Search for dissertations about: "architecture and history"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 113 swedish dissertations containing the words architecture and history.

  2. 6. Utopology : A Re-Interrogation of the Utopian in Architecture

    Author : Fredrik Torisson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Utopia; Architecture; Networks; Architect; Arboraphobia; Anticipation; Media; Monsters;

    Abstract : Utopia – the word is simultaneously evocative of hope and dread. As a concept it is stupendously problematic, and yet despite its alleged passing into irrelevance, utopia still remains a household word. Why is this so?Utopia has been reduced to a category. We place a solution in the category of the utopian or, conversely, the not-utopian. READ MORE

  4. 7. On the complexity of dealing with introduced plants as cultural heritage : a historical multidisciplinary study of plants introduced to Norway from 1750 to 1900, exemplified with Abies alba Mill. (European silver fir) as a case species

    Author : Ulrika Ridbäck; Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; plants; flora; Norway; European silver fir; Abies alba; plant introduction; history; landscape management;

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  5. 8. Making architecture politically : from fresh conservatism to aestehtics as a form of politics

    Author : Roemer Van Toorn; Jüri Soolep; Arie Graafland; Estonia Tallinn Estonian Academy of Arts; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Architecture; Politics; Aesthetics; Architecture in the Netherlands; Secon Modernity; Society of the And; Fresh Conservatism; aesthetics; estetik; design; design; politikvetenskap; political science;

    Abstract : This research comes from a particular place, a rather unique moment in the history of the Netherlands when Dutch architecture started to be much applauded for its radical approach and innovative design when the typhoon of another modernization swept across the globe. Architects, municipalities, investors, developers, companies, institutions, politicians, inhabitants, educators, researchers, critics and alike, were all thrown into a kind of experimental condition, one being both pragmatic and geographical. READ MORE

  6. 9. Dis(re)membering Spaces: Swedish Modernism in Law Courts Controversy

    Author : Michael Landzelius; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Asplund; Göteborg.; Law and space; Preservation; Sweden; Mass media and architecture; Modernity; Mass media and architecture; Law and space; Modernity; Preservation; Asplund; Sweden; Göteborg.;

    Abstract : The dissertation addresses the public controversy, as reflected in newspaper coverage, over the 1936 Law Courts Annex in Göteborg, Sweden. The controversy is conceived as a tension-filled, multi-layered conjuncture of urban rivalry within the nation-state. READ MORE

  7. 10. A future for the past of desert vernacular architecture : testing a novel conservation model and applied methodology in the town of Balat in Egypt

    Author : Marwa Dabaieh; Lund University; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; primitiv arkitektur; desert cities; prehistoric architecture; islamisk arkitektur; primitive architecture; islamic architecture; architectural history; forhistorisk arkitektur; oprindelig arkitektur; ørkenbyer; arkitekturhistorie; ørkenarkitektur; vernacular architecture;

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