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Audioptimization : global-based acoustic design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Acoustic design is a difficult problem, because the human perception of sound depends on such things as decibel level, direction of propagation, and attenuation over time, none of which are tangible or visible. The advent ...
Categorical organization and machine perception of oscillatory motion patterns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Many animal behaviors consist of using special patterns of motion for communication, with certain types of movements appearing widely across animal species. Oscillatory motions in particular are quite prevalent, where many ...
Designing aesthetically pleasing freeform surfaces in a computer environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Statement: If computational tools are to be employed in the aesthetic design of freeform surfaces, these tools must better reflect the ways in which creative designers conceive of and develop such shapes. In this thesis, ...
A projective approach to computer-aided drawing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
I present a novel drawing system for composing and rendering perspective scenes. The proposed approach uses a projective two-dimensional representation for primitives rather than a conventional three-dimensional description. ...
Jack Tworkov's work from 1955 to 1979 : the synthesis of choice and chance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
Jack Tworkov began painting in the 1920s and made his reputation later as an Abstract Expressionist working in a gestural style. At the age of sixty-five Tworkov put that reputation on the line by undergoing a radical ...
Environmentalism : philosophical sources of 19th century urban thought
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
The professionalization of housing design in Amsterdam, 1909-1919
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Housing design became an issue of public policy in Amsterdam when population growth spawned rapid urban expansion in the late nineteenth century. Dissatisfied with social, hygienic, and aesthetic aspects of the recent ...
Poetics of furniture : augmenting furniture with technologies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This dissertation focuses on one genre of new hybrid objects, namely furniture augmented with electronics. It explores the role of furniture as mediators of social interactions, as well as its potential for eliciting ...
Conservation and building practice in a world heritage city : the case of Sana'a, Yemen
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The unique architecture of Sana'a, Yemen has been the focus of international conservation efforts, which have stimulated local interest and contributed to the formation of a local discourse. Because conservation followed ...
Unnamed modernisms : national ideologies and historical imaginaries in Beirut's urban architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Since the commencement of post-war reconstruction in 1991, Beirut has been radically transformed through a series of large development projects that seek to reconcile the war induced fragmentation of both city and national ...