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Showing 1 to 20 of 609 for “"Memorial"”.
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Travelling memorial
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1999.
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Treadwell Memorial
This is a memorial to gold mining in Southeast Alaska. The structure takes visitors from the Treadwell trail onto the edge of a popular local beach, reclaiming a forgotten place that was once the largest gold mine in the world. A tangible tribute to this obscure period of history, this building …
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Memorial Day observed
<p>This is a collection of various pieces of short fiction addressing similar or related themes and employing comparable narrative technique. These largely character driven pieces attempt to explore those ties which bind human beings to one another, as well as the barriers to connection and …
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A memorial museum
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1915.
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MEMORIAL FOR HUMANITY: National Memorial For The Resilience of Human Nature
… of the globe every year mainly for its many memorials, what would a memorial that invites reflection on issues that concern humanity at large look like? What would it be about? What is the best location for it? This thesis, based on the above questions, explores the memorialization of the …
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Warship : memorial in antithesis
… reflections on some of New York City's many war memorials, ranging from one commemorating the Revolutionary War to one dedicated this past year for the Korean War. What becomes evident within the wide range of memorials, is the degree to which they can be used to gauge the political sentiment and …
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A college memorial building
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1891
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The Presidential Memorial Museum
… District of Columbia. The Presidential Memorial Museum is a proposed facility to represent the presidential institution memorial and housing the exhibits of one of the most historical institutions in the country. The historical nature of the work represents the presidents of the United …
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Memorial Museums: Politics, Spectacle and Interpretation
<p>Memorial museums that commemorate the turbulent events of the 20th century claim as their main objectives the remembrance of victims and prevention of future atrocities through truth, education and advocacy. Their narratives are, however, sometimes skewed by politics and other influences that …
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Memorial and meditation, material and metaphor
This thesis is an exploration in the relationships between material and site, history, nature, & culture. I seek to explore the nature of material selection for architectural projects. The project is a place of healing for the human spirit - a meditation/ meeting space located in the dunes of the …
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A war memorial for Cambridge, Mass.
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1950.
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USS John F. Kennedy Memorial Center
Aircraft Carriers are naval vessels that allow for landing and take-off of military aircraft. Typically, Aircraft Carriers are active for 50 to 60 years then need to be retired or decommissioned. The ship is either torn apart for resources, sunk to the bottom of the ocean to serve as an artificial …
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From Victim Hierarchies to Memorial Networks: Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial to Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
… initiative proposed construction of a central memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, Romani Rose, chair of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, published a petition demanding inclusion of the Sinti and Roma victims into the same memorial. Any other outcome, he wrote, would …
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Memorial School & MAP: how did it do?
… the impact on academic achievement of the Memorial After-School Program (MAP) conducted at the Veterans Memorial School in Vineland, NJ. The study is primarily a descriptive study with an examination of a limited number of potential correlations. The sample size included eighty-nine …
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Magnitude Recoding in Variable-Range Memorial Comparisons
… Time to judge remembered size thus reflects a memorial pyschophysics. In contrast, one propositional model, the discrete code model, claims that size codes or features are compared, and that time to judge remembered size reflects feature-matching operations. It is argued that efficiency …
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Factors affecting memorial access to analogical similarity
"This research explored the hypothesis that repetition of similarities, primarily analogical similarities, promotes the common, underlying relational structure (the ""emergent structure hypothesis""). The following predictions were made. Based on prior research, superficially similar items should …
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Memorial, What do these stones mean to you?
… With this answer, this knowledge, the concept of memorial was born. Man's physical manifestation of his existence in this world. We recognized the power of objects - of Architecture. Stones were raised uprightto mark open land. Planted deep in the earth like artificial trees, these tall shafts …
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A Science Curriculum fo rGarces Memorial High School, Bakersfield
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The Collier Memorial : a study of theory and construction
The Collier Memorial is a vaulted stone structure that was built on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the fall of 2014 and the spring of 2015. In the course of the last century, structural engineers have almost fully abandoned the practice of masonry vaulting. The the …
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