Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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I Want to Live Together: I Want to Hear You Even as Extinction Tears You Away
(2021-05-26)This project is an attempt to grapple with how to live in a time of increasing extinction and loss. How should we go on? Knowing everything we know about how implicated we are in the unraveling of lives? The project ... -
Identities of Past and Present: Conservation and its Consequences
(2022-05-25)This thesis explores the concept of “Radical Indigenism,” outlined by Julia Watson, as a critique of traditional notions of cultural heritage and preservation in landscape architecture. To investigate this concept, the ... -
"If I see another palm tree, I will have a conniption!": Re-presenting Hospitality Landscapes in Jamaica
(2024-05-16)...Indeed, almost from the inception of tourism industries on the islands, hoteliers, colonial administrators, and local white mercantile elites (re)created or tropicalized many aspects of the islands precisely in the image ... -
If You Build It, Will They Innovate? Investigating the Design and Operation of Higher Education Innovation Centers
(2021-06-09)This dissertation examines how design teams have created and users have occupied spaces intended to support interdisciplinary collaboration, connections to the community, and innovation activity on higher education academic ... -
Incognito: Sensorial Interpretations of Covert Physiological Signals for Therapeutic Mediation
(2021-05-18)As our demand for technologies that mediate our environment continues to rise, our day-to-day activities have been increasingly overloaded with devices that collect our physiological signals. Our phones, watches, and jewelry ... -
Informed Residential Retrofits through THERO (Thermal Resiliency Evaluation using OpenStudio-HPXML)
(2023-05-16)Of roughly 111 million buildings in the US, 90% of the buildings are single-family homes. Therefore, residential building stock in the US consumes higher energy than commercial stock. The National Renewable Energy ... -
Insurgent Geology: Mineral matters in the arctic
(2024-05-16)“Insurgent Geology” is about oil, fossils, power, and people. It is about blowing up pipelines and taking care of the soil. Shifting from deep time to speculative near future, it calls for both insurrection and geo-poetics ... -
Integrated Shelter Units
(2023-01-05)Shelter is a basic human need, yet in many large cities, access to shelter is dependent primarily on the ability to afford it and public spaces are mostly confined to streets, sidewalks and parks, creating a vulnerable and ... -
Inter-Infra: On Data centers and Infrastructure
(2023-05-17)Data centers stand as material structures of the digital world. Given the permeance and expanding necessity of digitalization, this thesis examines the notions of data centers as infrastructure and the contemplations ... -
Interlacing Latent Features: Synthesis of Past and Present in Architectural Design through Artificial Intelligence in a Case Study of Japanese Houses
(2024-04-08)Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have shown great promise for expanding the conventional limits of human perception, thereby augmenting the architect's imagination and design agency. This thesis extrapolates global ... -
Intermission
(2022-02-17)Nine spaces: A billboard, a stretch of scaffolding, a stretch of caulk, a street shrine, a car park, a water tank, a missing brick, a pedestrian bridge, a pocket watch. Each: An intermission in the urban fabric. An ... -
Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation
(2021-05-18)Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape—one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Today, especially within the design ... -
Investigations in Metropolitan Form: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the American City
(2021-01-20)This thesis challenges the discipline of architecture to reassert its agency at the scale of the city, the region, and the territory. Using Austin, Texas and Richmond, Virginia as case studies, it proposes a transformation ... -
Investing in the Rural: Regional Opportunities for More Equitable Development Through Restructured Agriculture Supply-Demand Chains
(2022-06-08)Today in India, small and marginal farmers (SMFs) in rural areas are exploited by skewed development which favors large corporate farmers which are directly linked to accelerating urban development. SMFs continue to be ... -
Islands of Elegy: Dispersing the Urban Cemetery
(2022-05-18)Islands of Elegy proposes a new kind of cemetery, one that brings death closer to us and resists the stagnation of memory. This new cemetery—the “microcemetery”— manifests as several small sanctuary spaces embedded in ... -
John Andrews's Laconic Legacy
(2021-05-20)John Hamilton Andrews (1933–) is the quintessential knockabout Australian; terse and straight-forward, his affable personality won him the respect of his American peers and mentors, but his laconic sensibility would ... -
ke kai momona: sustaining Kānaka Maoli identity through limu cultivation
(2023-05-17)The project explores cultural and ecological sovereignty through limu cultivation in Hawai‘i. Limu (seaweed) was a central component of the traditional Native Hawaiian diet and the personification of ea (sovereignty) in ... -
Kreat.Kreat...Taktak-Toktok: Between the Gaps of Conservation
(2023-05-17)We often hear the question, what is conservation?, but rarely do we ask, when is conservation? This subtle shift redefines conservation as a series of experiences through space and time. It moves it away from the typical ... -
LA LUCHA CONTINUA: CONFLICTING CONSTITUTIONALISM AND TERRITORIALITIES OF COMPETING SOVEREIGNTIES IN THE CARIBBEAN
(2022-06-08)Today, academic frameworks regarding classical notions of sovereignty are being challenged by empirical perspectives emerging from different parts across America. Ongoing debates are currently focusing on illiberal forms ... -
Labored Form: Domestic Fold
(2021-01-20)Las Vegas is a city of duplicates; it appears at first only complicated. Buildings on The Strip duplicate neighboring buildings, implicate antecedent versions of themselves, and replicate other cities. The multiplication ...