Search for dissertations about: "phenomenology and architecture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words phenomenology and architecture.

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. Solarscape: The power of humanity in designing solar imaginaries, entangled worlds, and critical sustainable futures

   Author : Suzanna Törnroth; Åsa Wikberg-Nilsson; Andrea Luciani; Cindy Kohtala; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; design; architecture; solar energy; sustainability; socio-technical transition; Design; Design;

   Abstract : Solarscape is a thesis on the phenomenology of the Solar – an experiential, relational, and critical approach to how humans and humanity world-with solar energy in its different forms and manifestations. Using solar panels as a central artefact of concern, I explore surrounding human and non-human relationships through situated individual and collaborative design practices: workshops, interviews, (auto)ethnography, to name a few. READ MORE

5. 3. Shaping Social Commitment : Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and ’80s

   Author : Sebastiaan Loosen; Leuven Arenberg doctoral school; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s? To this aim, the notion of ’architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ’architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ’thinking about architecture’. READ MORE

6. 4. Everyday life in avant-garde housing estates : A phenomenology of post-Soviet Moscow

   Author : Alexander Kalyukin; Irene Molina; Tom Mels; Tim Cresswell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; built environment; housing; everyday life; avant-garde architecture; humanistic geography; phenomenology; Henri Lefebvre; post-Soviet city; Moscow; Russia; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the social meaning and function of what is known as avant-garde, or constructivist, housing estates located in central Moscow. Five of these estates – Budenovsky, Dubrovka, Khavsko-Shabolovsky, Nizhnyaya Presnya and Usachevka – comprise the empirical foci of the study. READ MORE

7. 5. Burnout and sleep

   Author : Mirjam Ekstedt; T Akerstedt; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Sleep; burnout; sleepiness; fatigue; polysomnography; arousals; fragmentation; SWA; phenomenology; stress; metabolic; CVD;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to describe the physiological characteristics of sleep in persons with burnout and the relation between sleep and a number of physiological stress markers. The aim was also to evaluate the diurnal pattern of subjective sleepiness and fatigue across workday and weekend, and to describe the experiences of time preceding burnout from a life world perspective. READ MORE