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From the Cheney House to Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminist Mamah Borthwick
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
This thesis seeks to investigate the impact of Frank Lloyd Wright 's contact with feminist theory on his design and his thinking. For, in 1912, Wright and his companion Mamah Borthwick co-translated a book by Swedish ...
Skyscrapers in context
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
This thesis is a study of the expressive quality of a skyscraper. Because of their size and conspicuousness, skyscrapers are simultaneously exposed to several different levels of"contexts, which are mainly defined by the ...
Interpreting a contemporary urban vernacular for cities : --the case of Delhi
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
The broad aim of this thesis is to investigate whether the regulatory environment in an urban setting can be utilized to nurture appropriate urban forms. The word 'form' here includes both physical characteristics, and the ...
A comparison of central business district versus suburban office space performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
In search of a direction in the contemporary architecture of Arabia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
There is a new breed of contemporary buildings evolving in the Middle East that incorporates all the pragmatic functions of the 20th century, but, at the same time, attempts to capture the spirit of the indigenous architecture ...
The invented eye looks at architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Architecture and photography are two aspects of our shared visual culture. The influence exerted by photography on architecture is in a large part due to the power insisting upon "actuality" of what has to be seen in the ...
Architectural theory after 1968 : analysis of the works of Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)