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Rudolph M. Schindler : theory and design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
The work of Rudolph M. Schindler has been subject to criticism, disregard and misunderstanding. Attempts have been made to characterize Schindler as a cubist architect, a constructivist architect, an expressionist architect, ...
Space and material : towards an architectural typology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
This work is an inquiry into the use of our past in order to help us shape our future. It proposes that the process of justification and validation of architecture should be one that takes into account societal acceptance ...
A sense of place
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
The thesis argues that a sense of place is one of the most fundamentally important quality of architecture and cities and attempts to show that legibility and latency are the aspects of the environment which contribute ...
A Bakery : in search of appropriate form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
During the process of designing a building there occurs the continuous task of finding the forms, materials and structure that are fit to the particular building or situation at hand. It is the intent to combine these ...
The essence of splace
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
This thesis is a beginning toward working with the qualities we find in the places we love - those essences which make space place. Why? In order to learn, we must experience these directly - they change in us - and then ...
Time, energy & form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
Physical manifestations of time occur in natural forms of all sizes. Architectural form serves as shelter while providing a built envelope of human life, simultaneously influencing and influenced by energetic activities ...
Projective architecture : studies toward the meaning and generative language of associative built form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
The fundamental expression of an architectural motif
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)