Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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 ...
In a global context of population ageing, many research are conducted to improve the quality of life of older people living in assisted living facilities, but few of these works develop an architectural approach .This ...
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 ...
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 since the creation ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 1956. Appen arrived ...
The leading figure of Erich Mendelsohn has been the subject of extensive and in-depth researches, both for his importance as an architect as for his role in the history of modern design. Conversely, not much has been written ...
With the modernity, the idea of architecture as art and autonomous artistic genre is questioned by movements such as Arts-and-Crafts, the Pre-Raphaelitism and the artistic and decorative manifestations such as Belgian ...
In addition to the documentary value of film material, cinema, as a product of modernity, is a relevant and valid instrument for the analysis of the city, its architecture and the society that produces them. The films are ...
"Architectural heritage of Yugoslav-socialist character: ideology, memory and identity" studies the ability of architecture to represent political and cultural endeavors and developments in the period from 1945 until 1990 ...
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 ...
The thesis analyzes the transformation of domestic space and ways of life in Bogotá between 1945 and 1959, as an expression of a fundamental and representative stage in towards the construction of modernity in Colombia. Two ...
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 ...
There is a city, besides the one we visit or inhabit, that arises from its description. It is a city whose appearance influences our experience and cultural heritage, preventing us from distinguishing between the real image ...
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 ...
The dissertation arises from the awakening of Henri Lefebvre’s work, both in social sciences with Marxist approach and urban studies interested in social issues. This scientific and institutional recovery of Lefebvre's ...
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 ...
There is no history without women as there is no culture without women, and architecture is not an exception to this norm. This research is focused on revealing how official historiographic mechanisms in architecture omitted ...
This doctoral thesis focuses on the understanding of the concept of public space by children and older adults. It builds an interdisciplinary theoretical framework between architecture and social sciences that aims to ...
