Manufacturing buildings are found in most towns and cities in Massachusetts. Standing in dominant isolation, or as part of an urban district, their presence is the built testimony to the role manufacturing played in so ...

Too often industrial building sites have become gaps or islands within the urban fabric. With advancement in technology which would allow us to clean up the dirtier side of manufacturing, it seems that industrial sites ...

Through an examination of filmic portrayals of the trademarked product as a signifier of real ownerships and meanings of commodities, this paper is concerned with the conjunction of aesthetic and economic issues of the ...

Architects have been experimenting with generative systems for design without a clear reference or theory of what, why or how to deal with such systems. In this thesis I argue for three points. The first is that generative ...

This thesis explores the relationship between form, context, and program through the optic of sound. The project consists of an open assembly of receptive surfaces (a multiple membrane system) that register and retrace ...

The current condition of global economy is evolving out of the ascendance of information technologies and the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital. These phenomena have further propelled a corresponding ...

No problem for the future holds so great a potential for changing the quality of life in California as water and its supportive infrastructure. An obsession with water, which began with the infamous five words "there it ...