Las Exposiciones Universales. Laboratorio de estructuras: aportación de los edificios construidos con motivo de las Exposiciones Universales a la historia de las tipologías estructurales de edificación = World's Fairs. Structure laboratory: the contribution of the buildings built for the World's Fairs to the history of architecture structural typologies

López César, Isaac (2012) Las Exposiciones Universales. Laboratorio de estructuras: aportación de los edificios construidos con motivo de las Exposiciones Universales a la historia de las tipologías estructurales de edificación = World's Fairs. Structure laboratory: the contribution of the buildings built for the World's Fairs to the history of architecture structural typologies. PhD thesis, Universidade da Coruña. Spain. [Thesis]

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The thesis analyzes the contribution of the buildings built for the World’s Fairs to the history of architecture structural typologies, defining these contributions, their importance and the fields where they're acknowledged, supporting the fact that these events have been Structural Experimentation Laboratories. The work focuses on typological and design aspects, ranging the period from the first World Fair held in 1851 to the year 2000. Numerous historical relations are established between Exhibition buildings and others besides these events, either precedents or sequels. This method places exhibition buildings in the technological context of their time and therefore proves justice to its value. The thesis not only aims to technical issues but also relates the structures of exhibition buildings to the different architectural trends based on technological exaltation or structural fantasy, taking also into account the main historical events in western world during the studied period. Additionally, there are many references to other un-built projects that took part in the several design competitions for these exhibitions that help to build up the idea of World’s Fairs as creative catalysts. The thorough documentary work and the rigorous analysis of all these documents delivers justice to the value of these buildings, otherwise in marginal consideration, and helps detect mistakes in classical publications on history of modern architecture. Also, this thesis reveals many written and graphic documents unpublished in contemporary editions.

La tesis analiza la aportación que han supuesto las estructuras de los edificios construidos con motivo de las Exposiciones Universales a la historia de las tipologías estructurales de edificación, determinando cuales han sido estas aportaciones, en que campos se han producido y su trascendencia histórica, fundamentando documentalmente el carácter de Laboratorio de Experimentación de Estructuras que han constituido estos acontecimientos. El trabajo se centra fundamentalmente en aspectos tipológicos y de diseño estructural, abarcando el período histórico comprendido entre la primera Exposición Universal, celebrada en 1851, y el año 2000. Se establecen relaciones históricas entre los edificios expositivos y otros ajenos a estos eventos, que han constituido antecedentes y secuelas de los mismos, metodología que permite el engranaje del edificio de exposición en el contexto tecnológico de cada época y, por tanto, su justa puesta en valor. La tesis no se centra únicamente en aspectos técnicos sino que también establece múltiples relaciones entre las estructuras de los edificios expositivos y determinadas corrientes arquitectónicas basadas en la exaltación tecnológica o en la fantasía estructural, valorando además la influencia de los principales acontecimientos del devenir histórico general del mundo Occidental en el período estudiado. Asimismo, se realizan numerosas referencias a proyectos no construidos, permitiendo apuntalar la idea de la Exposición Universal como catalizador de la creatividad estructural. El trabajo documental realizado y el análisis riguroso de dicha documentación han permitido poner en su justo valor algunos pabellones expositivos que han permanecido en una situación histórica marginal. La tesis saca a la luz abundante documentación tanto gráfica como escrita inédita en publicaciones contemporáneas.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Authors:	Authors Email López César, Isaac isaac.lopez@udc.es
Languages:	Spanish
Keywords:	World Fairs; Universal Expositions; Universal Exhibitions; Buildings of the World Fairs; structure; architecture; structures history; architecture history; Exposiciones Universales; edificios de las Exposiciones Universales; pabellones de exposición; estructura; arquitectura; historia de las estructuras; historia de la arquitectura
Subjects:	C. ARCHITECTURE > 06. Structures of buildings F. SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES OF CONSERVATION > 26. Historical surveys H. HERITAGE TYPOLOGIES > 16. Industrial and technical heritage
Name of monument, town, site, museum:	World Fairs; Universal Expositions; Buildings of the World Fairs
Number of Pages:	706
Depositing User:	PhD Isaac López César
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2016 18:42
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2016 18:42
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