Sökning: "Architectural criticism"
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1. Dionysos på Årsta torg : färgfrågan i svensk efterkrigsarkitektur
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis is to discuss cultural significations and notions of colour in Swedish post-war architecture. More specifically, the purpose is to analyse the question of colour in architecture linked to the polychrome walls of Årsta Community Centre, including background, intentions, cultural context and debate. LÄS MER
2. Stockholms stadsbibliotek och Moderna museet : en analys av arkitekturkritik i svensk press
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, The Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm – A Study of Architectural Criticism in the Swedish Press, the textual genre of architectural criticism is discussed from different perspectives. The principal aim is to illuminate, through a close reading of a sample of articles, how professional critics discursively and rhetorically communicate their idea of architecture and architectural quality. LÄS MER
3. Arkitekttävlingar : om konsten att hitta en vinnare
Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis investigates architectural competitions and quality assessment of architecture in an early phase. The project is developed out of a need of knowledge about the role of architectural competitions in design quality improvement and their outcomes in society. LÄS MER
4. Isak Gustaf Clasons herrgårdsrestaureringar 1888–1930
Sammanfattning : Manor house restorations by isak Gustaf Clason 1888–1930 Swedish architect Isak Gustaf Clason (1856–1930) was the leading expert of his time for the conservation of manor houses and also for designing new manor houses and large villas. He was considered a leader for the architectural community and worked with many different types of building projects. LÄS MER
5. Shaping Social Commitment : Architecture and Intellectuality in the 1970s and ’80s
Sammanfattning : The overall research question that guides this dissertation, together with that of my colleague Elke Couchez, revolves around the formative years of architectural theory in Flanders. What conditions allowed architectural theory to mature into a self-aware and recognized discipline in the 1980s and 1990s? To this aim, the notion of ’architectural theory’ is broadened to that of ’architecture intellectuality’, which simply refers to ’thinking about architecture’. LÄS MER