Browsing Architecture - Master's degree by Title
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An artists' community in the Back Bay : continuity and change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)This thesis is a study of the relationship between continuity and change. It's premise is the idea that architecture can be receptive to the need for growth and change while still being rooted to the continuity of its ... -
An arts complex for Princeton University
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959) -
Artwitter : the reinterpretation of social networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Ant farm was a collective group of architects established in 1968 in San Francisco. Through critiquing the reversal of TV and automobile, Ant Farm reinterpreted television into Inflatable Architecture and Inflatocookbook, ... -
Ascender : unfolding fantasies of control, power and collapse through expanded painting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The "Ascender" artworks are described herein. "Ascender" is about transcending desires of power, control and collapse through a complex "taking-apart" of the artist's mental model. In a two-part arrangement of artworks the ... -
Asphalt landscape after all : residual suburban surface as public infrastructure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The thesis proposes a hybridized commercial retail strip inserted into a residual suburban condition as a manner of investigating the latent potential of suburban logic, both its constituent elements and its formal rules ... -
An assemblage of built definitions observed/disassembled in Sauve and in other examples of additive architecture for the design of an educational building
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976) -
The assemblage of exchange : housing, industry and the potential mall
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)This thesis is interested in examining a contemporary generative method for approaching design in urban areas. It considers the levels of interactions in the city in which the questions of architecture are clearly affected ... -
Assembled independent development zones : a prototype for Boston's Back Bay
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)This thesis is intended as a continuation of an MIT design studio. The class proposed an alternative approach to building in the city. It seeks to address some of the following issues: continuity, collective form, range ... -
Assembling smallness : the American Small Industries Exhibition, Ceylon 1961
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)The American Small Industries Exhibition was the first instance during the Cold War wherein the USA assembled a solo exhibit outside the framework of an established trade fair. It toured three nonaligned nations between ... -
Assessing the effect of architectural design on real estate values : a qualitative approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)It has long been known that 'good' architecture and quality design are public goods, as they have been shown to increase surrounding property values, create a sense of community, and provide a catalyst for future development. ... -
An assessment of foreign investors in the Washington, D.C. real estate market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
An assessment of the potential of the United States stick-built house for self-help construction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)This thesis initially focuses on the development of the U.S. stick-built house. The material and construction methods of the structure remain simple and unchanged, whereas the non-structural elements offer an enormous ... -
Asset management--service quality : the institutional investor perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
Assimilating hybridized architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The thesis searches for means of operation to deal with hybridized architecture. As a conceptual framework, sociology theory appears to be an insightful precedent, for it analyzes and classifies how multiple constituents ... -
The asymmetrical spine : a generator of design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979) -
At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis is a study of the historical planning discourse concerning New York City's sidewalks. It focuses on the forces within the city that have shaped the sidewalk and attitudes towards it, and the translation of ... -
Athens 1833-1979 : the dynamics of urban growth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)His thesis deals with the urban development of the city of Athens since its foundation as the capital of the newborn Greek State (1833) , until our days. The study focuses on two particular characteristics that dominate ... -
Atmospheric Apparatus : the production of another comfort paradigm
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Nowadays, being thermal comfort is no longer a challenging problem for modern living. With the aids of the modern environmental control technologies, a fast, convenient and effective thermal comfort experience can be easily ... -
Atmospheric interventions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Humans have been sheltering themselves from the harsh elements of their surroundings to maintain comfort since the discovery of the hearth. With the rise of the Industrial Revolution came innovations that made mitigating ... -
Atmospheric prototypes : rethinking spirituality in the American mosque
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The thesis addresses architecture's role in defining spirituality in an American Islamic context. The problem stems from *retrofit' mosques, or mosques which are adapted from previous structures not built as mosques. The ...
