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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 ...
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 ...
Fault detection methods for vapor-compression air conditioners using electrical measurements
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
(cont.) This method was experimentally tested and validated on a commercially available air handler and duct system. In the second class of faults studied, liquid refrigerant, rather than vapor, enters the cylinder of a ...
Regulation, architecture and modernism in the United States, 1890-1920
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This dissertation examines the modernization of the United States through a group of regulatory techniques and institutions that emerged in the early twentieth century. In this period, conceptions of power based on ...
Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This dissertation charts the production of Lebanese cosmopolitanism from the nineteenth century to the present, examining how this putatively national trait is established through the visual arts. It contends that in order ...
Conceptions of design in a culture of simulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Design is a system of relationships in flux. Practitioners at Arup, a global design consultancy, negotiate a place for themselves within this system by using simulations to mediate their professional relationships. Simulations ...
New races, new media : the struggle for a modern American art, 1890-1925
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
American modernism was formulated at the turn of the twentieth century, when artists and intellectuals became newly self-conscious of their aesthetic strategies in a rapidly urbanizing United States. During that same period, ...
Will to war, will to art : cultural internationalism and the modernist aesthetics of monuments, 1932-1964
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This dissertation examines a period around World War II when the prospect of widespread destruction provoked a profound re-evaluation of Europe's landmarks, their material value, and their ethical significance. Between ...
Nature normative : the Design Methods Movement, 1944-1967
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In the mythic construct of the West, nature, for a considerable era, has served as a seminal broker in basal underpinning discourse. This is despite nature's commutative, convertible and contradictory disclosures. As the ...