Departament de Projectes Arquitectònics
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona Tech (UPC) is a public institution dedicated to higher education and research, specialised in the fields of engineering, architecture and science.
The activity that goes on at UPC campuses and schools has made the University a benchmark institution. The University harnesses the potential of basic and applied research, and transfers technology and knowledge to society. These actions make the UPC—in partnership with the productive fabric—an agent and driver of economic and social change.
Our researchers are working in laboratories and research centres to increase scientific production, to promote its social value through the transfer of resultsto continue to lead international projects of excellence on our own initiative or in collaboration with research centres and universities around the world.
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If you are a doctor of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and you want to publish your thesis at TDX, contact with tdx@upc.edu. For more information check the frequently asked questions (in Catalan or in Spanish).
Recent Submissions
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(Date of defense: 09-10-2013)The thesis examines the architecture of Mies van der Rohe through the observation of a work projected since 1959: the Chicago Federal Center. From here it attempts to reveal the formal sense of his architecture inquiring ...
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(Date of defense: 12-12-2018)The research is focused on modern collective housing projects whose forms of implantation stand out in the relationship with the urban context that precedes them. In the specific case of Barcelona, the task confronts the ...
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(Date of defense: 24-05-2018)The objective of this doctoral thesis, is to elucidate the social dimension of space in the architectural works of Colombian architect, Rogelio Salmona. For such analisis, interdisciplinary and inclusive methods were ...
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(Date of defense: 03-04-2018)The initial interpretations of Álvaro Siza’s work outside Portugal put the notion of place at the core of his architecture, in line with certain critical positions that appeared in Europe after the Second World War. From ...
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(Date of defense: 24-04-2010)La arquitectura determina la construcción y el cambio de los lugares. Existe un antes y un después del lugar cuando se inserta en él un nuevo objeto construido. Es a partir de ese momento que aparecen nuevas relaciones ...