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Ibn Khaldun and the city : a study of the physical formation of medieval Cairo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
This essay is an application of Ibn Khaldun's theories of culture and civilization to a study of the physical formation of medieval Cairo . The study is based on the premise that the city is an historical process governed ...
Synthetic movies derived from multi-dimensional image sensors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
Control of parts : parts making in the building industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
The thesis advances a diagramming tool called PAct. Each diagram is a model of a "value adding" enterprise, representing materials processing, parts manipulation and assembly, and the agents involved. Its purpose is to ...
Audioptimization : global-based acoustic design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Acoustic design is a difficult problem, because the human perception of sound depends on such things as decibel level, direction of propagation, and attenuation over time, none of which are tangible or visible. The advent ...
Jack Tworkov's work from 1955 to 1979 : the synthesis of choice and chance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
Jack Tworkov began painting in the 1920s and made his reputation later as an Abstract Expressionist working in a gestural style. At the age of sixty-five Tworkov put that reputation on the line by undergoing a radical ...
Environmentalism : philosophical sources of 19th century urban thought
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
.... but what is good urban form?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
The architectural implications of passive solar cooling systems in hot-arid climates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
Residential architectural design should fulfill both the comfort and the social requirements of the occupants. Khartoum, the capital of the Sudan was chosen for this study because of two reasons; The first is its unusually ...
Rudolph M. Schindler : theory and design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
The work of Rudolph M. Schindler has been subject to criticism, disregard and misunderstanding. Attempts have been made to characterize Schindler as a cubist architect, a constructivist architect, an expressionist architect, ...
Real estate developers and child care centers : loss leader or competitive tool?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)