Search for dissertations about: "architecture traditional"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 197 swedish dissertations containing the words architecture traditional.

  2. 1. The Absent Meaning of Concrete Form in Theory of Architecture

    Author : Cecilia Häggström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; body; aesthetic theory; architecture; practical knowledge; artifacts; environmental theory; building function; architectural theory; phenomenology; aesthetic theory;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to discuss architecture as forming practical conditions for our way-of-being, and to clarify that which prevents traditional theory of architecture from dealing with these practical conditions as such. The dissertation investigates a theoretical problem concerning the nature of the relation between human being and the built environment. READ MORE

  4. 2. Tracing a Sacred Building Tradition. Wooden Churches, Carpenters and Founders in Maramures until the Turn of the 18th Century

    Author : Babos Alexandru; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vernacular architecture in Maramureº; European log building; church carpenters; founders; sacred building tradition and regional identity.; wooden churches; Architecture; inredningsarkitektur; Arkitektur; interior design;

    Abstract : The increasing interest in the European historical log construction has heightened the need for comprehensive studies in different parts of the continent to view both the common features and the particular ones. The advanced Scandinavian research has revealed the problems of studying in depth and maintaining the log heritage when links to traditional carpentry are lost. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Future for the Past of Desert Vernacular Architecture

    Author : Marwa Dabaieh; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; participatory action research; transdisciplinarity; thinking re-vernacular; architectural conservation; desert vernacular; Balat.; neo-desert vernacular;

    Abstract : Desert vernacular architecture has always been the product of a sustainable building cycle. People inherited the traditional way of building from their ancestors and the knowledge was transferred and developed from one generation to another. READ MORE

  6. 4. Living with Brasilia : a resident's perspective of the confrontation between heroic vision and social reality

    Author : Rosane Bauer; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; superquadras; Brasilia; egalitarian social order; social interaction; modernist city; residents perspective; traditional street life; productiion of space; appropriation; social stratification;

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  7. 5. NOUR - Daylighting and thermal effects of windows in desert houses

    Author : Djamel Ouahrani; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Thermal simulation; Solar aspects; Housing architecture; Ghardaia; Desert; Daylighting simulation; Daylighting; Data collecting; Data analysis; Culture; Climate adaption; Algeria; Architecture; Traditional architecture; Windows; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

    Abstract : This study is on a combined effect of window, the daylighting and the thermal effects, in desert houses. It is comprised of two complementary studies. In the introduction a historical review on the development of use daylight has been carried out in order to place the case study in a historical perspective. READ MORE