Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1969. B.Arch. / Bibliography: leaves 56-57. / by Robert W. Gobel and Richard W. Hessdorfer. / B.Arch.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch.A.S. / MICROFICHE COPY ALSO AVAILABLE IN ROTCH LIBRARY. / Bibliography: leaves 152-155. / M.Arch.A.S.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH / Supervised by Fernando Domeyko. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94). / This thesis is essentially a design for a large apartment building in New York City containing substantial public facilities, which, it is hoped, might function as a kind of neighborhood center. The design process was devoted chiefly to the overall design of the building, with particular attention paid to the interior public spaces and the exterior massing. I tried to be reasonably realistic in terms of contemporary planning constraints and construction methods in the development of the design, and the project is meant to be taken as a serious proposal for its site. While the project itself is the main point of the thesis, the accompanying text is intended to provide some contextual background: the introduction sets out the main issues I struggled with, the other chapters provide some of the historical, cultural, and physical context of the design, while a concluding section describes the design process. / by Eric Paul Mumford. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-181). / by Onyekachi D. Akoma. / M.S.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch. / MICROFICHE COPY ALSO AVAILABLE IN ROTCH LIBRARY. / Bibliography: leaf 33. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1984. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-83). / On-site construction costs are very significant to project costs, as a result, the present trend is to fabricate larger components to simplify erection. This approach is however limited by the capacity of the transportation network and by constraints placed on erection . In stead of fabricating ever larger components it is possible to develop better adapted and more versatile construct ion machines, or to fully integrate the building components to the erecting mechanisms. The latter approach which finds its extreme expression in self-erecting structures forms the subject of this investigation. The objective is to present a framework of concepts and alternatives by which the potential of this approach can be more fully realized and better understood. The conceptual framework for this investigation was taken from "Kinematic Geometry" a branch of Dynamics generally associated with machine design. We draw from it only its most elemental concepts, these provide the looking glass, the interpretation. The main body consists of three parts. The first two follow the order of construction: first a mechanism is built, and then, by adding constraints, a structure consolidates, while the third discusses different relations and degrees of collaboration between the builder and that which is being built. We believe that, from the perspective here presented, not only is it possible to reformulate many of the problems of construction, but also , as a consequence, the approach to design, allowing for the synthesis of new solutions. / by Craig Davis. / M.S.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987. / Bibliography: leaves 63-66. / Allison Druin. / M.S.

Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55). / Applying modern and recent audio-visual technology to the traditional practice and performance of ancient Hindu religious ritual. To illustrate elements of the Indian Rasa theory of aesthetics, the canons of Hindu iconography, the symbolism of mantra, yantra, and tantra with the tools of computer graphics, animation, high speed photography, and to entice the imagery in a cocoon of sound spirals with the mechanics of structural and layered sound. To attempt a marriage of the observed ethnographic ritual with the contrived experiential state that modern technological tools permit. The nature of the tape will be circular in time and confined in space. It is to be used repeatedly like an audio record so that the sound-image stimulus becomes more familiar with playing and a familiarity and recognition factor replaces the "only once to be seen and heard" phenomenon. The written thesis will primarily serve as a background of ideas and theories employed and to help understand the technical, artistic or cultural traditions and the motivation for that use, with supportive sketches and drawings. 1. Use of the screen as stage/temple/space with the concept of yantra needs. 2. Use of traditional chant to create a captive sound environment. 3. Use of religious symbols and the inherent relationship between drawn pictures, dance, ritual performance and natural phenomena. 4. The appropriateness of computer graphics and other audio-visual technologies to serve and be extensions of traditional ritual components. 5. The insider- outsider dialogue concerning ethnographic film. / by Jayasinhji Jhala. / M.S.V.S.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch. / MICROFICHE COPY ALSO AVAILABLE IN ROTCH LIBRARY. / Bibliography: leaf 25. / M.Arch.

Thesis (S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-94). / This thesis takes as a starting point two images: on the one hand I use the old, historically and symbolically loaded image of the apu, which in Quechua means the spirit of the sacred mountain and the home of the ancestors. The apu is also the icon for the environment as whole and stands for the undivided relationship between people and land. I argue that through the historic processes of colonization, modernization, industrialization and globalization, this "whole" is fragmented into the symbolic and literal hill and hole that have resulted from sustained neoliberal economic policies and uneven forms of development. The opposing iconographies of the hill and the hole articulate a model of fragmentation that channels the contested Peruvian history of urbanization and dispossession. I argue this history has been informed by dichotomies between the national state and indigenous communities, between the city and the countryside, and between the formal and the informal settlements. While the hill in this thesis stands for gradual settlement by informal occupation, and the migratory and phenomenological conditions that this implies, the hole is the symbol of land exploitation through open pit mining, of fragmentation, and of dispossession brought on by accelerated economic policies. Therefore, two interwoven histories will compose this rigorous yet speculative analysis as a way to unearthen this complex history, the emblematic hill of San Cristobal in the capital city of Lima that has been occupied for nearly a century with informal settlement, and the post-industrial hole being produced by contemporary mining at the politically symbolic site where the town of Morococha in the Andes now stands. I excavate relevant political and economic accounts, while also reviewing artistic and architectural practices that have shaped and interpreted the territory and the economy. This research, and the analysis of formal and informal artistic and design strategies that I have undertaken, ultimately outline new methodologies and concepts that redefine my own work as an artists, architect, and designer within a research-based, analytical, and critical spatial practice. / by Giacomo Bruno Castagnola Chaparro. / S.M.in Art, Culture and Technology