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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This dissertation introduces a group of mutable institutions of research which emerged along the coast of France in the nineteenth century. The setting of these stations gave rise to a manner of occupation, both in the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis aims at changing students' attitude towards the use ofcomputer-aided design (CAD) in architecture. It starts from the premise that CAD is used mostly for analysis and representation, and not as a real design ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Problems associated with the massive adoption of automobiles have become the center of a world-wide debate. While new technologies will eventually discover a sustainable solution to the environmental concerns (pollution, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This dissertation identifies and documents a "technological imagination of design" emerging around the reconfigured discourses of design and design representation by the culture of technology production in the Computer-Aided ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)The design studio, as both a learning environment and a social place, is one of the major components of architectural education. Traditionally, the studio has been considered a place for individual design work and one-on-one ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)In the search for meaning, the architectural profession legitimately seeks culture to sanction its products. However, in business organizations, culture is complex and tacit- richer and deeper than any of its external ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Researchers and practitioners have proposed a variety of solutions to reduce electricity consumption and curtail peak demand. This research focuses on load control by improving the operations in existing building HVAC ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)Between 1921 and 1941, Reza Shah Pahlavi orchestrated the transformation of Tehran from a traditional Iranian Islamic city into a modern capital. The urban grid, public spaces, state institutions and housing typologies ...
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Cakewalking into representation : Gabriele Münter's America travels (1898-1900) and art of dailiness (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This study explores the fashioning of Gabriele Münter as a German modernist with a focus on the eclipse of her struggles in coming to representation, the rich complexity of her processes, and the importance of dailiness ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)The dissertation is a history of Louis Sullivan's Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago, originally the Schlesinger and Mayer Store, built 1899- 1904. Carson-Pirie-Scott was the last major structure designed by Sullivan ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This dissertation analyzes the institutional, architectural and urban history of charitable institutions in Rome from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. It highlights the previously ignored central role that these ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This study is an intellectual micro-history which examines the debates about the future of modern architecture and planning that occurred within CIAM (Congès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) between 1945-1959. This ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)This dissertation reconstructs one of the major works of military and palatial architecture in the Middle Ages, the Citadel of the Mountain (QaI'at aI-Jabal) in Cairo. It traces its development from its inception in 1176 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)This dissertation undertakes a comparative and developmental analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's community scale planning projects executed in the wake of Broadacre City during the decade of the Second World War (1938 - 1948). ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The safety and assessment of historic masonry structures continues to be a challenge for most analysts, especially for more complex buildings. Historic masonry structures have great cultural and economic value, but engineers ...
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