Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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“¡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 ... -
Back to Basilica: A Triptych of Church Unbuilding
(2024-01-24)Christian churches have accumulated disproportionate real and symbolic capital in America. A result of an outdated truce between Church and State, Christian monuments, however underused, are a protected discourse—too sacred ... -
Becoming a Haenyeo-Architect, Making a Commons
(2022-04-01)What can an architect do to an imminent extinction of a culture? Through fieldwork, I documented traditional tools, architecture, land-seascapes, and rituals of Haenyeo in Jeju Island, South Korea, engaged with the community, ... -
Behind the Scenes: Pregnancy Portrait
(2023-01-05)The pregnancy portrait underlines the position of female reproductive bodies within a cultural moment, creating identity, agency, and capital. Social and cinematic mediums animate the pregnancy portrait, showing the pregnant ... -
Being a Good Relative: Following Mni into the Future
(2023-10-10)This thesis engages with the challenges and disciplinary discourse of collaborative design with Indigenous people who are working to heal their homelands both ecologically and spiritually. The design project is located at ... -
Between A Kid And Nature
(2021-05-24)Over the past several decades, Taiwan is undergoing the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy. Industrial pollution, excess consumption, and excessive belief and reliance on technology and construction ... -
Between Skin and Bone: Constructing Air-Scape for Modernist Heritage
(2023-10-23)At first glance, the curtain wall seems like the ultimate solution for facade construction. As driven by economic considerations, it is natural to compress the thickness of the facade to maximize the floor area. The thinness ... -
Beyond Artifact: Reframing the Chilean Desert
(2022-01-03)This thesis explores design as a mode to challenge dominant cultural narratives of the Atacama Desert in Chile. The project reframes an understanding of life in the desert through alternate knowledge systems specific to ... -
Beyond Nature: Envisioning New Alaskan Supernatural Geothermal Landscapes
(2023-05-19)This thesis examines the impacts of a "supernatural landscape" on public awareness and political action toward climate change and clean energy. A supernatural landscape refers to landscapes where specific natural characteristics ... -
Big Roof, Little Roof
(2021-05-21)Towards the end of the 19th century, American architecture came into its own. The houses of the briefly ascendent Shingle Style took full and unapologetic advantage of the Gilded Age’s gaudy romanticism. Shingles wrapped ... -
Big Tech's Emerging Roles in Local Housing Delivery: Two Case Studies of Corporate Affordable Housing Initiatives in United States Tech Hubs
(2022-05-18)This thesis consists of two case studies examining the development and implementation of Microsoft and Amazon’s recent corporate affordable housing initiatives. Between 2018 and 2021, in the wake of mounting public concerns ... -
Biking is Labor: App-Based Food Delivery Cyclists and Infrastructure as Justice in New York City
(2022-05-18)In New York City, app-based food delivery cyclists face exploitative labor conditions as independent contractors for the gig economy and dangerous streets as vulnerable road users. By defining biking as labor and street ... -
Biologically inspired compliant building façade systems with tunable heat transfer capabilities
(2023-02-06)Energy consumption for building thermoregulation is a major contributor to the environmental impact of our built environment. Building envelope systems that actively tune their heat transfer rate in response to environmental ... -
Black Landscapes of the Collective Memory: Urban Renewal Reparations for Lakeland
(2023-05-19)Urban renewal was a United States federal land redevelopment program whose primary purpose was to address urban decay and blight in cities by restoring economic vitality. However, the areas most affected tended to be ... -
Blankness (留白): Revisiting the Future of Nostalgia
(2023-01-05)In the era of “Make America Great Again” and other populist movements, an increasing demand for fictions of nativity has marked the global zeitgeist. In fear of racial, national, or cultural identity disappearance, we ... -
Blurred Lines: From Fragmentation to the Common on the Urban Coastal Edges
(2021-05-20)Landscape architects often regard sea level rise on urban coastal edges as solely an environmental issue, relying on the design of edges and lines to fortify the coast. However, this thesis believes that climate adaptation ... -
BODIES OF EARTH: Abduction - Death - Grief - Rebirth
(2022-06-08)In the Acropolis, the past and the future converge. The marble that produced the citadel monuments altered our future and drained the mountain stone. Here, our cultural artifacts are evidence of our destructive relations ... -
Body-ody-ody: A Formal Redress of Harlem
Ornamentation (architectural decoration) is a deliberate act of shifting perspective, envisioning possibilities that recognize contingency. Formalism (embodied ornamentation enabled by today’s technology) gives architecture ... -
Body-ody-ody: A Formal Redress of Harlem
(2024-01-24)Ornamentation (architectural decoration) is a deliberate act of shifting perspective, envisioning possibilities that recognize contingency. Formalism (embodied ornamentation enabled by today’s technology) gives architecture ... -
Boston South Station: Re-imagining Mobility through the Mobile-Eye
(2023-01-05)A top-down design process using projection lines on a flattened surface has been a dominant design technique for us, as we commonly witness in our daily lives of studios and practices or in written disciplines. However, ...