Granell, Enrique (Date of defense: 2016-07-05)
Beyond its renowned role in the field of regulation of the professional work, the corporations of architects in Catalonia have performed an essential role in the development of the architectonic culture ...
González Calderón, Silvia Teresa (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
The Neo-colonial style in the Mexican architecture of the 20th century is a subject that has not been explored in depth, even though it has had a very singular development built through 3 phases: the ...
Navalpotro González, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2017-03-17)
Karl von Appen was an internationally known german stage designer. His international renown is due to his work in the company Berliner Ensemble, which was founded and directed by Bertolt Brecht until ...
Villa Carrero, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-01-08)
The emergency of complex phenomena in our time has forced creators to reconnect knowledge in design, since at the moment, most of them have fragmentary and hyper specialized inertia. Due to this, nowadays, ...
Pakseresht, Sahar (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
The notion of the Islamic city evoked in comparison with European cities and their modernization process and often criticized for its Eurocentric nature, acknowledges the characteristics’ existence that ...
Bitrián Varea, Carlos (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)
This doctoral thesis shows the result of research conducted into the history and character of the villages that still lie in ruins in Spain, ultimately as a result of the damage caused during a war that ...
Saldaña Puerto, César (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)
(English) Mannerism is one of the most contentious concepts in the history of Western art, and it is significant that an author as controversial as Arnold Hauser (1892-1978) devoted a good part of his ...
Navarro-González, Rubén (Date of defense: 2022-02-21)
This thesis explores the life and works of the Catalan architect Xavier Busquets Sindreu (1917-1990), focusing on his earlier professional stages, the exceptional training he acquired in São Paulo between ...
Martín-Nieva, Helena (Date of defense: 2023-06-15)
(English) "Around and about the Arts in Barcelona" explores the slow, difficult introduction of music and visual arts of the avant-garde into the city between the years 1939 and 1960. It looks at the ...
Crispi Brillas, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-11-17)
(English) The construction of architecture for industry between 1939 and 1969 in the Barcelona area was a challenge for all those who intervened, since, in a post-war environment with serious economic, ...