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Water in the Freeman House: A study of the block in the textile block construction assembly as the primary route for water infiltration	Comparative evaluation of lighting design software programs for analysis of daylighting in buildings

A methodology for detailing applied to point-supported-glass wall systems	The bungalow and the automobile: Arthur and Alfred Heineman and the invention of the Milestone Motel

Wind turbine integration: A study of building shape and orientation	Post-treatment analysis of the glare remediation of the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Selection of structural systems and materials: Minimizing lateral drift and cost of tall buildings in Saudi Arabia	Seismic analysis and shake table modeling: Using a shake table for building analysis

California's Golden Chain Highway 49 of Mother Lode: A case study of historic significance and qualification as a National Heritage Area corridor	An open-source program to animate and visualize the recorded temperature and relative humidity data from dataloggers including the building's 3D geometry

Integration of mass dampers and external shading fins: Exploring synergy in structural and environmental control systems	Lake Elsinore: A Southern California African American resort area during the Jim Crow era, 1920s--1960s, and the challenges of historic preservation commemoration

Zero peak homes: Designing for zero electric peak demand in new single family residential buildings sited in California climate zone 10	Who's park: An architectural history of Westlake-MacArthur Park

Interoperability between building information models (BIM) and energy analysis programs	Design2sustain---A web based resource suite for sustainability designed for undergraduate architecture programs

Glazing solutions for low cost, high performance housing in Tijuana, Mexico	Green roof performance in Los Angeles, California

Defining a sustainable aesthetic: A new paradigm for architecture	Fiber reinforced phenolic foam: Climatic effects on mechanical properties and building applications in northern Thailand

The potential application of natural fiber reinforced bio-polymer (NFRbP) composites in architecture	Being green and the common citizen: Developing alternative methods of renewable energy investment through solar power and efficient building design

Full scale Contour Crafting applications	Structural glass facades: A unique building technology

Optimal zoning configurations for solar access in high rise developments	Watt Hall energy management system implementation initiative

Calibration and data accuracy research of the Schierle shake table	Computerization of Ralph Knowles Heliodon

The form finding of tensile membranes: A tool for architects and designers	Climatic alignment of architectural design strategies through an analysis of native plants in Southern California

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's military commissions: Identity, process, importance and stewardship of these cutural resources	Holocaust commemoration and the creation of living memory: How the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe assert the past in the fabric of the present

Reconsideration of permanent percent for art works in the public sphere: A case study of public art commissioned by the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles	Using architecture in the fight against global warming: Presenting viable energy-saving renovation design strategies to homeowners via an interactive web learning tool

Architectural design decision support system	An analysis of space

Biomimetic design of the building envelope: Biological climate adaptations and thermal controls in the Sonoran desert	Comparison of prefab homes and a site-built home: Quantitative evaluation of four different types of prefab homes and a site-built home

An analysis of underwater habitats: A development of the outline for aquatectural graphic standards	The Textile Block System: Structural analysis and alternative seismic upgrading to IBC 2003

A teaching tool for architectural acoustics	Creating sacred spaces in the suburbs: Roman Catholic Church architecture in postwar Southern California

A step towards urban building information modeling: Measuring design and field variables for an urban heat island analysis	Conservation and reconstruction of textile blocks: An investigation of treatment and replacement options at the Frank Lloyd Wright Freeman House

Landscape & building solar loads: Development of a computer-based tool to aid in the design of landscape to reduce solar gain and energy consumption in low-rise residential buildings	Housing farm workers: Assessing the significance of the Bracero Labor camps in Ventura County

Kinetic facades as environmental control systems: Using kinetic facades to increase energy efficiency and building performance in office buildings	From Googie to great: Uncovering truth and beauty in John Lautner's architecture

Glass beam design for architects: Brief introduction to the most critical factors of glass beams and easy computer tool	Energy saving integrated facade: Design and analysis using computer simulation

Disaster relief transitional emergency shelter: Environmental and structural analysis of two prefab modular emergency shelters for three different Californian climate zones	Air flow through louvered openings: Effect of louver slats on air movement inside a space

"Writing our own program": The USC experiment in modern architectural pedagogy, 1930 to 1960	Harvesting energy with solar panels and adaptive shading for building skins: A case study of an office building in Saudi Arabia

Intelligent building skins: Parametric-based algorithm for kinetic facades design and daylighting performance integration	Mining the intangible past of Virginia City's Chinese pioneers: Using historical geographic information system (HGIS) to document, visualize and interpret the spatial history of Chinese in a Montana mining camp (CA 1863 - mid-20th century)

Performance of roof materials high SRI, low SRI, and green roof in California climate zone 8 Los Angeles, California	A unifying vision: Improvement, imagination and Bernhard Hoffmann in Stockbridge (New England) and Santa Barbara (New Spain)

Quantity and quality: Architects working for developers in Southern California, 1960--1973	Greywater systems in urban environments

Claud Beelman's Corporate Moderne style 1951--1963	Tilted glazing: Angle-dependence of direct solar heat gain and form-refining of complex facades

Effects of building plan configuration on lateral load responses	Cuerda seca ceramic tiles: Explorations of resist formulas in various firing ranges

Studies in preliminary design of fenestration: Balancing daylight harvesting and energy consumption	Este lugar si importa: Heritage conservation in Unincorporated East Los Angeles

Comparing visual comfort metrics for fourteen spaces using simulation-based luminance mapping	Digital tree simulation for residential building energy savings: Shading and evapotranspiration

Unitized double skin facade assemblies: Achieving the needs of future envelope systems through construction and performance advances	Society's child: The gardens of the Felipe de Neve branch library

Conservation practices in India -- A case study of Jaisalmer Fort	Ventilation shaft to increase effectiveness of natural ventilation

Improving thermal comfort in residential spaces in the wet tropical climate zones of India using passive cooling techniques: A study using computational design methods	Building Los Angeles: Urban housing in the suburban metropolis, 1900--1936

Smart buildings: Synergy in structural control, structural health monitoring and environmental systems	Place production in globalizing Middle Eastern cities: A study of Cairo and Dubai

Competing futures: War narratives in postwar Japanese architecture 1945--1970	Tropical modernisms: Art and architecture in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s

PUCK: Place-Based, Ubiquitous, Connected and Kinetic Experiences for Interactive Architecture