Thesis argument: There is a Culture of Violent Reductivism in Representing Warsaw, which means that: Warsaw is reduced to a symbol of heroism in the hands of God/History or the Expert; imagining is reduced to historic imaginary and by the same token futuristic imaginary; both based on a positivist-romanticist system of thought; the reductivism deploys philosemiotic violence (acts of offering with expectations attached); the reductivism/violence is a symptom of a ‘neurosis’ of the social national/imaginary; the reductivism stops Warsaw/Poland from imagining present and future more openly. An alternative is to represent Warsaw as a series of post-historical objects that: are discrete texts, singular images, drawings, physical objects; are paradigmatic and analogical; they move from specificity to specificity; offer different forms, where ‘form’ is non-objective and means relationship; are a series of critiques, reflections, descriptions that work as architectural hypotheses; represent three exemplar imaginaries of Warsaw (the Birth, the Rebirth, the Second Rebirth); together form a ‘distracted’ architectural archive of Warsaw’s imaginaries. In this way, the thesis posits an example of a methodology of representing Warsaw that opens the possibility for Warsaw/Poland to imagine itself differently. Key themes: Culture of violent reductivism in representing Warsaw, reduction of Warsaw to a symbol of heroism, domination of the historic futuristic imaginary, philosemi(o)tic violence, neurosis of the social imaginary (guilt), positivist romanticism, post-historical object, paradigmatic knowledge, non-objective form, seriality of representation, architectural hypothesis, three imaginaries of Warsaw, ‘distracted’ archive of imaginaries.

Orientador: Leandro Silva Medrano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T21:40:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mendes_LeticiaTeixeira_M.pdf: 21516117 bytes, checksum: ef060f164496c37246c27abc2d379b66 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Nos anos 1990, com o enfraquecimento da crise dicotômica entre Modernidade e pós modernidade, torna-se crescente a participação de outros campos do conhecimento na produção teórica e prática da arquitetura e do urbanismo. Essas mudanças repercutiram na arquitetura não apenas em seu resultado formal, mas em todo o processo de projeto e produção arquitetônica, influenciando, dessa forma, o surgimento de novas possibilidades teóricas e metodológicas nos campos correlatos à produção do espaço habitado pelo homem. Uma vez que a discussão acerca do panorama que se estabelece frente às novas abordagens na disciplina se torna cada vez mais necessária e relevante para a definição de novos desdobramentos no campo da arquitetura, este estudo tem como objetivo principal analisar os projetos Silodam e Nexus Housing, respectivamente dos escritórios/arquitetos MVRDV e Rem Koolhaas, com o intuito de verificar a utilização das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação (TICs) no processo de projeto, bem como inovações metodológicas no desenvolvimento de novas configurações do espaço habitacional. Nesse sentido, a presente pesquisa buscou reunir na revisão bibliográfica informações que pudessem auxiliar na avaliação de diferentes abordagens projetuais de habitação coletiva e utilizou o método definido como Métrica de Inovação, desenvolvido por Henri Achten, para analisar os estudos de caso propostos. Assim, a partir do levantamento de dados e da análise dos projetos, este trabalho pretende contribuir para a análise de novas ferramentas e métodos aplicados no desenvolvimento de projetos de habitação coletiva / Abstract: In the 1990s, with the weakening of the dichotomy between Modernity and Post-modernity, the participation of other fields of knowledge in the theoretical and practical production of architecture and urbanism increasingly sets in. These changes were reflected in the architecture not only in its formal result, but in the whole process of design and architectural production, influencing, therefore, the emergence of new theoretical and methodological possibilities in fields related to the production of space inhabited by men. Once the discussion concerning landscape in terms of new approaches in the discipline becomes more necessary and relevant for the definition of new developments in the field of architecture, this study aims to analyze the Silodam and Nexus Housing projects, respectively from offices/architects MVRDV and Rem Koolhaas, in order to verify the use of technologies of information and communication (ICTs) in the design process, as well as methodological innovation in developing new configurations of residential space. Therefore, the objective of this was to gather information in the literature that could assist in the evaluation of different approaches for collective housing projects and we used the method defined as Metric Innovation, developed by Henri Achten, to analyze the case studies proposed. Thus, based on data collection and projects analysis, this work aims to contribute to the assessment of new tools and methods to be used in the development of collective housing projects / Mestrado / Arquitetura e Construção / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

