Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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 ...
The 50' x50' House Project (1951-1952) introduces the construction of a new formal system in the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969): the two-way span buildings. In 1951, at age 65 and after more than a decade in the ...
El tema central del treball és la casa que l'arquitecte José Antonio Coderch va projectar per a l'artista Antoni Tàpies i la seva família, en un procés que va durar des de 1960 fins a 1963. Aquesta casa ha estat abastament ...
The intention of this thesis is to bring a realistic rethinking and test on actual facts and specific conditions of architectural practices in modern period with the aim of discovering the fundamental but rarely mentioned ...
This thesis investigates how school building architecture was developed according to modern principles between 1956 and 1968 in the Mediterranean area (Barcelona and Valencia) as a response to the relationship between form, ...
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 ...
Una historia de la función, el concepto que revolucionó la arquitectura del siglo XX, está aún por escribir; éste permanece tan evidente como impreciso, subentendido como si siempre hubiera estado ahí. Esta tesis propone ...
La falta de luz y ventilación naturales provocada por las inmensas sombras de los nuevos edificios elevados del Downtown dio lugar a la ley de zonificación de 1916. La normativa reguló alturas, retrocesos aéreos de las ...
The interest for archaeological ruins arises periodically ín the course of history and it expresses ít self through a continuous altemating of attitude towards the "ancient": approaching and moving away, memory and ...
The study of Xosé Bar Bóo work (1922-1994), has started from two postulates that have become established by different authors: on the one hand, it is considered a paradigm of professional ethics and, on the other hand, the ...
La tesis analiza las ideas de modernidad y su impacto en la transformación de la práctica productiva arquitectónica portuguesa, a través de la especificidad producida por un grupo de arquitectos de Oporto, el ODAM que ...
"Few people outside the profession would recognize Albert Viaplana as the author of some of the major references of contemporary Barcelona, but his trajectory [ ... ] has left a strong mark on the Catalonian city, not only ...
Jorge Oteiza Embil (Orio, 1908 - San Sebastián, 2003) diseñó diferentes intervenciones en el campo de la arquitectura. Cronológicamente llegamos a encontrar cerca de 25 operaciones de diferente orden y planteamiento. En ...
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 ...
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 ...
La tesis estudia los patrones arquitectónicos y urbanísticos originados por el turismo, a partir de la década de 1950 en Florianópolis-Isla de Santa Catarina. El turismo de masas, surgido después de la segunda guerra ...
The basic premise of this work is to consider architecture as the result of the interrelationship between its constituent parts: aesthetic, tectonics, social, environmental , cultural, and organizational. When the project ...
