that are also extremely durable and earthquake-resistant. 

Even though these types of houses have traditionally been user-built, an architect’s perspective will help in enhancing its ecological and sustainable features and lead to better planning and usability of spaces. Cob houses should be explored as a thesis topic in the residential typology.

10. Cave houses | Residential Design

Caves served as the very first human dwellings – they served as a shelter against natural calamities and wild animals. In recent years, cave dwellings have made a comeback, in the form of carving contemporary houses inside existing caves. These houses contain contemporary elements like doors and windows, modern electrical and bathroom fittings and also connections to public utilities and “off-the-grid” options for the same. 

Designing cave houses is a challenge because one has to carve out different rooms in accordance with the inside of the cave and major changes cannot be done to the structure of the cave. Cave houses provide the option to utilize existing natural shelter formations instead of disrupting green areas, and hence are a good residential topic for the thesis as they are becoming more popular.

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Interior Architecture Masters Theses

• Master of Arts (MA) in Adaptive Reuse, a one-year+ program

• Master of Design (MDes) in Interior Studies / Adaptive Reuse, a two-year+ program

• Master of Design (MDes) in Interior Studies / Exhibition + Narrative Environments, a two-year+ program

Both programs take an innovative and progressive approach to addressing design issues intrinsic to the reuse and transformation of existing structures. US News & World Report and Design Intelligence have both ranked RISD’s Interior Architecture programs among the top in the country.

Each MA candidate produces a final project that begins with a research component in the fall and evolves into a studio/design project in the spring. MDes candidates demonstrate competency through self-directed Degree Projects that include a seminar on theory, a research component and a studio component. Each DP focuses on the transformation of an existing structure of their choice in the city of Providence. All MA and MDes candidates also participate in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition , a large-scale public show held annually.

Graduate Program Director: Markus Berger

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Theses from 2024 2024

Revitalizing Decay , Owen Carey

RECLAIMED BY ROOTS , Dongyang Chen

A Living Storyscape , Vivian Combariza

Emotional Factory , Yukun Cui

Witnessing Timelessness: Revitalizing Heritage Tourism in the Ruins of Saudi Arabia , Reem Habis

City Sonatas , Duoduo Lin

Other Angles: Queer-ing Approaches to Museum Design , Gregory Mathieu

Homeward Bound: moving homes, moving home , Ella Nadeau

-ing: Heritage as a Verb , Eunji Park

Milpa: Cultivating Community Through Grid Remediation in México , Marianna Pasaret Molinar

Space Between: Navigating Openness , Torie Stotz

Making Room , Rachel Strompf

Celestella Resonance , Xuanren Wang

Echoes of Heights: Sustaining Tradition for Education and Community in the Tibetan Plateau , Junyue Wen

Recomposing Museums: Designing Rhythmic Experiences for Short Attention Spans in the Digital Age , Yujiang Wu

Gender Mirror: Giving women's perspective to men through exhibition , Jiaxuan Xu

Beyond Display: Crafting Emotional Journeys for Belonging and Connectivity , Jiamin Yang

Exploring the versatility of clay in double curvature surface formation , yicheng zhang

Bridge Between Calligraphy and Architect , Tianhao Zhong

忘年交 / A Friendship That Transcends Age , Zichen Zhou

Theses from 2023 2023

the people's food project , Grace Barrett

Kala in my Moholla - art in my neighborhood , Priyata Bosamia

Nature as Material, Time as Tool , Chuchu Chen

FROM VAULT TO PLATFORM （Democratizing Museums through the Lens of the Metaverse）） , Zhaoyang Cui

Intensifying the Experience of Contemporary Art , Wanjin Feng

Manifesto of Poor Images: Re-imagine Guggenheim in the Post-digital Age , Mengning He

Adding Subtraction: Wasting Time in Space , Daeun Kim

NEW CHAPTER , Gunju Kim

A Cloud Above , Jiwon Kim

Greening Seoul : A New Toolkit for Adaptive Reuse , Woojae Kim

A.R. Futuristic Scenario in Seun , Yookyung Lee

Eviction to Placement: Rethinking the current supportive housing systems for hidden homeless families , Fang-Min Liou

