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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The human body interacts with spatial and solid forms constantly: adapting, negotiating, and interacting. In the context of dance, set and costume design this interdependency between motion and form is given precedent ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)In theory as much as in practice, "history" and "design" have been traditionally regarded as distinct and even opposite spheres of investigation; however, the space of the city, itself a product of both, manifests the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This is a journey into the usefulness of physical computing, its implications in architectural design, and its present dangers.There has been much that has been promised in technology-laden future cities and much that is ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The most recent war in Iraq has resulted in a large wave of internal and external displacement with increased sectarian violence and ethnic tension. Subsequent conflict has exacerbated conditions within the nation and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Historically the study of architecture has experienced reiterative marriage and divorce with the arts. Some avant-garde architects once tried to flirt with the arts in the late of twentieth century by artwork analysis and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)The thesis focuses on a large residence by architect Irving Gill: the house for Marie and Chauncey Dwight Clarke in Santa Fe Springs, California (1919-22). The Clarke House was only discovered as a Gill building in 1981; ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)In our changing times many of our necessities have geared us to search for new spaces that can accommodate them. This thesis attempts to devise the use and expansion of a distinguished 18th Century building dominating a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis looks at the interpretive difficulties posed by the Islamic automata, or hiyal manuscript--an ingenious genre of medieval illustrated manuscripts that describes and depicts mechanical devices such as water ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)This thesis is the design of a center for aquatic sport for the City of Santa Barbara. The design supports a variety of rituals to be acted out by users including infant nonswimmers, elite international competitors, and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)In Autumn, 1994, the City of Boston, in partnership with the Boston Society of Architects and the Building Owners and Managers Association, sponsored the Revitalizing City Hall Plaza Ideas Competition. The Competition ...
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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, 2001)This thesis attempts to relate the principal elements of Modern Portfolio Theory ('MPT') to real estate, recognizing that MPT was built not for real estate, but for stocks and bonds. It is split into two parts; the first ...
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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, 1971)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)How can we design in-fill buildings that are frankly new and dynamic, yet respectful and engaging of the context of the streetscape? Improvisational jazz is a form of music whose practitioners seek to integrate the familiar ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)This study focuses on the redevelopment of Jefferson Park, a public housing project in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The work establishes the historical political, social, and physical context in which that redevelopment takes ...
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