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To continue (approaching the Woodland Cemetery)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
This thesis examines the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, Sweden, designed and executed between 1914 and 1940 by the architects Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. The study consists of three parts. The first examines ...
Doing it right, improved public housing communities : building on Smokey Mountain : medium rise housing redevelopment, Tondo, Manila, Philippines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
A portrait, e x t e n d e d
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Every day, researchers from MIT's Materials Science Department stride past a portrait of Vannevar Bush that hangs on a curious display panel in the lobby of building 13, as they hurry to and from their laboratories. A ...
Real estate property managers and tenants : opportunities for learning relationships and customization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
Can the management of real estate assets profit from the value-added models developed by other industries? Current trends in the real estate industry have driven the need to develop methods for creating additional value ...
Developing spatial strategies for workplace change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This thesis lays out a framework to address issues of uncertainty and constant change facing organizations in today's unstable and turbulent business world. The framework structures the complex process of workplace change ...
Advanced building skins : translucent thermal storage elements
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Advances in the material sciences continue to provide designers with a wealth of new materials that challenge preconceived notions of the building envelope and its performance. These new technologies can be used to create ...
The culture of building to craft--a regional contemporary aesthetic : material resources, technological innovations and the form making process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
In the non-Western context, there always has been a dilemma between "who we are" and "who we should be" . One could say "between tradition and modernity" . When the alien culture of building was adopted, the ties with the ...
Envisioning creative space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This thesis proposes a framework to articulate certain criteria in creative spatial productions such as architecture. I discuss that a conformist and unquestioning adaptation to conventional space conceptions limits ...
Work 'n' play in the informational city : F2F interaction and emerging work and leisure patterns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
The death of distance does not equal the death of cities and of urban life. Cities are transforming their roles and functions in reaction to a major technological shift --from post-industrial to informational. And contrary ...
Computer analyses of the historical development of Bukhara city from the 5th c. B.C. to the 19th c. A.D.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
Based on the new architectural excavations by Prof. E. Nekrasova, the thesis will re-read and re-analyze the historical development of the Ark and the Shahristan, the historical cores of the city of Bukhara, and the ...