Publications associées à Postmodernisme (architecture)

In the Quest for Meaning: Revisiting Modernism’s debate around non-pedigreed architecture

In architectural historiography, it is widely accepted that in the aftermath of WWII, Modern Architecture found itself in the trouble of redefining its quest, its meaning, and its purpose; a crisis of the Modern before the Post-Modern. Thus, in this partic ...

2022

The New Brutalism, invenzione di uno stile

Silvia Groaz

The concept of New Brutalism has been the victim of a series of misunderstandings, myths and aporias. The initial intentions, devoid of any principle or dogma, have passed from hand to hand. The original definitionâ if only one can be identifiedâ has be ...

EPFL2021

Koolhaas' Revision of Foucault's panopticon; or how architecture and philosophy just met

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

Architecture and philosophy have engaged with one other, directly, marginally, or just simply implicitly, in the works and discourse of academics, practitioners, and critics, most evidently in architectural modernism, postmodernism, and most intensively in ...

2020

Teaching the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture (TSAM) at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Franz Graf

More than a decade ago the tsam addressed the question of teaching the preservation of modern and contemporary buildings as a new discipline, specifically and radically different from that of new architecture, both in terms of theoretical courses and the c ...

2019

Les "vestiges" de l'opération Million dans l'oeuvre de Georges Candilis - Actualités et stratégies de sauvegarde pour un patrimoine de l'habitat économique du second après-guerre

Korinna Zinovia Weber

The preservation of post-war architecture represents a complex challenge to overcome for different reasons: hesitating recognition, bad perception and a certain material fragility. Especially the economic post-war housing has difficulties to be recognized ...

EPFL2019

On the Symbiosis of People and Building : The Perfect Slum

Sytse de Maat

Controversies continue to exist between architects and the public about what is a good building. High-style modern architecture is often disliked by the public. Moreover, in everyday life people blame the architect for everything they find impractical in a ...

EPFL2015

Computational Methods for Fabrication-aware Modeling, Rationalization and Assembly of Architectural Structures

Mario Moacir Deuss

Architectural structures such as buildings, towers, bridges and roofs are of fundamental importance in urban environments. Their design, planing, construction and maintenance carry numerous challenges in engineering due to the complex interplay of material ...

EPFL2015

Steel, aluminium, plastic: the "unbearable lightness" of architectural modernity. The Centrale d'Allocations Familiales building of the XV th Arrondissement in Paris (1953-1959)

Giulia Marino

The Caisse Centrale d’Allocations Familiales de la Région Parisienne (or CCAFRP, shortened to CAF) was built between 1953 and 1959 as regional headquarters of a new post-war agency, the Central Fund for Family Allowance. Designed by French architects Raymo ...

2012

La question du Readymade et son appropriation architecturale

Sung-Taeg Nam

En architecture, l’invention peut être un objectif, mais l’utilisation d’éléments déjà fabriqués est permanente et inévitable. Il semble plausible d’avancer que certains architectes s’intéressent de près aux objets ready-made, orientant leurs réflexions et ...

EPFL2012

Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products : Applications in Cancer and Infectious Diseases

Jean-Yves Wach

This thesis is divided in four independent parts related to four different research projects. Each chapter describes one of the multiple aspects covered by organic chemistry, such as the generation of functional interfaces, understanding of biological proc ...

EPFL2011