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The Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
The dissertation is a history of Louis Sullivan's Carson-Pirie-Scott Building in Chicago, originally the Schlesinger and Mayer Store, built 1899- 1904. Carson-Pirie-Scott was the last major structure designed by Sullivan ...
A di alogue logic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The history of computation owes a major debt to the traditional crafts, and the worlds of design and computation have been interlinked since the development of mechanical computing systems during the 19 th century. As ...
kraftLAB : reimagined courtyards for the future of Fes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In the urban labyrinth of Fes el-Bali, artisans toil away passionately in their courtyard houses that, with the increasing density of the medina over the past century, have come to dominate the surrounding architectural ...
After Exodus : re-occupation of the metropolitan wall
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The title "Exodus alludes to a restricted exclave encircled by a forbidding wall -- effect, a prison on the scale of a metropolis, and one in which people sought refuge voluntarily. Over the past forty years, similar walls ...
Contextualism and fragmentation : a dualistic guideline to the design of urban architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
This thesis is ultimately an exercise in understanding the process of making an urban building in a given context. How can one design a new urban building who might effectively exist in a state of identifiable isolation ...
Capturing the essence : designing a cultural center for the coastal and mountain peoples of Taiwan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
The objective of this thesis is to examine how a group of people can retain its cultural integrity when under economic development pressure. I am using design as a point of departure in looking at how to approach and ...
Learning from each other : citizen participatory community design in the United States and Japan, and the role of the architect
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
This thesis explored principles of community design for future development both in the US. and Japan by examining the organizational structures, levels of participation and processes of community designs. Three cases in ...
Immersion in water, steam, and light
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
The built environment impacts and impresses itself upon the body and spirit. Our senses reveal and interpret these experiences. I am interested in the experiencing of architecture at a point where the material and permanent ...
Siting the industrial cemetery : new burial grounds and crematory for Braintree, MA
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
The contemporary urban condition has placed a great deal of stress upon American cemeteries. Many cemeteries, once sited at the edge of cities and towns, are now surrounded by urban sprawl and development of surrounding ...
Site and still life
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
This thesis uses the still life as a medium for investigating architecture and the city . An analogy is established between what the thesis defines as still life and an urban composition (a site in East Cambridge). Through ...