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The Return of the Piazza: Tirana, and the Politics of Urban Renaissance
This essay discusses about the renovation project for Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, designed by Belgium office 51N4E. The text put forward a critical reading of the project within the framework of the politics of the ‘Urban Renaissance’, launched by Prime M ...
2023Influence of thermo-mechanical processing on ordering kinetics in 18 karat red gold alloy
The aim of this project is to understand the correlation between alloy composition and the build-up of internal stresses in 18 carat Au-Ag-Cu alloys under thermo-mechanical loads. The copper rich end of this ternary system exhibits order-hardening of the e ...
EPFL2020Urban Development Processes: Methodological Investigation into the Complexity and Dynamics of Post-socialist Cities
The overall objective of this thesis is to critically address, break down and reassemble the urban development process in post-socialist cities through a set of analyses that covers urban planning strategies, real-estate interventions, participatory and ur ...
EPFL2017Mattering the Res Publica The Architectural Competitions for the Swiss Federal Post Offices in the Late 19th Century as a Foucauldian Dispositif
In the paper at hand, we study how the young Swiss republic in the late 19th century, which was in a political situation that objected to direct intervention and was deeply skeptical with regard to a centralized state in general, found a way to manifest it ...
Nsp-Netzwerk Stadt Und Landschaft2011Footprints of deformation mechanisms during in-situ x-ray diffraction
Nanocrystalline metals have been an area of great interest in recent years due to their enhanced characteristics. One of the most striking is implied by the Hall-Petch relation: with decreasing grain size the material becomes stronger. This promise is fulf ...
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