ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Author: FONTANA USÓN JOSÉ RAMÓN.
Year: 2001.
University: INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.unica.edu].
Place of defense: UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA. CAMPUS BARCELONA.

Summary: Giving as valid assumption that the architecture can be analyzed through an analysis of its parts, in the conviction that detail reflects the properties of the total, intends to serve the ladder as a means of analysis of the architecture. The thesis demonstrates the ability of architecture, and also from other disciplines related to the creation and knowledge to convert an essentially utilitarian purpose, without further claims that facilitate the mobility of the man in an active node in the universe of ideas. The thesis discusses a large number of stairs going from the ladder as a metaphor and without pretension materiality up the ladder and eventually executed completely tangible. The thread running through the whole journey through these case studies is the recurrence of its creators to use them for display or reach some kind of transcendental purpose, an ideal that goes beyond the triviality of the object-escalera- played the role of instrument . Thus, the metaphorical ladder is revealed as a means to gain access to an ideal type of divine -mostrando the way for those who persecute God, and even selecting those who are suitable for alcanzarlo- or philosophical ideal-again as a teaching tool, this time in the service of science or science - just to drift in a demonstration most evil-stairs into the unknown, marking the path concealing their destiny is going to leave some mark on the mundeo of art and the art. Moreover, the staircase materials also serve as an instrument in the service of a metaphorical program, in the modern palace, where the prince will replace the god that he hoped the election at the end of the escalera- and will be viewed too heavily involved in the search of the ideal tecnostático-the loss of structural appearance in the search of the ideal of the building, changing over time. All this analysis, which covers a broad spectrum temporary and even desciplinar demonstrates the versatility of the ladder when it seeks to serve the expression of an ideal in principle alien to its nature as an architectural object. But ultimately, the stairway will be able to become ideal of itself, as evidenced by a series of cases -construidos or merely proyectados- where the staircase is devoid of ulterior motives except that derive from the pure challenge constructive or compositional.

Author: PEREZ DRAGO ILEANA.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID [More theses of this university] [www.upm.es].
Place of defense: ETS ARQUITECTURA.
Place of preparation: ETS ARQUITECTURA.

Summary: Doctoral Thesis This is the first systematic study to be conducted on tema.Parte based on the assumption that the development of blacksmithing colonial Havana in the nineteenth century is part of a process that feat in Spain and Europe com result of the industrialization. By comparison with specialized catalogs of the nineteenth century, and with its own blacksmith in the architecture of Spanish cities such as Madrid, Seville and Cadiz s elogra determine the influences that marked forms of iron habaneros. It analyzes 79 buildings in four areas of study: Old Havana (intramural), The Breakdown, "The Walls", El Cerro and El Vedado. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first provides data hestóricos on metal extraction on the island of Cuba during the colonial period, as well as teachers and blacksmiths shops rerrería. The second is devoted to the use of iron in the colonial architecture habanera.Se outlines the conditions for the growth of employment in the iron architecture in the nineteenth century, summarizes the Ordinances related to the theme and caracteizan areas of study. In the third analyzes the data work campo.Mediante comparative tables were above conclusions raltivas to muestra.Los elements iron are studied individually from the point of view of form as technological. The fourth chapter shows the comparaciÂ'Â'on of examples habaneros catalogs with specialized European and Spanish as well as with the selected cities: Madrid, Seville and Cadiz. In the fifth expressing the conclusions of this thesis, which support the hypothesis initially raised about the influence on hierrros habaneros through the catalog information from the metropolis and the experience of blacksmiths Spaniards who exercised the office in Havana while recognizing the contributions of local teachers.

Author: CARVALHO SIQUEIRA ANDREA CRISTINA.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: ETSAB.Sala Pi Calleja.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A - SD.

