The way we live now : a new apartment house for Broadway
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11484676-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Mumford, Eric Paul
Advisor(s)
Fernando Domeyko.
Date Issued
1983
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis is essentially a design for a large apartment building in New York City containing substantial public facilities, which, it is hoped, might function as a kind of neighborhood center. The design process was devoted chiefly to the overall design of the building, with particular attention paid to the interior public spaces and the exterior massing. I tried to be reasonably realistic in terms of contemporary planning constraints and construction methods in the development of the design, and the project is meant to be taken as a serious proposal for its site. While the project itself is the main point of the thesis, the accompanying text is intended to provide some contextual background: the introduction sets out the main issues I struggled with, the other chapters provide some of the historical, cultural, and physical context of the design, while a concluding section describes the design process.
Description
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983.
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Supervised by Fernando Domeyko.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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