Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82). / This thesis explores the relationship between the spectacle and the spectator. The vehicle for this investigation is a theater, in Los Angeles, for an all-women Japanese revue company. The building articulates the roles of the performers and of the audience. In addition to solving the functional program, as a social performer the theater seeks to propose new ways to activate the event of theater going. On an urban scale, the theater mediates the points of intersection between diverse communities. The theater thus becomes a gestural proscenium to the city. The spatial experience which results constitutes the making of an architectural icon. / by Jeanne C. Tsing. / M.Arch.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1969. B.Arch. / Bibliography: leaves 64-65. / B.Arch.

Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1963. / Accompanying drawings held by MIT Museum. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 71). / by Charles Burton Thomsen. / M.Arch

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-93). / China is embracing mega-mall development: Seven out of the ten largest shopping malls in the world will have been located in China by the year 2010. All the completed mega-malls are now suffering from high vacancy rates and therefore experiencing enormous economic losses. To avoid the failure of future mega-mall projects, it is important to establish rigorous guidelines for design, leasing, financing, and management of Chinese mega-malls. However, research in this field has not yet been conducted. This paper will analyze five problematic issues of the South China Mall, the largest shopping mall in the world, and describe a dynamic process involving governments, developers, and banks behind the failure of the Mall. The paper will also provide strategic suggestions on the development and management of the Mall. Given its dimensions and aspirations, the South China Mall is a mirror of contemporary Chinese mega-mall development. It is hoped that lessons from the South China Mall can be applied to other Chinese mega-malls currently experiencing economic stagnancy. / by Lu Ai. / S.M.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-85). / by Robert Harris Bergson. / M.S.

Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1957. / ACCOMPANYING drawings held by MIT Museum. / Bibliography: leaf 27. / by Robert P. Breading. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1949. / Includes bibliographies. / by Lawrence Livingston, Jr. / M.C.P.

Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-119). / The office has for decades been touted as a model of flexibility, the super-generic shell facilitating the ultra-customized fit out. However, as technology fuels a de-territorialization of the workplace and employees are untethered from their desks, the definition of flexibility must be rewritten architecturally beyond furniture systems, organizational methodologies or leasable space to encompass, and even prioritize, the potential of productive geographies over a singular workplace. Accelerated by the burgeoning sharing economy, increased telecommuting and pervasive, these new working territories extend to public and private institutions alike, challenging our present concepts of ownership and demanding a re-interpretation of the office typologically. This thesis sets out to take on that challenge, and re-imagines the office through the lens of the hotel, mapping the broader attributes of our contemporary working culture onto the hospitality industries highly calibrated temporal management system in a bid to displace the outmoded workplace with a new typological model, the WorkHotel. Engaging the growing trend of decentralization, the proposal seeks to create a platform for the new urban working culture, embracing globalization and the necessity of distributed workforce models. As a typological synthesis, the project speculates on how productive overlaps between the office and hotel reveal new opportunities for optimization through architectural strategies, while at the same time questioning our prevailing cultural distinctions between productivity and relaxation, work and play, and the inherent spatial manifestations that these concepts create. / by Alexander M. Dixon. / M. Arch.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62). / Real Options analysis has only begun to be recognized as way to evaluate real estate and is considered "beyond the cutting edge" of financial analysis. Several academic papers have looked at ways that real estate can be analyzed using real options; however a universally practical financial model using real options has not successfully been achieved. There are several reasons why real options analysis has not quickly come to the forefront of financial analysis. The first obstacle is that real options analysis can be quite rigorous and mathematically complex, making it difficult to be easily adopted by the everyday analyst. Presently, the most common method of analyzing real estate is using Discounted Cash Flow, which is relatively systematic and can be universally understood by most persons in the finance world. However, real options theory is not nearly as intuitive, even to the most sophisticated financial persons. There is no tried and true, universally recognized methodology for real options analysis of real estate, at least not yet. Discounted Cash Flow does a very good job analyzing most real estate. However, complex, multi-phased, or very speculative developments justify significantly more sophisticated analysis methods, such as real options. / (cont.) Real options is relatively new to real estate, and awaits daring pioneers who are willing to create intuitive, thorough, and transparent models that could be used by future real estate analysts before real options analysis will ever become a mainstream method for analyzing real estate. With this in mind, this thesis intends to present a practical, comprehensive, and intuitively transparent financial model using Microsoft Excel for analyzing real estate development projects. This thesis will hopefully serve as a basis for future models, and will aid in others' understanding of the advantages and drawbacks of such analysis and how to properly utilize it as a tool for real-world projects. It is also the intent of this model to be utilized and further refined by future students in the Real Estate Development Studio course at MIT and by real-world real estate practitioners. / by Adam Hengels. / S.M.

Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-81). / by Michael Boyle Johnson. / M.S.V.S.