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 ...
Agulló Galilea, David (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
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 ...
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 ...
Barretto, Diogo Cardoso (Date of defense: 2017-07-12)
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 ...