Summary: The climate of cultural renewal and social functioning in the immediate postwar Italian represented an important reference for the architect Lina Bo Bardi. His training and experience in this context prompted her to a position of ethical commitment to social reality. This thesis analyzes in this position compromised aspiration to reality incorporated by Lina Bo Bardi of Italian culture is reflected in his work in Brazil. His career, from Italy to Brazil, is a continuous search for links between architecture and society. This argument is presented as Lina Bo Bardi, based on the essence of modern architecture, was incorporating new references to the architecture to link their work with the Brazilian reality, which means their approach to the socio-cultural context and values. In the first part, introductory, explores the constraints of an aspiration artistic and architectural addressed to meet and interact with reality. The second part looks at the historical context of the Italian postwar period and the training and experience of Lina Bo Bardi in Italy, taking into account their references and the influence of this experience in his work. Following the trajectory of the architect, in the third part explores the cultural and architectural context that it found in Brazil. While in the quarter examines the experience of Lina Bo Bardi in the Brazilian context and its cultural evolution through their works and achievements. The investigation checked in Brazil Lina Bo Bardi found a rich field to express their social and political awareness, adapting the attitude of aspiration to reality absorbed in Italy in three ways, which can be identified as expressive strokes of his experience: the cultural commitment and teaching, approximation and defending the values popular, and the attitude of respect for the environment. Lina Bo Bardi disclosed culture as a force capable of creating a humane world and vital. Upon recognition of the Brazilian situation, performs a variety of cultural activities valuable communicative and didactic, from creating space museum to editing magazines, including architecture. The approximate Lina Bo Bardi the popular values, enabled him to recover for this traditional values, incorporating them into its architecture as a source of communication. The environment for Lina Bo Bardi is concrete and is starting point for an architecture linked to him. The aspiration to reality allowed him to move away from abstract formalism of modern architecture and develop a more pragmatic and work next to the social situation

Author: GAILLARD JULIE CAROLINE.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: AULA PI I CALLEJA.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A - SD.

Author: TORMENTA PINTO PAULO ALEXANDRE.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: AULA PI I CALLEJA.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A - SD.

Author: GREGORIO BELTRAME ROBERTO HÉCTOR DE.
Year: 2004.
University: PABLO DE OLAVIDE [More theses of this university] [www.upo.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.

Summary: The city of Rosario, Argentina in the Pampa humid, it grows in a way surprisingly unusual. A great flood of immigrants from the most diverse nations, it reaches attracted by its enormous labor supply and find its solution in the type of housing called CRIOLLA, who elected to be so massively, shape and is the fabric urbano.Casa and Managers make up the scene of a unique case in the South American landscape.

Author: CHAOS YERAS MABEL TERESA.
Year: 2004.
University: PABLO DE OLAVIDE [More theses of this university] [www.upo.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.

Summary: The investigation is closer to the mask used by the symbolic power in the construction of the village of Santa María del Puerto Prince where, through urban and architectural structures, we have an irregular pattern that responded and the time was a result of social relationships and power structures established for the exercise. The irregular layout of the city differs from most of the foundations of the new continent characterized by a fabric regular grid. The city says, in layout, the regularity of the main square at the heart of power in contrast to other places and small squares which are religioso-habitacional and having irregular shapes. We appreciate those factors having an impact on the configuration of their physical structure through the study of the geographical environment, population and specific historical context of comprehensive social, economic, political and ideológico. To complete the overall objective of demonstrating that the physical structure of Port-au-Prince, despite its peculiarities, is a consequence of the colonial power it exercised during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, it became necessary to conduct investigations partial which in turn responded to the objectives specific establish the general features of the symbols of colonial power in the case of Cuba and the differences that exist with regard to the object of study, identify constraints and its influence on the structure of the city and define the variables that affected its urban layout and correspondence of this with the key elements of the building symbolic of the city.

Author: CHAVES DE SOUZA CELMA DE NAZARE.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: AULA PI CALLEJA DE L'ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A- SD.

Summary: This thesis deals with architecture that takes place in the city of Bethlehem between the decades of 1930 and 1970. It also refers to the cultural, political and social shaping the environment of the city at the time the initial and subsequent to the changes that led to the gradual replacement of architectural character eclecticista pair even architecture of modern character. Since the introduction of a new architectural language, stressed in this thesis, the work dominant engineers, designers and builders, and the absence of a school of architecture, the reasons for which the architecture is developed in the period, buy a feature essentially dispersed and fragmented, which would persist throughout the period studied. The thesis objective on the one hand, understanding the phenomenon primarily as a result of the absence of a School of Architecture and a socioeconomic situation unstructured. This position was manifested from the bankruptcy of the so-called "rubber economy" around the year 1912. On the other hand, this architecture comprises two aspects. First, it was part of the ideal of a professional group and minority politician, who longed modernized through an architecture that made use of modern forms, which at that time had already been established and were questioning elsewhere in the country and abroad . Second, in this architecture, and related patterns of modern architecture "modern movement," are expressed in different buildings studied in this thesis and represent a historic episode that never will be consolidated into the city.

