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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)Applying modern and recent audio-visual technology to the traditional practice and performance of ancient Hindu religious ritual. To illustrate elements of the Indian Rasa theory of aesthetics, the canons of Hindu iconography, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Combining aesthetic theory with theories of the public sphere, this dissertation examines the brief appearance of a publicly empathetic civic realm in the United States during the 1940s. The argument begins with a reevaluation ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This thesis defines Just-In-Time Information Retrieval agents (JITIRs): a class of software agents that proactively present potentially valuable information based on a person's local context in an easily accessible yet ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)The public role of effectively guiding, evaluating and prescribing the physical places, patterns and forms we produce and live in according to commonly held external socio-political ideals has been extremely constrained ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)As housing costs have soared nationwide, many policy makers have grown increasingly aware of working families' housing needs. Currently, having a full-time job does not guarantee decent and affordable housing. Many housing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation studies a moment of transition in German aesthetics in the late nineteenth century. Starting in the 1870s, groups of artists, architects, historians, critics, connoisseurs, and museum officials in Germany ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)On-site construction costs are very significant to project costs, as a result, the present trend is to fabricate larger components to simplify erection. This approach is however limited by the capacity of the transportation ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Sites and programs are in constant flux and are affected by environmental, social, and economic forces they encounter. This thesis explores the ways kinetic architecture mediates between the site and programs in flux. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)If all architectural form could be simplistically grouped into only two categories, these might be "object" and "partial enclosure," where objects are in dialogue with the space around them while partial enclosures articulate ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)The existence and survival of an organism in any given environment is the ability to adapt and change to that environment. Living entities are far more adaptable to a changing environment than anything produced by human ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)California City is a superlative shrinking suburb. Situated deep in the Mojave Desert, the conditions that typically spur suburban shrinkage are exaggerated here. As such, the city provides a singular opportunity to comment ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis aims to bring the handicraft of knitting into the realm of architecture as a low-tech means of fabrication in a world of high-tech design. This thesis attempts to break knitting down into its most essential ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This thesis explores computation as a communicative device between the physical and the digital, establishing a conversation between a material assembly and a digital model as a tool to inform the logic of the assembly's ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Knowledge-based industries tend to cluster. The nature of activities illustrate the importance of networks and virtual and proximity aspects of clustering. Review of existing literature brings out the advantages of clustering ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)This thesis is an effort to begin to understand some of the problems and possibilities of architectural production in an age of advanced information technologies. The driving concern behind this work is the increasing ...
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