Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-260). / Rafael Moneo, a Spanish architect and educator who has been practicing architecture in Madrid since 1965, rose in the profession from local practitioner to designer of international reputation in the mid-1980s with his Museum of Roman Art in MWrida (1980-86) and into the highest ranks of academe when he assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1985-1990). Moneo's work falls into three distinct periods: the pre-Harvard Spanish years (1965-85), the five Harvard years (1985-90), and the post-Harvard international years (1990-present). This dissertation traces the systematic and reflective character of Moneo's double practice up to 1985; it fits his uninterrupted professional practice into the context of his academic career, suggesting that his commitment to both professional practice and knowledge of the discipline is what led him to form a coherent philosophy of design. Throughout the years the contents of his teaching and writing have imbued his built projects with a programmatic character derived from his critique of modern architecture in the 1960s, investigations in architectural theory in the 1970s, and interpretation of the history of Western architecture in the early 1980s and allowed him to achieve a synthetic reading of the modern within the Western tradition of building. / (cont.) It is his drive to design and explain the building, not as part of a local tradition, but as the work of a cultured architect able to transcend national borders that has allowed him to have an all-encompassing career that combines practice and teaching. Moneo is generally considered to be the most independent thinker and the most intellectual of the architects of his generation. Through the influence of the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset Moneo's ability to "reabsorb his circumstances" was a source of necessity and freedom to connect practice with intellect: he could become both architect and educator furthering the cultural development of Spain. Using the Italian aesthete Luigi Pareyson's theory of "formativity," which regards material and form as inseparable, Moneo realized that the making of architectural form lay in its construction and formalized the principles of his philosophy of design. / by Valeria E. Koukoutsi-Mazarakis. / Ph.D.

I Sverige drabbas varje år mer än 150 barn av allvarliga skador under infusionsbehandling. I nära samarbete med Hallands sjukhus Halmstad och har ett varningssystem utvecklats för att detektera infiltration under infusionsbehandling. Detta är en produkt som efterfrågats i 30 år av barnläkaren och idéskaparen till projektet, Kent-Åke Henricson. Infiltration är en medicinsk term som beskriver när infusionsvätska läcker ut i omgivande vävnad runt blodvenen. Beroende på vilket läkemedel som infiltrerats kan skadans allvarlighetsgrad variera från en lätt hudreaktion till allvarlig nekros. Vid en allvarlig infiltration förlängs vårdtiden vilket blir kostsamt för sjukhusen. Moneo underlättar arbetet för sjukvårdspersonal likaså ger det barn en trygg och säker behandling. Idag görs rutinkontroller av sjuksköterska upp till varannan timme på droppets insticksställe, vilket är både tidskrävande och störande för patienten. Produkten fungerar som ett kompletterande stöd vid behandling och är anpassad för att användas med befintlig infusionsutrustning. Barn är aktiva patienter och produkten är utformad för att tillåta fysiska rörelser och genom sin lätta vikt och smarta konstruktion är produkten bekväm för patienten och enkel att integrera i sjukvårdspersonalens rutiner. Projektgruppen är stolt och nöjd över att presentera sitt examensarbete Moneo, som resulterat i en produkt som ger säkrare vård och förhindrar onödigt lidande för barn. Ingen patient ska behöva skadas i vården, det är en grundprincip för all vårdverksamhet. / Each year more than 150 children suffer from severe injuries during IV infusion therapy in Sweden. In close cooperation with Hallands sjukhus Halmstad, a new warning system has been developed for detection of infiltration during IV infusion. For more than 30 years this kind of product has been requested from pediatrician and innovator Kent- Åke Henricson. Infiltration is a medical term used to describe when you infuse medical drugs into the surrounding tissue instead of into the vein. Depending on the type of medicine that has been infiltrated, the severity of the injury varies from light skin reaction to severe necrosis. A severe infiltration leads to extended hospital stays for the patient, which can be costly for the hospital. Today a nurse does regular checkups every two hours at the puncture site in order to insure that the medicine is being delivered properly. This is very time consuming for medical staff, as well as, annoying for the patient. Our product will function as an additional safe guard during infusion therapy and is adapted to be used with existing infusion devices. Moneo allows for easier monitoring by medical staff while giving children a more safe treatment. Children are active patients and Moneo’s light weight and smart design allows for physical movement and comfort of the patient. It is also easily integrated into the existing procedures and routines of the medical professionals. The project group is proud and happy to present their final thesis, Moneo, which has resulted in a product that can eliminate unnecessary suffering in the children receiving IV infusion therapy thereby providing a more safe treatment option. It is a basic medical principle that no patient should suffer negative side effects of a medical procedure. Moneo can be used to avoid these kinds of concerns.

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Heidelberg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2003. / Dateien im PDF-Format. - Erscheinungsjahr an der Haupttitelstelle: 2002.