The Mobile Senior University , YOUSHURUI LI

making pla(y)ces: softening the city through play , Shivani Pinapotu

Interstice , Shravan Rao

Overlooked Modi Vivendi , Natalia Silva

Chinese tea ceremony spirit revival , Hongli Song

Nurturing Haven: A Safe Place for Single Mothers , Meng Su

A Day Stood Still , Yuting Sun

Imaginatorium for children with visual impairment , Xueyun Tang

Reconcile Liminality , Zefeng Wang

Illusion of Consumption, Architectural Rebellion: Unraveling the Maze of Consumption , Xinjie Xiang

Beyond Burial - Transforming Death: A New Ritual of Farewell and the Ecological Return of the Body to Nature , Chang Xie

Interactive Architecture - Intervention of Virtual Business on Commercial Space , Yihao George Xu

On the Power of Attainable Architecture Community Engagement and Interaction through Architecture: A New Approach to Architectural Exhibitions , Jianing Yang

Glowing Under the Bridge—A Healing Space for Wounded Souls , Ruier Zhao

Moving Narration: A journey through history , Yincheng Zhu

Finding Psychological Healing in College Settings , Dici Zou

Theses from 2022 2022

Notes in improvisation : Spatializing Black Identity through music , Esther Akintoye

Dying differently: designing a death-oriented psychedelic treatment center , Grace Caiazza

Blurred lines : Border crossing between Macau and Zhuhai , Weiwei Chen

Regenerative residences: shrinking stress levels in the sky , Peter de Lande Long

Adaptive reduce: forging architectural futures through degrowth , Erika Kane

Unfolding embodied experience: a process-driven immersive exhibition design model , Mooa Seongah Kang

Block Chain Home , Jonggun Lee

Last sunset : design to alleviate social isolation for Chinese elderly , Linghui Li

Rebuilding Collective effervescence : a "Ballroom" for post-pandemic revelry , Di Ma

Re:Connection: exercises in unplugging and mindfully reconnecting , E. J. Roseman

Dear City, give me some space; creating space for ephemeral forces in a city , Abinaya Sivaprakasam Thamilarasan

From invisible to visible: the third wave/way of intervention for Dashilar , Jiali Tian

Endless construction : occupant activism and authorship , Jiayi Wang

Beyond Spectacle : parametric design to life in space , Ding Xu

Design for designers : An incubator for young designers to grow , Jiajie Yang

The Cthulhu Journey : storytelling through an architectural immersive experience , Rui Zhang

Theses from 2021 2021

Posthuman ecologies , Christine Chang

Loneliness / Togetherness : Interiority and connection under isolation , Huaqin Chen

Space between memories: pause , Young Jae Cho

Cultural acupuncture: decentralization and deocratization in Chinese exhibition design , Ruohan Duan

Adaptive reuse as evidence of scientific progress: recontextualizing a space for growing knowledge , Kayci Gallagher

Reclaiming modern architecture: an urban visual narrative of Kuwait City , Yara Hadi

Unraveling the living: reframing cramped housing as a social living , Dong-zoo Han

Beyond pasta: understanding Italian American culinary culture in Federal Hill , Chufan He

Going back , Zhiyi Hilary He

Augmented city , Xing Huan

Woven healing: reimagining the rural health center , Mahasweta Jayachandran

Living · Sharing · Connecting : rebirth of Longchang Apartments Heritage Community , Linhong Jiang

Migrating architecture: vernacular futurism , Yichu Jiang

The second home: breaking the cycle of lonely death , Woohee Kim

Reinforcing connection within collective housing: a new vision of Red Steel City , Guangyi Niu

Ascents and descents in the 21st Century: restoring Chand Baori , Japneet Pahwa

Nossa quadra, nossa historia: the power of collaborative and communal outdoor spaces as a tool for belonging & agency , Rebecca Maria Pepl

Terminal: through the "windows" of a Tram Car Museum , Yuyi Si

Ritualizing of space in the 21st century: fostering of communal identity through celebration of Tamil culture , Mridula Swaminathan

Sensory refreshment: TCM reconsidered , Ni Tang

Remember me: how we can modify the home for people with dementia , Wenjin Wang

The retrieval of memory: holding time in the Shanghai gasometers , Liman Wei

Fostering cultural understanding: mirroring ways of living in Providence, RI, USA and Beijing, PRC , Jiarui Tina Wu

