Jiménez-Pacheco, Pedro (Date of defense: 2018-07-17)
The dissertation arises from the awakening of Henri Lefebvre’s work, both in social sciences with Marxist approach and urban studies interested in social issues. This scientific and institutional recovery ...
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 ...
Theodosis, Lefteris (Date of defense: 2016-05-30)
Constantinos A. Doxiadis (1913-1975) was an important figure in the realm of postwar urbanism, and yet his contribution has been largely neglected. This study reviews his trajectory and analyzes key ...
Ayala García, Erika Tatiana (Date of defense: 2018-11-28)
This doctoral thesis focuses on the understanding of the concept of public space by children and older adults. It builds an interdisciplinary theoretical framework between architecture and social sciences ...
Bordas Eddy, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-02-10)
Universal Accessibility: On the need of an empathy-based architecture is a PhD thesis researching the paradigm of accessible architectural design. Starting from the very first understanding of accessibility ...
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 ...
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 ...
Puello Bedoya, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
The cosmology presented in the first half of the twentieth century by Jesuit priest and career palaeontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Sarcenat, France, 1881 - New York; 1955), is structured around ...
Llorca, Joaquín (Date of defense: 2017-07-25)
In addition to the documentary value of film material, cinema, as a product of modernity, is a relevant and valid instrument for the analysis of the city, its architecture and the society that produces ...
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 ...