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Title: Using Omeka and Neatline to Build an Interactive Campus Map
Date: 2015
Description: Presented at the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries in Austin, Texas.
Collection: Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2015

Title: TechNews, October 21, 2014
Date: 2014-10-21, 2014-10-21
Collection: Technology News print collection, 1940-2019

Title: Asztalos_iit_0091N_11584

Title: Technology News, May 04, 1950
Date: 1950-05-04, 1950-05-04
Description: jw
Collection: Technology News Microfilm collection, 1928-1981

Title: Research in Architectural Education: Theory and Practice of Visual Training
Date: 2016, 12/12/2016
Collection: Enquiry

Title: THE LATIN AMERICAN EXPORT: IMPLEMENTING LATIN AMERICAN URBAN STRATEGIES TO REDEVELOP AND RECONSTRUCT BRONZEVILLE
Creator: Saldaña Perales, Alejandro
Date: 2018
Description: The district and neighborhood of Bronzeville, located in the Near South Side of Chicago, suffers from crime, unemployment, abandonment, and...
Show moreThe district and neighborhood of Bronzeville, located in the Near South Side of Chicago, suffers from crime, unemployment, abandonment, and urban decay; more so than many of its metropolitan peers such as New York City, Los Angeles, or San Francisco.In Latin America, multidisciplinary operations and strategies focused on the investment in public spaces, mobility, and public assets have been successful in transforming decaying neighborhoods and redeveloping slums and blighted areas turning them into vibrant communities.Contextualizing and abstracting such strategies has the potential to import such ideas into new urban contexts; in this case, the United States of America, and to be implemented over the decaying North American urban fabric.
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Title: House museums In Chicago: a re-examination of motives, origins, and transformations of the institutions
Creator: Whittaker, Daniel Joseph
Date: 2018
Description: A house museum is a former residence converted into a publicly accessible structure, which preserves an identity of its original domestic...
Show moreA house museum is a former residence converted into a publicly accessible structure, which preserves an identity of its original domestic history. These houses shelter a wide variety of institutions with a diverse range of imperatives and services. With a focus on Chicago house museums, this dissertation seeks an overarching pattern underlying this conversion and reuse of residential buildings. This dissertation focuses on six house museums in Chicago: the Palmer Castle, the Harding Castle, the Clarke House, the Glessner House, the Madlener House and the Robie House. The Palmer and Harding Castles ceased to exist as house museums and are no longer standing.Conventional archival research conducted during the initial phases yielded historiographies that corroborate as well as contradict popular stories about the process by which the houses were preserved, salvaged and converted. Key primary-source research includes interviews with persons involved in—and observant of—motivations and forces in play upon these six case studies. Texts of the interviews are included in appendices. The dissertation reveals how select individuals (acting variously as architects, historians, concerned citizens, and leaders of institutions) influenced the creation of the six house museums. This dissertation contains a chronicle and an evaluation of the values which informed and influenced the house museum condition in Chicago in an environment which largely pre-dated the historic building preservation movement in America. The case studies show that the persons and parties involved in saving various houses for reuse did not generally execute definitive plans, in full, with a clear ultimate goal. Instead, in all cases, individuals and small groups of people fought an array of idiosyncratic battles, often yielding short-term victories. Economic pressures, political conditions, and societal values evolve, ushering in new opportunities and new dangers for nascent institutions inhabiting former residences. As each generation of directors, curators and governing boards mature and matriculate, the goals and objectives which influenced the reuse of their house museums changed. The very notion of attaining some sort of permanent statis has been found, through this research, to be elusive. Dynamism in both the people and the institution reusing these house museums can yield positive outcomes ensuring preservation of the institution of the house museum.
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Title: TechNews, April 22, 2014
Date: 2014-04-22, 2014-04-22
Collection: Technology News print collection, 1940-2019

