Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ...