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Browsing Theses - Department of Architecture by Title
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)A technique of pictorially synthesizing facial imagery using optical videodiscs under computer control is described. Search, selection and averaging processes are performed on a catalogue of whole faces and facial features ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)It is the opinion of this writer that the success or failure of a "place" or space as defined by architectural or urban design terms is linked not only to its physical boundaries and the reality of its elements and their ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)Four fragments constitute the focus of analysis of this study; at the same time they are used as objects in the experimental set up of the thesis. This set up investigates the possibilities of a collage as a model for a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)As global populations continue toward higher levels of urban densification, sprawl has caused the United States to reach an un-sustainability low level of population density. The past six decades of sub-urbanization have ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)America's symbols of governance, such as the ubiquitous state capitols and state capitol malls, are classically inspired European architecture and planning of reason and nature, adopted in America by Jefferson in 18th ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-03-01)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis seeks to unpack the nature of ecology within architecture, not as a neutral science, but a legitimizing construct, building a future and transforming the ethics of the present towards very deliberate ideological ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis proposes guidelines for designing kinetic architectural structures, in which rules based on shape grammars, are used for motion capturing and design. There is an increasing demand for adaptive architecture that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Based on the fact that architecture is, among other things, the crystallization of a mediation among design intentions (function), meaning and contextual constraints (performance), we as designers are obligated to produce ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The framework for this thesis are the lightweight constructions that have been developed during the 20th century. As part of this thesis, a prototype for a column has been developed, that is a hybrid construction out of a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)Adaptability in this Thesis refers to the inherent capacity of a dwelling, to accommodate changing spatial and economic requirements over time. The adaptable dwelling is intended to respond to change as a fundamental ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)What is the nature of and possibility for urban resiliency through adaptation? Adaptation implies responsiveness to phenomena that are disruptive to a system's functioning; it is a willful evolution in response to changed ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)This study proposes an approach to the preservation of the spirit of traditional Chinese architecture and its adaptation to the current context and living style. For this purpose, the rowhouse type which emerged in the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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