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Synthetic movies derived from multi-dimensional image sensors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
Control of parts : parts making in the building industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
The thesis advances a diagramming tool called PAct. Each diagram is a model of a "value adding" enterprise, representing materials processing, parts manipulation and assembly, and the agents involved. Its purpose is to ...
Audioptimization : global-based acoustic design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Acoustic design is a difficult problem, because the human perception of sound depends on such things as decibel level, direction of propagation, and attenuation over time, none of which are tangible or visible. The advent ...
Jack Tworkov's work from 1955 to 1979 : the synthesis of choice and chance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
Jack Tworkov began painting in the 1920s and made his reputation later as an Abstract Expressionist working in a gestural style. At the age of sixty-five Tworkov put that reputation on the line by undergoing a radical ...
Environmentalism : philosophical sources of 19th century urban thought
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
The professionalization of housing design in Amsterdam, 1909-1919
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Housing design became an issue of public policy in Amsterdam when population growth spawned rapid urban expansion in the late nineteenth century. Dissatisfied with social, hygienic, and aesthetic aspects of the recent ...
Architecture as a theatre of life : profile of the eighteenth century Bosphorus
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
Privatization of public open space : public process and private influence
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
G.-Albert Aurier, critic and theorist of Symbolist art
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
This is a study of all the published writings on art by the Symbolist poet-critic G.-Albert Aurier, intending to elucidate the systematic theory of art that underlies all his criticism. It includes a brief biographical ...
Responsibility and the traditional Muslim built environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
This study aims to analyze the effect of the responsibility enjoyed by individuals over the built environment. To understand these effects the study concentrates on the physical state of the property. It is concluded that ...