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  • Ways of arrangement : the basic operations of form-making 
    Wang, Minghong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
    Making forms is essentially a matter of arranging things, and arranging things is essentially to establish spatial relations among selected elements. The thesis provides a minimal set of basic operations believed to be ...
  • Admonition and the academy : installation, video, and performance art in Reform Era China 
    Oen, Karin Grace (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    China's Reform Era (1978-present) has seen the reinvigoration of academic, and artistic practice, and a rapprochement between the Chinese Communist Party and the intellectual elite. At its beginnings in the early- to ...
  • Software tectonics 
    Tsamis, Alexandros, 1976- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    The resent shift of attention in the architectural discourse towards issues of ecological design, coupled with the undeniable role of computation, has already cast a new operative role to the notion of environment. Instead ...
  • Toward zero net energy buildings : optimized for energy use and cost 
    Brown, Carrie Ann, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Recently, there has been a push toward zero net energy buildings (ZNEBs). While there are many options to reduce the energy used in buildings, it is often difficult to determine which are the most appropriate technologies ...
  • Builders of the vision : technology and the imagination of design 
    Cardoso Llach, Daniel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This dissertation identifies and documents a "technological imagination of design" emerging around the reconfigured discourses of design and design representation by the culture of technology production in the Computer-Aided ...
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