Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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100-Day Exhibition: Labor, Robots, and Corridors
(2021-05-21)This thesis proposes a weird, giant, and cycling memorial spectacle with the introduction of a new sort of labor in the format of a 100-day exhibition. The robotic machines replaced the enslaved persons to run a closed ... -
A Beijing Anecdote: Folly as Commentary for Social Values, Space and Time
(2023-05-17)“Social value posters + folly” is to Beijing what “Duck” is to Las Vegas. In the role-shifting era in Beijing, cultural revival creates a new focus on citizens’ mentality and engagement in everyday civic life. Public ... -
A Cenotaph For Many
(2023-05-23)Hart Island, located in the Bronx, New York City, is the only place to bury the bodies of the unclaimed or unidentified in the city. The next of kin of some individuals buried on Hart Island opted for public burial. Others ... -
A Comparative Framework for Building Life Cycle Embodied Carbon Emissions Databases and Its Application for Public Databases
(2022-06-08)Data availability and accuracy are some of the main obstacles to calculating the life-cycle embodied carbon emissions in buildings. There have been several studies to assess life cycle assessment (LCA) databases in the ... -
A Comprehensive Design and Policy Toolkit to Better Serve Survivors of Domestic Violence in New York City: Learning from Covid-19
(2021-01-28)The unprecedented crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought into the limelight what many have unfortunately already known to be true, that times of extreme change, urgency, and tension too often correlate to a rise in ... -
A Cultural Approach to Conserving Water: A Case Study on the Azraq Oasis
(2018-03-15)My dissertation aims to design a proposed solution by studying and better understanding the specific cultural related issues of water conservation. Water, a valuable element of life, has had and continues to have a ... -
A Living Room Is A House Is A School Is A Home Is A Home Front: Re-opening The Cambridge School
(2023-05-22)The Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (1915 - 1942) was a short-lived but significant experiment in architectural education. Over its 27-year lifespan, it produced over 800 graduates, more than ... -
A New Evangelical Church: Constructing Social Liturgies
(2023-01-05)This thesis imagines an American evangelical church architecture for the twenty-first century. Church architecture has long played an important role in the discipline as a type which ordered Christian worship and acted as ... -
A Polyphonic Archipelago along the Faulted California Coast
(2024-01-24)White Point projects off a peninsula that was once part of the Channel Island Archipelago. Descending from hill to sea within the San Andreas Rift, its 140 acres hold seemingly irreconcilable landscapes and uses. Traces ... -
A Pool in the City
(2022-04-01)American municipal pools exist in cities, often surrounded by car-centric spaces such as freeways, parking lots, big-box stores, and industrial sites. They have traditionally employed a typology of “maximum building, minimal ... -
A Renter's Right to Return: Deprivatizing Resilience In The California Context
(2022-06-08)Drawing from history, sociology, architecture, and disaster and housing planning and policy, this thesis seeks to address how disaster preparedness and recovery efforts in the United States have failed renter communities ... -
A School with Room for Queerness
(2023-01-05)The thesis is an exploration of what is experienced in the learning sphere from a queer perspective. Traditional schools in Japan have followed a very regimented plan, with linear corridors leading into highly standardized ... -
A Shell of a Good Time: A Design Framework for Oyster Sanctuaries and Playful Parks
(2024-01-24)Oysters play a crucial role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems through their ability to filter water and provide habitat for various species. The Billion Oyster Project, a New York-based initiative, has been working ... -
A Stadium Tower: Decongestion of congestion
(2021-05-27)STADIUM A stadium is a place where a flock of people get charged and discharged at a moment in time, before and after a game. To avoid congestion in the city, stadiums have been pushed away from the center and are located ... -
A Walk in the Grid
(2023-01-05)How could the design of a regional shopping center reconcile the loss of architectural scale in globalized brownfields? This thesis explores alternative arrangements of form and proportion in search of a new composition ... -
Adriatic Projects Revisited
(2022-06-08)The Adriatic Projects (1967-72) was a United Nations international exchange program in regional planning founded to transfer urban planning knowledge to Yugoslavia (1945-91). Established during the Cold War era in the ... -
Aesthetics of Extraction: Reconfiguring Images of Empire
(2021-05-19)The so-called “Company Paintings” or Kampani Kalam in Urdu and Hindi, developed in the Indian Subcontinent over the 18th and 19th centuries under the “patronage” of the East India Company as a result of British attempts ... -
After Bath: Crossing the Social Skin
(2022-02-02)Water is an immersive body, and bathing is a medium of not only physical but also psychical identification and connection, through the bodily proximity created between strangers. The thesis explores notions of body and ... -
Afterlife of the Grande Arche: Re-materializing Digital Artifacts
(2022-04-01)The thesis project envisions how architecture is being transformed and represented in a hyper-digital age. It is quite fascinating to me that today we have found numerous ways to digitally access and interact with architecture, ... -
Aggregate, Aggregation + Geotechnical Urbanism
(2021-05-18)Within the architectural engineering and construction industry we have developed diagrammatic representations and software translations of cultural patterns, extruded 2D cities, and built architecture of processed materials ...