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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)This is a study of all the published writings on art by the Symbolist poet-critic G.-Albert Aurier, intending to elucidate the systematic theory of art that underlies all his criticism. It includes a brief biographical ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)The thesis investigates the geodesic structure and dome phase in the corpus of Richard Buckminster Fuller's artifactual production and writings. It offers a history of the meteoric rise of the geodesic structure, its ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)My dissertation analyzes the reception of the work of J.J.P. Oud (1890-1963), the modern Dutch architect, by examining the systems of dissemination and reception of modern European architecture from 1910 to 1953. Reception ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)This dissertation reconstructs the histories of some exceptional, hitherto unstudied buildings, erected in southeastern Nigeria between 1889 and 1939; they are part of a larger group, dispersed over the African Atlantic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis investigates the geometric representation of ideas during the early stages of design. When a designer's ideas are still in gestation, the exploration of form is more important than its precise specification. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)This thesis explores the deep spatio-linguistic relationship between the Austrian born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's practices of philosophy and of architecture. Wittgenstein's philosophy of language is notable for its ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Approaches to shape computation and algorithmic art-making within the fields of shape grammars and computer graphics still do not consider the immediacy of the artist's mark in drawing and painting. This research examines ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This study analyzes the intellectual and historical milieu of the Independent Group. Its point of departure is Growth and Form, an exhibition of scientific imagery, largely conceived and designed by Richard Hamilton, and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Remote design comes with significant challenges. A major barrier to designing in remote regions is the lack of communication between designers and users. As a result, the lack of information flow leads to assumptions about ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)Inigo Jones's collection of books is a unique and early survival of an architect's annotated library. The combination of standard sixteenth century Italian and French editions of classics, mathematical and scientific ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
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(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, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)The Charles River Basin, extending from the foot of Beacon Hill upstream past Harvard's Soldiers Field, has been called Boston's "Central Park." The river looks to all appearances tranquil and unchanging, one of the most ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The idea of a "historic city" is a rather recent phenomenon. As a conceptual framework, it evolved over the course of the 1970s and 1980s from the intellectual foundations of modernist urban design. This is especially well ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The victorious Israeli acquisition of East Jerusalem during the 1967 War set off industrious construction intended to turn a modernist Israeli town and an ancient Jordanian city into "a united (and indivisible)" Israeli ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Starting from the premise that maps are essentially about visualizing space, this dissertation examines what the Ottoman maps of Istanbul reveal about the city's perception, as it evolved in connection to urban development ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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