The way we live now : a new apartment house for Broadway

This thesis is essentially a design for a large apartment building in New York City containing substantial public facilities, which, it is hoped, might function as a kind of neighborhood center. The design process was devoted chiefly to the overall design of the building, with particular attention paid to the interior public spaces and the exterior massing. I tried to be reasonably realistic in terms of contemporary planning constraints and construction methods in the development of the design, and the project is meant to be taken as a serious proposal for its site. While the project itself is the main point of the thesis, the accompanying text is intended to provide some contextual background: the introduction sets out the main issues I struggled with, the other chapters provide some of the historical, cultural, and physical context of the design, while a concluding section describes the design process.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1983

Author dc:creator

• Mumford, Eric Paul

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Fernando Domeyko.

• Architecture.

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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76388

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