Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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The present thesis couldn't have been unaffected by the recent economic crisis. Even before this crisis, it was well-known that architecture was languishing in its traditional boundaries. In the countries that didn't suffer ...
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 ...
The Costa Brava is not just a place within the territory, nor can it be summed up in an image, or approached through a single aspect. The complexity of its multifaceted landscape, makes it unattainable. A landscape that ...
The fundamental objective of this PhD dissertation is to analyze the architecture thanks to some strategies coming from recent theories developed inside and outside the traditional and usual disciplinary field of ...
The present research aims to introduce the Complexity Theory to the architectural discipline. This scientific theory allows us to conceive the idea of self-organization, that is, architecture without architects. If classical ...
Este trabajo es sobre la casa, particularmente, la casa en Estado Unidos. Aunque resultaría más preciso decir que este trabajo es sobre la idea de la casa, puesto que no pretende trazar una historia del desarrollo morfológico ...
The research object of this dissertation is the City of Rest and Holiday (CRV) of the GATCPAC. A project that was born in 1931, presented at CIAM IV, published in various journals, but never executed because of the Spanish ...
Esta tesis que se titula "La Consolidación de la Arquitectura Moderna en Recife en los Años 50" tiene como objetivo, comprobar la existencia de una " Escuela de Recife" en el escenario nacional, caracterizada por la búsqueda ...
INTRODUCTION: The interest of this research is the assessment of the quality of architecture and urban planning through human experience. Specially, focusing on the critical point of view of child population and their ...
The Galapagos archipelago is one of the best preserved protected natural ecosystems on the planet. It is recognized around the world as a privileged tourist destination and advertised as a haven of pristine nature. Thanks ...
El fenómeno de urbanización a escala global es uno de los retos esenciales para la planificación urbana del siglo actual, más aún si se tienen en cuenta los impactos que este tipo de crecimiento genera cuando la expansión ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
