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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)"To Build, form blocks, like a ladder into the sky, into the Earth,to bind the elements, Water and Fire". Like Wittgenstein's this is an attempt to define a personal methodology, which when documented and left behind might ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)This is a plan - a hypothesis in which some ideas are developed for the building of a path and parks. Through the use of imagery texture, and materials a sense of the possible is evoked. This is also an exploration of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)While ninety percent of new buildings in Canada are built with light wood framing, the conventions of this construction method are seldom challenged, the economic systems behind their materials scarcely exposed, and the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)Between the idea and the reality lies the realm of the "creative act." The theme of this thesis deals with the realm in between abstraction and conception, knowing and doing, art and science, theory and practice. By using ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Airports as an architectural and urban typology typically lack physical and spatial integration with their urban context. Contrary to the city, airports have evolved into semi-autonomous spaces and products of political ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)Much of the historical discussion concerning the office building has operated at the level of image . In this reading architects, faced with specific program requirements and technical possibilities, adopt a language for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)What is the relationship between the structure of leases in the Boston office rental market and how much landlords invest in energy efficient building systems for their existing buildings? I am drawn to this question because ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)The electric utilities in the United States have entered a period of slow growth due to a combination of increased capital costs and a staggering rise in the costs for fuel. In addition to this, the rise in peak power ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)The electric utilities in the United States are faced with continued rapid growth in electrical demand. The traditional response to growth in demand has been the expansion of generating capacity. However, economic, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)The intention of this thesis is to investigate methods in which deficiencies in construction documents can be addressed through the application of digital technology. These deficiencies take two forms. The first form relates ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)Several cities in Asia are facing the same dilemma faced by Europe in the early twentieth century and the United States in the fifties. This dilemma is how to improve the 'blighted ' old city that got left behind with its ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)This thesis considers the making of a documentary videotape on the Red Line Subway Extension project in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts entitled Scenes From Underground. It traces my initial plans for an expository ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)Form-making is the purposeful arrangement of forms for a specific objective. This includes selecting forms and establishing spatial relations among these forms. Since form making is not a random act, ~here are rules that ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)A two-part text in which the author ultimately proposes the metaphorical artistic methodology of making sense, and articulates its role in radical ecological projects. The author discusses the body of work produced for her ...
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