Search for dissertations about: "architecture thesis on modernism"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words architecture thesis on modernism.

2. 1. Another Modernism? Form, Content and Meanings of the New Housing Architecture of Hanoi

   Author : Hoai Anh Tran; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Vietnam; tradition; The West; Third World; identity; modernity; modernisation; modernism; modern architecture; house design; housing architecture; Architecture; Hanoi; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

   Abstract : The study deals with the issue of how to understand and assess modern architecture in a non-Western context. Is there a non-Western modern architecture in its own right and with meanings connected to the local context or is it mere copy of Western modern architecture? At the primary level the study discusses the meanings and directions of contemporary architecture in a modernising society such as Vietnam, using a number of new private houses of Hanoi as case studies. READ MORE

4. 2. Urban renewal planning versus local values : a study of modern urban policy and renewal processes and of their impact on a local community : with reference to the case of Gröna Gatan in Göteborg

   Author : A. Reza Kazemian; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Town planning; rationalism; dislocation; building act; architecture; urbanization; urban culture; conservation; demolition; urban renewal; functionalism; local community; modernism; social values;

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5. 3. The Visible and the Invisible : Color Contrast Phenomena in Space

   Author : Gertrud Olsson; Jadwiga Krupinska; Henrik Oxvig; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; color in architecture; color theory; color phenomena; simultaneous contrast; simultané; afterimage; transparency; material and immaterial; color mixture; light-colors; Art; Konstvetenskap; Architecture; Arkitektur;

   Abstract : This study deals with the changes in color that arise in space, primarily simultaneous contrast in three dimensions. The typical account of simultaneous contrast is that the contrast phenomenon occurs between two or more color surfaces seen together, thus affecting one another. READ MORE

6. 4. 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. 5. Imagining the Organic City : Modern Tropes of Organization

   Author : Meike Schalk; Kenneth Olwig; Sven Olov Wallenstein; Helena Mattsson; M Christine Boyer; Faculty of Landscape Architecture Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp; []
   Keywords : organic; organism; types; evolution; city; society; biology; Patrick Geddes; urban design; metabolism; organization;

   Abstract : The thesis examines three ’organic tropes’ of modern architecture and urban design, addressing different crucial moments of change within modernist discourse. Attention is focused on the institutionalization of ‘town planning’ at the turn of the last century; the shift during the post-war years; and the beginning of urban debate in Japan during the early 1960s. READ MORE