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MetaFormances : the hermeneutics of play in language/art/life
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
MetaFormances is a correspondence-based project that took place between 2005 and 2007. Miming the protocol of business form letters, the letters request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and illicit behavior in ...
An analysis of appraised values and actual transaction prices in the US CMBS market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis addresses the characteristics of transaction-based indices and appraisal-based indices and compares the difference between appraisal and transaction price in the United States Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities ...
A room in the city : housing itinerant lifestyles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In a globalized world, people are becoming more transient, and the turnover in cities continues to increase. For the white-collar labor force, the difference between residing and staying is becoming less defined. Hotel and ...
Organism of options : a design strategy for flexible space
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The need for "flexibility" of architecture has been increasing as recent social demands are rapidly changing. However, many buildings designed in the name of flexibility are blocky, boring, and actually quite inflexible ...
The notion of buying architecture : a proposition of strategic architecture for urban economic contexts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
How can an urban redevelopment be the best thing that has ever happened to a proposed site and to its residents who have lived there before the development? With lack of appreciation for how re-development projects could ...
Financing real estate development through rated commercial paper : an analysis of 75 State Street
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
Urban settlement and evolution in XIXth century Antioquia, Colombia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
Design approaches to structural optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
The objective of this thesis is to develop design approaches to structural optimization. In the example of three-dimensional grid structures, widely known as 'space frames', possible configurations are explored which ...
An elementary and high school complex for Lexington, MA : an exploration in designing for the Waldorf curriculum
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
This thesis is an examination of how elementary and high school education within the context of the Waldorf School Curriculum manifests itself in the physical form of its built environment. This project is therefore the ...
Infotecture : space as void, solid and activity information : cyber plaza by the Central Artery Tunnel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2005
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
This thesis is a formation of a new viewpoint to perceive architectural space. It opens up a new possibility of designing architecture as information. Designing architecture does not mean designing the mass, but designing ...