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  • New and old Bauhaus: what is happening to modern architecture? 

    Muntañola Thornberg, José; Saura Carulla, Magdalena; Escoda Pastor, Carmen; Garcia, Regina (Springer, 2022)
    Conference report
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    There is a key point in architectural education that should be clarified to improve the legitimation of architects and urban planners in the digital and global world of today: The relationships between experience and ...
  • Entorns de vinya centuriats pels romans amb parets de pedra seca: anàlisi a Poblet basat amb imatges landsat/copernicus 

    Saura Carulla, Magdalena (Museu de Badalona, 2022)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Satellite images show lines of walls in a grid-pattern on both sides of the Mediterranean Pyrenees. Geolocated listings of vineyard, dry-stone walls lack dates. It is generally assumed they were built by tradition rather ...
  • Architecture and corporeity: towards a new concept of place-making 

    Muntañola Thornberg, José; Krawecka, Malgorzata (Margaret); Saura Carulla, Magdalena (Publica press, 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
  • Architecture in the age of artificial intelligence: challenges and limitations to training AI and teaching 

    Puig Costa, Janina; Navarro Delgado, Isidro; Christodoulou, Marilena; Avellaneda, Omar; Ianni, Manuela (2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    This article explores the utilization of Al within the field of Architecture education. Al has demonstrated favorable outcomes in information management and computational acceleration. Various studies indicate that generative ...
  • Architecture's future in Europe: Deep learning and generative AI 

    Puig Costa, Janina; Navarro Delgado, Isidro; Ianni, Manuela; Christodoulou, Marilena; Avellaneda, Omar (2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Applications based on large language models show a preference for North American cultural references due to the texts and images they were trained on. This can pose a barrier to AI adoption by European architects. Faculty ...
  • Propuesta de un cuatrimestre cero para la asignatura de Expresión Gráfica en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Barcelona Este (UPC) 

    Davila Cordido, Mariolly; Parga Vázquez, Andrea María; Farrerons Vidal, Óscar (2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Se busca fortalecer la asignatura Expresión Gráfica, impartida en los siete grados de ingeniería de la Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est, EEBE, UPC, con la implementación de un cuatrimestre cero. El objetivo es fomentar ...
  • On the search for transparency between contemporary design and the history of the place 

    Beltran Borràs, Júlia (Lodz University of Technology, 2022)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The principal aim of this paper is to analyse the urban form, the buildings and the system of open spaces of a city in Spain, Morella, in the present, looking back to understand the meaning of things, and to show, using ...
  • Assessment of the hyperbolic paraboloids of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Caracas through architectural visualization 

    Davila Cordido, Mariolly (Springer Nature, 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The technological advances of the Modern Movement in architecture introduced hyperbolic structures of great architectural simplicity and high structural complexity. The Church of the Holy Trinity in Caracas, built in 1969, ...
  • The dialogical genesis of city forms 

    Muntañola Thornberg, José; Saura Carulla, Magdalena; Beltran Borràs, Júlia; Nathan Martínez, Josue; Regina, García (Universitat de Strathclyde, 2022)
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    City forms are at the origin of historical cultural human living processes and without them our memory could not be developed neither at a personal nor at a social level. With the computer, as happened with the writing ...
  • The emergence of cities, in between the urban morphological studies, the design poetic achievements and the ethnometodological social surveys 

    Ameli Najafabadi, Rasoul; Saura Carulla, Magdalena; Beltran Borràs, Júlia; Martínez Gómez, Josué Nathan; Muntañola Thornberg, José (2018)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The morphological studies about the transformations of cities have been made in the last fifty years following different “morphological schools” according to countries, cultures and theories. We will present our own ...
  • The tectonic structures of Sverre Fehn 

    Ferrer Forés, Jaime José (CRC Press. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)
    Conference lecture
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    The work by Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) professes an obstinate devotion for essence and authenticity by combining tradition and timelessness. The poetical intensity of his legacy is reflected in an abstract work by its geometric ...
  • Arne Jacobsen: el dibujo del suelo 

    Ferrer Forés, Jaime José (Gangemi Editore, 2019)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    A partir de un dibujo del pavimento de Santa Maria in Cosmedin realizado en 1925 por el arquitecto danés Arne Jacobsen (Copenhague, 1902-1971) en su viaje al mundo clásico, se analiza la influencia de esta acuarela en la ...

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