2000

Architectural form as a result of the conditions of use of the project. Developing an architectural space, internal or external, and defining its form in function of the conditions of use, implies considering the components of the program, their dimensions, the sequences of use of the space, the distribution or clustering systems and the environmental conditions and relationships, as a whole. In this course, students will carry out explorations on floor plans, cross sections, facades and volumetric, to try to find a proper solution to the requirements of the program, the place and for the intentions of the designer, based on systematic experimentation.

Architectural form as a result of the technical conditions of the project. This workshop defines a series of elements that make the composition and construction systems congruent, by means of designing exercises, thanks to their comprehensive conception, on the same level of design thought. In order to do so, certain principles that are typical of constructive logic are identified, stressing the coherent arrangement of the parts in accordance with a tectonic sequence. Construction systems evolve and constitute the foundation of the formal and functional changes of architecture during determinant historic periods. The logic of construction systems leads to the appearance of composition instruments that generate new design techniques to define form.

Architectural form as a result of the conditions of the location. In addition to the specific objective, the purpose of this workshop is to synthesize and evaluate the contents developed in the area of projects during the first half of the program of studies. The systematic review of the management of basic design techniques by the student is suggested as part of the methodology, while the course attempts to measure their proactive capacity. This workshop introduces the basic concepts of typology and morphology, understood as design instruments that allow architects to participate rationally in the city, simultaneously dealing with the conditions studied in previous workshops (use and tectonics) and the pre-existence of the location.

Project 1 has one weekly work session supervised by a group of professors from the Department of Architecture. These sessions also create a favorable atmosphere for exchange between students from different semesters, while they allow the group of professors to get to know about the workshops other than their own. These sessions enable the scheduling of conferences of shared interest to all the workshops and guarantee for students a physical space at the university to carry out their architectural projects. In this case, it corresponds to the workshops from the preparation cycle of the architecture program.

Project 2 has one weekly work session supervised by a group of professors from the Department of Architecture. These sessions also create a favorable atmosphere for exchange between students from different semesters, while they allow the group of professors to get to know about the workshops other than their own. These sessions enable the scheduling of conferences of shared interest to all the workshops and guarantee for students a physical space at the university to carry out their architectural projects. In this case, it corresponds to the workshops from the preparation cycle of the architecture program.

Project 3 has one weekly work session supervised by a group of professors from the Department of Architecture. These sessions also create a favorable atmosphere for exchange between students from different semesters, while they allow the group of professors to get to know about the workshops other than their own. These sessions enable the scheduling of conferences of shared interest to all the workshops and guarantee for students a physical space at the university to carry out their architectural projects. In this case, it corresponds to the workshops from the preparation cycle of the architecture program.

Architecture is a practice whose purpose is to make the earth inhabitable, by constructing useful, beautiful and comfortable spaces. This course attempts to inquire about the foundation of the practice of architecture. Asking about the foundation leads to the question of origin, and that is the framework where the course of archetypes in architecture is located. This reflection is carried out based on the responses that, at different moments in history, man has given to the questions about the origin of architecture and city. The fundamental objective of this course is to understand how our practices are determined by the cultural beliefs decanted over time, and at the same time, it is a mental exercise that proposes critical approaches to said images of the world.

The conventional history of architecture recognizes the existence of a unit in architectural and urban production throughout an extensive stage known as the classic period. The interpretation made by architecture of its own history, of its past, plays a central role in the definition of what is classic. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the question about the foundation of the practice of architecture, on this occasion, students will examine the concept of what is classic, as an invariable thought throughout the history of architecture. This course, like that of Archetypes, disregards the chronological perspective of the topic and seeks its own logic, leading students to delve into the problem of the theory of Architecture.

This Architecture course establishes its beginnings in the mid 18th Century when the changes that came with the start of the industrial revolution became more and more powerful. These changes modified the form of architecture, the needs it had to satisfy and the relationship between architect and society. The relationships interweaved between the aspects of the new society as indicated earlier will be studied in this course starting with collective as well as private housing, constructed during the Modern Movement. This course provides students with a theoretic apparatus that will allow them to understand architecture today and lay the foundations to propose their own architecture.