Title: IIT Sustainability Branding (Semester Unknown) IPRO 311: IITSustainableBrandingIPRO311MidTermPresentationSp09
Creator: Aguilar, Alejandro, Alexander, Richard, Animashaun, Oladipo, Chauhan, Mark, Ellsworth, Seth, Glover, Crystal, Krupp, Kevin, Patel, Nim, Scheer, Colin, Tadros, Nader
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: This is a continuing IPRO with the overall aim of improving and enhancing the image of Illinois Institute of Technology, both as an...
Show moreThis is a continuing IPRO with the overall aim of improving and enhancing the image of Illinois Institute of Technology, both as an institution and a physical campus, in regards to sustainability and “green” practices. To that end, the current semester is focused on several design projects based on concepts generated in the previous semesters along with input from the current semester to enhance a new “green” campus. We will also be providing information on how IIT is currently acting in a sustainable fashion and how students on campus can contribute to our image as a sustainable campus
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Title: Textile Openings
Creator: Carvallo, Maria Paulina
Date: 2011-12-06, 2011-12
Description: A facade may serve many functions throughout the life of a building, but the primary purpose of a building’s facade is to protect the interior...
Show moreA facade may serve many functions throughout the life of a building, but the primary purpose of a building’s facade is to protect the interior of a structure from the outside environment. By examining an element of every facade design, its openings, one may also find solutions to other design and layout questions concerning a building’s interior. Textile facades show potential as new and interesting materials for facade design. However, textile facades must reinvent or adapt standard facade elements such as windows, doors, and other openings within the constraints of the material properties exhibited by textiles. This thesis explores potential facade opening mechanisms, including technical and natural examples. Details of textile facades are considered, including laser cutting of polyester fabrics, textile material properties and tension deformation, and a variety of textile facade designs. Furthermore, a standardized design workflow and process for considering multiple environmental variables present in and around facades, such as solar thermal, day lighting, ventilation, and identity, are discussed and illustrate that the methodology applied herein can be used to predict other applications of textiles.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2011
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Title: TechNews, February 21, 2012
Date: 2012-02-21, 2012-02-21
Collection: Technology News print collection, 1940-2019

Title: TOWARD A MODERN CIVIC MONUMENTALITY: ARCHES, VAULTS, AND DOMES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
Creator: Amado Petroli, Marcos
Date: 2021
Description: This dissertation studies the use of arcuated structures in post-World War II American civic buildings, which serve both to answer the...
Show moreThis dissertation studies the use of arcuated structures in post-World War II American civic buildings, which serve both to answer the practical and functional demands of the architectural program, and to communicate a distinct and hierarchical character inherent to the very genesis of civic architecture. This research demonstrates how a generation of multicultural architects, educated in the academic tradition, with the collaboration of structural engineers, participated in the expansion of the syntax and vocabulary of modern architecture at a time when the language of monumentality was also being discussed. In doing so, they moved away from a Bauhaus-German doctrine that promoted a universal, orthogonal, and homogeneous architectural language, serving all types of buildings. In this context, this research redefines the relationship between academic tradition and modern approaches to monumentality in American architecture, which are usually seen as antagonistic languages. To test the hypothesis that these new arched forms, of high structural engineering, were linked to both modern and academic aspects, and more precisely, French roots, this research addresses three main issues: (i) the mistrust of the new monumentality, which was often mystified and associated with totalitarian regimes; (ii) the analysis of this production through pioneering case studies in postwar arched structures; and (iii) the relationship between academic tradition and modern architecture, with an emphasis on the theory of "architectural character." Finally, this research concludes that the construction of this civic monumentality in the United States was not only a rational response to special programs and an opposition to the universal character of modern buildings, but also the result of an immigration of more inclusive ideas, which, reacting with the local tradition and heritage of the Beaux-Arts system, gave rise to an autochthonous American production.
