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  • Precarious luxury 
    Lu, Alan S. (Alan Sterling) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Due to the market collapse prompting more secure investments and increasing government regulation and incentives to integrate low income units into luxury residential developments, this thesis seeks to integrate two allergic ...
  • Excretal architecture : prototypical and productive urban waste forms 
    Kim, Nancy (Nancy Hyun Mi) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Excretal Architecture comes equipped with a set of design parameters sufficient to grow a regenerative city, while focusing on biomass accumulation as a key program. These structures are scalable and adaptable to any site, ...
  • The institute of optimism for professional journalism in the social media era 
    Lee, Jin Kyu, M. Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    The ecology of contemporary journalism is experiencing a power shift from traditional media such as newspapers and TV news to social media. This shift is bringing a crisis of professional journalism in the traditional media ...
  • Autopoietic landscapes : the architectural implications of mining the Marcellus Shale 
    Winfield, Catherine (Catherine Anne) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Hydraulic fracturing, a form of natural gas extraction, is a process deeply embedded in the networks of politics, power, economics, energy, infrastructure, and land use. Hydraulic fracturing has become a standard practice ...
  • Approximate translation : media, narrative, and experience in urban design 
    Crisman, Jonathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Approximate translation is developed as a design process through which the place-embedded history of an urban environment can be understood, allowing for better design and intervention in that urban environment. Generally, ...
  • Atmospheric prototypes : rethinking spirituality in the American mosque 
    Qureshi, Ali (Ali Khalid) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    The thesis addresses architecture's role in defining spirituality in an American Islamic context. The problem stems from *retrofit' mosques, or mosques which are adapted from previous structures not built as mosques. The ...
  • Deleveraging domesticity : incremental design forays on middle income housing 
    Miller, Christopher M., M. Arch. (Christopher Michael). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Housing today has little do with architecture. Design is a currency of services, while housing today is intensively packaged as a consumer good. It is packaged with land as speculative real-estate, and bundled abstractly ...
  • The death of growing cities?! : reconstructing the post-utopian urbanism in China now! 
    Lau, Sing Yeung (Sing Yeung Sunnie) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    THROUGHOUT HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS; THERE WERE MOMENTS OF COLLECTIVE ATTEMPTS TO REBUILD A UTOPIAN FUTURE TRIGGERED BY POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND/ OR ECONOMIC CRISES. CRISIS SEEMS TO BE A UNIQUE MOMENT TO INITIATE/ ...
  • Havana ruins : post-embargo habitación regenerative prototypes 
    Anderson, Clay Bismarc (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    MIT American tourism influx is inevitable in the rapidly 'capitalizing' political context of Cuba. From the 1920's through the 1950's Americans were the dominate tourist on the island. Fast forward to today and Americans ...
  • The Experiential Bridge: remedial landscape for Hanford's nuclear future 
    Kim, Yuna (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    The groundbreaking discovery of nuclear fission opened up new possibilities for generating power and resources for people. Nuclear energy was much preferred over fossil fuel because of its efficiency in production, ...
  • HYPERsensarium : an archive of atmospheric conditions 
    Shaw, Kelly E. (Kelly Evelyn) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    HYPERsensarium proposes a tangible interface of atmospheres for public experience through an archive of historical and projected weathers. While architecture's purpose has long been to act as the technical boundary between ...
  • Ground-play yard-school play-school : a Ludic typology for primary education 
    Williams, Travis Andrew (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This thesis explores how free play can be promoted, incentivized, and enabled through architecture to reinterpret the elementary school typology within the urban context of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The ...
  • Design for reuse : post occupancy of Olympic stadiums 
    Lin, George X. (George Xinxin) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    On the surface, the spirit of Olympic Games is about the competition for medals. Underneath the surface, however, lies a series of political, economical, social agendas. Individual Olympians represent their Nations. Rising ...
  • Covert resistance : an Embodiment of the "One Country. Two Systems" Principle in Hong Kong 
    Cheung, Hoi Kwan (Hoi Kwan Dennis) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Architecture is always political. Always. Society shapes the built environment and architecture impacts the social systems. Yet how far can architects push in changing society? Is architecture the passive one or the ...
  • Tohoku Topo-Urbanism : oblique community form in post-Tsunami Japan 
    Bunza, Matthew (Matthew Peter) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Tohoku Topo-Urbanism explores the potential inhabitation of the oblique as an alternative model of community form and resilient reconstruction in Post-Tsunami Japan. In its wake, the 2011 Tsunami left a redefined landscape ...
  • 100% petroleum house 
    Costanza, David (David Nicholas) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    I am designing a Case Study House to be sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell which utilizes the by-product of oil extraction, petroleum gas, to produce a zero waste, 100% petroleum based house. The motivation of the Case Study ...
  • Taipei apartment 
    Hsu, Andy Chien-Che (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    To accommodate the rapid modernization and urbanization between 1960s and 1980s, a large number of mid-rise apartments has been built in Taipei. Today, these poorly designed apartments represent about 40 percent of the ...
  • East Boston buffer : a transferable urban framework for adapting to sea rise 
    Jenkins, Carolyn (Carolyn Hiller) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Urban vulnerability to climate change is constantly increasing. Many coastal cities will need to begin sea rise mitigation efforts soon, and now is a critical time for architects to intervene in this process with good ...
  • Atmospheric Apparatus : the production of another comfort paradigm 
    Tang, Hung Fai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Nowadays, being thermal comfort is no longer a challenging problem for modern living. With the aids of the modern environmental control technologies, a fast, convenient and effective thermal comfort experience can be easily ...
  • Exodus industrious : a new American dream for the next industrial revolution 
    Marshall, Alexander William (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Exodus Industrious has many beginnings, but few endings. Exodus Industrious is two parallel tales, told as one, which ultimately arrive at a critical moment in the history of the Americanism. Exodus is the story of capitalism ...
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