Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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 ...
Durante el gobierno del presidente Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez se dictó, en 1959, el Decreto con Fuerza de Ley Nº2, “instrumento legal destinado a movilizar, encauzar y fomentar los recursos estatales e institucionales, el ...
Sigfried Giedion accompanied for decades the development of the modern movement, he was the main promoter of the idea that a new spatial-temporal conception had been born in architecture just as in the physical sciences ...
El metro de Santiago y sus estaciones se construyen en la década de los ‘70 como protagonistas de un proyecto mayor de modernización de la ciudad, liderado por el arquitecto y urbanista Juan Parrochia Beguin. La tesis ...
From the projects developed by Mies in 1929 - the Tugendhat house and the German Pavilion for the Universal Exposition in Barcelona - we could say that it is showed in a more evident way a phase of experimentation, in which ...
Entiendo el proyecto como una especie de film, en donde los planos finales (o la obra construida), son tan sólo uno de sus fotogramas. La conjunción de todas sus partes es el resultado de la génesis del proyecto. Ella les ...
La tesis, con el título "Le Corbusier: la forma acústica", consiste en un trabajo de investigación sobre la obra de Le Corbusier. Este trabajo se centra en su producción como dibujante y pintor a partir de un cuidadoso y ...
La tesis reúne un conjunto de cinco observaciones a partir del proyecto no construido para el palacio del Gobernador de Chandigarh (1951-1957) que -sin intención de agotar las direcciones posibles- profundizan en aquéllas ...
The meeting of architecture as a human action that constructs the landscape of the earth with geography, governed by natural laws, was conceived by Le Corbusier as a composition in which he confronted the visual attributes ...
Most of the publications on the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen are mainly dedicated on showing his extensive number of works, especially in the public sector, and the projects focused on the domestic area are left aside. ...
The aim of this thesis is to reveal the importance of the “travesseres” as abstract elements which have the role of connecting two points (areas, fragments, sections) in a structure and of creating a consistent system that ...
This dissertation analyses Louis Kahn’s independent work until 1957 period in which he designed the Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania. The Richards Medical Research Laboratories marks ...
En 1409, seis años después de la inundación del barrio del Raval de Mar, los mercaderes solicitaron al rey permiso para construir una lonja que “ennobleciera su profesión y la Ciudad de Mallorca”. No fue hasta 1426 cuando ...
Nowadays almost all the expert opinion agrees that the cities -and the way of life that they carry- are the best solution to continue housing a growing world population. We know that the compactness of each city is directly ...
Since the beginning of the agricultural era -almost 10,000 years ago-, and until the present time, the processes of change and innovation in almost every aspect of human life has been steadily accelerating. Ever since the ...
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, ...
This project deals with the architectural works of Lucio Costa (1902-1998) and his projects built during the decades of the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's. lnside a historiographical narrativa, we have structured an architectural ...
Latin American modern architecture experienced, since mid-1950s, a period of ephemeral splendour that would last until mid-1960s. The end of the Second World War was responsible for setting up a new theoretical horizon ...
An infinite gray roof with different degrees of transparency is displayed with authority on a Scandinavia made of pieces, fragmented. However, the sky that covers these lands unifies it. The light passes through it and ...
In this thesis we discover a model of city developed jointly by the architect Mies van der Rohe and the city planner Ludwig Hilberseimer, which we have called the Metropolis as a Garden City. This name comes from a sketch ...
