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Will you have a yam? : a study in agency and representation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Systems of architectural representation, and their implied balance of agency, are a potential site of tectonic, spatial, and programmatic reinvention. By altering only the roles of those involved in the design/construction ...
Network/Neighborhood : building Telecom City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The coupling of virtual interfaces and physical places is integral in realizing the full potential of information technologies upon the planning of communities. To date, the urban model of development most associated with ...
Opportunities for building design and construction resulting from local resources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Current and future generations of architects must learn to operate effectively in an era of unprecedented resource constraints if they want to achieve their design intentions. This thesis addresses the architect's role in ...
Higher occupancy humanism : the trade-offs for encouraging middle income housing in a global city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
In high density urban areas where the land acquisition and construction cost components are significant relative to total development costs, the market typically supplies a high-income housing product in order to justify ...
The living skyscraper : mapping the vertical neighborhood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The rise of the skyscraper was not driven by programmatic needs or artistic desires, but rather economic conditions coupled with turn-of-the-century technological innovations. As it evolved, systems matured to provide ...
MEGAPORT : architecture in infrastructural environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Site: Arabian Sea, major region for container shipping bulk breaking. World trade is growing at a rate twice the world's economy. The assembly and customization of traded goods are increasingly decentralized around the ...
ReHABit : claiming endangered structures in Washington DC to rethink subsidized housing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
There is an affordable housing crisis today in Washington D.C. that is the result of a uniquely complicated history of a capital city and a current economic boom. This thesis responds to that crisis by proposing a new ...
Towards a redefinition of 'context'
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Context is an ever-present yet elusive issue in architecture and it is difficult for any two people to agree about its definition or role in architecture. Yet context casts a long shadow over architectural design no matter ...
Passages : a hospice for New York City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
At the beginning of the 20th century most Americans died at home from diseases whose onset was quick and aggressive. The average life expectancy was only 50 years. Antibiotics first appeared in the 1940's and when the baby ...
Filmic architecture : on motion perspective in architectural synthesis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
This thesis is an inquiry into the potential of film as an extended perspective defined by the sequential juxtaposition of images. Based on the notion that linear perspective in Renaissance architecture was used as a formal ...