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Alison & Peter Smithson, Axel Bruchhäuser and the Hexenhaus. The added value of the conglomerate ordering 

Bach, Anna Kaarina (Date of defense: 2025-10-03)

(English) Between 1985 and 2002, British architects Alison and Peter Smithson transformed the Hexenhaus—a modest half-timbered building in Bad Karlshafen, Germany—into one of the late twentieth century's most remarkable ...

Utopia inhabited : el Barri Gaudí by Taller de Arquitectura : 1960s & 1970s production of everyday social sciences 

Rius Ruiz, Maria (Date of defense: 2024-07-17)

(English) This text is the outcome of PhD research on El Barri Gaudí (Gaudí Neighborhood), one of the collective housing prototypes that emerged worldwide during the 1960s and 1970s embodying alternative ways of communal ...

Arquitectura comparada 

Fuente González, Félix de la (Date of defense: 2025-09-02)

(English) —I— Architecture is a way of ordering the pieces of the world according to their reciprocal affinities, and this involves comparing. Because the word “architecture”, as well as referring to how buildings, cities, ...

Los edificios residenciales urbanos de José Antonio Coderch, 1964-1969: las plantas bajas como construcción de espacio público 

Martínez Molina, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2025-07-08)

(English) This research analyzes urban residential buildings designed by J.A. Coderch between 1964 and 1969, specifically exploring his relationship with the city. The study uses ground floors as an analytical tool, ...

Alfred Grenander : transitional spaces and the mobility infrastructure of Berlin from 1914 to 1930 

Magalhães, José Eduardo Rodriguez Calvet de (Date of defense: 2025-07-07)

(English) The city of Berlin owes the design of most of its subway stations to the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander, who was the main responsible for this task in the beginning of the 20th century. These subway stations, ...

Exposiciones de arquitectura en Barcelona (1939-2019). Una colección 

Ortigosa Duarte, Nuria (Date of defense: 2025-05-15)

(English) The objective of this research is the study of the collection comprising the 950 architectural exhibitions held in Barcelona from the end of the Spanish Civil War to the present day. The study focuses on the ...

Espai núvol: una anàlisi de l’arquitectura de RCR Arquitectes a través de les seves atmosferes 

Prat Ortells, Jaume (Date of defense: 2024-04-19)

(English) The work of RCR arquitectes is recognizable and recognized, based on intense interventions almost always represented from the inside out, deep, somber, which often incorporate this outside, this environment, in ...

La repetición en un modelo habitacional urbano: de las terraced houses londinenses tardogeorgianas a los apartment houses neoyorquinos de la Era Metropolitana 

Terés Castán, Judith (Date of defense: 2024-07-26)

(English) Domestic architecture is the backbone of the historic city due to its ambivalent capacity, expressed in urban housing models, of providing the citizens habitat at the same time of contributing to plot the texture, ...

Habitat évolutif 

García Dorce, Cristina Quiteria (Date of defense: 2024-07-09)

(English) Often, studying the multiple variations that a building undergoes is like taking a trip back in time. Discovering what is behind this transformation is like an open book for those who know how to read it, where ...

Aspectos ambientales en la Casa Aversú de Alejandro de la Sota: el proceso del proyecto 

González Torrado, Cristian (Date of defense: 2024-10-04)

(English) This research stems from two personal interests: climate awareness and Alejandro de la Sota. Based on this premise, the aim of the research is to find the connection between environmental aspects and architecture, ...

El corte vertical y las casas modernas en las laderas de Quito (1960 - 1985) 

Banderas Braga, Marcelo (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)

(English) Modern architecture arrived in Quito through a complex process of assimilation of the lessons and values that emerged in Western Europe and the United States in the early 20th and late 19th centuries. The location ...

El Panecillo de Quito, de monte-artificio a artefacto urbano 

Bueno García, Cristina Vanessa (Date of defense: 2023-07-13)

(English) The urban fabric of many cities, as they grew, engulfed hills found on the edges of their colonial layout. Cities and their inhabitants developed a complex relationship with these protrusions that questioned the ...

Arquitectura moderna en la latitud 0º: la ciudad de Quito y la Cordillera de los Andes 

Oleas Serrano, Diego Patricio (Date of defense: 2024-02-22)

(English) This doctoral thesis examines the process of adaptation of Modern Architecture in Quito over a period of twenty years (1960-1980). The city's location at latitude 0 and an elevation of 2850 meters above sea level ...

Acontecimiento y ciudad. Cuando lo extraordinario transforma lo ordinario. Las fiestas de la Mercè y Barcelona 

Sala Giralt, Anna (Date of defense: 2024-01-18)

(English) The object of study of this investigation is centred on the potential that extraordinary events of the city have as a project design tool. We refer to instances in which the city is transformed into a laboratory ...

Interior-exterior en arquitectura 

Castillo Fuentealba, Carlos Ignacio (Date of defense: 2023-02-13)

(English) The purpose of the doctoral thesis is to study interior spaces - built in the old tradition of closed and contrasted architecture – relativized in their interior condition. In the classical opacity and the ...

La forma urbana en áreas naturales protegidas : el caso del archipiélago de Galápagos : Puerto Ayora en la Isla de Santa Cruz y el proyecto de la ciudad endémica 

López Andrade, Jaime (Date of defense: 2022-04-25)

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 ...

Enrique Ciriani y la Escuela de París (Grupo Uno) : entre la pedagogía y la práctica 

Erazo Solines, Juan (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)

This PhD dissertation deals with the importance of having a methodological teaching for architecture education and its future professional practice, taken as a reference Enrique Ciriani and the Grupo UNO pedagogical ...

La forma en la arquitectura residencial de Richard Neutra : 1950-1965 

Aranibar del Alcázar, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-04-25)

The PhD thesis THE FORM IN RICHARD NEUTRA'S RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE. 1950-1965, investigates the maturity of the professional career of the architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970) focusing on the single-family house. From ...

Juha Leiviskä : una aproximación fenomenológica a su arquitectura 

Molarinho Marques, Sara Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-03-22)

The interest in the impact of architecture on its inhabitants and their perception of space lead to question how the spatial experience is considered during the project phase to understand the influence of project decisions ...

Ridolfi a Terni, 1944-1964. La Palazzina com a síntesi entre forma urbana i tipologia domèstica 

Solanellas Terés, Àngel (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)

Roman architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) made a substantial contribution to the transformation of European cities and to collective housing after the Second World War. For a period of twenty years, he used the city of ...