Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Aging Within: A Catalog of Reinterpreted Traditional Courtyard Houses
(2021-05-21)This project is about challenging the traditional senior living community layout by building a system constructed with modular reinterpreted traditional courtyard houses to sustain a closely-knit senior living community. ... -
Alternative Rural Development in the Age of Internet: A Close Look at E-Commerce Village Typologies in Rural China
(2021-05-18)Taobao Village, a name created by Alibaba Group in 2009 to mark three Chinese villages heavily engaged in e-Commerce, has exceeded 5400 in number by 2020. The exponential growth of Taobao Village suggests that e-commerce ... -
An Analysis of Public Transportation and Residential Segregation
(2023-05-17)Segregation is a complex social phenomenon that occurs across various socio-spatial domains and operates on multiple levels. Past research indicates that segregated residential areas can lead to social and economic exclusion. ... -
An Attempt to Approach a Ceiling
(2021-05-27)“You sleep… with your eyes wide open. You count and you organize the cracks in the ceiling. The conjunction of shadows and stains, and the variation of adjustment and orientation of your gaze, produce effortlessly, slowly, ... -
An Attempt to Approach A Void, or Georges Perec, Cause Commune, and the Infraordinary
(2021-05-19)In February 1973, Jean Duvignaud, Paul Virilio, and Georges Perec introduced the infraordinary in the fifth issue of their small journal, Cause commune. The infraordinary subsequently became attributed mostly to Georges ... -
An Intrinsic Model for a Non-neutral, Plural National School
(2023-01-05)When Malaysia gained independence from the British in 1957, it took on a national architectural identity that was rooted in the language and neutrality of tropical modernism, which was deemed appropriate for the multi-ethnic ... -
An Invitation to Walk within Walls: A Salt Shed
(2023-05-24)Across New York City lie mountains of road salt brought to its shores from mines as far as Tarapacá, Chile. These migrant minerals spend most of their days in sheds across the five boroughs until they are dispersed atop ... -
Anticipatory Architecture
(2022-04-01)Contemporary architects are often excluded from the project of the city. Handed a plot of land and predetermined boundary conditions, architects lack the agency to shape the future development of the city. However, before ... -
Apartment Number:N/A
(2021-05-24)“The modern apartment, or that which is referred to as a studio or one-room apartment, is the material realization of a tendency toward cell formation, which can be recognized as the architectural and topological analogue ... -
Aqua Firma/Incognita/Communi
(2021-05-19)This thesis drifts into the ocean’s dark, turbulent depths to envision how urbanized seas erode landed geologics. Modernity has figured the ocean as an unknowable expanse opposed to land yet suffuse with extractable ... -
Architectural Arbitration: The Lore of Land, Law, and Home
(2021-05-18)Architects who appropriate ancient “primitive” forms and construction draw on a foundation of “indigeneity” that appears to overlap with, but fundamentally contradicts, the use of this concept by tribal nations. Architects ... -
Architectural Hybrids Shaped by the Times: Moments of Public Housing in the US
(2021-02-09)This dissertation questioned the tendency toward varied architectural forms in US housing projects, given that the function of the public housing program evolved over time. This work contributed to existing studies on ... -
Architecture of Thresholds: Discrete Liminality Between Spaces of Different Territorial Claims.
(2021-01-20)Boundaries define space. Thresholds define place. Through their crossing, they define both the place you have left and the place you are entering. They have the power to craft expectations and reverse existent hierarchies. ... -
Art for Kmart: A Very Long Opera House
(2024-01-24)The production of an opera is as much an act of world building as an act of music. The operatic interior expands outward, carried by its audience and practitioners into a blended universe consisting of opera's constructed ... -
As Found The Museum of Ordinary Forms in Los Angeles
(2021-05-25)In his series of paintings, Course of Empire, the artist Ed Ruscha narrates the perpetual flux of warehouses in Los Angeles. Pairs of canvases, the first created in 1992 and the second in 2005, show the rise and decline ... -
"As If!": Reimagining Suburban Forms through the Accessory Dwelling Unit
(2023-05-23)Featured in the New York Times article “The Next Affordable City is Already Too Expensive,” Spokane, WA finds itself in the throes of the national housing crisis. In response, this thesis proposes to design a series of ... -
At-Your-Service: Gas Station Futures in Post-Industrial USA
(2024-01-24)This thesis explores the unrealized potential of service stations in shaping environmental progress, social infrastructure, and food equity in America. Leveraging architecture to tackle challenges like food system design ... -
Au Milieu [Becoming/In Between] Spaces: Repurposing Protocol for Advocating Rights to the City
(2021-05-21)The study aims to identify and establish ways in which abandoned structures and buildings can be repurposed to generate the spatial places and infrastructures to meet existing and anticipated threats to free democratic ... -
Autocriticism: Architect-neurosis
(2023-05-23)Autocriticism challenges normative boundaries and meanings of ‘self’. This thesis reviews primitive self-perspectives that verge on singularity between environment and self, suggesting a certain reciprocity between ... -
“¡Azúcar!”: Fragments from a Land of Sugar
(2024-02-07)The sugarcane-processing factory, or central, has long played a pivotal role in Cuba’s history. For the Cuban people, the production of sugar is more than just an export commodity. Sugar, and by proxy the central—its spatial ...