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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) relationship with American Scene painting. His engagement with these themes suggests that the pictorial reorganization of spatial experience that anchored his practice as a socially engaged artist is inextricably ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the life of a Marseilles architect, Pascal-Xavier Coste (1787-1879), his architectural work in Egypt, and his subsequent historical publications on his return to France. In ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The research presented in this thesis develops a new device for the passive control of motion in building structures: an electromagnetic damper. The electromagnetic damper is a self-excited device that provides a reaction ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)A central concept in strategic management is that congruence between organizational resources and environmental conditions is critical to performance. There are three basic types of organizational resources: human, monetary, ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The performative monument, as I term an emergent genre of interactive public actions, rests on a new notion of agency in public space, in which political responsibility is performed by historically aware individuals in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation examines the critical role played by modern architecture and planning in shaping the discourse on Third World development after the Second World War. At stake here is an ignored dimension of the history ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation explores the art and architectural patronage of Doge Cristoforo Moro (1462-71) in Renaissance Venice. Given that Moro ruled over a Venice that was dealing with new threat to its territory, its religion, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)In this thesis an architectural design theory is premised so that plan making can start from a 'space scheme' which is a description of 'hierarchic balloon representation'. The space organization of a plan is described in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This dissertation focuses on one genre of new hybrid objects, namely furniture augmented with electronics. It explores the role of furniture as mediators of social interactions, as well as its potential for eliciting ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation explores the question: What effects do architecture and the economic realm have upon one another? I begin with an analysis of a specific trajectory in twentieth-century work on architectural theory and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation charts the production of Lebanese cosmopolitanism from the nineteenth century to the present, examining how this putatively national trait is established through the visual arts. It contends that in order ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)Housing design became an issue of public policy in Amsterdam when population growth spawned rapid urban expansion in the late nineteenth century. Dissatisfied with social, hygienic, and aesthetic aspects of the recent ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)I present a novel drawing system for composing and rendering perspective scenes. The proposed approach uses a projective two-dimensional representation for primitives rather than a conventional three-dimensional description. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis is focused on the visual perception evaluation of colors within an environment of a highly automated lighting control strategy. Digitally controlled lighting systems equipped with light emitting diodes, LEDs, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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