Search for dissertations about: "house architect"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words house architect.

  2. 1. Arkitektur och konsumtion : Reyner Banham och utbytbarhetens estetik

    Author : Helena Mattsson; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Reyner Banham; architecture; consumption; design; aesthetic; Independent Group; Post-war period; Jean Baudrillard; late capitalism; pop art; mass production; Walter Benjamin; Richard Hamilton; differentiated market; flexible organization; the new brutalism; Alison and Peter Smithson; House of the Future; machine aesthetics; futurism; technology; tradition; environment; operative criticism; Buckminster Fuller; arkitektur; konsumtion; design; estetik; Independent group; efterkrigstiden; senkapitalism; popkonst; massproduktion; populärkultur; Civil engineering and architecture; Samhällsbyggnadsteknik och arkitektur;

    Abstract : The dissertation analyses the relation between architecture, design and consumption according to Peter Reyner Banham’s notion of an “aesthetics of expendability”. This issue is studied through such source materials as texts, buildings, competition entries and exhibitions produced from the early fifties to the early sixties. READ MORE

  4. 2. A pragmatist theory of design : The impact of the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey on architecture and design

    Author : Leif E. Östman; Jerker Lundequist; Richard Buchanan; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; design; design theory; design knowledge; avant-garde; pragmatist philosophy; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle;

    Abstract : This study is an inquiry into design-theoretical aspects of architectural design in Finland based mainly on the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey. The study comprises two case studies. The . rst case deals with a young family designing their future home – a detached house built from prefabricated components – in cooperation with an architect. READ MORE

  5. 3. Architectural Flirtations : A Love Storey

    Author : Brady Burroughs; Hélène Frichot; Katja Grillner; Katarina Bonnevier; Naomi Stead; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; architectural flirtations; architectural pedagogy; queer feminist theory; architectural critique; Camp; design practice research; performativity; experimental writing practices; critical fiction; critical architectural theory; Aldo Rossi; ‘significant otherness’; Arkitektur; Architecture;

    Abstract : Formulated as a feminist project, written as a pulp fiction, Architectural Flirtations: A Love Storey begins with our claim that the architectural discipline is centered around a culture of critique, which is based in what bell hooks calls “a system of imperialist, white supremacist, heterosexist, capitalist, patriarchy,” and that the values instilled by this culture not only begin with, but are reinforced and reproduced by, the education of young architects.Sounds serious. READ MORE

  6. 4. Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain

    Author : Chris Haffenden; Frans Lundgren; Peter Josephson; Samantha Matthews; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Self-monumentalizing; self-made immortality; history of celebrity; cultural memory; historical consciousness; Jeremy Bentham; Auto-Icon; John Soane; Soane Museum; Benjamin Robert Haydon; autobiography; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Abstract : From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. READ MORE