Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-71). / This thesis is an examination of the 1976 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of color photographs by William Eggleston-the second one-man show of color photography in the museum's history- with particular attention to the exhibition monograph, William Eggleston's Guide. From hundreds of slides, MoMA Director of Photography John Szarkowski dominated the process of selecting the 75 images for the exhibition and 48 to be carefully packaged in the Guide, a faux family photo album/road trip guidebook. It is my contention that, despite their verbal emphasis on the Modernist and universal (rather than Southern) nature of the images, the photographs can be read as being replete with the mythology of the Old South- its decay, vulgarity, and even horror. Through this act of manipulation, the images in the Guide appealed in a voyeuristic way to an elite Northern art world audience, ever eager to reinforce its own intellectual, economic, and ethical superiority over other parts of the country. Due to its presumed "vulgarity" and absence of aesthetic mystique at the time, color photography required for its inaugural moment at the museum a sharp distancing from the documentary tradition and advertising-the complete erasure of social context afforded by a Modernist aesthetic. / (cont.) The two-faced posture maintained by the curator and photographer combined a canny understanding of the cultural power of the images with an overtly Modernist disavowal of it. / by Anna Karrer Kivlan. / S.M.

Although living in the city can provide many benefits, it also provides many issues as well. Housing costs are constantly increasing, both physical and mental spaces are sacrificed, and our innate connection to nature is severed. These produce profoundly damaging effects on the human psyche and cause people to migrate from the urban to the suburban and rural areas. The solution is to design more efficient urban buildings that can actively adapt to its inhabitants' programmatic needs and utilizes wood, specifically cross-laminated timber, as its main material to reconnect with nature. / Master of Architecture

Circulation is the way by which people move and interact with a piece of architecture. In public buildings, such as transportation terminals, it is crucial to have a floor plan that allows easy flow of pedestrian traffic. Effective circulation in public areas such as these ensures a visitor can navigate conveniently and efficiently. Also, using circulation elements such as elevators, escalators, and staircases, optimizes the flow of individuals through a building while providing visual appeal as they can be positioned and designed creatively Within my thesis I am investigating the relation between the physical presence of architecture and the possibilities to provide order and sensualisation throught its circulation system. Humans follow specific quotes of orientation, but architecture can especially offer certain guidelines. Although structural solutions require essential knowledge, this thesis further requests the double use of structure as a circulation pathway in addition. The high-scale urban environment of New York City provides ground for this investigation. / Master of Architecture

Compensating an employee for work performed or services rendered constitutes an important aspect of personnel management. The question of determining and establishing appropriate wages and salaries for comparable, different and varied jobs in an organization is one that raises complex, thorny and even nebulous issues such as "equity." The eight-week intensive training of the intern was a considerable concentration on the basic and specific methods of determining the relative ranks of jobs on the basis of their contents as judged by certain defined job characteristics or factors. In the early part of the internship program, the intern was acquainted with the basic philosophy and fundamental methods of job evaluation. The intern was subsequently introduced to the actual job evaluation methods as applied in TWA. Actual case problems and situations were studied; job descriptions were reviewed, audit of jobs were conducted; the intern had the opportunity of observing and participating in actual information collecting, verifying and recording process. The intern was acquainted with the techniques of compiling salary surveys and applying such information as a method of comparing internal salary structures with external market conditions. The latter part of the program was largely a concentration on and analysis of job descriptions and organizational structures of Ethiopian Airlines. The study basically involved the understanding of the salary structures of management personnel of Ethiopian Airlines, the investigation of the possibilities of translating TWA job evaluation methods, and the subsequent application of the methods employed by TWA to that of Ethiopian Airlines.

The purposes of this study were, 1. To develop a documented history of the founding of the town of Islip. 2. To trace the development of public education within the town and to parallel this development with state-wide developments in the field.

[pt] Como o jornalismo contemporâneo, herdeiro do positivismo e dos ideais de imparcialidade e objetividade predominantes no século XIX, fala da alteridade? Esta pesquisa avalia o conceito de verdade no jornalismo atual e as formas de narrar-se o Outro a partir de reportagens recentes do jornal americano The New York Times. Partindo de reportagens sobre o Brasil divulgadas no jornal mais tradicional dos Estados Unidos, se verifica que em muitos aspectos o jornalismo do século XXI se aproxima do jornalismo do século XIX. Entretanto, algumas narrativas recentes já apontam para novas formas de falar-se do diferente. Com elas, se percebe que falar do Outro respeitando a diferença parece ser não somente uma questão de boa intenção do repórter, mas também, de sua habilidade em usar conteúdo e forma em prol da aproximação do objeto do qual se fala. / [en] How the contemporary journalism, the inheritor of positivism and of the impartiality and objectivity ideals predominant in the 19th century, talk about the otherness? This research evaluates the concept of truth in the recent journalism and the ways to narrating the Other, initiating with recent reports of the American newspaper The New York Times. Starting with recent news about Brazil published in the most traditional newspaper of the United States, we realize that in many aspects the journalism of the 21st century approaches the 19th century journalism. However, some recent narratives show that there are many ways to tell about the different. In these cases, we note that talk about the Other regarding diversity seems to be not only a case of reporter`s good intentions, but an ability to use the content and the form to approaching the object too.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references. / The proliferation of over 500 fitness programs for the employees of American corporations marks a turning point for the way American corporations regard employee and corporate health. Typically, sports facilities were the province of recreation or education facility planners. A category of sports activities has been isolated, however, for its cardiovascular characteristics and is the basic component of a fitness program The physiological characteristic which are of concern are those activities which contribute to the "training effect" of the heart or the ability of the heart to pump blood and oxygen to the body. The benefits of this conditioning are manifold. Longitudinal medical studies indicate that there are positive relationships across a large population for aerobic exercises or exercises which demand oxygen and decreased risk of heart attack in later life. While the correlation between exercise and good health seems merely the confirmation of good sense, it is a recent occurrence that this relationship has been quantified by corporations and utilized to increase "corporate health," through the construction of fitness facilities for employees. The intention behind this thesis is to explore the existing information about fitness centers and design a facility as the reuse of an historic building in Brooklyn, New York. / by Diane Theodora Georgopulos. / M.Arch.

Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography : leaf 92. / by Alva Tabor III. / M.Arch.

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Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography : leaf 92. / by Alva Tabor III. / M.Arch.