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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)The thesis investigation began with my experience with storytelling. Verbal stories told to me as a child provided a form of cultural continuity. Stories were a way of transferring culture, ideas, religion, morals, and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)This thesis is the pursuit of a sensitivity for the relationship between urban infrastructure and architectural form, an attempt to restore a quality of "publicness" in the urban landscape through the implementation of a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)This thesis will examine two models of West African architecture-- the Mosque at Zaria, Nigeria and the Mosque at Dingueraye, Guinea. It will also attempt to illustrate implicit patterns of creative expression, both literal ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Machines have been used throughout history as an extension of the human body; a prosthetic device that can provide the opportunity to redefine the spatial experience of a given time and place. In this investigation the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This Thesis proposes a 2015 World's Fair in Prishtina, Kosovo, to redefine the relationship between tourists and local places. Globalization has created an explosion of world tourism; however, it has homogenized the global ...
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(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 ...
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Architecture symbiosis--a study of cultural synthesis : urban design proposal for Boston Chinatown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)The present thesis will focus on the role of culture in architecture and urbanism. The new environment should represent the identity of its inhabitants and the coherence of existing urban context. Architecture and urban ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)Play is a form of behavior common to all people. A person's propensity to play depends not only on his physiological and emotional state, but also on his surroundings. This thesis investigates environmental qualities ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)The subject of this thesis is architecture that inspires fantasy and the important role that various buildings play in helping us understand and gain insight into both the physical and social contexts in which they exist. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis attempts to clarify the need for an appreciation of architecture theory within a computational architectural domain. It reveals and reflects upon some of the cultural, historical and technological contexts that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This thesis is an investigation into the design and ideology of public space in the historical core of Dresden, more specifically, public space as it is related to history, commerce, and the monumental in architecture. The ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Presidential libraries are not really about presidents. Rather, presidential libraries define publics through the transformation of American history into images and ideas. The presidential library is a uniquely American ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Environmental agendas in architecture have enjoyed an increased attention recently, as a result of the emerging 'sustainable' design ethos. This framework of sustainability initiates a rethinking of the scale of an ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)Currently available housing in the Arctic is limited to solutions that have been adapted from designs for less severe climates. This thesis has developed a new manner of residential construction designed specifically for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)The major work for this thesis is the creation of a sculpture, constructed as an independently running fountain. The sculpture is composed of ceramic figures, and is installed at the M.I.T. Student Center Library. The ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)The manner in which spatial definition is built by architectural form is identified and formalised in part. A description is given for the structure of spatial definition. This description allows for a mapping from the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Incarcerating over two million prisoners a year costs the government an astounding twenty-six billion dollars annually, which means the government spends the same amount of money on each inmate as any American would make ...
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