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Salgado Bonnet, Camila (Date of defense: 2018-07-23)
Le Poème de l’angle droit is a livre de peintre, carried out by Le Courbusier, between 1947 and 1953 and published in Paris in 1955, as part of the collection named Grands livres manuscrits et illustrés par les artistes ...
Aubán Borrell, Mónica (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
In 1959, in the context of urban growth promoted by the ‘Plan Comarcal’, the so-called ‘Plan Parcial de La Mina’ was approved, and a new neighbourhood was expected to be built on the right bank of river Besòs area. However, ...
Arribas Sánchez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-06-21)
In the introduction to the first chapter of her book On Photography, specifically in the well-known text on the fragment of the film Les Carabiniers (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard, Susan Sontag refers to postcards with a certain ...
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 are shared by ...
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, in architecture ...
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 efforts to it. The ...
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 post-revolutionary ...
Puello Bedoya, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
The cosmology presented in the first half of the twentieth century by Jesuit priest and career palaeontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Sarcenat, France, 1881 - New York; 1955), is structured around the hypothesis of ...
Capriata Estrada, Pedro A. (Date of defense: 2017-01-11)
The work of Robert Delaunay and particularly his Eiffel Tower paintings are recognized as an essential symbol of modern art. However, their precise assessment by historians varies and there are aspects of these works that ...
Celiento, Ilia (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
(English) This thesis is the result of the intuitions, the same ones, but in a different form, that have guided the Spanish architect Enric Miralles throughout his short but prolific career. Intuitions that give rise to ...
Lopes Dias, Tiago (Date of defense: 2017-10-20)
The research that we presently put forward as a doctorate thesis departed from a hypothesis set in questioning canonical assumptions of Portuguese architecture as an essentially empirical and intuitive practice. This ...
Geronta, Antigoni (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)
This thesis emanates from the premise that the impact of an architectural project is manifested not only in the organization of space and, by extension, in the social relationships established therein, but mainly in the ...
Bordas Eddy, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-02-10)
Universal Accessibility: On the need of an empathy-based architecture is a PhD thesis researching the paradigm of accessible architectural design. Starting from the very first understanding of accessibility in architecture, ...
Theodosis, Lefteris (Date of defense: 2016-05-30)
Constantinos A. Doxiadis (1913-1975) was an important figure in the realm of postwar urbanism, and yet his contribution has been largely neglected. This study reviews his trajectory and analyzes key projects related to ...