Titular Professors
Professors
Degree in Architecture Studies or Fundamentals of Architecture.
Create architectural projects that satisfy the aesthetic and technical demands, and the requirements of the building users, respecting the limits imposed by budgetary factors and construction regulations.
Development:
The subject Form and Project aims to emphasise the importance of compositional laws in the formal construction of the project.
Since the Master's Degree is intended for the professional practice of the architect, this course is intended to consolidate the formal aspects of the construction of the project for its correct suitability to the context in which it is to be built.
The objective is for the student to reflect constantly on his project, to put it in reference to other proposals, to verify its suitability and its authenticity.
Conceive and develop the architectural project in relation to the place, physical, historical and cultural.
Adapt the laws of the architectural form to the technical, use, regulative, and budgetary requirements.
Synthesize the important concepts of the project and develop the different presentations according to them, in graphic, written and oral form.
The subject is guided by a creative process that goes from the study of some relevant architectural works, continues with a formal and conceptual analysis of such works, and ends with new proposals based on the formal and conceptual principles discovered.
Development:
The focus will be on different aspects of the design process:
-Establishment of a correct reading of the context, in the aspects related to history and geography that affect architecture.
-Determination of the laws of internal order specific to the formal construction of the project and its relations with the rest of the technical aspects to be met.
-Emphasising on the quality of spatial, material and environmental aspects, and their correct graphic expression. Confirmation of the architectural unity of the project, from conception to detail.
-To provide the architectonic and artistic referents necessary for its incorporation in the development of each one of the aspects of the project.
-Graphic (plans and presentations) and written (memory) justification of the design process in order to be presented in different areas.
The methodology will be adapted to the developed projects, combining workshop sessions with theoretical lectures that will be adapted to the needs detected in the follow-up of the exercises , and will be combined with practical exercises to better understand the concepts set.
An individual follow-up of the project process, resolving doubts and proposing references and bibliography according to the interests. Joint presentations are also made with the other disciplines in all phases of the project, in which the student must know how to explain the project in a unified, ordered and synthetic way.
20 % Assistance and participation in class
20 % Presentations
20 % Work done in class or at home
40 % Project
The evaluation of the subject is continuous and linked to the following parameters:
- Attendance, monitoring and participation in the theoretical, practical and review sessions.
- Enthusiastic attitude and motivation. Initiative
- Graphic and oral presentation of the research exercises proposed during the course.
- Preliminary project, basic and execution project, in which the acquired knowledge will have to be reflected, in an evolutionary way. The documents must comply with the minimum contents, guided by the teachers. The graphic and written writing, rigorous and easy to read, must support, through architectural arguments, the set of decisions and solutions adopted in the project.
JOHN BERGER, Modos de ver. Ed.Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 2002
FRANCESCO CARERI, Walkscapes. El andar como práctica estética, Ed.Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 2009
J.M.HERNÁNDEZ DE LEÓN, La resonancia del lugar, Ed. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 2007
CARLES MARTÍ, La cimbra y el arco. Ed.Caja de Arquitectos, Barcelona 2005
R.D.MARTIENSSEN, La idea del espacio en la arquitectura griega, Ed. Nueva Visión, Buenos Aires 1956
JUHANI PALLASMAA, La mano que piensa: sabiduría existencial y corporal en la arquitectura. Ed.Gustavo Gili, Barcelona 2012
GEORGES PÉREC, Especies de espacios, Ed.Montesinos 2007
STEEN EILER RASMUSSEN, Experiencia de la arquitectura, Ed. Reverté 2004
AMOS RAPOPORT, Aspectos de la calidad del entorno, Ed. La Gaya Ciencia, Barcelona 1974.
BERNARD RUDOFSKY, Arquitectura sin arquitectos, Ed. Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 1973.