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Bathrooms, bubbles and systems : archigram and the landscapes of transience
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The dissertation studies the Archigram, the primary avant-garde architectural publication in Britain from 1961 to 1970, and the related avant-garde practices that engendered the high-tech movement. Drawing on the histories ...
A rose has no teeth : Bruce Nauman, 1965-1974
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This dissertation develops a critical reading of the early work of the American artist, Bruce Nauman, who, in the mid-sixties, began creating a highly diverse and eclectic oeuvre--including discrete sculpture, photographic ...
Material-based design computation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The institutionalized separation between form, structure and material, deeply embedded in modernist design theory, paralleled by a methodological partitioning between modeling, analysis and fabrication, resulted in ...
Architectures of the everyday in 1920s and 1930s Russia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This dissertation is an architectural history of Russian everyday life, or byt, in the first two decades after the October Revolution. In this period, the investigation and reform of byt was a project that vastly crossed ...
Architectural practice and the planning of minor palaces in Renaissance Italy, 1510-1570
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
This dissertation proposes to study how the commission and design of minor palaces contribute to the understanding of architectural practice in early 16th century Italy. The particular nature of the small urban palace as ...
Kids 'n space : explorations into spatial cognition of children learning 3-D computer graphics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Nature's objects : geology, aesthetics, and the understanding of materiality in eighteenth-century Britain and France
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Explorations of aesthetic design and scientific experimentation have traditionally relied upon the natural world as a source of inspiration. Notably absent from previous studies of the eighteenth century is the dynamic ...
Architecture and urbanism in Henri IV's Paris : the Place Royale, Place Dauphine, and Hôpital St. Louis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
This dissertation concerns the extensive building program which Henri IV undertook in Paris from 1600 to 1610. Focusing on the place Royale (now called the place des Vosges) , the place Dauphine, rue Dauphine, and Pont ...
Performative architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The following thesis explores two central hypotheses. On the one hand it introduces the idea of performative architecture (performance in design), and has done so with the desire to contribute directly to the expansion of ...
The development of contemporary housing in Saudi Arabia (1950-1983) : a study in cross-cultural influence under conditions of rapid change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
This study provides a framework for understanding the circumstances associated with the introduction of modern housing concepts and techniques to Saudi Arabia. The analysis and discussion of the relevant cultural influences ...