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Title: BEYOND THE GREEN IDEAL - RESHAPING CHICAGO SOUTH LOOP
Creator: Hoeflich Brune, Vivian Eliese
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: Analyzing the growing metropolis, this research questions the relation between the built and open environment on its process of densification....
Show moreAnalyzing the growing metropolis, this research questions the relation between the built and open environment on its process of densification. Urban areas depend upon landscape and broader natural areas to be sustained. The current system, in which landscape is the center of extraction and production and cities centers of consumption, has an unhealthy one-direction flow of energy and materials. By linking the urban landscape, buildings, and parks, a new ecological infrastructure breaks this traditional system and can become the own natural living system of the urban environment. By preserving existing open spaces in the city and introducing new ones, this thesis explores how to increase urban density and, at the same time, create new social-ecological associations. Movement from outside city to its center resulted in urban population increase and recently is transforming the near South region of Chicago. Therefore, this study explores the introduction of a set of open spaces for collective experiences in two scales. First, is investigated the impact of inserting a new landscape infrastructure on the existing urban fabric of Chicago South Loop neighborhood. Through the study of the current site, the identification of underutilized or public lots set a framework for intervention, adding available spots into a network of open spaces that support diverse programs for the area. Rethinking the traditional urban block consists the second studied topic, exploring the relation of built and open spaces on a smaller scale. Not only the continuity to the open space infrastructure is essential for the project but also the creation of a new urban lifestyle inside one city block and its nearby areas. Being on a strategic site connected to the public transportation system and Museum Campus, the proposal works as a condensed program center. Both local neighborhood and a broader public of visitors and tourists are attended, combining a multiplicity of programs, users, built and open space typologies.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2015
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Title: 'BUILDING' SKINS: EVALUATION OF THE DESIGN PROCESS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT GLASS FAÇADES
Creator: Muro, Maria Palencia
Date: 2011-05-09, 2011-05
Description: The main significance of this Thesis is reinforcing the importance of validating the design decisions for glass façades in order to improve...
Show moreThe main significance of this Thesis is reinforcing the importance of validating the design decisions for glass façades in order to improve their energy performance and achieve an optimum interior space comfort without compromising its ability to adapt to future needs. Since the influence of glass façades in energy consumption is widely known and proved, and environmental and user needs change with time, this research encourages the evaluation of glass-wall designs in order to ensure high performing building envelopes. The research consists of three main parts. First, in relation to glass façade design there has been an analysis of glass components and its effects, an identification of the façade requirements, and a study of the technology behind the glass enclosure. Second, there has been a numerical evaluation of different glass-wall systems; glazing types, window-towall ratio and screening devices have been simulated for heating, cooling and lighting loads using TRNSYSlite, and COMFEN respectively. The combination of these results along with the study of the SHGC, U-value, Tvis, incident solar radiation and energy transmission and conduction, has concluded in a catalogue of glass-wall systems suitable for each orientation. Third, the numerical results have been applied in the design of a glass enclosure for an existing building in Chicago. The overall results of this research provide criteria to design a residential glass enclosure in Chicago that can improve its performance today, and can also be adapted to meet future space and environmental needs. Hopefully, architects will be encouraged to numerically evaluate their design intentions to obtain energy efficient and adaptable glass-wall designs.
M.S. in Architecture, May 2011
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Title: TechNews, October 28, 2014
Date: 2014-10-28, 2014-10-28
Collection: Technology News print collection, 1940-2019

