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Introducing the architectural values of the Common

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

The recent development of the “Common” as an interdisciplinary field of reflection seems to show some restraint with respect to the architectural culture that precedes it. This proposal invites to explore the intensities and the reasons for such a resistan ...

2019

(Architecture's) power and the (Arnhem) panopticon: from Foucault's description to Koolhaas' appropriation and reply

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

There is an abundance of cases – architectural and philosophical, and especially post-modern; by academics, practitioners, and critics – in which a relation between architecture and philosophy is at work, with one engaging the other directly, or simply in ...

2018

Built-in, exposed or concealed comfort services. Attempts (incomplete) to industrialise collective housing after 1945

Giulia Marino

Simultaneous consideration of active devices – especially mechanical heating and ventilation – and passive devices – including insulation and waterproofing of building envelopes – was one of the most notable aspects of studies of the management of physiolo ...

CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group2018

QUANDO IL NORD INCONTRA LA «CHIAVE DI TUTTO». La Sicilia di Ragnar Östberg

Chiara Monterumisi

Travelling experiences along the cradle of European culture were, especially for Scandinavian architects, an outright voyage towards a contrasting cultural and geographical reality. However, assuming an unconditional fascination as natural reaction is redu ...

Letteraventidue2017

The utopian dimension of the 1920s experience of Red Vienna originates from the close connection between architectural type and language. Through the collective memory the large court blocks (Höfe) are an essential part of urban identity. Examining in a cr ...

2017

Mapping the Analogous City

Dario Rodighiero

Re-descriptions: Aldo Rossi’s Architectural Composition. Chair of Architecture and the Public Building, Friday 1 December 2017, Room U 10:45 – 12:30. On the event of the publication in the new issue of OverHolland of the English translation of Ezio Bonfant ...

2017

The notion of physiological comfort – meaning responses to temperature and humidity but also to lighting and acoustics – has been a driving force in architectural production throughout the twentieth century. Whether concealed, embedded, exposed, or ‘featur ...

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2016

Londres, capitale du post-modernisme?

Nicolas Bruno Jacquet

The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...

EPFL2016

Altitude: architecture et environnement de haute montagne

Estelle Lépine

At the centre of the research is the preservation of the countryside which is highlighted and studied through an architectural approach which focuses on cabins in the high mountains. The projects must reflect upon territorial, global and sustainable aspect ...

EPFL2016

Images des microcosmes flottants

Olivier Nicolas Meystre

This research focuses on the premise that depiction is quintessential to the conception of an architectural project. The representation also provides insights regarding how the architects design the architecture. This thesis is intended towards understandi ...

EPFL2015