The Eternal Instant: Architecture and the Sublime
Advisor: João Masao Kamita Dissertation: The Eternal Instant: Architecture and the Sublime Defense date: 23/06/2021 Abstract Humans have always sought to outline their nature. Within the contact of reality our consciousness forms and may find the desire to transcend. We can be understood as a creature split between two conflicting natures: a tension between the flesh […]
Imagination on water: Essays about architecture and the planet
Advisor: João Masao Kamita Dissertation: Imagination on water: Essays about architecture and the planet Defense date: 26/05/2021 Abstract Starting from a mainly philosophical bias about the so-called ecological crisis, characterized by the dramatic and unprecedented changes in the biogeochemical processes of the Earth, this dissertation investigates the repercussions of this new context in the ontology of […]
Inform: the discourse of technique in Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Advisor: Ana Luiza Nobre Dissertation: Inform: the discourse of technique in Paulo Mendes da Rocha Defense date: 28/04/2021 Abstract This research aims to investigate the discourse of technique of the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Vitoria, 1928). Firstly, some of his statements from the 2010s are mobilized, in which the phrase that triggers the research is […]
Architecture Revealed by Cinema: the film as a process of investigation of architecture
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: Architecture Revealed by Cinema: the film as a process of investigation of architecture Defense date: 15/05/2020 Abstract The research aims to analyze how cinema could transcribe the experience lived in spaces and help to unveil architecture in layers other than just technical, formal and objective. For this, it uses the short film […]
Tectonics of the Landscape: Nature, Design, and Architectural Culture
Research Line in Theory and History of Design Advisor: Marcos Favero Thesis: Tectonics of the Landscape: Nature, Design, and Architectural Culture Defense Date: 31/03/2020 Abstract: Starting from the inevitable need for humans to transform the natural environment in constructing their habitat, this work investigates a design culture that aims to highlight the points of contact […]
Urbe Ludens: Games, Playful Practices, and Urban Participation
Research Line in Theory and History of Design Advisor: Ana Luiza Nobre Dissertation: Urbe Ludens: Games, Playful Practices, and Urban Participation Defense date: 26/03/2023 Abstract: The objective of this research is to explore the potential of playful practices as mechanisms for participation and dialogue with the non-specialized public, in projects related to architecture and the city, […]
Landscape and Place: Impacts of Tourism in the Village of Ibitipoca/MG (1970-2020)
Research Line in Theory and History of Design Advisor: Rachel Coutinho Marques Dissertation: Landscape and Place: Impacts of Tourism in the Village of Ibitipoca/MG (1970-2020) Defense date: 26/03/2023 Abstract: The uses and meanings of a space establish the sense of place which is composed of history, nature, collective memory and forms of appropriation of space – […]
The dimension of Mobility Infrastructure segregation: The case of Avenida Brasil
Research Line in Theory and History of Design Advisor: Maira Martins Dissertation: The dimension of Mobility Infrastructure segregation: The case of Avenida Brasil Date of defense: 11/02/2020 Abstract It is common sense in the urban mobility, literature to address the positive aspects of mobility infrastructures because of their ability to connect urban spaces. In order […]
Brasilia: Birth & Death
Advisor: João Masao Kamita Dissertation: Brasilia: Birth & Death Defense date: 27/05/2019 Abstract This dissertation analyzes the effects of Brasilia’s construction, as a materialization of modern utopia in the southern hemisphere, more precisely, in Brazil. We investigate how modern utopia is a product not only of rationality and technical development, but also of will and faith, […]
Dwelling beyond housing: daily practices in the areas of common use at Ismael Silva – Ze Keti housing development of Minha Casa Minha Vida Program
Advisor: Maira Martins Dissertation: Dwelling beyond housing: daily practices in the areas of common use at Ismael Silva – Ze Keti housing development of Minha Casa Minha Vida Program Defense date: 22/03/2019 Abstract This research aims to contribute to the discussion of the importance of the relationship between the residents and the collective and public spaces […]
Peter Eisenman and other architecture: of the Arabesque and Grotesque
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: Peter Eisenman and other architecture: of the Arabesque and Grotesque Defense date: 28/02/2019 Abstract Peter Eisenman has untimely warned that the modernist doctrine of the relation between form and function has only lasted a speech unchanged 500 years ago. To repair this misconception it is necessary to break with function as the […]
Pungent Chronicles: O Rio de Janeiro da “Reforma Passos” (1902-1906) na fotografia de Augusto Malta
Advisor: Ana Luiza Nobre Dissertation: Pungent Chronicles: O Rio de Janeiro da “Reforma Passos” (1902-1906) na fotografia de Augusto Malta Defense date: 25/10/2018 Abstract The object of this thesis is the image of the city of Rio de Janeiro produced during the so-called “Reforma Passos” (1902-1906), by the photographer Augusto Malta (1864-1957). The research is centered on […]
In-Between Walls, Rests and Holes: wanderings as actualizing practice in the wall dispositif of railway branch Santa Cruz – Rio de Janeiro.
Advisor: Marcos Favero Dissertation: In-Between Walls, Rests and Holes: wanderings as actualizing practice in the wall dispositif of railway branch Santa Cruz – Rio de Janeiro. Defense date: 30/08/2018 Abstract The research “In-Between Walls, Rests and Holes” seeks to discuss the actualization in the wall dispositif of the Santa Cruz railway branch in Rio de Janeiro […]
The interior at the margin: the role of gender in the process of professionalizing Interior Design
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: The interior at the margin: the role of gender in the process of professionalizing Interior Design Defense date: 27/08/2018 Abstract “The interior at the margin: the role of gender in the process of professionalizing Interior Design” analyzes the process where Decoration, an activity originally domestic, amateur and, crucially, feminine was transformed in […]
Lacaton & Vassal: An analysis of the appropriation concept, its meanings and motivations in contemporary architecture
Advisor: João Masao Kamita Dissertation: Lacaton & Vassal: An analysis of the appropriation concept, its meanings and motivations in contemporary architecture Defense date: 09/07/2018 Abstract French architectural office Lacaton & Vassal owns a work in which the appropriation of preexistences is recurrent: through the use of commercial prefabricated structural systems, by incorporating the preexistent building to […]
