La arquitectura moche del Perú : análisis, interpretación y relación con la arquitectura peruana (1924-2020) 

    Alva López, Florentino Gerardo (Date of defense: 2023-02-27)

    (English) The latest archaeological discoveries and research on the Moche or Mochica culture (circa 200 A.D.-800 A.D.), developed in the northern coast of Peru, has allowed us to have a better vision and understanding of ...

    Arquitectura y diseño flexible : una revisión para una construcción más sostenible 

    Pinto Campos, Bruna Caroline (Date of defense: 2019-10-02)

    Flexible architecture is characterized by its adaptive and harmonious nature. Historically, various forms of architecture have emerged with the ability to adapt to different conditions and needs, thus becoming a novel ...

    Arquitectura y genética: como analogía en el proceso de diseño arquitectónico 

    Botero Márquez, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)

    Due to the progressive development of new technologies, modern society is experiencing quite a degree of disconnection from the elements of nature. This is reflected in increased levels of stress, anxiety and depression, ...

    BIM* Implementation in the AEC* Curriculum : a quasi-experimental case study of the Architectural Engineering (AE) Bachelor’s degree at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) 

    Ferrandiz Gea, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2018-10-04)

    The introduction of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is changing the work environment in the AEC industry. Many countries require the AEC industry to submit building documentation using BIM. For example BIM is a requirement ...

    Chinese drawing, architectural poetics : traditional painting as a semantic representation of modern architectural design 

    Zhang, Yimeng (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)

    This thesis is partly an attempt to explore the potential of pre-modern Chinese painting, on its distinctive formats and schemes to achieve spatial depth and time duration, as a way to interpret and design architecture. ...

    Contemporary elderly housing in China and Europe : architecture refurbishing and emotional design 

    Chen, Ting (Date of defense: 2019-10-09)

    This thesis is written under the background of Chinese society. Architecture always develops with adaption to the desires of society. Design is a way to satisfy these social desires. Currently, China is suffering from the ...

    Developing a parametric system for pointe shoe customization 

    Christodoulou, Marilena (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)

    A Pointe Shoe is worn by ballet dancers while performing “en pointe”. This fundamental ballet technique, which is performed by rising to the tips of the toes, enables dancers to create the illusion of incredible lightness ...

    El espacio a partir del plano: el neoplasticismo en la arquitectura contemporánea 

    Díez Blanco, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)

    The Dutch De Stijl group was born at a time of common interest among avant-garde artists and architects of the first half of the 20th century in the purification of the means of expression, based until then on a tradition ...

    El fenomen Barcelona & Gaudí : claus per a l'estudi del procés de conformació 

    Vidal Peig, Teresa (Date of defense: 2017-03-08)

    This Thesis is a study on the conforming process of the architect Antoni Gaudí and his work image as a reference and city claim of Barcelona, and how he has became the masterpiece on the International Catalan Modernism ...

    El museo de arte como obra arquitectónica y artística 

    Vélez Restrepo, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)

    The topic of this investigation is focused in the study of the transformations and relationships of the Art Museum being both an artistic work of art and an architectural work. The concept of “work” is the result of a ...

    El territorio ampurdanés entre los siglos V al X : Dispositio et compositio ecclesiae 

    Valls Mora, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2019-09-16)

    The ecclesiastical rural architecture before the year 1000 in the Hispanic north east, has relevant information on the territorial evolution and social changes that happen in an era full of lights and shadows. This ...

    Generación y control de formas libres en entornos BIM : modelado paramétrico, modelado algorítmico 

    Larrondo Lizarraga, Antonio (Date of defense: 2017-07-12)

    The present thesis work intends to explore and research how far these new tools and modeling techniques can reach, regarding the generation and control of free forms (conceptual or mass modeling) in geometries generally ...

    The generative, analytic and instructional capacities of sound in architecture : fundamentals, tools and evaluation of a design methodology 

    Llorca Bofí, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)

    The disciplines of space and time form two domains to which it is daring to compare, since it is obvious that they are of a different nature. Music happens in time, while architecture happens in space. However, from the ...

    Guillem Reynés i Font. Una arquitectura interrumpida: el regionalismo como búsqueda utópica entre tradición y modernidad 

    Reynés Corbella, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2020-12-30)

    The thesis arose out of an initial process of systemisation and inventory of the documentary archives of the Majorcan architect, Guillem Reynés Font (Palma, 1877-1918), which has been conserved by his grandson, Guillermo ...

    The innovative expression of Chinese traditional culture and art in contemporary architectural design 

    Li, Gaoli (Date of defense: 2019-09-10)

    Recent improvements in contemporary Chinese society will not only be reflected by new economic models, cultural products, scientific and technological achievements and aesthetic values, but also manifest in diverse ...

    La experiencia del ILAUD y la "Escuela de Barcelona" 

    Belloni, Paolo (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)

    ILAUD (International Laboratory of Urban Design) is an international research laboratory organized since 1974 by Giancarlo De Carlo at the University of Urbino with the aim to create an international network on the processes ...

    La Seu Episcopal d’Ègara : el projecte d’un conjunt cristià al segle V 

    González Pérez, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)

    The aim of this research about built heritage is to understand how were the buildings placed in the monumental ensemble of Saint Peter of Terrassa configured, from middle 5th century to second half of the 6th century. To ...

    Los sistemas defensivos de la ciudad de Palma y su influencia en el desarrollo de la trama urbana en los siglos XVII al XIX 

    Oliver Monserrat, Miquel (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)

    This thesis analyzes the influence of the defensive systems and the military architecture on the urban pattern development of the city of Palma from the 17th to the 19th century which coincides with the construction and ...

    Masía urbana: el papel arquitectónico y urbanístico de la masía en el área suburbana de Barcelona durante el siglo XX 

    Park, Jeongsoo (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)

    (English) This thesis is based on a new concept of the ‘Urban Masia’ applied to the city of Barcelona between from the 1860s to the present. *(Although ‘‘masia’’ usually translated as 'farmhouse' in many cases, this term ...

    Modeling and thermal optimization of residential buildings using BIM and based on RTS method : application to traditional and standard house in Sousse city 

    Benzarti Ghedas, Habiba (Date of defense: 2017-04-20)

    The thermal quality of the contemporary building tends to be deteriorated due to aesthetic and economic considerations. Cheap materials which are thermally inappropriate are still rising in new buildings. Actually, the ...