Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Degendering Suburbia: Speculations on a New Dream
(2023-01-05)Made specifically for the white American nuclear family, the 1950s suburban tract house embeds gendered notions of space and excludes anyone not representative of the mold. The midcentury American dream was spatialized in ... -
Design in the Convívio: Making Space for Landscape in Self-Built Communities
(2021-05-19)This thesis examines the roles in which a landscape architect can operate respectfully within dense, self-constructed communities. Piloting a design process within the context of the “convívio” -- a socially rich but ... -
Design Practice / Practice design
(2024-02-28)The strategy, mission, and organization of architecture firms – here loosely defined as organizations that produce designs – have profound impacts on the outcome of the built environment. Because contemporary building ... -
Designing Green Walls: An Early-Design Framework to Estimate the Cooling Impact of Indirect Green Walls on Buildings in Six Different Climates
(2018-03-20)Green walls are a component of urban green infrastructure and if designed properly, require only moderate human intervention and maintenance during their lifespans (Cameron, Taylor, & Emmett, 2014). The benefits of green ... -
Designing the Middle Scale: Post-Industrial Cities as Living Hubs
(2022-05-18)Urban shrinkage has been a topic that shadows many cities not only in the US, but also around the globe for years, and post-industrial as a typology specifically stimulates interest for this thesis. For the industrial ... -
Digital Starlight Memorial: An Online Memorial System with Tangible Interactive Interface
(2022-06-08)The Internet has created countless possibilities for commemorations dedicated to tragic or catastrophic events and for exercising collective memory, which has not only gradually hidden our physical bodies but is also ... -
Dissolving Urbanism: Trans-scalar Spatial Framework for Water Integration
(2023-05-17)This thesis research investigates a spatial framework to effectively address urban water management in Chennai, a city facing extreme hydrological events and climate change-induced challenges. Given the inadequacies of ... -
Divided we drown: Segregation and climate resilience in Metro Manila
(2023-05-17)In a flood-prone megacity like Metro Manila, how does urban segregation impact a city’s ability to prevent, mitigate, endure, and recover from climate-related disasters? In this thesis, I combine urban form analysis with ... -
DMV / RCP : Inside the Agency
(2023-01-05)The Department of Motor Vehicles is a state agency full of contradictions: originally established for the purpose of abating the public nuisance of speeding drivers, the agency is now imprinted upon the cultural imaginary ... -
Domesticated Exterior
(2023-01-05)Human intention of domesticating nature has never stopped, projecting an anthropocentric imagination onto their surrounding, shaping the land and non-humans living in it to their own advantage. The architecture of domestication ... -
Dot as Architecture
(2023-05-23)This thesis project investigates the role of a Dot, first by defining the Dot within Architecture and second by situating the Dot within the contemporary city as a new proposal of nonfigurative architecture. Introducing ... -
Dung, Death, and Disease: Livestock and Capitalist Urbanization from the early Nineteenth Century to the Present
(2021-02-10)Nonhuman animals are a key parameter for processes of urbanization, but have been marginalized in both mainstream and critical frameworks of urban theory and design. This dissertation critically analyzes this proposition ... -
Dwellings, Paths, Places: Configurative Habitat in Casablanca, Morocco
(2023-05-17)The Modernist project in Casablanca resulted in unique urban and architectural interventions in a quasi-forgotten city. In particular, distinct typo-morphologies such as Michel Ecochard’s Carrières-Centrale housing development ... -
Early Phase Performance Driven Design Assistance Using Generative Models
(2022-09-21)Form-finding in the current performance-driven design methodology of architectural design is typically formulated as a design optimization problem. Although effective in engineering or late-stage design problems, optimization ... -
edit architecture*
(2023-01-06)Editing just one detail can alter the entire structure of a concept. This thesis explores architecturally editing existing buildings to challenge their conceptual framework. The global construction boom of the past fifty ... -
Eggs Frying, Sweeping: A Series of Reprojective Footnotes
(2023-05-24)In her fantastical children’s book Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold writes from the perspective of an eight-year-old girl named Cassie Louise Lightfoot. Cassie could fly, and anything she flew over she could claim and own forever. ... -
Embedding Transience in Permanence: The School Pandemically Reconsidered
(2021-01-25)The greatest catastrophic threat cities face today is not nuclear weapons but viruses. The intention of the project is to rethink the way cities can be prepared for future pandemic crisis in terms of architecture. Fusing ... -
Emerging Consumer Cities - Mixed land use, amenities and housing prices in Shanghai
(2018-11-08)This research quantitatively studies how mixed land-use planning impacts the housing prices in Shanghai. To answer the question, I collected data and constructed a database on housing price and land use to measure the ... -
Enactive Genesis: Toward Generative Architecture with Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence
(2021-06-09)Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are gaining increasing popularity in the domain of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. However, most of recent generative design workflows using image-based AI ... -
Encountering the Enigma: A Transformation of the Fulton Fish Market
(2021-05-20)With our increasingly advanced tools, we seem to be able to grasp the architectural object more exhaustively than ever in the most precise dimensions and countless components. However, this technical knowing does not give ...