Sökning: "urban aesthetics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden urban aesthetics.

  1. 1. Noise design : Architectural Modelling and the Aesthetics of Urban Acoustic Spase

    Författare :Björn Hellström; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :architecture; music; aesthetics; sound art; acoustic space; sound design; sound effect; sound identity; sound morphology; graphic notation; sampling culture; acousmatics; metabolic effect; schizophonia;

    Sammanfattning : Noise Design takes up a structural approach to sound issuesin general and more particularly to urban acoustic space. Whilemost recent research efforts in the field adopt a defensiveattitude by seeking to protect people from sounds, this bookcelebrates our constructive and creative relations with thesound world and develops methods to manage sounds as mediatorsof qualitative information. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Making architecture politically : from fresh conservatism to aestehtics as a form of politics

    Författare :Roemer Van Toorn; Jüri Soolep; Arie Graafland; Estonia Tallinn Estonian Academy of Arts; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Architecture; Politics; Aesthetics; Architecture in the Netherlands; Secon Modernity; Society of the And; Fresh Conservatism; aesthetics; estetik; design; design; politikvetenskap; political science;

    Sammanfattning : This research comes from a particular place, a rather unique moment in the history of the Netherlands when Dutch architecture started to be much applauded for its radical approach and innovative design when the typhoon of another modernization swept across the globe. Architects, municipalities, investors, developers, companies, institutions, politicians, inhabitants, educators, researchers, critics and alike, were all thrown into a kind of experimental condition, one being both pragmatic and geographical. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Seaside, Celebration och Windsor: Studier av urbana estetiska regler

    Författare :Mats Hultman; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkitektur; interior design; Architecture; Anläggningsteknik; Construction technology; Windsor; Celebration; Seaside; New Urbanism; design codes; aesthetic rules; urban; aesthetics; quality; inredningsarkitektur;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with aesthetic rules in an urban context. The dissertation develops a theoretical framework for understanding the role of aesthetic rules, especially urban design codes, in the process of improving the architectural quality of the built environment. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Bilder av småstaden - om estetisk värdering av en stadstyp; Images of the Small Town - on Aesthetic Evaluation of a Townscape

    Författare :Catharina Sternudd; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Environmental health; Karlshamn; urban kvalitet; stadsmiljö; småstadsbebyggelse; estetisk värdering; småstad; stadsplanering; arkitektur; urban aesthetics; townscape; aesthetic evaluation; small town; Architecture; urban design; Miljömedicin; interior design; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis takes its starting-point in the last years' growing interests in the small town as an architectural concept. Pre-industrial small towns are used as visual and structural models for very attractive new settlements in Sweden. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Building the city from the inside : architecture and urban transformation in Los Angeles, Porto, and Las Vegas

    Författare :Hannes Frykholm; Daniel Koch; Catharina Gabrielsson; Roemer van Toorn; Albena Yaneva; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Interior urbanism; architecture; urban transformation; threshold; lobby; temporality; labor; atmosphere; aesthetics; estetik; design; design; Stadsbyggnad;

    Sammanfattning : Positioned in the research field of “interior urbanism” (Rice, 2016), this thesis considers entrance situations that occur between buildings and cities in order to develop new ways of investigating the relationship between architecture and urban transformation. From the main research question—How does architecture mediate urban transformation?—the thesis focuses on experience-driven narratives about the city (Pine & Gilmore, 2011). LÄS MER