Author: MARTINEZ GUEYRAUD CALIXTO ALBAN.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: AULA PI CALLEJA-ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A - SD.

Author: LOLICH SADLER LILIANA.
Year: 2005.
University: PABLO DE OLAVIDE [More theses of this university] [www.upo.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES (DEPARTAMENTO DE GEOGRAFÍA, HISTORIA Y FILOSOFÍA).

Summary: The investigation includes the selection, description and analysis of works of architecture and urbanism in Patagonia between 1879 and 1955. The study is divided into two periods: the first extends until 1930 and shows a greater role for the private sector, especially the large placements laneras, and the import of prefabricated buildings as a result of action by British businessmen. During this period highlights, the work of the Salesian Congregation and the work of priests architects John Barnabas, Aceto and Stefenelli. Along with the study of industrial prefabrication was included graphic architecture due to the role played in disseminating models. In the second period (1930 to 1955) reveals an increased presence of academicism in the work of authorship as a result of strong investment in public works. It analyzed the work of urban and territorial approach and works of architecture made by the Directorate of National Parks in the wooded areas patogónicas. The work was selected by Arqs. Alejandro Bustillo and Ernesto Estrada with the transformation of their europeizantes produced in a wide region. The analytical role demonstrates the influence exerted models architectural and urban Europeans and their adaptation to the harsh geographical and climatic conditions of the territory. Emphasizes the importance of typological shed esquilla as a unique response, the widespread use of sheet metal, the pioneering work of urban landscape and Arq.de Estrada and the impositions of stylistic Bustillo.

Author: ROSSELLO NICOLAU M. ISABEL.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: DPTO. DE COMPOSICIÓN ARQUITECTÓNICA.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A - SD.

Author: KASIS ARICEAGA ANUAR ABRAHAM.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: AULA PI CALLEJA-ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A - SD.

Summary: The working part of a challenge and leaves, in the end, an open question on the current account of the crucial issues of architecture, in practice, reflection and education. As a historiographic, takes the personal and professional life of an architect of Guadalajara, Mexico, as an element that presents and illustrates an attitude and a way of responding to these three fields of architecture, in the course of the twentieth century in his city . The elapse of their lives in Guadalajara, for most of the twentieth century, was, from the start, a constant search âcasi obsesiva- from âesenciasâ of architecture, that somehow the practice could save a superficial, trivial and soon committed to society, their time and their place, and avoid surrender to the adoption of styles and fashions imposed or imitated. In his maturation process, formed a thought, to be built gradually, starting with new discoveries and investigations, not only on issues of architecture ... Matters of philosophy, theology, history, art history, cultural history, were involved, but the point was the confluence of architecture. That thought, was the basis of a theory which, though never published, and possibly never written so definitive and formal, informed its done and the other, as well as an individual learning process, the field pioneered in Guadalajara and western Mexico, to create, after 18 years of incubation of the idea, the fourth school of architecture in the country at that momentO. In a college radical Orthodox and rigorously, with a dogmatic teaching imposed only lacked independence, autonomy which never had, which would have been able to secure their livelihood. That dream materialized, it lasted a few years and that âcuasiconventoâ ended up falling into the ways conventional âa times sucios-, that the institutions managing the systems. But while lasted, the school handed architects who showed with his work at the time, the quality of their training at the highest level. The thought of this man taking continued presence in Guadalajara, until the end of his days, and then, many architects were trained under that particular way of looking at the architecture, not always easy to understand, let alone take on and continue. Ignacio Diaz Morales was the main thesis and paradigm architecture in the twentieth century in Guadalajara. The architecture promulgated by him was âla artwork that is expressive in space, bounded by constructive elements, to compel the human act perfectoâ commitment that goes beyond what discipline to pursue higher end ... Do you improve the lives of the people? Do you Bringing man, through the messages of architecture, from the beauty of space, to the realization of human acts perfect? His commitment was to place environmental, geographic and cultural fields, and also temporary architecture should necessarily be its result. Considered as a strong precedent for the architect, history, the past, place and culture as factors own, without denying or evading consideration also influences (valued critically) that came from outside, to allow the architect ( the main operator), through its ability and talent, the ability to make architecture (the main work), which was placed inside a present continually changing, but not rooted in a time, a place or conditions, let alone imitate anything, follow a trend, movement or flow. Therefore, the purpose was to make authentic architecture, and necessarily dife 8 renciada 36d. Diaz Morales relied on the ability to interpret the architect and the possibility to build, little by little, their own thoughts, as the basis for a consistent architecture, and natural right of each place.

