caryatides

PhD thesis by Monica Díaz Vera at UPV Universitat Politècncia de València

Tutors: Eva Alvarez, Carlos Gómez and Josep Muntañola

July 2022

The city gives us endless situations, landscapes and contacts that build the space of what has been lived. In this spatial fabric, the various bodies wander, inhabit and interact, which, in their heterogeneity of forms, orientations, and times, orchestrate the living conditions of the urban fabric. Considering the spatiality of the body as the protagonist immediately confronts us with two problems that simultaneously become the main axes on which the following research is developed: The first on how to build an “embodied” discourse of space, from a discipline where the development of it is mainly reduced to the fact of “making” objects for contemplation and rejoicing of thought. And the second, on how to represent said discourse in terms of expressing the scope of what is to be postulated through words and images. This doctoral thesis explores the conceptual, methodological and representational resources that collaborate in the visibility and impact of the reversible relationships of bodies in the urban fabric. And, therefore, that allows the construction of an architectural discourse focused on the experience of people, and specifically, on the analysis and representation of the spatialities that their bodies produce and reproduce in the territory

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