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Perspectives of the role of the body in the design process : observations from an experiment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis explores the role of the body in the design process. Its underlying assumptions are that there is bodily thinking in the design process, and that observing what designers draw, tell and do/gesture, can tell us ...
"La Revelation m'est venue de l'Orient" Henri Matisse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This Master's thesis will analyze Matisse's complex relation to the Orient. In 1947, Hemi Matisse was a recognized avant garde painter, after having deeply reflected on his painting he declared: "The Revelation came to me ...
Minimizing electricity costs with an auxiliary generator using stochastic programming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis addresses the problem of minimizing a facility's electricity costs by generating optimal responses using an auxiliary generator as the parameter of the control systems. The-goal of the thesis is to find an ...
An application service provider infrastructure for shared workspaces in Internet-based collaborative design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
For architectural, engineering and construction projects involving transient 'virtual organizations' composed of non-collocated team-members, the adoption of concurrent design principles is seen as vital. An important ...
The evolution of Al-Azhar Street, Al-Qahira, Egypt
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The historic quarter of Cairo, al-Qahira, is going through a period intense transformation that is threatening the physical environment as well as the social and economic fabric of the city. The transformations taking place ...
Book illumination and architectural decoration : the Mausoleum of Uljaytu in Sultaniyya
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis examines the conventions of two-dimensional articulation in architecture and its relationship to book illumination in early fourteenth century Iran. By examining the illuminations in a series of imperial Qurans ...
Metronomad
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
I constructed the Metronomad instrument to facilitate my ongoing exploration of the footstep as a basic epistemological unit. This portable percussive instrument assigns prerecorded or sampled sounds from the environment ...
Michelangelo's libreria secreta
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
In 1525, Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Clement VII to design a "libreria secreta" to be placed at the Southern end of the Laurentian library in Florence. The room was intended as a repository of the more precious ...
Icon + expectation : exploring the evolution of the American single family home
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
To propose a new conceptualization of "home", it is necessary to explore the mechanisms that have created this revered icon. Since the industrial revolution, the commercial packaging of the home has continually reinforced ...
Towards a post-industrial architecture : design and construction of houses for the information age
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The design and construction of modern residential architecture, which came into critical focus by architects of the Machine Age, continues to be a priority in the architectural discourse. For Modern architects, the desire ...