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The history and evolution of the residential mortgage market in Mexico : a look at its future
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Research was conducted in Mexico in order to determine the size, future growth and current status of the Mexican residential mortgage market, and to assess the potential for securitization. Securitization offers good ...
Play and the genesis of middle manager agents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
Community, space, and performance : a public stage in Central Square
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
In this thesis I strive to explore the question, "what is good architecture?" through the design of a facility for formal and informal musical and theatrical performance. The site for this project is in Central Square, ...
A clearing in the woods : self & city in Frank Lloyd Wright's organic communities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
This dissertation undertakes a comparative and developmental analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright's community scale planning projects executed in the wake of Broadacre City during the decade of the Second World War (1938 - 1948). ...
The city's pleasures : architectural sensibility in eighteenth-century Istanbul
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
The definitive return of the Ottoman court to the capital city Istanbul in 1703 ushered in nearly a century of extraordinary building activity and urban change, in the process of which a new architectural idiom was defined. ...
Numerical solution of nonlinear algebraic systems in building energy modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
When solving a system of nonlinear equations by Newton-Raphson's method, a common means of avoiding divergence requires each step to reduce some vector norm of the residual errors, usually the convenient and tractable sum ...
The elusive faces of modernity : the invention of the 1937 Paris Exhibition and the Temps Nouveaux pavilion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
The 1937 Paris Exhibition, the "final European enactment of the ritual of peace and progress before the deluge," remains the least researched and most misunderstood in the history of the World's Exhibitions in France. This ...
Modernism and professionalism in American architecture, 1919-1933
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
This dissertation examines the dominant conventions of architectural practice in the United States between 1919 and 1933. It proceeds from two assumptions: first, that by the 1900s, both the American Institute of Architects ...
Performance implications of corporate real estate strategic orientation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
A central concept in strategic management is that congruence between organizational resources and environmental conditions is critical to performance. There are three basic types of organizational resources: human, monetary, ...
The art of design expressive intelligence in music
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)