Tesis doctoral de Carola Barrios Nogueira
The analysis of caracas¿ modern episode, visualized through the urban and architectural developments undertaken in the 1950¿s, has been the object of a renewed interest among venezuelan specialists working in related fields. after the four decades that followed the period, when a generalized ideological indifference cloaked the achievements of «heroic modernity» in oblivion, it seems at the end of the century that the need for a new revaluation of caracas¿ modern heritage has arisen. It is within this critical revision that this study about the modern project of caracas should be inserted. the thesis proposes, among other things, to situate the relevance and the particularity of the local phenomenon within an international context. to acomplish such objectives, the analysis seeks to make a detailed valuation of the field of investigation wherein the object of study is itself to be placed, in order to establish a criteria related to the structure of the discourse itself. therefore, the intention of this thesis is to position itself within the frame of this vision of history as a construction, exploring those territories of urban experience that arise from the crossing of the discourses between modern city and museum. In this case, the binomial formed by modern city and museum becomes the field of investigation for the microhistorical analysis of mid-century caracas modernity. Such a direction is determined by a fundamental interest in the urban processes that constitute the construction of identity and memory within the culture of great cities, where the museum seems to have a particular relevance. For that, the syntax of the modern museum will appear not only in its condition as urban artifact and architectonic container. But also, from the point of view of the museum as a ideological universe profoundly imbricated in the construction of the urban realm that falls within the system of aesthetic-cultural production and the mass con
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Caracas: ciudad moderna y museo. intersecciones inacabadas en el paisaje de los años cincuenta«
- Título de la tesis: Caracas: ciudad moderna y museo. intersecciones inacabadas en el paisaje de los años cincuenta
- Autor: Carola Barrios Nogueira
- Universidad: Politécnica de catalunya
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 18/04/2006
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Francisco Javier Monclus Fraga
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: heliodoro Piñón pallarés
- azier Calvo albizu (vocal)
- xavier Rubert de ventós (vocal)
- Jesús Pedro lorente (vocal)