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Sustainability in architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Current standard practice in architecture does not take into account the external societal costs that a building creates. To understand the total consequences of a building, one must consider all of the ecological and human ...
E M B O D I M E N T : mental and physical geographies of the neo-nomad
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Globalization is today significantly debated. The ineluctable phenomenon has led to homogenization, hybridization, cultural confusion, and social disorders. The resulting chaos has been translated by a loss of landmarks, ...
Tempus fugit : music and the ephemeral in architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
I am interested in the relationship between solidity and transparency, between permanence and ephemerality, in the context of the modern city. This thesis is an exploration of transience and of social and phenomenal exchange, ...
Interpreting landscape : understanding through a story of architectural experiences
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Since the 1880's the United States government has been constructing buildings on national park land. The visitor and administrative building typologies in the National Park Service have evolved from Army barracks at Fort ...
Building community while building responsibly : a sustainable housing complex for Central Los Angeles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Martial arts academy : an examination of duration and discrepancy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Other than the martial component, the primary concern for many of the martial arts is answering the question, "what is self?". The task of answering that question has historically belonged to the martial arts to the extent ...
The 'Circular' Piazza : landscape and history as architectural material : Constanta, Romania
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Ideas. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that architecture, conceived from human experience, is a dual process of thinking and doing, in addition to being a building or a final product, and can occur at any scale of ...
Complex curvilinear surfaces in composite materials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The thesis will propose a method of architectural design that applies the use of continuous and curvilinear surfaces. It will explore a method of engaging the continuous surface as an expression and response to t he dynamic ...
Modeling contaminant exposure in a single-family house
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
New, stricter building codes for energy conservation mandates tighter building construction, which directly reduces the amount of available fresh air from infiltration. This decrease in fresh air is a subject of intensive ...
Istanbul viewed : the representation of the city in Ottoman maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Starting from the premise that maps are essentially about visualizing space, this dissertation examines what the Ottoman maps of Istanbul reveal about the city's perception, as it evolved in connection to urban development ...