Climate Dense[city]: Building TOD on Higher Ground in Allapattah
by Kenner Carmody (MDes ’19, Energy & Environments) This research aims to visualize the required…
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.
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) —…
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…
What can the utopian communities of the 60s teach today’s designers about co-living?
Wind blows hard over the bluff as huge waves roll in from the horizon, crashing…
$2000 Home: Cocreating in the Bengal Delta
The Bengal Delta is defined by the fluidity and chemistry of land and…