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 ...
Corvalán Tapia, Felipe (Date of defense: 2020-05-28)
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 ...
Monard Arciniegas, Alexka Shayarina (Date of defense: 2020-07-10)
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 ...
Alonso Pedrosa, Luisa (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)
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 ...
Rodríguez, Carmen (Rodríguez Pedret) (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
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 ...
Arias Laurino, Daniela (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)
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 ...
Llorca, Joaquín (Date of defense: 2017-07-25)
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 ...
Rudolph, Lars (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)
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 ...
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 ...
Acosta Mejía, Boris (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
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 ...