Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Landscape architecture"
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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Camp Molasses
(2021-05-20)The traditional idea of the “camp” dates to the mid-late 19th century, where the idyll of nature was cast as a reprieve from a changing society where urban spaces were quickly transmuted by the fits and starts of industrial ... -
City | Forest: Reordering Plant-Human Relationships Towards Healthy Cities
(2021-05-18)Based in the belief that the quality of the urban landscape directly reflects the quality of its soil, I propose to utilize processes of beneficial disturbance to reorder the vegetative and soil regimes in the city’s public ... -
Climate Grief: Relearning the Future
(2023-05-17)Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, is eroding at an average rate of about one foot per year. People are grieving the losses, both past and future, of meaningful places embedded with memory. While the field of landscape ... -
Composing Soundscapes for Social Integration: Psychogeography of Bhutanese refugee elders in Worcester, Massachusetts
(2021-05-18)Sound can transcend the boundaries of time and space. This thesis leverages the potential of sound to capture a sense of place and reinterpret space by transplanting it to new environments. Working with the Bhutanese ... -
De Materia Perspectiva
(2021-05-24)“I inscribe a quadrangle ... which is considered to be an open window through which I see,” the artist and architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote in his 1425 treatise on perspective. This description surely reminds us of ... -
Deconstructing a Landscape Out-of-Place: the Afterlife of Rural Hollowing
(2022-10-13)This thesis explores declining villages in the process towards rural hollowing. Rural hollowing, this phenomenon exhibits increasingly in depopulating rural settlements, results from fading infrastructural services, ... -
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 ... -
Extracting Reparative Power: redistributing power in post-mining transition
(2023-05-17)This thesis explores landscape as a medium for ecological reparation in the energy transition by pairing renewable energy infrastructure with regenerative agriculture. The project's goal is to visualize the reorganization ...