Title: TechNews, March 27, 2012
Date: 2012-03-27, 2012-03-27
Collection: Technology News print collection, 1940-2019

Title: FROM EVERYTHING CALLED CHICAGO SCHOOL TO THE THEORY OF VARIETIES
Creator: Baciu, Dan C.
Date: 2018, 2018-05
Description: A.D.F. Hamlin’s Chicago School was rooted in the untrammeled freedom of art in America and offered bold, utilitarian solutions for early...
Show moreA.D.F. Hamlin’s Chicago School was rooted in the untrammeled freedom of art in America and offered bold, utilitarian solutions for early skyscrapers with vertical lines rising uninterrupted from the basement to the roof. Thomas Tallmadge responded to Hamlin, but redefined the term, inspired by the great American planes and their horizontal lines. Sigfried Giedion returned to the initial definition and was followed as well as opposed by many later writers. Meanwhile, William James witnessed the birth of a Chicago School of Thought around John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy. Robert Park became the central figure in a Chicago School of Sociology that explored human nature. And in economics, Milton Friedman crusaded for free markets and free choice. Furthermore, there were Chicago Schools of Fiction, Broadcasting, Advertising, and many more. This present dissertation collected, cataloged, and evaluated everything called Chicago School. Based on this data, it is possible to tell from a collective point of view what successful Chicago Schools were. In addition, Sigfried Giedion’s school marks a turning point in history. After Giedion’s essay was published, multiple schools of thought rose to fame together. Why did this trend only come into action a century after the first mentions of a Chicago School? To understand this delay, I developed a theory based on the variability of definitions and the responsiveness of audiences. Mathematically, the Theory of Varieties builds on equations previously employed in other disciplines. In the Humanities, it may help evaluate the evolution of cultural trends.
Ph.D. in Architecture, May 2018
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Title: Intraoperative Assessment of Surgical Margins in Head And Neck Cancer Resection Using Time-Domain Fluorescence Imaging
Creator: Cleary, Brandon M.
Date: 2023
Description: Rapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to...
Show moreRapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to over- or under-resection of cancerous tissues and follow-up treatments such as ‘call-back’ surgery and chemotherapy. Current techniques utilizing direct measurement of tumor margins in frozen section pathology are slow, which can prevent surgeons from acting on information before a patient is sent home. Other fluorescence techniques require the measurement of margins via captured images that are overlayed with fluorescent data. This method is flawed, as measuring depth from captured images loses spatial information. Intensity-based fluorescence techniques utilizing tumor-to-background ratios do not decouple the effects of concentration from the depth information acquired. Thus, it is necessary to perform an objective measurement to determine depths of surgical margins. This thesis focuses on the theory, device design, simulation development, and overall viability of time-domain fluorescence imaging as an alternative method of determining surgical margin depths. Characteristic regressions were generated using a thresholding method on acquired time-domain fluorescence signals, which were used to convert time-domain data to a depth value. These were applied to an image space to generate a depth map of a modelled tissue sample. All modeling was performed on homogeneous media using Monte Carlo simulations, providing high accuracy at the cost of increased computational time. In practice, the imaging process should be completed within a span of under 20 minutes for a full tissue sample, rather than 20 minutes for a single slice of the sample. This thesis also explores the effects of different thresholding levels on the accuracy of depth determination, as well as the precautions to be taken regarding hardware limitations and signal noise.
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Title: Intraoperative Assessment of Surgical Margins in Head And Neck Cancer Resection Using Time-Domain Fluorescence Imaging
Creator: Cleary, Brandon M.
Date: 2023
Description: Rapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to...
Show moreRapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to over- or under-resection of cancerous tissues and follow-up treatments such as ‘call-back’ surgery and chemotherapy. Current techniques utilizing direct measurement of tumor margins in frozen section pathology are slow, which can prevent surgeons from acting on information before a patient is sent home. Other fluorescence techniques require the measurement of margins via captured images that are overlayed with fluorescent data. This method is flawed, as measuring depth from captured images loses spatial information. Intensity-based fluorescence techniques utilizing tumor-to-background ratios do not decouple the effects of concentration from the depth information acquired. Thus, it is necessary to perform an objective measurement to determine depths of surgical margins. This thesis focuses on the theory, device design, simulation development, and overall viability of time-domain fluorescence imaging as an alternative method of determining surgical margin depths. Characteristic regressions were generated using a thresholding method on acquired time-domain fluorescence signals, which were used to convert time-domain data to a depth value. These were applied to an image space to generate a depth map of a modelled tissue sample. All modeling was performed on homogeneous media using Monte Carlo simulations, providing high accuracy at the cost of increased computational time. In practice, the imaging process should be completed within a span of under 20 minutes for a full tissue sample, rather than 20 minutes for a single slice of the sample. This thesis also explores the effects of different thresholding levels on the accuracy of depth determination, as well as the precautions to be taken regarding hardware limitations and signal noise.
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Title: Intraoperative Assessment of Surgical Margins in Head And Neck Cancer Resection Using Time-Domain Fluorescence Imaging
Creator: Cleary, Brandon M.
Date: 2023
Description: Rapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to...
Show moreRapid and accurate determination of surgical margin depth in fluorescence guided surgery has been a difficult issue to overcome, leading to over- or under-resection of cancerous tissues and follow-up treatments such as ‘call-back’ surgery and chemotherapy. Current techniques utilizing direct measurement of tumor margins in frozen section pathology are slow, which can prevent surgeons from acting on information before a patient is sent home. Other fluorescence techniques require the measurement of margins via captured images that are overlayed with fluorescent data. This method is flawed, as measuring depth from captured images loses spatial information. Intensity-based fluorescence techniques utilizing tumor-to-background ratios do not decouple the effects of concentration from the depth information acquired. Thus, it is necessary to perform an objective measurement to determine depths of surgical margins. This thesis focuses on the theory, device design, simulation development, and overall viability of time-domain fluorescence imaging as an alternative method of determining surgical margin depths. Characteristic regressions were generated using a thresholding method on acquired time-domain fluorescence signals, which were used to convert time-domain data to a depth value. These were applied to an image space to generate a depth map of a modelled tissue sample. All modeling was performed on homogeneous media using Monte Carlo simulations, providing high accuracy at the cost of increased computational time. In practice, the imaging process should be completed within a span of under 20 minutes for a full tissue sample, rather than 20 minutes for a single slice of the sample. This thesis also explores the effects of different thresholding levels on the accuracy of depth determination, as well as the precautions to be taken regarding hardware limitations and signal noise.
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