The Humanitarian Activist’s Handbook: Understanding the role of architects and planners in humanitarian crises
African refugees, who fled the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, stand outside tents in the…
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.
Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Samuel Bravo, “PROJECTLESS: on the emergence of a dwell”
This journey focuses on a portion of the human environment that has…
Common Grounds: An Alternative Way of Living
by Parawee Wachirabuntoon (MLA I ’19) and Charles Smith (MLAUD ’19) This project looks to…
Facing the nation’s largest-ever infrastructure investment, GSD students ask: Who stands to benefit from a less car-centric LA?
UPDATE, 10/18/19: The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has awarded the project Mobility As Equality:…
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) —…
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…