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Aesthetic Space
Recent 'turns' in social sciences, namely the visual, qualitative, actorial or spatial turns, all indicate a rising interest in individuals. Since the aesthetic dimension always nourishes and informs individualsâ spatialities and their decision-making pr ...
EPFL2017A visual model for mobility practices and learnings, Or why new visualizations allow us to consider the city as a paedagogical space
Visualizations of the city are necessary to lead to inquiries and for designing urban and transport policies because they are needed to synthesize information, to stimulate new hypotheses, and to evoke models. However, most of the contemporary visualizatio ...
Dr. Laurent Matthey and Dr. Olivier Walther2017Urban Scars: From invisible to visible – In Beijing and Mexico City
Yves Pedrazzini, Florence Graezer Bideau, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz
Memory is a process that works through the identification of social references within a spatial framework, without physical marks necessarily found in the tangible present. Nonetheless, these references subsist in representations from the past and continue ...
Icono 142017Potentialities of the urban volume
This dissertation looks at the urban volume, in its natural and artificial materiality, as a source of potential for future urbanization. Underground resourcesâfor buildable space, geomaterials, groundwater and geothermal energyâtend to be addressed on ...
EPFL2016Infrastructured Landscape
Infrastructure can be wielded as a means of promoting the common good or as an institutional weapon of exploitation. While the highways, bridges and dams funded by international economic interests and built in outlying regions like the Amazon play a role t ...
2015Concevoir à grande échelle
Mathieu Louis Pierre Mercuriali
Large-scale design - Mobility interface models and urban transformation strategies This research project is based on the hypothesis that the urban transformations generated by mobility interfaces constitute a key component of successful sustainable urban ...
EPFL2015DEUS EX MACHINA
"This seminar explores how the buildings, streets, and public spaces of a city relate to its economic, social, and political life. The seminar thus bridges visual studies and the social sciences. The seminar is pro-active. In addition to classroom readings ...
2014Historicist aesthetics of architectural image: Mimesis and memorial in public space
Turkey has been facing an aesthetic revivalism of Ottoman and Anatolian Seljuk architecture within public space, a phenomenon which is having been observed not only in the construction of new public buildings but also the renovation of historical housing d ...
2013The city, European Identity and the process of urban malaise. The cognition of the urban system. The case of Madrid.
In the face of the current crisis, a constant and uninterrupted process of renegotiation takes place in the European city. A renegotiation at the level of the definition of who and what constitute the system and who do not. The article focuses on processes ...
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto2012Suburban Dystopia And Shopping As A Soap Opera
With an approach between theatre, urban analysis, mapping and deconstruction, this 'glide' through Brasilia is an attempt to understand its urban tissue, formed through architectural action and spontaneous appropriation. In the city laid out between a mode ...
2012