Departament de Teoria i Història de l'Arquitectura i Tècniques de Comunicació
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Atles d'arquitectura teatral de Palma: ciutat, arquitectura i espai escènic
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-18)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe research of the place of theatre in Palma explores the existing, disappeared and closed spaces throughout the history of the city. This catalog includes 113 performance spaces, some with ostentatious will, but most of ... -
La modernidad cultivada. Los empresarios agrícolas en la arquitectura y el urbanismo de Culiacán (1940-1960)
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-10-11)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessFrom the end of the 19th century, mining production began to decline, and agriculture became more important for the economy of the state of Sinaloa. With the projects of the post-revolutionary governments of the first half ... -
Atravesar la modernidad: la arquitectura de Harnden y Bombelli (1948-1971), entre la Guerra Fría y la tradición mediterránea
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-03)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessAt the end of 1949, the American architect Peter G. Harnden (1913-1971), then in charge of the Marshall Plan's exhibition center in Europe, and the young Italian architect Lanfranco Bombelli (1921-2008), trained in Switzerland ... -
Metapostales: la imagen moderna de España a través de las tarjetas postales en el boom desarrollista
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-06-21)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn the introduction to the first chapter of her book On Photography, specifically in the well-known text on the fragment of the film Les Carabiniers (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard, Susan Sontag refers to postcards with a certain ... -
El vol de l'ararauna : arquitectura de Xavier Busquets Sindreu entre São Paulo i Barcelona (1947-1963)
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-02-21)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis thesis explores the life and works of the Catalan architect Xavier Busquets Sindreu (1917-1990), focusing on his earlier professional stages, the exceptional training he acquired in São Paulo between 1951 and 1955, ... -
Heterotopía en Foucault y su utilidad en el análisis de la arquitectura posmoderna: la singularidad generalizada
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-01-14)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis 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 generalised-, becomes ... -
Memorias de la ciudad sin historia : la importancia de los afectos en la construcción y en las vivencias del barrio de La Mina
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-15)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessIn 1959, in the context of urban growth promoted by the ‘Plan Comarcal’, the so-called ‘Plan Parcial de La Mina’ was approved, and a new neighbourhood was expected to be built on the right bank of river Besòs area. However, ... -
La vivienda en Bucaramanga (1948 - 1962) : una crítica a la modernidad en Colombia
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-03-04)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe housing market designed in Bucaramanga during the study period of the fifties not only shows the transfer of technical knowledge through international cooperation, but also, the capitalist frenzy for the consumption ... -
Obra seminal de Anne Griswold Tyng (1951-1953) y su relación con Louis Isadore Kahn : la búsqueda por integrar espacio y estructura a partir de la geometría de la materia
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-01-08)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe emergency of complex phenomena in our time has forced creators to reconnect knowledge in design, since at the moment, most of them have fragmentary and hyper specialized inertia. Due to this, nowadays, in architecture ... -
Gaudí i els jardins de l’antic "manicomi de Sant Boi de Llobregat"
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-11-25)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessCreated 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 contemporaries of works ... -
Espacio y memoria : un viaje por las ruinas de la guerra civil española
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-09-14)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis doctoral thesis shows the result of research conducted into the history and character of the villages that still lie in ruins in Spain, ultimately as a result of the damage caused during a war that took place between ... -
Arquitectura moderna de Quito, 1954-1960
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-10)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThis 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 architecture in the context ...
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