Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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to cast a line in the san jacinto river
(2021-05-19)This thesis addresses agency of the body, of space, and of marginalized lifeways for subsistence fishers near Houston, Texas. It does so through a feminist approach that centers processes of change, instability, and emergence ... -
Toward a Resilient Architecture
(2021-05-24)Today, sustainability is recognized as a technical problem and is relegated to engineers. However, the issue of environment and design are so interdependent that one can shape the other. Therefore, Architects need to get ... -
Tracing Architectural Authorship through the Archive of Indian Modernist Achyut Kanvinde
(2021-05-21)Independence from British rule for several colonies was not just a political and ideological phenomenon, but also spatially articulated through modernism. In India, the adoption of the International style was symbolic of ... -
Tracing Narratives: the Mauritian-Chagossian Sovereignty Dispute
(2023-05-16)In a treaty for Mauritius to gain independence from the United Kingdom in 1968, the island was to relinquish one of its own, the Chagos Archipelago. From then on, Chagossians were evicted from their homes to make space for ... -
Transit-Oriented Development or Development-Oriented Transit: Measuring the Effect of Proximity to LA Metro Rail on Residential Construction
(2022-05-18)The expansion of Los Angeles Metro’s rail network in recent decades presents a meaningful opportunity to understand how land use and transportation planning interact. This relationship is critically important to planning ... -
Transitive Gestures: Everyday Structures at Play
(2024-01-24)Transitive gestures describe the direct linkage between a space as outcome and the action as process through a physical form. In the case of mining, a mine prop not only mechanically supports the space of a mine, but also ... -
Traversing the Monumental and the Vernacular
(2022-04-01)Instead of activating culture, the museums exist in Hanoi, Vietnam as a political tool that propagates the Communist Party’s ideals. Most major museums, which are dressed in cavernous and colossal architecture, are politically ... -
Two strip mall plazas Edison, New Jersey
(2024-05-16)Through a suburban counter-ethnobotany, this project examines how plant and human migrations land in two strip mall plazas in Edison, New Jersey. Edison became home to large communities of immigrants from East and South Asia ... -
Un Folklore Vitivinicola: Exploring Relationships between Indigeneity and Coloniality through High-Altitude Viticulture in Northwest Argentina
(2024-05-19)Traversing the high-altitude landscapes of Northwest Argentina’s Calchaquí Valleys, Salta’s Ruta del Vino weaves through a palimpsest of indigenous, colonial, and viticultural histories, forming a series of extensive ... -
Uncanny Nostalgia: Nine Homes of the Land Surveyor
(2022-02-02)Architecture is a desire where its origins are at once imagined but remain elusive. For Jacques Derrida, “the question of architecture is … the taking place in space. It invents something which didn’t exist beforehand and ... -
Uncommon Knowledge: Practices and Protocols for Environmental Information
(2023-05-19)The databases that landscapes architects rely on to design future-oriented infrastructure—the SHP files and CSVs that describe a site’s climate, plants, and soils—often involve inadvertently appeal to extractive forms of ... -
Understanding Design Responsibility in Human Health: A Case-Study Approach for Evaluating Sunlight Use in Chilean Public Housing and Its Lack of Design Variability
(2018-03-20)Given the importance of sunlight on human health and how the built environment influences human interaction with sunlight, does the design of public housing in Chile address the country’s large geographic variation in order ... -
Unpaving Paradise : Envisioning a Healthy Hialeah
(2021-05-18)Hialeah is a city of “unhealthy” urban character in terms of green coverage, economic opportunity, and medical care; however, its strong sense of community and interpersonal “weak ties” could help overcome these characteristics ... -
Upon Concrete: Retrofitting Architecture with Malleability
(2022-04-01)Throughout history, architecture has evolved and advanced in parallel with the technical development of reinforcements. With the innovations of processing and shaping smelted metals and the development of reinforced concrete ... -
Urban sea(m): Repairing the coastal edge of Veracruz
(2023-05-17)This project analyzes the waterfront of Veracruz, the first European-founded settlement in the continental Americas. Its geographic location by the water and proximity to the geopolitical center of Mexico have long defined ... -
Urban Symbiosis
(2023-01-05)How can architecture redefine our current relationship with waste while offering a new way of coexisting within nature? For many, one’s experience with waste is minimal or even hidden. Once thrown, waste is rendered ... -
Urbanism and Autonomy
(2021-06-09)This dissertation introduces urbanism to the discourse on autonomy within design. Autonomy is a critical method in design, engaging the social, economic, political, racial, gender, or environmental tensions derived from ... -
Vertical Publics: Landscape Transformation of Vacant Office Towers
(2024-05-16)Vertical Publics explores the potential for reimagining vacant modernist urban office towers through transformative public space interventions. It challenges the conventional use, access, and ownership by blurring the ... -
“Vieques es Nuestra Casa": Ecological Reparation through Embodied Action
(2022-05-25)This thesis is set on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, a territory subjected to US Navy occupation and decades of munitions testing. To counter the alienation and destruction imposed by military exploitation, this project ... -
VOLUNTARY ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM: The Work from Home (WFH) Trend Presenting a Win-Win Opportunity for the Triple Bottom Line
(2021-11-15)The global pandemic COVID-19 has led to an advanced exploration of the remote world, with many employees and employers wanting to continue with the current work-from-home scenario even after offices reopen. Consequently, ...