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Reinventing the golden age ballpark and the pastoral ideal : a new home for the Boston Red Sox on Fort Point Channel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Despite of the relationship between the development of the American city, the pastoral ideal (a longing for a more rural and simple past) and the game of baseball, the urban ballpark has been the focus of little attention, ...
Mother Earth's Museum for Children, Boulder Colorado : harmounious design, an identity with setting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Natural phenomenons are conceived of the Earth and appropriate to their setting. Architecture designed harmoniously with its setting belong. to the Earth and, through this association, appropriately contributes to the ...
Experiencing an aerial landscape : hang gliding park on a cliff
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
This thesis is an exploration of architectural space as a contrasting and changing experience from the ground and from the ai r. It focuses on how architectural interventions may offer spatial experiences which may be ...
Center for craft : design for expeditionary learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
"Grow into what you are ... there is more in you than you know. If we can come to discover this, we may never again settle for anything less." - Kurt Hahn, Founder - Outward Bound. (1920) "Hours spent by the true craftsman ...
Body in space : the sensual experience of architecture and dance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
Dance and architecture are two disciplines of creativity that share a special relationship. Both disciplines define and use space as the main medium for creative interpretation. Dance is movement of the human body through ...
A complex order for industry : design of an urban factory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
Whereas the separation of work from domestic life introduced during the industrial revolution has brought enormous increases in productivity through the division of labor, the cultural cost of this fracture for society is ...
Boston Urban Farm : mending the Southwest Corridor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
This work studies Boston's segregated nature in terms of race and class especially as this coincides with the physical form of the city. Known for its strong neighborhoods, Boston cannot escape definite boundaries between ...
Enhancing pedestrian access and neighborhood integrity in Boston's North End : a mixed use approach utilizing the existing highway structure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
I set out to explore for this thesis the development of the Central Artery Project and the future planning of downtown Boston. After investigating the history of the artery, visions for Boston's redevelopment and different ...
An urban infill : a residual site in Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
This thesis is concerned with the treatment of residual sites in the context of the urban environment and in particular with the wounds inflicted by the passage of the Massachusetts Turnpike through the city of Boston. The ...
Mexico -- space/nation/class -- U.S.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
With the much-commented upon shifts in the global economy and the problematizing of traditional social, economic, cultural, and political relationships, the role of architecture as a "public" practice has fallen under ...