The future of Beijing urban courtyards , Zhuoqi Xu

Remembering Chinatown: a fusion of food, identity, & memory , Robert Yang

Overflowing boundaries: competition and mutualism in urban villages , Chen Zhang

Rural acupuncture: carefully introducing tourism within an underground village , Shangyun Zhou

Theses from 2020 2020

Lacunae in the urban landscape , Meriem Aiouna

Melting away - Ilha Formosa , Hao-Chun Chang

Behind appearance : hidden dimensions in the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee , Ning Ding

Realistic utopia : utopian architecture exhibition at Arcosanti , Xiao Fang

Contextualize , Jiaai He

Community pop-up galleries : the instruction manual , Mary Iorio

Living under surveillance , Fan Jia

Urban memory : Beijing City wall ruins reconstruction & exhibition , Yuan Jin

Dialogue across time : Atlanta, 1996 and 2020 , Qianyu Liu

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Top 24 Great Dissertation Topics On Interior Design

One of the most amazing things about the learning environment is the fact that you can always be asked to write a paper on anything. This is a good thing in the sense that it expands your thinking capacity over and above anything that you would ever have imagined. If you are to write a paper on interior design. The following are some good topics that you can work with:

• Discuss the benefits of using terracotta tiles together with woven rugs
• Explain some of the basics of interior design to a newbie
• Choose any topic in interior design and discuss how it has been influenced by contemporary design
• Discuss how interior design of a house affects the individual’s brain
• Provide a list of benefits in a discussion of how interior design is an impressive career choice
• Discuss how you would go about reworking on a retirement home
• Discuss the link between interior design and fashion, and how these two borrow ideas from one another
• Explain how the design of a building affects the mental health of those using it from time to time
• Cite 5 different benefits of using kitchen floor mats for design
• Discuss how furniture in the Greenbelt have been remodeled around careful interior design
• While giving a speech to young students, explain to them why there is so much more to interior design than theory
• Discuss how new designs have influenced trends all over the world
• Explain how office plants can help in improving the productivity and moral within the workplace
• Explain how to manage distractions within the workplace through good design
• Discuss how to make a house hot property through impressive design
• Barbarian Group, a creative agency in New York share one gigantic desk for all their 100 employees. Discuss the feasibility of this concept with respect to saving space
• Discuss the sweet rewards of an extreme makeover of the house
• Discuss the impact that reality TV shows have had on retail décor for homes
• Explain some low cost ideas that would come in handy for a complete makeover of the interior of a house
• Discuss the difference between an interior decorator and an interior designer
• Explain some of the qualifications for professional designers in the industry
• Citing relevant examples, advise a client on how long work on their house would take
• Discuss the concept of interior design on a tight budget
• Refute claims that interior design is only for the wealthy.

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Interior Design Guide to Research

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Books on Writing Theses

Books on writing about art, libraries' thesis guide.

The Pratt Libraries provide information on researching, formatting as well as submitting your MFA thesis.

Information on formatting & submiting your thesis can be located in two spots:

     The Pratt Libraries' Student Services Web page

     The Libraries' Thesis Submittal Guide

Title & Signature Pages

Theses submited to the Libraries need to be accompanied by both a Title page and Signatures page.

The Interior Design thesis requires two signatures:

     (1) Advisor 

     (2) Department Chair

Here are MFA Sample Title & Signatures pages

In our Graduate Thesis Submission Guide we also have a title page generator to help!

Thesis Writing Help

Pratt's Writing and Tutorial Center (WTC) is located in North Hall on the 1st floor.  The WTC offers Master's thesis preparation and editing assistance.  Call (718) 636-3459 to make an appointment to discuss thesis prepartation, or walk-in for editiorial assistance. 

Thesis Formatting Help

We're here to help! Don't hesitate to visit, call, IM or email the library staff at the Reference Desk for thesis formatting help, questions about citations, submission deadlines, etc..  

Contact the Reference Desk Staff in Brooklyn at:

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     Phone: (718) 636 – 3704 

     Email: [email protected] 

     Chat: IM with us via the Libraries' Homepage , available 9am-5pm Mon.- Fri.

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