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) [104]
CQGRD bring together the expertise and resources to develop innovative, responsible, and efficient solutions to achieve 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 [66]
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 Design -
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 [153]
Research reports by faculty and researchers in the College of Architecture -
College of Design Theses and Dissertations [1253]
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) [25]
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 [5]
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 Tectonic Grain
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-24)With an office dedicated to academia, NADAAA –and its principal, Nader Tehrani-- have been dedicated to building bridges between practice and its aligned disciplines for over 20 years. Having taught at Northeastern University, ... -
When the World Talks Back … Connecting People and Things
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-27)Over the past 10 to 15 years the evolution of smart, sensor-based products and systems has reshaped the way we interact with each other and the world around us. This Research Forum will compare a snapshot from the past ... -
Diversity & Inclusion Council - Panel Discussion
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-26)The College of Design Diversity and Inclusion Council at Georgia Tech, has invited Peggy McIntosh, Senior Research Scientist and former Associate Director for the Wellesley Centers for Women, Kaye Husbands Fealing, Professor ... -
School Closures and Their Impact on Local Communities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016)Due to a number of factors, traditional school closings and consolidations have become very common in cities across the United States. Many forces at play cause a public school district to shut down or merge neighborhood ... -
Information Theory as a Measure of Sociodemographic Change
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)The current discourse around gentrification has been primarily focused on an economic understanding of gentrification. That is, that the gentrification can be primarily viewed through changes in housing prices in an area. ... -
What statistical and spatial relationships exist between health insurance, race, income, and education in the state of Georgia immediately before and after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)What statistical and spatial relationships exist between health insurance, race, income, and education in the state of Georgia immediately before and after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act?”. To answer this ... -
Highways, Urban renewal, and patterns in the Built Environment: Exploring Impacts on Atlanta Neighborhoods
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)During the mid-twentieth century, cities across the United States underwent drastic changes known broadly at the time as “urban renewal.” In many cases, these changes included widespread demolition of varied neighborhoods ... -
Economic Shifts Along the US-Mexico Border: Investigating the Changes in Location Quotient at the Block Level in Four US Border
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)US border cities are often considered “city-pairs” with coinciding Mexican industrial cities. Current literature suggests that the export economy of these Mexican cities increases employment in US border cities for the ... -
Calculating Change in Regional Accessibility Due to Autonomous Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08)The following project tries to answer the question “How will autonomous vehicles affect growth in the Metro Atlanta region?” We attempt to do this through calculating how accessibility will change based on traffic conditions. ... -
Public Work – Architecture as Instrument
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-12)Each new or renovated building changes its community. These interventions have consequences in the lives of hundreds, maybe thousands of people who encounter them. Architects face the challenges of program, budget and ... -
Historic Preservation & Progress in Atlanta: Zoning Strategies for Adaptive Reuse & Revitalization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05)Atlanta is experiencing a resurgence in population and significant changes to the built environment. Where do Atlanta’s historic and cultural places fit into Atlanta’s future land use patterns? As Atlanta experiences ... -
The synergistic effects of thermal environment and visibility upon the popularity of street retail area: A case study of a retail arcade in Guangzhou
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-01)For every building design process, three elements should be taken into considerations: building type, geometry and environment. These elements mutually influence one another; the aim of architectural design is to find the ... -
Optimizing microgrid distributed energy resources with varying building loads: Analysis and simulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-09)As microgrids continue to evolve and become more prevalent, there arises a need to understand how best to design while addressing the fundamental objective of meeting energy loads. As a localized energy entity, a microgrid ... -
A functional modeling framework for interdisciplinary building design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-01)The process of Building Design, as in many other forms of design, requires the effective integration of different types of knowledge. However, and in the specific context of Building Information Modeling, only structural ... -
Encourage sedentary workers' active seating through product design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-31)The purpose of this project is to design a perturbation system for encouraging active sitting. This product would improve the physical environment within which the sedentary workers work and reduce their incidence of ... -
On the role that specific domain knowledge and procedural strategies play in defining the episodic nature of architectural design formulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-24)This dissertation presents a study of design activity based on the analyses of fifty-six design processes taken from fourteen designers which were give four related architectural problems. The motivating interest was to ... -
The algorithmic score language: Extending common western music notation for representing logical behaviors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-22)This work proposes extensions to Western Music Notation so it can play a dual role: first as a human-readable representation of the music performance information in the context of live-electronics, and second as a programming ... -
Electronic retail effects on airports and regional development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-04)This dissertation is an investigation of the relationship between e-retail logistics (e-fulfillment) and aviation, and of airport staff’s planning responses to e-fulfillment. By its nature, planning requires a thorough ... -
BIM synapse: A framework for BIM interoperability in the cloud
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-11)In the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, collaboration within Building Information Modeling (BIM) process is mainly based on transferring files. BIM data is being exchanged in either vendor specific ... -
Spatiotemporal occupancy in building settings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-30)This thesis presents an investigation of methods to capture and analyze spatiotemporal occupancy patterns of high resolution, demonstrating their value by measuring behavioral outcomes over time. Obtaining fine-grain ...
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