College of Design
In 2016, the College of Architecture was renamed the College of Design. The College of Design use the design process to develop new technologies, anticipate the future of buildings and environments, and change the way people experience art, things and their immediate surroundings.
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Sub-communities within this community
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Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) [117]
CATEA supports individuals with disabilities of any age within the State of Georgia -
Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) [95]
CQGRD produces, disseminates, and helps implement new ideas and technologies that improve the theory and practice of quality growth. -
College of Architecture Dean's Symposium [7]
The Dean’s Symposium series is an annual event jointly sponsored by the College of Architecture and its Alumni Committee -
School of Music [64]
Among the oldest traditions of the Institute, the School of Music began when a group of fourteen students formed the Georgia Tech Band in 1908. Now, in addition to its unparalleled dedication to traditional performing arts, ...
Collections in this community
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Architecture Centennial Lecture Series [14]
A series of lectures and events celebrating 100 years of architectural education at Georgia Tech. -
Building Construction Apartment Industry Lecture Series [9]
An overview of the emerging building construction apartment industry -
College of Architecture Annual Reports [9]
Annual reports of the College of Architecture. -
College of Architecture Books [1]
Books published by students and faculty of the College of Architecture -
College of Architecture Brochures [2]
Descriptive brochures about the programs and degrees offered by the College of Architecture. -
College of Architecture Faculty Publications [30]
Papers, Pre/Post-Prints, and Presentations by Faculty in the College of Architecture -
College of Architecture Fifth Year Student Research Papers [375]
School of Architecture. Georgia Instittute of Technology -
College of Architecture Newsletters [32]
Published college news. -
College of Architecture OSP Research Reports [152]
Research reports by faculty and researchers in the College of Architecture -
College of Architecture Theses and Dissertations [1204]
Original work by students of College of Architecture -
College of Architecture Undergraduate Projects [1518]
Original work by undergraduate students in the College of Architecture -
Design and Technology for Healthy Aging Initiative at Georgia Tech (DATHA) [21]
A multidisciplinary effort that brings together researchers, practitioners and service providers from Georgia Tech and the Atlanta area to identify, develop and implement new design and technologies for healthy aging -
Douglas C. Allen Annual Lecture [4]
Annual lecture in honor of Douglas C. Allen: teacher, colleague and leader of the College of Architecture -
Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon 2007 [1]
Documents related to Georgia Tech's entry in this international competition -
PhD Focus [8]
The newsletter of the College of Architecture's PhD Program. -
T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination [1]
A series of lectures in honor of celebrated Atlanta interior designer T. Gordon Little -
Urban Connections [4]
The newsletter of the Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Program.
Recent Submissions
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Smart Cities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-09-16)This panel explores the many facets of academic, professional and technology development interest in Smart Cities - places where the forces of changing demographics, culture, economics, infrastructure and information ... -
Technology‑Assisted Music Education
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Downtown Atlanta 2041: Autonomous Vehicles and A-Street Grids
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08)Downtown Atlanta 2041 is a speculative look 25 years into the future at the opportunities available to build on parking lots and create a walkable network of Class A streets and distinctive neighborhoods around Downtown’s many ... -
Parking policies for resurging cities: An Atlanta case study
(Geomrgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-01)Parking policies lie at the intersection of land use and transportation. Although often overlooked by traditional planning and engineering methods, parking can serve as an amplifier for an area’s success or failure. The ... -
The impact of occupant modeling on energy outcomes of building energy simulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-02)The reported performance gap between predicted and real building energy consumption has drawn keen attention from the building simulation community and related stakeholders. Alongside other research efforts to identify, ... -
LANDSCAPE ANTHROPOMETRICS: A MULTI-SCALE APPROACH TO INTEGRATING HEALTH INTO THE REGIONAL LANDSCAPE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-20)This research creates a consistent, scalable approach for incorporating health considerations into regional land planning. A prototypical framework is presented for the Atlanta region. Determinants of healthy places from ... -
Accuracy, validity and relevance of probabilistic building energy models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-02)Residential and commercial buildings consume 41% of total U.S. energy consumption. Since improving energy efficiency is still the most cost efficient energy saving option in the U.S., it is not surprising that many new ... -
APPLICATION OF INVERSE MODELING TO PERFORMANCE-BASED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN THE EARLY STAGE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-31)The architecture, engineering, and construction community is taking action to reduce energy consumption. Fulfilling energy performance requirements entails complex decision-making at the architectural design stage, when a ... -
Solar Shift: A Perspective on Building Energy Performance under Haze Pollutions in China
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-31)The severe haze pollution in China has arisen concerns among the public and government officials, due to its impacts on pubic health, visibility, climate and agriculture. To augment these findings of the negative impacts ... -
Power Performance Assessment of Building Energy Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-20)Buildings are the main consumers of electricity across the world. In the past research, the focus has been on evaluating the energy performance of buildings whereas the instantaneous power consumption of systems and ... -
Meta-modeling Design Expertise
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-23)The general problem that this research addresses is that despite the efforts of cognitive studies to describe and document the behavior of designers in action and the evolution of computer-aided design from conceptual ... -
Measuring the impacts of hospital nursing floor and patient room layouts on patients’ experience with care in a major teaching hospital
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-07-30)While a growing body of literature suggests that the layout of inpatient hospitals impacts a range of outcomes such as noise, falls and mortality, the research has not yet established systematic association between layout ... -
How modest, incremental site-driven interventions differ in their impact on slum upgrading from iconic projects
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-20)Urban informal settlements have increased dramatically over the last decades throughout major cities in developing countries. Post war industrialization, increased economic opportunities and social freedoms continue to ... -
A STUDY OF FABRICATION METHODS AND DESIGN OUTCOME ON STUDENT PERSPECTIVE IN AN ACADEMIC INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDIO
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)The construction of models is an important component in the innovation and final production phase of a design project. They are the key to testing a concept to identify and correct design or usability problems. Models at ... -
RETHINKING THE WORK SPACE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)The idea of the open plan workspace has been a popular model for office design since the 1960’s. The openness was thought to encourage collaboration and group thinking while also allowing for more supervision and a more ... -
Comparing and exploring new text entry and edit methods for Smart TV
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-11)Smart TV is becoming an increasingly important multimedia device for home entertainment now. One of the most important interaction between users and a smart TV is text entry and edit. For example a user may need to input ... -
Storage in Collaborative Networked Art
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009)This chapter outlines some of the challenges and opportunities associated with storage in networked art. Using comparative analyses of collaborative networked music as a starting point, this chapter explores how networked ... -
Transformative Energy: Energy Sources Integrated into Military Installation Design
(2016-05-04)Can a military installation create clean energy for itself? Although this is a great question, the reality is that with huge power demands, the piezoelectric systems that would be installed would only provide a small ... -
Jane Jacobs, Quantified: Exploring the Legacy of the 20th Century’s Most Provocative Urban Theorist
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05)This paper attempts to accomplish three goals: to estimate Jacobs’ impact on urban planning, to investigate the evidence for Jacobs’ theories, and to point out the questions raised by Jacobs’ work that have never been ... -
Mapping the Morphological History of Westside Savannah: History, Analysis, + Future Development Considerations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05)In order to fully comprehend how and why the western side of Savannah was able to change and move away from its original grid more so than the historic district, it is important to understand that urban form is organized ...
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