Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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 ...
Cities are rooted to the territory where they are located. Territorial variables determinate its morphogenesis and evolution. This research reconstitutes a urban landscape history, its hydraulic traces or the memory of ...
Apart from the many interpretative contributions that the recent historiography has contributed to the state of the art in regards to the participation of the German Section at the International Exposition of Barcelona in ...
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 ...
Interaction between inhabitant and architecture is based mainly on the work's physical occupation of space. However, there are other, less tangible, ways to approach the discipline. Architecture is also a field of cultural ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 1951 and 1955, ...
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 ...
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 took place between ...
Created between 1903 and 1912 by an anonymous architect, the Modernist constructions in the gardens of the former Mental Hospital in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, allude to, anticipate or are contemporaries of works ...
This thesis looks at the original notion of heterotopia, followed by its interpretations and applications of different authors and disciplines. The course that takes this notion -from the strange to the generalised-, becomes ...
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 progressive hospitalization of death transformed the ritual of farewell, the role of the dying, the behaviour of family members, the meaning of the terminally ill patient in the healthcare organization and the ...
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 ...
From the end of the 19th century, mining production began to decline, and agriculture became more important for the economy of the state of Sinaloa. With the projects of the post-revolutionary governments of the first half ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 housing market designed in Bucaramanga during the study period of the fifties not only shows the transfer of technical knowledge through international cooperation, but also, the capitalist frenzy for the consumption ...
