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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Indigenous" -- "Vernacular" : negotiating an American history for modernism through the lens of the architectural exhibition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
After modernism was conceptualized as the "International Style" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932, historians and critics sought to legitimate American architecture through the construction of a linear ancestry which ...
Refiguring the sketch : the Nari Gandhi cartographic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Nariman Dossabhai Gandhi, one of the earLiest proponents of organic architecture Taliesin and heaviLy influenced by Frank LLoyd Wright's teachings on the same subj personal understanding of the term: organic, extending it ...
Data structures for context responsive modeling in architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Context plays important roles in architecture design, any feelings we implement, or any existing conditions that we try to address in a design process intents emerge. Understanding the relationships between elements in a ...
Homebody
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis represents a foundation of research and ideas upon which I build my practice as an artist. By closely examining my chosen artistic site, the home, and my artistic medium, the body in performance, I hope to ...
Revealing the potential of Compressed Earth Blocks : a visual narration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB) is a developed earth technology, in which unbaked brick is produced by compressing raw soil using manual, hydraulic, or mechanical compressing machines. Revealing the potential of an affordable ...
Outlining the indeterminate emergence : landscape as a framework in contemporary urbanism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Since the last decade of the 20th century, landscape has become an emerging medium in the practice of urban design projects. Rather than architecture, landscape, once viewed as margin and subordinate of the architecture ...
Reasonable computing for architectural fabrication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The use of digital fabrication tools in the architecture industry serve a particular group of individuals whose familiarity of the tools are by trade skill. Machines lack the understanding of people in its ability to ...