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After the copy : creativity, originality and the labor of appropriation : Dafen Village, Shenzhen, China (1989-2010)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Since 1989, Dafen village in Shenzhen, China, has supplied millions of hand-painted oil-on-canvas paintings each year to global consumer markets. Accused of copying Western masterpieces, and spurred by the Chinese party-state's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
More seeing in learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Recently, creativity has received increased attention for educational programs from primary to tertiary levels. This research examines the intricacies of the creative process to understand what creativity is and how an ...
Speculating on architecture : morality, the new real estate, and the bourgeois apartment industry in late nineteenth-century France
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The topic of architecture as a commodity-something that can be possessed and traded-has been largely ignored within the discipline of architectural history, or even written off altogether as an inevitable consequence of ...
Ornament after the orders : Percier, Fontaine and the rise of the architectural interior in post-revolutionary France
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This dissertation explores the collaborative work in interior decoration undertaken by the French architects Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762- 1853), in order to argue that their shared ...
Predictive pre-cooling control for low lift radiant cooling using building thermal mass
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Low lift cooling systems (LLCS) hold the potential for significant energy savings relative to conventional cooling systems. An LLCS is a cooling system which leverages existing HVAC technologies to provide low energy cooling ...
An interactive performance-based expert system for daylighting in architectural design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Design practitioners are increasingly using digital tools during the design process; however, building performance simulation continues to be more commonly utilized for analysis rather than as a design aid. Additionally, ...