MIT School of Architecture and Planning Essays

  • Free News in a Linked World

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    Free News in a Linked World We usually classify communication media in three categories: published media, broadcast media and what Chris Chesher calls “invocational media”.1 The published media include newspapers, magazines and books. Radio and television are broadcast media — I would add speech as a nontechnological broadcast medium also. Invocational media represent communication tools used on interactive and networked digital computers.2 News delivery is present on every communication medium

  • Louis Sullivan Chicago Fire

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    and the ideas of Louis Sullivan were critical in the development of a new form of architecture in the United States and the societal and social influences that brought it all together. Predating the frequently cited Frank Lloyd Wright and Daniel Burnham, a commonly overlooked name would be that of Louis Sullivan, who is responsible for pioneering an American form of architecture that broke free from the conventions of the past to embrace the city of Chicago’s

  • S Unité D Habitation And Steven Holl's Simmons Hall

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    Introduction “The house is a machine for living in”. Famous quote from Le Corbusier which generated a lot of criticism and discussion. Should housing be seen as a machine or as an organism itself. With the development of human existence, the aspect of living is also changing trough the eras. This essay is devoted to the examination of the Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation and Steven Holl’s Simmons Hall. Regarding the aspects of how social hosing is being developed in the past century and today’s

  • Post Modern Architecture Essay

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    Post modern architecture: A revival of architectural elements of the past or a version of aestheticism? Ar.Navneet Kaur Bhatia Astt.Professor Lovely school of architecture and design, Phagwara ar.navneet.kaur@gmail.com, navneet.14789@lpu.co.in Abstract: New forms in current world have been testimony to the contemporary style of postmodern architecture and are the strength of today’s generation for creating significant architectural standards. Post modernism has blurred the borders between contemporary

  • Architecture Career bound

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    professional designer and planner of new homes, reconstructions, over sighting and coordinating my team of builders! I really would enjoy that reputation, hopefully becoming well enough to take on jobs from the government and all over the world. Architecture I believe is what fits my career profile because I do like to put everything in perspective in a sample drawing to determine what the final product will somewhat look like! I have a good imagination and try to analyze my surrounding structures;

  • History of the PC

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    were sold in kit form and assembled. Half were the Scelbi-8H hobby machines, the rest were Scelbi-8B business computers, which were released in April 1975, having as much as 16K of memory. The first commercially successful microcomputer was the MITS Altair 8800 designed by Ed Roberts.

  • Grand Theft Theory: Vice City

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    Grand Theft Theory: Vice City Both Cote and Khan said it's up to parents to decide whether their teens should be allowed to play Vice City. "Parents should be informed of what this game is about," said Khan. "I would definitely warn kids of the violence." Cote said when his mother first discovered that he and his brother played Grand Theft Auto III, she was "mortified."[1] Patriarchal formations of familial angst and romance included, Vice City has been received again and again in the several

  • Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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    as object manipulation and navigation, with sub-problems of localization (knowing where you are, or finding out where other things are), mapping (learning what is around you, building a map of the environment), and motion planning (figuring out how to get there) or path planning (going from one point in space to another point, which may involve compliant motion - where the robot moves while maintaining physical contact with an object). 6. Perception:- Machine perceptions the ability

  • Culture Shock

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    techniques that enable people to act, both physically and socially, in the world and make sense of the people and around world . (Forester, 2000, p.63) Culture items 'above the waterline' include language, food, festival, clothing and dress, architecture and art. Those ''below water line' are much more numerous and include business ethics, values, morality, facial and body language, male/female relationships, family fidelity, learning style, work motivation and emp... ... middle of paper