Schaulager, between accessions and deviations: the entanglement of architecture with the deviant performance of Cildo Meireles
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: Schaulager, between accessions and deviations: the entanglement of architecture with the deviant performance of Cildo Meireles Defense date: 04/07/2018 Abstract The present work starts from the distrust regarding the manichean criticism presented by Hal Foster in the book The art-architecture Complex. His argument is based on the opposition between the triad […]
The 32nd Biennial of São Paulo, an exhibition in behalf of uncertainties as a process of articulations between art, architecture and urbanity
Advisor: João Masao Kamita Dissertation: The 32nd Biennial of São Paulo, an exhibition in behalf of uncertainties as a process of articulations between art, architecture and urbanity Defense date: 20/06/2018 Abstract The exhibition design of the 32nd Biennial of São Paulo “Live Uncertainty” grounds possibilities on studies of space representations integrated to action forms of art, […]
STRUCTURE- FORM: Tectonic expression matrix of MAM-Rio, FAU-USP and Catedral de Brasília
Advisor: Marcos Favero Dissertation: STRUCTURE- FORM: Tectonic expression matrix of MAM-Rio, FAU-USP and Catedral de Brasília Defense date: 28/05/2018 Abstract Structure-form, as matrix of tectonic expression, is a concept formulated in this research from a transdisciplinary perspective. By means of association between architectural and structural engineering knowledges, the study was undertaken with the purpose of formulating […]
City poetics and the concept of public space
Advisor: João Masao Kamita Dissertation: City poetics and the concept of public space Defense date: 30/08/2017 Abstract When Rem Koolhaas, one of the most paradigmatically architects of nowadays, questions himself “Whatever happened to urbanism?”, one puts in evidence a latent crises in actual domain. Identity crises? Formal crises? Institutional crises? Operating in the studies and investigations […]
Ney Gabriel de Souza’s Pilot Plan, Ceilândia: a place, a centrality. A solution or the conquest of the City?
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: Ney Gabriel de Souza’s Pilot Plan, Ceilândia: a place, a centrality. A solution or the conquest of the City? Defense date: 25/08/2017 Abstract There is an unfair gap in the urban history of Brasilia, where it is found many researches about the “Plano Piloto of Lucio Costa” (Pilot Plan of Lucio Costa) […]
Heaviness and lightness: Presence, Body, and Memory for a Poetics of the Shelter
Advisor: João Masao Kamita Dissertation: Heaviness and lightness: Presence, Body, and Memory for a Poetics of the Shelter Defense date: 03/10/2016 Abstract From an intuitive realization that the exhaustive search for meaning in architecture has reached, in post-modernism, an instrumental fatigue, the work sets to investigate the concept of “presence” in architecture according to the debate […]
Architecture between matter and sense: design, presence and criticism in the contemporary expanded field of culture
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: Architecture between matter and sense: design, presence and criticism in the contemporary expanded field of culture Defense date: 13/07/2016 Abstract This research aims to investigate the possibilities of the renewal of signification processes and sense production in architecture, in the context of the complex contemporary condition. From the capitalistic dynamics of consumerism […]
Design Review: Architecture and Photography in Modulo magazine (1955-1965)
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: Design Review: Architecture and Photography in Modulo magazine (1955-1965) Defense date: 11/07/2016 Abstract This work presents an examination on the relationship between architecture and photography concerning the specialized magazines through the rapid process of modernization that took place in Brazil from the 1950s. Supported by an investigation on the history of architectural […]
Ângelo Murgel: singular trajectory (1932-1939)
Advisor: Marcos Favero Dissertation: Ângelo Murgel: singular trajectory (1932-1939) Defense date: 03/06/2016 Abstract Within the professional career of Angelo Murgel was selected time frame characterized by its affinity for Art Deco, approximately between the years 1932 and 1939 were selected to study three works designed by the architect in the period and architectural model: Cine Theatro […]
From miracle to curse: Sergio Bernardes and Brasilia (1968-74)
Advisor: Ana Luiza Nobre Dissertation: From miracle to curse: Sergio Bernardes and Brasilia (1968-74) Defense date: 30/05/2016 Abstract The production of the Brazilian and native of Rio de Janeiro architect Sergio Bernardes is as vast as unknown. Assertive and questioner, since the beginning of his career, he presented himself against the conceptual, stylistic and projective formats. […]
City without ratchets: thinking the city of free circulation
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: City without ratchets: thinking the city of free circulation Defense date: 04/04/2016 Abstract Fixed and flows. The big city is a huge fixed, crossed by huge flows. What happens when the order of these fixed and flows is subverted? What is the spatiality of a city in which the occupations of its […]
Transport infrastructure, Urbanity vetor: o Corredor Expresso de Onibus (BRT) in Madureira, Rio de Janeiro
Advisor: Marcos Favero Dissertation: Transport infrastructure, Urbanity vetor: o Corredor Expresso de Onibus (BRT) in Madureira, Rio de Janeiro Defense date: 16/03/2016 Abstract The paradigm shift caused by the demographic and urban explosion of contemporary cities, confronts the transport infrastructures and, more precisely, the infrastructural project, with new challenges, because it has to ensure an efficient […]
Social Production of Urban and Architectural Space in the Context of Megaevents in Rio de Janeiro: Notes on the “Olympic Port” Competition (2010)
Advisor: Ana Luiza Nobre Dissertation: Social Production of Urban and Architectural Space in the Context of Megaevents in Rio de Janeiro: Notes on the “Olympic Port” Competition (2010) Defense date: 29/01/2016 Abstract The city of Rio de Janeiro has undergone, at the transitions between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, an intense and complex urban and social […]
The importance of public open spaces in adaptation strategies for coastal urban areas subject to flooding in the context of climate change
Advisor: Maria Fernanda Lemos Dissertation: The importance of public open spaces in adaptation strategies for coastal urban areas subject to flooding in the context of climate change Defense date: 04/09/2015 Abstract This thesis aims to investigate the role of open public in adaptation coastal areas subject to flooding to the impact of climate change by emphasize […]
In Between: Architecture and Infrastructure: The modeling of the ground surface as a design strategy in Brasília’s bus station Platform
Advisor: Otavio Leonidio Dissertation: In Between: Architecture and Infrastructure: The modeling of the ground surface as a design strategy in Brasília’s bus station Platform Defense date: 26/08/2015 Abstract What does it mean to be between architecture and infrastructure? This dissertation seeks to question the limits and find some boundaries between these categories based on project analysis […]
