Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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(English) The thesis investigates the relationships between architecture, urbanism and the arts. It relates recycling, adaptive reuse and architectural adaptations with urban dynamics, neighbourhood and artivist movements ...
"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 ...
(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 formation of a small ...
This doctoral thesis is a historical-critical discourse on the architecture of Quito between 1954 and 1960. It is based on different local voices expressed in word and deed about the city and its architecture in the context ...
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 ...
The research of the place of theatre in Palma explores the existing, disappeared and closed spaces throughout the history of the city. This catalog includes 113 performance spaces, some with ostentatious will, but most of ...
At the end of 1949, the American architect Peter G. Harnden (1913-1971), then in charge of the Marshall Plan's exhibition center in Europe, and the young Italian architect Lanfranco Bombelli (1921-2008), trained in Switzerland ...
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 ...
