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Material worlds : [de]constructing the ethos of concrete in Mumbai
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
What can a building material tell us about a city? As the most widely used structural building material in the world, reinforced cement concrete shapes the urban form of several of our largest megacities Sao Paulo, Cairo, ...
Sustainable urban forms for Chinese typical new towns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The phenomena of exploding world urban population and sharply decreasing global arable lands are illustrated in contemporary China in a dramatically amplified form. Construction of many new towns in rural areas has been ...
Ideal pathologies : Jean-Marc Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (1831-1854)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis takes as its subject a remarkable anatomical atlas produced between 1831 and 1854: the Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme. Authored jointly by anatomist Jean-Marc Bourgery and artist Nicolas Henri Jacob, ...