Author: GARCIA VERGARA MARISA.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [More theses of this university] [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: Aula C-B9-ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A - SD.

Summary: The aim of the thesis is to explore the place of art within the philosophical reflection of Georges Bataille, a reflection that addresses a comprehensive approach to the existence of man and intended to give an account of the essential dimensions of human experience: politics, economics, religion, eroticism and art. The investigation focuses in particular on the relationship with Bataille modern art during the period of its activity that elapses between the experience that begins with the magazine Documents, in the year 1929, and culminating at the end of the decade thirty the risky bet Acéphale. For Bataille art belongs in the realm of the irrational, useless and selfless activities that reflect the âparte malditaâ man is a transgressor of sacredness and allowing the man to regain its sovereignty at the time of the tragic and playful creation . But Bataille does art the passive object of his reflection, it theorizes about him, not what holds in any definition or seeks to establish taxonomic classifications or axiológicas but excludes the artistic creation of the idealistic end of the speeches institutional history art and the entire propedéutica linked to the philosophy to keep the immanence of the real and place in the universal history of man from a holistic perspective and anthropological research, which works of art would be documents no-saber. This is not a meditation on art theory and its doctrines, or a reading analytical three-dimensional works taken as an illustration of his abstract thinking, but it is intended to analyze the asset that makes use of images and artistic performances, in many cases serve as a starting point, as triggers or his thinking as concrete arguments to oppose the orthodox surrealism André Breton. The first part reviews the famous controversy that arose between Breton and Bataille following the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism Second, a conflict in which underlie profound ideological differences between surrealism and low materialism that defends Bataille. The second part examines the experience of Bataille in front of the magazine Documents and the particular company epistemological refounding of art done by the magazine. In the third and fourth part deals with relationships and linkages between the thinking of Bataille and the work of artists like Dali and Picasso in their eyes that embody the search feverish with the âespíritu modernoâ has sought freedom from servile idealism. The fourth and fifth were delves into Bataille's participation in social and political activities of his time, his militancy in various leftist groups as Contre-Attaque and his unique vision of sociology, anthropology and economics in general that art is integrated as a core activity. The final part reviews the experience of Nietzschean magazine Acéphale, which embodies the search for an egalitarian community, without heads and without head, which is composed of sovereign men, in which the art direction and retrieves the sacred value of intimate communication between beings .

Author: FERNÁNDEZ LOPEZ OSCAR.
Year: 2005.
University: CÓRDOBA [More theses of this university] [www.uco.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.

Summary: The dissertation Architecture and postmodernity in Cordoba, 1975-2000, it is proposed to analyze developments in the disciplines of architecture and urbanism in the province of Cordoba from a key date that has marked a crucial turning point both in the context socio political state, marked by the end of the dictatorship and the emergence of democracy, as in the intellectual horizons, characterized by the shift towards the paradigm of postmodern thought. The coincidence of the two events, while in other contexts is developed with a chronology deferred or longer gestation process, in the case almost Spanish implanted simultaneously or in a smaller space of time, it is a scenario unprecedented social and intellectual in that architecture and urbanism developed a very important role. In this thesis are handled two readings of Postmodernism that sometimes overlap and others do not. On the one hand, talking Postmodernism as a dominant cultural, intellectual as a model from which to explain a time, covering the last third of the twentieth century, and on the other, postmodern as a new paradigm to architectural. Paradigm latter not survive, in both intellectual and aesthetic proposal for the architecture, within the wider process of compliance with a deferred modernity in the context Spanish. Which it will not happen with Postmodernism as an explanation, say totalizadora, although this epithet goes against everything that the model represents, it seems to have proven useful despite the amendments received. The methodology chosen for the conditions of this study, consisting of an exploration of the vagaries of modern architecture in the last Cordovan which overlaps consciously mere mapping architecture and urbanism of this province, surpasses the mere inventory, even though the appendix is also satisfy this aspect. It tries to offer it, since the organization itself content of this thesis, a multiplicity of perspectives that enrich the understanding of the processes analyzed.