Departament de Projectes Arquitectònics: Recent submissions
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Sergio Bernardes: el desafío de la técnica
Sergio Bernardes is considered one of the most important architects of the second generation of cariocas modern architects. Little is known about the work of Bernardes. Until today there are few publications about the ...
Notas sobre (des)función en arquitectura
Una historia de la función, el concepto que revolucionó la arquitectura del siglo XX, está aún por escribir; éste permanece tan evidente como impreciso, subentendido como si siempre hubiera estado ahí. Esta tesis propone ...
Josep Puig i Cadafalch : obres i projectes des del 1911
Justificació. A la pàgina del seu llibre l’Arquitectura modernista, Oriol Bohigas reclama, de manera suggerent, la necessitat d'una major atenció a l'obra classicista de Josep Puig i Cadafalch, és a dir, la realitzada ...
Habitar un monumento : la ciudad de Antonio Prado como síntesis de la arquitectura de una región
The city of Antonio Prado, located in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil started to be built at late nineteenth century by immigrants from the northern region of Italy, who left their homeland in the pursuit of new opportunities ...
Alberto Piwonka : en el cruce de las ideas de la modernidad en Chile
This thesis proposes the study of the intersection of ideas comprised in the academic and architectural work of Alberto Piwonka in the cultural, social, technological, and aesthetic context of Chile during the forties, ...
La casa japonesa a través del cine de Yasujiro Ozu
Through the films of Yashijuro Ozu, this thesis studies the Japanese house as a support for a way of living. The Japanese understanding of space, ma, includes the creation of an ambience that transcends the physical, built ...
Mies' two-way span
The 50' x50' House Project (1951-1952) introduces the construction of a new formal system in the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969): the two-way span buildings. In 1951, at age 65 and after more than a decade in the ...
La estructuración del espacio arquitectónico por la gravedad y la luz
Architecture is based on the relationship between matter and its absence, space. Matter, which arranged by the laws of gravity creates space, we name structure. The character of this space depends on the interaction between ...
De lo inconmensurable a lo mensurable : proceso dialéctico desde el imaginario al proyecto del edificio Richards Medical Research Laboratories 1957-1964
This dissertation analyses Louis Kahn’s independent work until 1957 period in which he designed the Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania. The Richards Medical Research Laboratories marks ...
Enrique del Moral : el debate mexicano entre tradición y modernidad : 1946-1963
Enrique del Moral: The mexican debate between tradition and modernity 1946-1963. This thesis arises from the interest in discovering the theoretical and practical background that led the architect Enrique del Moral to a ...
Luz del norte
An infinite gray roof with different degrees of transparency is displayed with authority on a Scandinavia made of pieces, fragmented. However, the sky that covers these lands unifies it. The light passes through it and ...
Place, sketch and architecture : an in-situ approach to contemporary design.
Esta tesis analiza cómo el croquis in-situ puede profundizar la conexión entre la arquitectura y el lugar en todas las etapas del proceso proyectual. La primera parte considera cómo el croquis in-situ puede estructurar las ...
New principles and variations in the architecture of Alvar Aalto : Competition entry for the hospital complex of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (1930-1931)
The thesis is based on the beginning of the creation of Aalto's architectural language where are observed and analyzed some new principles, one step away from his first projects of "Functionalism", "extracted" from a vast ...
Five forms of emotion : Kazuo Shinohara and the house as a work of art
This research presents the work of the Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) and studies five of his residential designs as epitome of his oeuvre. lts development is understood as a continuous quest to reconcile ...
Paisatges d'autopista : la seqüència com a lectura paisatgística
The motorway is one of the privileged viewpoints of the contemporary landscape. Is it possible, however, to also conceive it as a creator of new landscapes? A landscape not only understood as a geographical space but also ...
La vivienda colectiva en la construcción de la Ciudad de México : casas de vecindad y unidades habitacionales
The present doctoral thesis is about the universal theme of the relationship between architecture and city, more specifically, a research carried out on the question of the existing bond between the architectural form of ...
Incidencia del lugar en la obra de Arne Jacobsen (1950–1964)
Taking in consideration the inclusion and adaptation of the new modern American post-war models, the aim is to distinguish the aspects and conditions of place, among other conditions, which derived in the formal decisions ...
Església i ciutat : el paper dels temples parroquials en la construcció de Barcelona
La contribució de les esglésies al desenvolupament i a l’articulació dels barris de Barcelona és un tema clau per a la comprensió de la ciutat. Les múltiples i variades formes objectivables del creixement de Barcelona ...
Casas Obregón & Valenzuela años 50 : contribución a la formación de una tipología
En 1946, José María Obregón Rocha, Pablo de Valenzuela y Vega y Rafael Obregón González, graduados del Department of Architecture, The Catholic University of America, regresan a Colombia, en donde fundan Obregón, Valenzuela ...
Expansive architectural strategies in the mass society and their influence on the architectural projects
The present thesis couldn't have been unaffected by the recent economic crisis. Even before this crisis, it was well-known that architecture was languishing in its traditional boundaries. In the countries that didn't suffer ...
