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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 ...
The architecture of storytelling : children's shelter in Venice, California
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
The thesis investigation began with my experience with storytelling. Verbal stories told to me as a child provided a form of cultural continuity. Stories were a way of transferring culture, ideas, religion, morals, and ...
Our mosques are US : rewriting national history of Bosnia-Herzegovina through religious architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Towards perceptual intelligence : statistical modeling of human individual and interactive behaviors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis presents a computational framework for the automatic recognition and prediction of different kinds of human behaviors from video cameras and other sensors, via perceptually intelligent systems that automatically ...
Information to iteration : using information and communication technologies [ICT] in design for remote regions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Remote design comes with significant challenges. A major barrier to designing in remote regions is the lack of communication between designers and users. As a result, the lack of information flow leads to assumptions about ...
The Rab' in Cairo : a window on Mamluk architecture and urbanism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
This dissertation is a reassessment of Mamluk architecture and urbanism in Cairo, based on a detailed study of one of the more important elements in its urban fabric, the rab' or apartment building. This building type is ...
William Robert Ware and the beginnings of architectural education in the United States, 1861-1881
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
William Robert Ware (1832- 1915) planned and directed the first collegiate program in architectural education i n the United States. He was educated in the liberal arts and civil engineering at Harvard University and ...
Nature normative : the Design Methods Movement, 1944-1967
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In the mythic construct of the West, nature, for a considerable era, has served as a seminal broker in basal underpinning discourse. This is despite nature's commutative, convertible and contradictory disclosures. As the ...
An exploration of materials and methods in manufacturing : shoreline membranes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
This thesis is an investigation into the design methodologies and ideologies of manufacturing processes specifically related to automotive design. The conceptualization, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing of cars is ...