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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)The opportunities for utilizing Jamaica/s rich supply of renewable energy resources as a base for stead, environmentally sound rural development is tremendous. This thesis explores as way of tapping this potential. Jamaica's ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The institutionalized separation between form, structure and material, deeply embedded in modernist design theory, paralleled by a methodological partitioning between modeling, analysis and fabrication, resulted in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)How do design tools feedback material behavior to the designer? Digital design tools in use by designers today provide a rich environment for design of form but offer little feedback of the material that ultimately realize ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world after water. Due to the sheer mass of concrete consumed annually and its associated resource and environmental impacts, improving the materials management of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Decisions regarding materials and construction of a building are made all the time in the architectural process, but thought is not always given to how those choices may affect the buildings ultimate energy usage and the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)What can a building material tell us about a city? As the most widely used structural building material in the world, reinforced cement concrete shapes the urban form of several of our largest megacities Sao Paulo, Cairo, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)A meaningful environment forms a necessary and essential part of a meaningful existence. Meaning is an interpretive problem, and meaning in architecture is difficult to grasp. Theoretical insights into meaning have to be ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)The thesis deals with the various levels of meanings of the Chinese house and garden, and how the meanings operated in the context of traditional daily life. It is approached from the point of view of meaning in the context ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)The use of a tracer aerosol with a bulk density close to that of air is a convenient way to study the dispersal of pollutants in ambient room air flow. Conventional point measurement techniques do not permit the rapid and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The aim of this dissertation is to measure the impact of workspace architectural design on the value it generates for tenant organizations in terms of, without loss of generality, strengthening organizational identity and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)After being a British colony for more than hundred years, Hong Kong's final handover back to China took place 1st July 1997. There are tremendous demands on the new government to reflect her status during this critical ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)The object of my thesis is to make a place for Jazz in the Great Falls Historic District in Paterson, New Jersey. This project is a continuation of larger interests in the idea of "urban villages" and the nature and role ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)As medieval designers and craftsmen have left us with no textual evidence of their thinking processes, their drawings offer valuable sources through which their approach to design and construction can be investigated. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This dissertation examines the intersection of the modern and the colonial in architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa from 1911 to 1943. Rather than see the colonies as merely a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)A casualty of the containerization of oceanic commerce, 350 acre Mission Bay in San Francisco, previously a bustling industrial shipping port, has fallen to disuse over the last 20 to 25 years. Within the last five , plans ...
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