Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography : leaves 44-45. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 75). / The loss of small scale elements and the lack of opportunity for personal elaboration has been an area of failure in contemporary buildings . These small scale elements are essential in providing human scale, enabling useful inhabitation, and giving a sense of place. This study attempts to define a design approach in which small scale elements and details will be an intrinsic outgrowth of the building process. The fulfillment of utilitarian conditions; use patterns, structure, and construction, form the basis of this approach rather than the application of some "decoration" to the basic form. This approach calls for the intensification of design decisions, based on utility and maintaining the integrity of earlier decisions. Built intensification serves as the optional aesthetic manner in which a utilitarian distinction is made. This theory of intensification is studied through a design of an infill system of interior elements to be used in multi-family housing. This system relies on standardized elements, shop fabricated, which can be custom assembled within each dwelling to meet the particular programmatic needs of the inhabitant. These elements, which would serve as storage, use surfaces and separation, would also be amenable to personal elaboration and rearrangement by the occupant at a later time. One typical dwelling unit, taken from the context of a larger housing project that I designed, serves as the area to be inhabited . There are four phases of the design process of this infill system. Each of the phases is illustrated through drawings and photographs of a model. The four phases of the design process are: 1) the primary structural zone; the catalogue of interior elements and their details; 3) the assemblage of these elements in the primary structure; and 4) the details, connections and further intensification of the assembled pieces. / by Charles Treister. / M.Arch.

Thesis. 1979. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 231-233. / M.Arch.

Decoration holds a contested position in built environment scholarship. Largely marginalised by Modernist claims of material and structural integrity, decoration is often sidelined as the most temporal and superficial of built environment practices. A common misunderstanding is that decoration and interior design merely make built space fashionable. The thesis challenges the misconception of interior design as gratuitous embellishment, and demonstrates how a reconsideration of the term ‘decoration’ makes new insights available for both contemporary practice and scholarship in interior design. I contend that if decoration can be considered a vehicle through which ideas, such as the cultural veneration of appearances and the social motivations of fashion are explored, it can be understood as representative of contemporary cultural concerns.

Som examensarbete i inredningsarkitektur och möbeldesign har jag valt att söka efter ett formuttryck som ligger bortom de modernistiska idealen av logik och rationalitet. Som utgångspunkt i en designuppgift har jag valt träslaget furu och ornament i alla dess former. Jag ifrågasätter rådande smak och stilideal inom områdena inredning och möbler. Dessutom har jag som intention att höja statusen på furu. Detta utmynnar i ett möbelformgivningsprojekt där jag formulerar några tankar i en möbel om en roligare designvärld att leva i. Hypotesen som ligger till grund är: så som vi formar rummen formar rummen till slut oss. / Kandidatexamen 2010

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1963.

Diss.--Tübingen. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 152).

"Einige Abschnitte dieses Buches lagen ... 1926 der Universität Leipzig als Dissertationsschrift vor."--Vorwort. / "Verzeichnis der wichtigsten Literatur": p. 95-96.

Inaug.-Diss. -- Universität Basel. / Vita. Bibliography, p. 84-85.

Inaug.-diss--Giessen. / Lebenslauf.