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    Place, sketch and architecture : an in-situ approach to contemporary design. 

    Harris, Sebastian Francis (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)

    Esta tesis analiza cómo el croquis in-situ puede profundizar la conexión entre la arquitectura y el lugar en todas las etapas del proceso proyectual. La primera parte considera cómo el croquis in-situ puede estructurar las ...

    New principles and variations in the architecture of Alvar Aalto : Competition entry for the hospital complex of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (1930-1931) 

    Zmijanovic, Vladanka (Date of defense: 2016-06-13)

    The thesis is based on the beginning of the creation of Aalto's architectural language where are observed and analyzed some new principles, one step away from his first projects of "Functionalism", "extracted" from a vast ...

    Five forms of emotion : Kazuo Shinohara and the house as a work of art 

    Massip-Bosch, Enric (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)

    This research presents the work of the Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) and studies five of his residential designs as epitome of his oeuvre. lts development is understood as a continuous quest to reconcile ...

    Paisatges d'autopista : la seqüència com a lectura paisatgística 

    Vidal-Casanovas, Eugènia (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    The motorway is one of the privileged viewpoints of the contemporary landscape. Is it possible, however, to also conceive it as a creator of new landscapes? A landscape not only understood as a geographical space but also ...

    La vivienda colectiva en la construcción de la Ciudad de México : casas de vecindad y unidades habitacionales 

    Reyes Meza, Arais (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    The present doctoral thesis is about the universal theme of the relationship between architecture and city, more specifically, a research carried out on the question of the existing bond between the architectural form of ...

    Incidencia del lugar en la obra de Arne Jacobsen (1950–1964) 

    Martín Carbonell, Pol (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)

    Taking in consideration the inclusion and adaptation of the new modern American post-war models, the aim is to distinguish the aspects and conditions of place, among other conditions, which derived in the formal decisions ...

    Església i ciutat : el paper dels temples parroquials en la construcció de Barcelona 

    Arboix Alió, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-05-09)

    La contribució de les esglésies al desenvolupament i a l’articulació dels barris de Barcelona és un tema clau per a la comprensió de la ciutat. Les múltiples i variades formes objectivables del creixement de Barcelona ...

    Casas Obregón & Valenzuela años 50 : contribución a la formación de una tipología 

    Llanos Chaparro, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)

    En 1946, José María Obregón Rocha, Pablo de Valenzuela y Vega y Rafael Obregón González, graduados del Department of Architecture, The Catholic University of America, regresan a Colombia, en donde fundan Obregón, Valenzuela ...

    Casa la Ricarda de Antonio Bonet Castellana : un territorio formalizado 

    Flores, Ricardo, 1965- (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)

    This work is dedicated to the house La Ricarda, a work by the architect Antonio Bonet Castellana. The house is the result of a particular program that combines family lite with meetings and social celebration. lt is settled ...

    Colindancias : estudio de las relaciones de forma entre edificios contiguos 

    Escorihuela Vitales, Mamen (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)

    Urban architectural proposals arouse a false dilemma between complying site laws or preserving design autonomy. This thesis studies formal relations of projects wherein urban identity prevails, without compromising design ...

    Patio bonito : un barrio sin proyecto 

    Arboleda, Juliana (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)

    The dissertation focuses its study in Patio Bonito, a self-cons tructed neighborhood in the southwest of Bogota city, analyzing both home interiors and public spaces that were built by coliective work. The analysis provides ...

    Lógicas paramétricas en la arquitectura del siglo XX 

    Bravo Martínez, Maite (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)

    Architecture’s progression into the digital age is fundamentally changing contemporary practice due to the rapid development of digital tools available to architects, which are deeply affecting how projects are conceived, ...

    El hotel de mar de J. A. Coderch 

    Alfós Bernad, Joan Ramon (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)

    This thesis approaches the study of seaside hotels as imagined by Jose Antonio Coderch at the beginning of mass tourism in Spain, when small, traditional, family-run hotels scattered along the coastline were transformed ...

    La casa a quatre vents a La Bonanova (1945-1970) : una arquitectura residencial d'habitatge urbà en la forma de la ciutat de Barcelona (Sarrià-Sant Gervasi) 

    Aballanet, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

    The case study is about modern residences built in Barcelona, detached urban housing building, that we named them CASES URBANES A QUATRE VENTS. lts architecture characterizes and differentiates a form of urban living, ...

    Casa O'Gorman : habitando la cueva (1949–1969) 

    Arellano, Iván (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)

    Juan O'Gorman was one of lhe most inftuential architects of the last century in Mexico. His architecture and his pictorial work have hada big influence to date and have left a trace in the panorama of Mexican contemporary ...

    La forma dell’abitare nell’architettura moderna belga 

    Tranchida, Roberta (Date of defense: 2016-01-19)

    The thesis "The form of living in modern Belgian architecture" is a travel through the most industrialized cities of Belgium. lts main objective is to investigate the history of the social habitat in this country, with the ...

    Espacios intermedios frente al paisaje natural : reflexiones sobre la obra de Álvaro Siza Vieira 

    Reyes Torres, Rafael (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)

    Buildings bear social and physical thres holds that hold together albeit in constant tension elements that might be conflicting but meaningful to human living. This thesis explores those thresholds and aims to understand ...

    Arquitectura : nit, llum i entorn 

    Puigvert i Flotats, Maria Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)

    That is NIGHT, LIGHT and ENVIRONMENT make and is ARCHITECTURE. Night and environment, as time and space; (artificial) light as a connecting tool. The aim of the thesis is, therefore, to give visibility and affirm that ...

    Thomas Herzog : pioneer of the 21st century's New Paradigm : a dissertation in the field of sustainable architecture 

    Nik Eteghad, Ali (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)

    The earliest buildings designad by Thomas Herzog reflect practicas of solar design. Overarching geometric forms as well as efficient structures complimented long, slanted south-facing walls incorporated in the meticulously-crafted ...

    El desarrollo de la arquitectura moderna o la arquitectura moderna para el desarrollo : el Caribe hispano antillano 1950-1965 

    Ortiz Valoy, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)

    The development of modern architecture or the modern architecture for development the hispanic Caribbean antillas 1950-1965. Once assumed the validity of the principies of modern architecture and the revaluation of its ...