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Improvisational specification of design spaces
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
As a mathematical abstraction and as a model for automated problem solving, the classical notion of a design space has proven convenient for the sciences and the engineering disciplines over the past sixty years. This is ...
Soggy sovereignty on the Irish border
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
BREXIT caused an existential crisis in Northern Ireland, by March 2019 the Irish border, between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the Republic of Ireland will become the EU's only land frontier with another union. ...
Illuminating education : composition and use of lighting in public K-12 classrooms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Despite ample research on light's effect on the human body (and particularly its effect on student and teacher health and performance), understanding of light's role in operational energy consumption, and advancement made ...
Collective Home Office
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Collective Home Office is a collaborative practice whose working process tests the propositions it makes through architecture. As a group of friends, willing test subjects, a union of producers, a jury, a family, or an ...
The ecology of truth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The spaces we inhabit influence the way we experience our surroundings, but this causal relationship is much weaker than designers and architects like to imagine. The Ecology of Truth investigates these weak effects as a ...
A replica of conservation : those that, at a distance, resemble ivory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This text embodies a process of deconstructing museological and ecological conservation. By constituting a part in the multi-layered art work Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Ivory, which culminates in a replica ceramic ...
Exploring the technics of computer representation : three 'prepared' instruments for plotting, meshing and rendering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
In Translations from Drawing to Building, Historian Robin Evans draws attention to the "blind spot between the drawing and its object" as a productive site in architecture. Instead of a "uniform space through which meaning ...
Picturesque prairies : productive preservation on a petroleum planet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Fires burn bright atop the flare stacks in the distance as bison watch from behind the two-meter high fence of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. In this modern scene, complex geographic formations in North Dakota's ...
The poetry generator
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
Poetry is one of the oldest forms of communication. The poet is interested in finding new ways of expressing universal truths. Science and technology also are looking for new ways to communicate universal truths. Through ...
The reception and study of Renaissance architecture in Great Britain, 1890-1914
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The writing of Renaissance architectural history in the period 1890-1914 in Great Britain changed dramatically. Despite modernism's tenet of rejecting history from design, Renaissance architectural history in Great Britain ...