Departament de Teoria i Història de l'Arquitectura i Tècniques de Comunicació (THATC)

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Recent Submissions

Spazi e corpi architettonici di Enric Miralles : pensieri e costruzioni guardando a progetti italiani 

Celiento, Ilia (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)

(English) This thesis is the result of the intuitions, the same ones, but in a different form, that have guided the Spanish architect Enric Miralles throughout his short but prolific career. Intuitions that give rise to ...

Para una sociología de la intelectualidad outsider : manierismo (1964), de Arnold Hauser, y los marxismos heterodoxos 

Saldaña Puerto, César (Date of defense: 2023-09-15)

(English) Mannerism is one of the most contentious concepts in the history of Western art, and it is significant that an author as controversial as Arnold Hauser (1892-1978) devoted a good part of his efforts to it. The ...

Around and about the arts in Barcelona (1939-1960) : supporting roles, select circles and small venues 

Martín-Nieva, Helena (Date of defense: 2023-06-15)

(English) "Around and about the Arts in Barcelona" explores the slow, difficult introduction of music and visual arts of the avant-garde into the city between the years 1939 and 1960. It looks at the formation of a small ...

Atles d'arquitectura teatral de Palma: ciutat, arquitectura i espai escènic 

Aloy Bibiloni, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2022-10-18)

The 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) 

Amaral Ibarra, Vicente Armando (Date of defense: 2021-10-11)

From 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 

Garnica González-Barcena, Julio Fidel (Date of defense: 2022-10-03)

At 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 

Arribas Sánchez, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-06-21)

In 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) 

Navarro-González, Rubén (Date of defense: 2022-02-21)

This 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 

Acosta Mejía, Boris (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)

This 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 

Aubán Borrell, Mónica (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)

In 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 

Jaimes Botía, Samuel (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)

The 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 

Villa Carrero, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-01-08)

The 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" 

Agulló Galilea, David (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)

Created 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 

Bitrián Varea, Carlos (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)

This 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 

Monard Arciniegas, Alexka Shayarina (Date of defense: 2020-07-10)

This 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 ...

El lugar de la representación en el campo arquitectónico : un problema de distancia 

Corvalán Tapia, Felipe (Date of defense: 2020-05-28)

Interaction between inhabitant and architecture is based mainly on the work's physical occupation of space. However, there are other, less tangible, ways to approach the discipline. Architecture is also a field of cultural ...

Tiempografía en São Pedro da Afurada : lecturas y prácticas interpretativas del habitar 

Geronta, Antigoni (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)

This thesis emanates from the premise that the impact of an architectural project is manifested not only in the organization of space and, by extension, in the social relationships established therein, but mainly in the ...

La arquitectura de la experiencia de la muerte : una aproximación al espacio del final de la vida 

Alonso Pedrosa, Luisa (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)

The progressive hospitalization of death transformed the ritual of farewell, the role of the dying, the behaviour of family members, the meaning of the terminally ill patient in the healthcare organization and the ...

Desmuntant la Secció Alemanya : Exposició Internacional de Barcelona de 1929 : Arquitectura de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe i Lilly Reich 

Felip Ordis, Olga (Date of defense: 2019-01-21)

Apart from the many interpretative contributions that the recent historiography has contributed to the state of the art in regards to the participation of the German Section at the International Exposition of Barcelona in ...

Ciutat Vella València : memoria del agua, estratigrafía urbana, reactivación de uso 

Torres Astaburuaga, Adrián (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)

Cities are rooted to the territory where they are located. Territorial variables determinate its morphogenesis and evolution. This research reconstitutes a urban landscape history, its hydraulic traces or the memory of ...

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