Common Grounds: An Alternative Way of Living
by Parawee Wachirabuntoon (MLA I '19) and Charles Smith (MLAUD '19) This project looks to…
Topic Housing
The ongoing conversation about housing speculates on design’s capacity to address a range of disparate agendas and priorities. Investigations imagine housing as a central agent of change, responding to international, generational, cultural, demographic, psychological, and environmental issues in order to develop a more inclusive and sustainable engagement moving forward.
Facing the nation’s largest-ever infrastructure investment, GSD students ask: Who stands to benefit from a less car-centric LA?
There’s a movement underway in Los Angeles to rediscover public spaces, to reconsider the city’s…
Climate Dense[city]: Building TOD on Higher Ground in Allapattah
by Kenner Carmody (MDes '19, Energy & Environments) This research aims to visualize the required…
Radical geometry: With Haus Gables, Jennifer Bonner proposes a new urban typology
Photo credit: NAARO On the first day of the construction of Haus Gables–after 11 trucks…
A Giant Among Us
by Son Vu (MArch I '21) and Alex Yueyan Li (MArch I AP '21) It…
The House: The Waken Desire
The House: The Waken Desire critically examines the latent assumptions or incentives driving the contemporary…
Democratizing Tech: A Co-Operative for Overtown, Miami
Sidra Fatima (MUP '19) & Stefano Trevisan (MUP '19) Our project explored the all-too-familiar narrative…
Pattern-making is a tool for meaningful change in Toni L. Griffin’s pursuit of justice in American cities
About four miles from downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River, the neighborhood of Hazelwood suffers…
A Pattern Language: A user’s guide to the seminal architectural handbook
“A complex of buildings with no center is like a man without a head.” This…
The Detroit model: Kimberly Dowdell discusses strategies for revitalization
Cities like Detroit have become increasingly central to public dialogue about the nature and politics…