No ano de 1945 o filósofo francês Jean-Paul Sartre fez uma viagem aos Estados Unidos da América, a convite do governo americano e dois textos foram escritos sobre esta viagem, Villes dAmérique e New York, ville coloniale. Estes dois textos, os quais podem ser compreendidos desde o termo ou categoria de literatura de viagem, foram escritos para jornais franceses e posteriormente republicados em livro (a coletânea Situations III, de 1949), e são os únicos escritos de Sartre a tratar, de maneira direta e exclusiva, o tema da arquitetura e do urbano. Assim, estes textos são importantes na medida em que revelam a mais desconhecida faceta do filósofo francês: aquela do analista do urbano e do crítico de arquitetura. Além disto, os textos revelam o olhar de um estrangeiro em tudo fascinado com o Novo Mundo: o sistema construtivo dos arranha-céus, a ausência de ornamentos de certos prédios, a imagem das cidades, percebidas como frágeis e provisórias, construídas rapidamente para durar alguns poucos anos. / In 1945 the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre made a trip to the United States of America, by the invitation of the U.S. government. He wrote two texts about this trip, Villes d\'Amérique and New York, ville coloniale. These two texts, which can be understood from the term or category of \"travel literature\" were written for Frenchs newspapers and then reprinted in book (Situations III, 1949), and are the unique Sartres writings directly and exclusively related to the theme architecture and urban. Thus, these texts are important because they shows the most unknown aspect of the French philosopher: the urban analyst and critic of architecture. Moreover, they reveal the foreigners point of view at all fascinated with the New World: the constructive system of skyscrapers, the absence of certain buildings ornaments of, the image of cities, perceived as \"weak\" and \"provisional\" quickly built to last a few years.

No ano de 1945 o filósofo francês Jean-Paul Sartre fez uma viagem aos Estados Unidos da América, a convite do governo americano e dois textos foram escritos sobre esta viagem, Villes dAmérique e New York, ville coloniale. Estes dois textos, os quais podem ser compreendidos desde o termo ou categoria de literatura de viagem, foram escritos para jornais franceses e posteriormente republicados em livro (a coletânea Situations III, de 1949), e são os únicos escritos de Sartre a tratar, de maneira direta e exclusiva, o tema da arquitetura e do urbano. Assim, estes textos são importantes na medida em que revelam a mais desconhecida faceta do filósofo francês: aquela do analista do urbano e do crítico de arquitetura. Além disto, os textos revelam o olhar de um estrangeiro em tudo fascinado com o Novo Mundo: o sistema construtivo dos arranha-céus, a ausência de ornamentos de certos prédios, a imagem das cidades, percebidas como frágeis e provisórias, construídas rapidamente para durar alguns poucos anos. / In 1945 the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre made a trip to the United States of America, by the invitation of the U.S. government. He wrote two texts about this trip, Villes d\'Amérique and New York, ville coloniale. These two texts, which can be understood from the term or category of \"travel literature\" were written for Frenchs newspapers and then reprinted in book (Situations III, 1949), and are the unique Sartres writings directly and exclusively related to the theme architecture and urban. Thus, these texts are important because they shows the most unknown aspect of the French philosopher: the urban analyst and critic of architecture. Moreover, they reveal the foreigners point of view at all fascinated with the New World: the constructive system of skyscrapers, the absence of certain buildings ornaments of, the image of cities, perceived as \"weak\" and \"provisional\" quickly built to last a few years.

Houston modern architect, Karl Kamrath (1911-1988), collected books, periodicals, and archival material that document the career and legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright. Kamrath identified himself as a collector of Wright and a devotee to the principles set forth by the master architect. In this thesis, I present Kamrath’s collection by organizing the materials by subject, considering how Kamrath marked books and journals, and drawing connections between his collecting interests and his architectural work. Kamrath collected and consumed information on Wright and organic architecture and then presented his own articulations of the principles in built form. His interest in organic architecture was evident in his projects that blended into the landscape and satisfied the individual needs of each client. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the story on Karl Kamrath, adding the details of the collection he donated to The University of Texas at Austin. / text

[pt] Dentro de determinado evento histórico, as Exposições Internacionais, foram selecionados para estudo dois projetos de pavilhão brasileiro, para a Exposição da Filadélfia em 1926 e a Exposição de Nova Iorque, em 1939, ambas nos Estados Unidos, de autoria do arquiteto Lucio Costa. Da análise do contexto cultural, da conformação do concurso público e por fim da composição do projeto, pretende-se conectar o tema da representação nacional - específica do programa de pavilhão - ao estudo do desenvolvimento do discurso da arquitetura brasileira em dois momentos distintos de sua história no século XX: o período neocolonial e o moderno. Sendo projetos de um mesmo arquiteto, que consolidou-se como um dos maiores representantes da profissão no Brasil, o estudo é feito de maneira a compreender a formação tanto de sua prática projetual, contemplando a apropriação das formas tradicionais de um passado colonial, como também do seu discurso teórico, discutindo arte e técnica no pensamento contemporâneo. / [en] Within a given historical event, the International Expositions (also called World Fairs), two Brazilian s pavilions projects by architect Lucio Costa were selected for study, to the Philadelphia World Fair in 1926 and the New York World Fair in 1939, both in the United States. The analysis of the cultural context, the conformation of the architectural competition and finally the composition of the projects aims to connect the issue of national representation - program-specific of exposition pavilions - with the Brazilian architecture s discourse development in two different periods of its 20th century s history: the neo-colonial and modern period. As projects of the same architect, who has established himself as one of the greatest representatives of the profession in Brazil, the study is done in order to understand the formation of both his design practice, contemplating the appropriation of traditional forms of a colonial past, as well as his theoretical discourse, understanding art and technique in contemporary thought.

The purpose of this study was to determine the trends that are developing in the architecture of the civic, commercial, and religious buildings in Fort Worth, Texas. This will be shown by an analysis of what the author considers to be the best examples of buildings constructed in Fort Worth during the past ten years.