Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 Semiotics and Solastalgia
(2024-06-20)This thesis explores the semiotic changes within the London borough of Hackney between 2011 and 2021 and their emotional impact on long-term residents. Analyzing three sites, the research highlights how semiotic transformations ... -
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, ... -
What Brings More People to Parks? Open Space Environment and Visitation in Tokyo
(2018-11-08)In dense urban settings, efficient use of land is a crucial issue. Especially, urban parks take a large amount of space in high land value areas. Creating an attractive park environment for current and future visitors has ... -
What is the huachicol-scape? —Navigating the multiple identities, landscapes, and architectures of an ecology of stolen gasoline
(2022-06-08)This project used Harvard Graduate School of Design tools and resources to treat fuel theft as an object of study through three frames: 1) politico-economic, 2) socio-environmental, and 3) historic-spatial. Following the ... -
Working in the Fun Palace: Revisiting Kinematics in the Smart Building
(2021-05-24)Archigram’s playful experiments in kinematic structures were an early precedent to the smart building systems we find commonplace today. Driving techno-utopian visions of moveable spaces in projects like Fun Palace and ... -
Yamanashi Now: From Iconic Relic to Urban Incubator
(2023-01-05)In 1966, Kenzo Tange devised a powerful apparatus of disseminating mass media, Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Center. A concrete innovation and an urban fragment, the Yamanashi Building applied the joint-core system that ... -
YE DEJI ABEBA NEGN: Sonic Floral Imaginaries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2022-06-08)Ye Deji Abeba Negn: Sonic Floral Imaginaries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, illustrates and creates new sonics in Ethiopian floral imagination. Composed as a series of essays, graphic scores, and sound works, the thesis examines ...