Living museum of the bay : Chesapeake Bay Aquarium

This thesis is the design of an aquarium in the industrial city of Newport News, Virginia The focus is a living museum that illustrates the diversity beauty and grandeur of a precious yet fragile estuary, the Chesapeake Bay. The thesis proposes by in creasing public awareness of the fragile tenure with nature, modern industrial society is the context, an industrial land scape is transformed into a Living/interpretive aquarium .

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1991

Author dc:creator

• Dickerson, Jason Allen

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• William L. Porter.

• Architecture.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65671

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/65671