College of Design (CoD)
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 Design 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 Design Annual Reports [9]
Annual reports of the College of Architecture. -
College of Design Books [1]
Books published by students and faculty of the College of Architecture -
College of Design Brochures [2]
Descriptive brochures about the programs and degrees offered by the College of Architecture. -
College of Design Faculty Publications [30]
Papers, Pre/Post-Prints, and Presentations by Faculty in the College of Architecture -
College of Design Fifth Year Student Research Papers [375]
School of Architecture. Georgia Instittute of Technology -
College of Design Newsletters [32]
Published college news. -
College of Design OSP Research Reports [152]
Research reports by faculty and researchers in the College of Architecture -
College of Design Theses and Dissertations [1221]
Original work by students of College of Architecture -
College of Design Undergraduate Projects [1518]
Original work by undergraduate students in the College of Design -
Design and Technology for Healthy Aging Initiative at Georgia Tech (DATHA) [24]
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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The Future of Transportation: Autonomous Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05)United States has long been known be to one of the top contributors to the carbon footprint of the world, ranking only second behind China. Although a lot of policies have been implemented in the past decade or so to bring ... -
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Tree Canopy and Environmental Equity in Atlanta
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-28)With growing concerns about climate change, the benefits of urban tree canopy has gained a significant attention, leading to various efforts aimed at increasing urban tree canopy. Because urban tree canopy is often considered ... -
The Neo-Georgian Architecture of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-07)This thesis focuses on the methodologies evidenced in Edwin Lutyens’s Neo-Georgian architecture informing design dimensions of context, form, ornament, and planning, assessing the significance of these projects within his ... -
Stakeholder Alignment Strategies for Highway Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and state DOTs across the nation seek private investments to leverage their shrinking financial resources. Involvement of the private sector in financing and delivery of ... -
Shifting Grounds of Architectural Practice: Boundary Conditions and Field Formations in the U.S. Design Professions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-22)During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the discourses and practices associated with the design of buildings and cities in the United States became increasingly differentiated and segregated according to ... -
Metropolitan Housing Market Restructuring and Implications for Poverty Deconcentration: The Effects of Foreclosures on the Spatial Distribution of Housing Choice Voucher Residencies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-12)The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the largest federally subsidized affordable housing program in the U.S., where one of the program’s goals is to deconcentrate poverty and alleviate the standard of living for ... -
Evaluating Supplier Diversity Development Programs (SDDP) From The Diverse Supplier Enterprise (DSE) Perspective In The Facility Management Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)Supplier diversity refers to the practice of creating opportunities for historically underutilized populations in the workforce and business arena. Supplier diversity encompasses initiatives specifically designed to increase ... -
Applying Tangible Augmented Reality in Usability Evaluation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-15)Feedback from users is an invaluable part of the product design process. Prototypes of varying levels of detail are frequently used to solicit feedback for attributes related to the physical and user experience aspects of ... -
Exploring Spatial Risk: The Impact of Visibility on ICU Mortality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-20)The relationship between inpatient hospital layouts and a myriad of outcomes – noise, falls, patient experience of care, and mortality – continues to fascinate the clinical and architectural communities. Indeed, optimal ... -
An Appraisal of California Codes’ Impact on Residential Electricity Consumption
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-30)In his talk, he will consider whether California energy policies implemented in the mid1970s influenced residential electricity consumption. Many studies of these policies have been done over the years. These studies ... -
Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism - Panel
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)Panel discussion on Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism. -
Haunts: A Eulogy to Phantasmagoria
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)My aim in this paper is to rethink and reconfigure the notion of phantasmagoria not as forms of deception and domination (myth, fetishism, illusion, dreaming) but rather as sites of and encounters with ‘gatherings of ... -
A Specter is Haunting Babel - The Specter of Language
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)Urban theology begins with a biblical tale of two cities: Enoch, built by Cain, and Babel, destroyed by God. The fact that the pithy primeval story in Genesis 1-11 finds it necessary to develop separate critiques of ... -
Culture of Circulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)Once upon a time, in the days when modern architecture was young, circulation through a building was primarily a functional problem. By the mid-twentieth century, when the monument building morphed into the ... -
Space After Spectacle: Infrastructure, Indifference and the Phantasmagoria of Transit
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)Andreotti and Lahiji’s The Architecture of Phantasmagoria presents an incisive critique of the discourse of spectacle in architecture. ‘Spectacle’, they note, has become the ‘tired mantra’ of a supposedly critical ... -
The Gothic Imagination: From Castle to Shipwreck
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)The gothic is a term designating a style in medieval architecture, which inspired a mode of the imagination in the Enlightenment and Romantic era. This mode found its fullest expression in narrative, popularized by ... -
Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism - Introduction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)This symposium addresses the concept of phantasmagoria in architecture, unearthing its various manifestations in the contemporary culture of spectacle. Participants from a variety of fields at the intersection of ... -
Mission Zero Corridor Project
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014)The Blueprints team was asked to examine the 16-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in Troup County, Georgia dedicated to Ray C. Anderson in 2014, in honor of his outstanding achievement and the legacy he left for his hometown ... -
Stormwater and Urban Design: Urban Design Strategies for Four Sites on the Atlanta BeltLine
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012)The Georgia Conservancy’s Blueprints for Successful Communities program, in partnership with graduate students from the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, examined four different sites within metro ... -
A Future Energy Harvesting Scenario for Georgia Tech Campus Using Photovoltaic Solar Panels And Piezoelectric Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)This paper discusses harvesting solar and piezo energy and uses GIS analysis for site-selection on the Georgia Tech campus.
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