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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)How does one mediate between nature and the city as development continues to arise out of necessity? What is the significance of the connection between nature and city and how can they be articulated? What is the relationship ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)Jamaica, a microcosm of the Caribbean and the developing world, is heir to an ambivalent legacy. While she benefits from a unique cultural tradition brought in part through colonialism, she suffers from the nihilistic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)"All education practice implies a theoretical stance on the educator's part. This stance in turn implies - sometimes more, sometimes less explicitly - an interpretation of man and the world." -Paulo Freire .The assumption ...
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Interstitial DenCity : an architectural apparatus of political mediations in Chinese urban villages (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Since the 1979 Economic Reform, the Chinese government's authoritarian interference with land use development to serve developers and its own interests has led to incongruent development between industrialization and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)Hospitals are most useful material for architectural research for they exhibit all the problems encountered in other building types in an acute and easily measurable form. Health Care Facilities house the greatest range ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)The objective of this thesis is to explore the possible application of the support/infill concept in the Indian Context. For this purpose, a traditional housing settlement has been selected in the Walled City of Ahmedabad. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)If abstract means theoretical and an abstract is a summary of something's essence, then this is the abstract of this thesis: This thesis is an abstract investigation which examines the duality between nature and culture ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)This work searches to build a framework for a rehabilitation strategy for distressed urban Public Housing projects. It is argued that an appropriate approach needs to address both, the physical and the institutional aspects ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)The thesis develops design guidelines for interventions into residential quarters of the old core cities in the Third World. Their purpose is to provide a suitable framework for developing residential designs maintaining ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Adaptability of the built form has for a long time been the concern of many designers. Driven by different motives such as the accommodation of "uncertainty," the pursue of an "economical space", the restoration of the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)Urban historic-core precincts, throughout India, provide some of the most unforgettable images of the Indian vernacular. Many are now 'protected' by the Heritage Commissions, strictly regulating new development and making ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)This thesis intends to develop a critical perspective on the culture and politics of the modern house in Iraq. It advances the discussion from the authoritative religious environment of women's segregation in the Islamic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Upon arrival in Memphis by air, a sign welcomes passengers to "Memphis - America's Distribution Center", a reflection of one's place in the city, and the country. Rather than a romantic reflection of the cultural heritage ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Doha, the capital city of Qatar, has become a metropolis of disconnected inward-facing mega-projects with no regard to the remaining fabric of the city. This can be owed to the relatively short urbanization period that the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)The primary goal of this thesis is to analyze and evaluation existing public housing in Egypt, with the aim of: 1. Modifying existing conditions, and 2. Developing alternative design concepts to meet with present and future ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)Architecture and photography are two aspects of our shared visual culture. The influence exerted by photography on architecture is in a large part due to the power insisting upon "actuality" of what has to be seen in the ...
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