Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ARC004.
This research studies the migration of Europeans to Lima between the 1930s and the late 1960s and analyses their influence on the evolution of architecture and urbanism in the Peruvian capital. The so-called Ciudad de los Reyes was the main administrative centre of the South American territories dominated by the Spanish Crown between the 16th and 19th centuries. The participation of Europeans...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ARC003.
In 1996, the newly founded Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio invited Peter Zumthor to be the professor in charge of one of the school’s first three design studios. What took form from that was a singular educational experience, conducted by Zumthor as a didactic project spanning a three-year period - the academic years of 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99 - and comprehending a sequence of 19...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC002.
This study is located at the intersection of architecture and the social sciences. Its core is an ethnographic investigation of how Cairo experiences and tackles urban heatwaves, which was carried out primarily by looking at people’s building practices. The research is structured along three axes. The first consists of a historical overview of the Egyptian architectural field, based on a...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC001.
This thesis examines the second part of the career of the architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) from the end of the First World War until 1933, and especially after his departure from Vienna in 1923. From the mid-1920’s onwards, Loos built, projected and published between France, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Our working hypothesis is that, far from being a period "in hollow" as historiography has...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2017.
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Thèse de doctorat : Institut universitaire Kurt Bösch, 2014.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2005.
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