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State of roads : public works as research, India circa 1960
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
That the road is a symbol of the prowess of the nation-state seems tautological, a uni"ed phenomenon of political symbolism that manifests as an infrastructural network. When subjected to a close historical examination, ...
The people in the city of the nation : re-viewing Islamabad's fifth function
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis is about Islamabad's center. Islamabad is a city built from scratch. It was the "dream" of Ayub Khan-Pakistan's gregarious and globe-trotting general-cum-president-and the product of its chief master planner, ...
At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This thesis is a study of the historical planning discourse concerning New York City's sidewalks. It focuses on the forces within the city that have shaped the sidewalk and attitudes towards it, and the translation of ...
The ethos in the form making of grand projects in contemporary Beijing City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Capital cities embody national identity and ethos, buildings in the capital cities have the power to awe and to inspire. While possibly no capital city in the world is being renewed so intensely as Beijing, which presents ...
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 ...
Boom
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis is about my relationship to technology through the medium of my body. By implication it is about how our culture and society view and interact with technology's various manifestations. I use my voice as the ...
Financial analysis of energy-efficient façade systems for application in commercial office developments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Advocates for sustainable development have been campaigning for the implementation of green features in developments. New and high-technology energy-efficient technologies, such as photovoltaic cells and double skin façades, ...
Field container as a regional strategy for revitalizing the Los Angeles River
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis is the study of the Los Angeles River as a multi-layered field with urban condensers that revitalize the river, connect and revitalize the municipal districts bordering the river, and restructure the region to ...
Design - Make : the translation of design intention to fabrication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The process of making innovative buildings is stifled by our current methodology of communicating design information. Advances in new techniques, technologies, methods, materials and knowledge for both designers and ...
Tactility and architecture : Peter Zumthor's Thermal baths in Vals and the hybridization of the two motifs of tactility-materiality and movement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Tactility holds a unique position in modem architectural discourse. Oftentimes, it has been evoked "as an alternative to two-dimensional vision. However, the notion of tactility sometimes denotes ambiguous and often ...