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Draft of a zoning ordinance for the city of Waltham, Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947)
Between document and monument : architectural artifact in an age of specialized institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
This dissertation is a critical analysis of the transformations in the definition of a modem architectural artifact and the artifact's changing status in an institutional context. This work develops on a series of themes ...
Quantifying the dimensions of color experience
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
Learning city form from children : identifying patterns of adolescents' use and perception of the urban environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
Conflict, law and governance : the case of tenure conversion in New Delhi
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
A dry waterfront
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Images of entanglement : Wittgensteinian spatial practices between architecture and philosophy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This thesis explores the deep spatio-linguistic relationship between the Austrian born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's practices of philosophy and of architecture. Wittgenstein's philosophy of language is notable for its ...
"Little Visual Empire" : private vistas and the modern American home
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
Plan schematization : a computational approach to morphological structure of architectural space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
In this thesis an architectural design theory is premised so that plan making can start from a 'space scheme' which is a description of 'hierarchic balloon representation'. The space organization of a plan is described in ...
The writings of Louisa Tuthill : cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
This dissertation discusses the architectural writings of Louisa Tuthill ( 1798-1879), a little known nineteenth-century American author. Tuthill has been acknowledged for her History of Architecture from the Earliest Times ...