Università della Svizzera italiana

Adolf Loos à Vienne, Paris et Prague : habiter l’Europe de l’entre-deux-guerres

Poulot, Cécile ; Hildebrand, Sonja (Dir.) ; Trautmann-Waller, Céline (Dir.)

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...

Università della Svizzera italiana

The relational perspective on museum context = La prospettiva relazionale nel contesto museale

Zorzi Boletis, Yvonne ; Snehota, Ivan (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2006 ; 2006COM005.

This thesis, starting from the debate on museum’s roles and functions in modern society, raises some questions on the main issues museums have to face with the changes in contemporary society. The title of the research suggests the adoption of an alternative approach to the study and analysis of traditional museum’s activities, in fact the specific aim of this study is to present the museum...