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Rituals Transforming Cultures, Cultures Transforming Rituals: Tea Importers' Headquarters + Interactive Tea Museum, Todd Rubin
Architecture Thesis Prep
Throughout tea's history, rituals have developed ranging from strictly obeying principles in Japanese tea ceremonies to loosely interpreting principles of tea such as drinking a bottle of iced tea in America. Locating a program to explore the historic, cultural, and political connotations of Boston, in its Inner Harbor, tea can be culturally transformed through a process of an interactive museum in conjunction with the headquarters for a tea importing company, which will explore cultural and ritual issues of tea. This exploration will further enhance these transformations of cultures and rituals that exist with the ever changing life of tea.
Rebuilding Community: Boston's North End, Maria A. Fazio
Rebuilding Community: Boston's North End, Maria A. Fazio
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The city is enhanced by architecture form which participates in the urban fabric as a means of connection, therefore promoting the formation of community... The intent is to propose developemnt for portions of the Central Artery Master Plan in Boston, Massachusetts. The city is currently in the process of relocating a major infrastructural element from its present location above grade to a tunnel beneath the city. Demolition of the exiting central artery offers the city an opportunity to infill much of the land and restore surface level streets reconnecting the east sire of the interstate to the downtown area...
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Architecture, Dis/Order(S) And Interlapping, Allen Williams
Architecture, Dis/Order(S) And Interlapping, Allen Williams
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Application of a theater and subsidized housing program into a complex urban site in Boston, Massachusetts."