Community Equity Fund
Laura Lopez (MUP ’19), Daniel Padilla (MUP ’19), Eduardo Pelaez (MDes ’19) Due to its…
Projects
emPOWER Overtown
by Catherine McCandless (MUP ’19) and Naomi Woods (MDes ’19) Our project proposes a comprehensive solution…
The Woven Edge
by Elizabeth Savrann (MLA ’18) The project widens the river by exposing and repurposing an…
Atlas for a City-Region: Imagining the Post-Brexit Landscapes of the Irish Northwest
Centered on the northwest of Ireland, this eighteen-month long research project investigates how a…
Future of Streets
The Future of Streets (FoS) research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s City…
Urban Intermedia
“Urban Intermedia” argues that the complexity of contemporary urban societies and environments makes…
Diffusive Geometries: Vapor as a Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimates in Architectural Space
by Honghao Deng (MDes Tech ’18) An essential function of architecture is to…
Climate Dense[city]: Building TOD on Higher Ground in Allapattah
by Kenner Carmody (MDes ’19, Energy & Environments) This research aims to visualize the required…
Climatic Crime
by Cesar Castro (MUP/MDes ’19, Risk and Resilience) The aim of this analysis will be to…
Climate 2050 Justice Divestment Project
by Sam Matthew (MDes ’18) Inspired by the Million Dollar Block project, this project uses publicly…
The Vulnerability of Potable Water with Climate Change in Miami-Dade
by Pamela Cabrera (MDes ’19) The environmental exposure…
Climate Liminality: The Future Land-Water Interface
by Hayden White (MAUD ’18) This project proposes a tactic for the valorization of storm…
Death, Divorce, Down-sizing, Dislocation, and (Now) Display: A Self-Storage Center for a More Exhibitionist Future
By Hyojin Kwon (MArch ’18), winner of the 2018 James Templeton Kelley Prize. Kwon’s thesis…
Manila Port: Gateway to the New Urban District
by Chengzhe Zhang (MLA ’19), Chenghao Lyu (MAUD ’18), Chi-Hsuan Wang (MArch ’19) In order to transform the…
Pasig River: Fluid Occupancies
by Emmanuel Coloma (MLA ’18), Rose Lee (MLA ’18), Luisa Piñeros Sánchez (MArch ’19) A place of extremes,…
Intramuros: Redefining Restoration
by Zheng Alan Cong (MLA ’19), Peilin Li (MLA ’20), Paris Nelson (’19), Bailun Zhang (MLA ’19) The identity…
Flashback
by Youngjin Song (MDes ’17) and Dohyun Lee (MArch ’20) Flashback is…
L’Enfant’s Latency: Camping the Anacostia
by Greta Ruedisueli (MLA ’18) On the one hand, there are the highly regulated, pristine,…
Reimagining Hamburg’s Skyline, a Trades Guild in the HafenCity
by Ece Comert (MArch ’18), Benjamin Hayes (MArch ’19), with contributions from Oorvi Sharma (MArch ’18)…
In Between Pitched Roof and Modernist Slab
by Francisco Ramos (MArch ’19) This project is an essay on urban morphology, architectural typology,…
Critical Intervention: Alternatives to Preservation in Mexico
by Enrique Aureng Silva (MDes ’18) Historic buildings are the physical signs of the past.
The Half City
by Gina Ciancone (MArch, MUP ’18), Rodrigo Solé (MUP ’18) Our project uses crisis as…
Under One Roof
by Stacy Passmore (MLA ’18) In the fall of 2017, Hurricane Irma and Maria caused…
Temple of Decision
by Jungchan Yee (MArch ’19) A Greek Revivalist garden temple, built in the 1950s, sits…
Water Assemblage: A new politic for the Mekong River Collective
by Tam Banh (MArch, MLA ’18) “The point . . . is…
Ungrid
by Boxiang Yu (MLA, MLAUD ’19) “If there is to be a ‘New Urbanism’, it…
Excavated Extrusions
by Huma Sahin (MArch ’19) A patio design investigating the elasticity of the Spanish American…
Hyperbolic Embrace: Film Studio
by Brayton Gregory (MArch ’21) Using the geometric capabilities of hyperbolic parabolas, there was a…
Tectonic Construction by Andreea Vasile Hoxha
by Andreea Vasile Hoxha (MLA ’20) Landscape deeply engages with the materiality of the site, where…
Tectonic Construction by Xingyue Huang
by Xingyue Huang (MLA ’20) This project is based upon a score of the temporal…
Islands in Islands
by Eduardo Martínez-Mediero Rubio (MArch ’19) The studio investigated variations on the theme of island…
Form-Based Coding
by Evan Shieh (MAUD ’19) The proposed design methodology in this project examines form‐based code…
Anthropic Infrastructure
by Yoeun Chung (MAUD ’19), Luke Tan (MAUD ’19) Situated in Zhengzhou, China, this project…
Almost, But Not Quite, Entirely Unlike a Supermarket
by Shaina Kim (MArch ’18) This thesis proposes an architectural typology of the supermarket. By…
Offcut: A Museum in Los Angeles
by Morgan Starkey (MArch ’19), Alexandru Vilcu (MArch ’19) Interrogating the role of the architectural…
The Boston Auction House
by De Qian Huang (MArch ’21) This project investigates the nature of pretension in architecture,…
Cryosphere
by Keith Hartwig (MDes ’19) This project will reveal the entanglement of cold-producing technologies and…
Nested Twist
by Zhixin Lin (MArch ’20), Yina Moore (MArch ’19) Nested Twist is an exploration on…
Adaptive Bipartite Staircase
by Ian Miley (MArch ’20), Peteris Lazovskis (MArch ’20) These logical investigations of modeling will…
Making a New City Image . . . or, An Eye for AI
by Brian Ho (MDE ’18) Making a New City Image explores the machine-mediated perception of urban…