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Alexandria Textile Factory
The fabric of the city. A folded roof plane. Textile brick. The density of a weave. A fabric's structure. A hem's meter. The selvage. The fringe. Weaving. The connections drawn between textiles and architecture are limitless. Can a building and the processes that occur within it stitch together the …
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A Library for Alexandria
A library is a building through which a town presents its public identity. The local library is not only a repository of information, but also of the town's unique cultural messages and values. The Thesis Search: How to make a building that emphasizes the architectonic qualities of Old Town? How to …
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Textile factory, El-Soyouf, Alexandria, Egypt
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1963.
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Writings for acquisition : Hellenizing Alexandria, Egypt
… of E.M. Forster's major publication on Alexandria published in 1922, Alexandria a History and a Guide, considered until now 'the Classical Guide for Alexandria;' or ironically 'the guide for Classical Alexandria?' In fact, Forster's version of history recounted a Classical heritage all …
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Alexandria Underwater Museum For Sunken Monuments
… harbor on the Mediterranean sea in the city of Alexandria. For Herodotus, the four major elements for civilization's development overtime are water, air, land, and fire. In this project, the effort is made to connect three of the four elements within an architectural context: "Underwater …
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A food market in Alexandria Virginia
… may flourish and prosper. A Food Market for Alexandria is a proposition for a place in Old Town Alexandria Virginia, where the growth of responsible communities may occur in an architectural setting which is a responsive member of the collection of buildings that house the human city.
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Energic Architecture in Old Town Alexandria
Every architecure is being with life-force such as a plant who lives on the photosynthesis that need carbon dioxide + water + light energy, and provide oxygen in day time. On the contrary, Plants need oxygen and release carbon dioxide while they can not carry out the photosunthesis in night time. …
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A cemetery at Jones Point Alexandria, Virginia
The burial place of the future should engage the living in the process of death and remembrance in a way which counteracts the negative responses associated with death and remembrance in a way which counteracts the negative responses associated with death. A new cemetery design which acknowledges …
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Experimental theatre in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia
Theatre would be radical, arousing, inspiring, challenging popular emotion, presenting native problems. Human strength and aspiration would go there for inspiration..." - Frank Lloyd Wright- Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Gerald Nordland: Frank Lloyd Wright in the realm of ideas, Bynum, NC: Southern …
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Context and design in Old Town Alexandria
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A school on the waterfront in Alexandria
Task of this thesis is the design of a school as a public place fully integrated in a small city. The concerns of the architect are on the one hand to set the school in a harmonious relationship to the other functions of the town. The inner structure of the building reflects this in being a …
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Open Air Market in Old Town Alexandria
… visible through an open air market in Old Town Alexandria. In this work the stalls of each of the vendors was thought of anthropomorphically as a monster. The form of these monsters were identical at first and in the end had the blessing of the particular needs of the goods being sold and …
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assemblage: a water taxi terminal for alexandria
projects start with a goal, an end to be realized. this project provided a platform to explore architecture. drawings, models, text and printmaking were used to this end. a project is found through the assembly of these pieces. these pages contain no finite conclusion on architecture. rather they …
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A School of Culinary Design for Alexandria
… led to the design of a public space for Alexandria. A school of culinary design was chosen to elevate the current situation of the site by supporting the open space and giving back to the community. The culinary school served as a vessel to explore the truthfulness of materials and …
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Platonic and Stoic Passions in Philo of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria forged his theory of the soul and its passions while<br/>expositing the meaning of Torah. Though writing as a Jewish teacher and disciple of Moses, his biblical reflections display a strong orientation toward Middle-Platonic philosophy. On the topic of the soul and its passions, …
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A Dormitory for Architecture Students in Alexandria, Virginia
This thesis is an intimate exploration. A personal journey between here and there: what I left behind, what I always kept close to me and all the new things that I learned and experience during the last four years. I just tried to put myself together as a person as well as an architect; taking from …
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Tomorrow's Bottle: A Civic Building in Alexandria, VA
North Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia currently has two abandoned parcels, the 500 and 501 North Union Parcels. 500 Parcel is well under the planning stage to be rede- veloped into a new hotel. This leaves 501 Parcel as a perfect opportunity for a thesis project location. This site is relatively …
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