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African symbolism and form on two American black college campuses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
Images of public housing : a design exploration addressing the intrinsic relationship between individuals and the living environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
The architecture of public housing is generally lacking. It reflects a deteriorated national image of low-income housing and holds far-reaching consequences for the poor who have their own image of public housing. This ...
Some impressions of the department
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
This thesis comprises a series of impressions of the Department of Architecture, garnered after a long absence from M.I.T. These impressions are meant as an intervention in the Department's current self-analysis and debate ...
Some mechanical and metaphysical characteristics of form deciphered
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
Transformation of the courtyard house--low-rise high density urban housing in Korea
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
The idea of low-rise high-density urban housing is based on two fundamental objectives: 1) To provide higher density by intensifying land use as urban growth escalates at an unprecedented rate. 2) To reconsider the essential ...
Houses behind houses : testing the spatial potential of a suburban block
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
The morphology of the urban edge : design projections for a commercial street
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
The renaissance of the American city's a phenomena of great potential but also one which threatens to destroy the fragile balance of elements that structure the city. In the rebuilding and reoccupation of these urban ...
Reusing the Orange Line : explorations of building associatively within an urban grid
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
City grid organizations are a contextual reality. Given a dominant, all encompassing urban grid context, such as the South End area of Boston, Massachusetts and the opportunity for a small single-block sized intervention ...
Light-form : reception/distribution of direct sun-energy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
The era of the energy-efficient building is upon us. You've heard all the terms before: solar, daylight, super-insulation and so on. These terms describe ways in which buildings respond to the presence of light. Light ...
Interpreting territorial structure : the machiya of Kyoto and the rowhouses of Boston's South End
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
This thesis focuses on the structure of territory, and how a sense of physical and psychological retreat can be achieved by manipulating territorial principles as one moves through layers of space in an urban context. The ...