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Structural analysis and assessment of Guastavino vaulting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis studies the behavior and pathologies of the masonry tile structures built by the R. Guastavino Company in order to provide recommendations on their analysis and assessment. Structural analyses of two specific ...
What are the business and regulatory factors for a successful Philippine REIT market?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In an attempt to determine what business and regulatory factors are required for the successful establishment of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) structure in the Philippines, we analyzed the macro and microeconomic ...
Pulling back the curtain : revealing the production of performance in the Hawaiian Islands
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Harbors throughout the Hawaiian Islands serve as the dating a growing commercial cruise ship industry, foreign activity. They are also increasingly sites of controversy structures restrict local access and use of harbor ...
Diasporic tactics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This document acts as the written form of an art practice that can be described by making an analogy between the artist and the itinerant migrant worker. This thesis is an elaboration on certain viewpoints, encounters, and ...
Micro architecture : architecture for daily social activities within Beijing's hutongs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis is an attempt to propose the alternative architectural strategy which derives from the Micro Urbanism in the micro-scale realm in the Asian main cities. Based on the Micro Urbanism, the project is to propose a ...
The face of the German house : modernization and cultural anxiety in twentieth-century architectural photographs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This dissertation proposes that architectural photography-which became an independent genre in twentieth century Germany-was a primary route along which the cultural and political conflicts of modernization were addressed ...
O! Canada? : a pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
While ninety percent of new buildings in Canada are built with light wood framing, the conventions of this construction method are seldom challenged, the economic systems behind their materials scarcely exposed, and the ...
A new approach in data visualization to integrate time and space variability of daylighting in the design process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Daylighting design has great impact on the performance and aesthetical quality of a work of architecture but requires many issues to be addressed during the design process. The way existing daylighting tools deliver data ...
Cakewalking into representation : Gabriele Münter's America travels (1898-1900) and art of dailiness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This study explores the fashioning of Gabriele Münter as a German modernist with a focus on the eclipse of her struggles in coming to representation, the rich complexity of her processes, and the importance of dailiness ...
Religion in the secular marketplace
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
A design thesis which proposes to create a new religious mall in the growing Texas suburb of Frisco: a design proposal for interfaith space conceived of as a 'marketplace of ideas' in which religions, religious businesses, ...