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Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
America's Midwest experienced its most rapid growth after the age of industrialization, stretching the suburban landscape beyond our wildest imagination, to a state of ubiquity. In the case of Iowa, this suburbanization ...
Facades of modernity : image, performance, and transformation in the Egyptian metropolis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Shifting political, social and cultural landscapes in contemporary Cairo with the triumph of Neolibralism are defining the city's modem heritage. In order to create a narrative of transformation of architectural production ...
The design of a panelized roof system for residential construction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
The cost of housing in the U.S. continues to rise faster than household income. Innovative building materials and construction technologies have the potential to reduce housing construction costs. One strategy to do this ...
Built to last : designing for a referential continuity in the built environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
This thesis is about exploring a way of understanding, designing and building architecture which acknowledges that we are a part of a world which is always changing and becoming, without denying or forgetting the past, and ...
Urban ideograms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This thesis offers the concept of Urban Ideograms. It is developed and crystallized through a strategic gathering and selection of specific textual and contextual information from various sources, such as the drawings of ...
Methods to improve school design in Sierra Leone
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Most schools in Sierra Leone are constructed using a standard design with little variation from building to building. They are relatively high-cost and have poor ventilation, lighting and thermal comfort. In January 2010, ...
The office : an analysis of the evolution of a workplace
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
Much of the historical discussion concerning the office building has operated at the level of image . In this reading architects, faced with specific program requirements and technical possibilities, adopt a language for ...
POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis aims to explore the relationship between urban form and law, regulation and policy in the built environment. It depicts the roots, the necessity and exponential growth of regulations across the urbanized world ...
From the Cheney House to Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminist Mamah Borthwick
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
This thesis seeks to investigate the impact of Frank Lloyd Wright 's contact with feminist theory on his design and his thinking. For, in 1912, Wright and his companion Mamah Borthwick co-translated a book by Swedish ...
Synthetic tutor : profiling students and mass-customizing learning processes dynamically in design scripting education
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Artificial intelligence is substituting human intelligence and robots are replacing human workers. Instead of settling for this competitive relationship between humans and machines, this thesis proposes a novel framework ...