Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch '16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…
Projects
Te Vas o Te Quedas? Variations in the Explanations for Housing Abandonment in Tijuana, México
by Francisco Lara-García (MUP '16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize, awarded by the faculty of the Department…
Towards Sentience: Attuning the Los Angeles River’s Fluvial Morphology
by Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes '16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis incorporates the…
OBJECTHOOD — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design
by Liang Wang (MAUD '17) and Lu Zhang (MAUD '17) — Recipient of the 2016 Clifford Wong Prize…
CITY HALLucination: The Arching Attitudes of City Halls from Surface to Type
by Trax Yinan Wang (MAUD '16) — Recipient of the 2016 Thesis Prize This thesis aims to…
From Terroir to Territory: Vineyard Public Space
by Alexander Cassini (MLA I '16) The French concept of terroir claims that characteristics of place…
KAWAII-KOWAI Amplifying the Affective Loop
by Erin Cuevas (MArch II '16) The proposal in Tokyo addresses the duality between Kawaii…
The Littleton Trials
by David Kennedy (MDes '16), Jacob Mans (MDes '16), and Benjamin Peek (MDes '16)—Recipient of the…
Wildland-Urban Interfaces: Attitudes and Altitudes
by Oliver Curtis (MDes '17) This project explores the wildland-urban interface, “wilderburbs,” the growing borderland…
Hyperbolic Cosines: Recasting Form Finding to Induce Ventilation Performance
We explored the allometric potential of a funicular catenary form to both modulate interior climatic…
Living and Working in Phytoremediating Brownfield Sites, Creating Healthier Environments than Is the Norm in Urban Conditions
by Jane Philbrick (MDes CC '16) Phytoremediation, a remedial technique using living plant…
Show/Flow
by Andrew Keating (MArch '17 ) and Scott Smith (MArch '17 ) This project hybridizes…
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2016
The national housing market has now regained enough momentum to provide an engine of growth…
A Slight yet Reliable Breeze
by Aaron Mendonca (MDes '17), Sarah Kantrowitz (MArch '17), and Jerónimo van Schendel Erice (MArch…
Root
by Adria Boynton (MDes '16) The city of Miami Beach experiences frequent flooding events due…
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines the policies, practices,…
Franklin Park, Urban Forest
by Diana Jih (MLA '18) Detail Model Detail plan Overall model…
Power and Place: Seattle
by Arthur Leung (MDes '17), Boya Guo (MDes '17), Hao Ding (MDes '17), Mina Kim…
Coupling Thermal Mass & Buoyancy for Thermoregulation and Ventilation in India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes '16) This thesis explores how the form and mass of a…
Archiverse
by Jacob Hamman (MDes Tech '16) Archiverse is a new digital design platform for architectural and…
Charleston: Curating Exclusion
by Javier Ors-Ausin (MDes CC ’17), Dana McKinney (MArch/MUP ’17), Megan Mahala Echols (MUP ’16),…
Abductive Architecture
by Alexander Timmer (MArch '16) Inference or logical reasoning in the design, representation, and dissemination…
Jakarta’s Orogeny: Inhabiting Java’s Volcanic
by Pedro Aparicio Llorente (MDes ULE ’16), recipient of the Gerald M. McCue Medal, and Namik…
Allometric Sake
by Amira Abdel-Rahman (MDes '17), Gabriel Muñoz Moreno (MDes '17), and Santiago Serna Gonzalez (MArch/MDes…
Information Tool on Urban Water Systems
The Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure has developed the Information Tool on Urban Water…
Collective Meta-Structures: Increasing Scales of Commercial Development
by B. Cannon Ivers (MLA 16’) and Mark Jongman-Sereno (MLA '17, MArch '17) Working within the…
The Phantom Projective
by Iman Fayyad (MArch '16) This thesis is an investigation of the production of form…
The Project on South Florida and Sea Level
South Florida and Sea Level: Adaptive Strategies for Green Infrastructure, Landscape Ecology, and Cultural Heritage…
Borders: Ocean as Platform
by B. Cannon Ivers (MLA '16) This speculative project examines the perceived borders between land, sky…
A Sustainable Future for Exuma: Environmental Management, Design, and Planning
This multi-year ecological planning project is a collaboration among the Government of The Bahamas, the…
Mexican Cities Initiative
The Mexican Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is an emerging…
Transforming Urban Transport—The Role of Political Leadership
Harvard University's Graduate School of Design is hosting Transforming Urban Transport—The Role of Political Leadership,…
The Epistemological Condition of the Magazine: Arquitecturas Bis and its Editorial Board (1974-1985)
by Alejandro Valdivieso (MDes HPD '16) Valdivieso's research, developed between Madrid (UPM) and Cambridge (Harvard), focuses…
Design for Recovery: Fieldwork in Nepal & Somalia
During January of 2016, a group of GSD students travelled to Nepal and Kenya, to…
RESHIM: Rethinking Social Housing in Mexico
RESHIM is a multifaceted project focused on two central research components: 1) report on…
Health and Places Initiative
Who We Are This project has had two phases. The first phase of the Health and…
Seaport: Surface + Edge Indeterminacy
by Diana Jih (MLA '18) Boston Seaport, existing pier section Serial section study, models, perspective…
Acupuncture: Renovation of Franklin Park
by Jiawen Chen (MLA '18) This studio, the first semester in the Landscape Core sequence,…
Musical Box: The Well-Tempered House and the Hollowed Column
by Daniel Quesada Lombo (MArch '17) The project reconfigures the horizontal patio house into a…
Sound by Time
by Andrea Carrillo (MDes ADPD '17) and Marielsa Castro (MDes ADPD '17) We conceive time as a continuum,…