Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture
Barcelona ETSAB
Nicanor García
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www.etsab.upc.edu Publishing CULT. Cultura ETSAB Ernest Redondo Roger Such
Faculty Dean Jordi Ros
Graphic design Anna Abelló
Undergraduate Vice Dean Jordi Adell Ibon Bilbao Isabel Bachs
Photography Alba Alsina Nicanor Garcia Núria Moliner Pedro Pegenaute Proofreading and writing style correction Joanaina Font Translation Virginia Renalias CULT. team Ricardo Devesa, Ariadna Perich, Roger Such, Anna Abelló, Alba Alsina, Núria Moliner
Head Teacher Jordi Franquesa
Postgraduate Vice Dean Ernest Redondo International Relations Anna Ramos Culture Ariadna Perich Ricardo Devesa Roger Such Facility Management Alberto Peñín Academic Secretariat M. Dolors Martínez Administration Victòria Vela
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MBArch Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture-Barcelona. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. UPC Barcelona´s School of Architecture. ETSAB Contact ETSAB. Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855
The Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture-Barcelona MBArch is a flexible master with international reach based on the research, the innovation and the contemporary project of architecture. The programme is divided into nine specialisation lines focused on several thematic fields which approach the architectural culture from different perspectives: theory and history, urbanism, technology, energy, management and the contemporary project, among others. During the course, theoretical research is combined with project design, specialisation with a cross-disciplinary scope, and innovative knowledge with critical tradition. Barcelona and the Barcelona´s School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Escola Técnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSAB-UPC) emerge as the starting point of this new comprehensive perspective.
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The MBArch is designed to train future professionals and teachers with flexibility and guidance in the specialised architectural fields of research, innovation and the contemporary project. The new MBArch is based on the knowledge, erudition, tradition, professional practice and comprehensive perspective of BarcelonaArch and the Barcelona School of Architecture, taking as a context the city of Barcelona and its metropolitan area.
Introduction The Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture-Barcelona. MBArch is the new international master’s degree by the Barcelona´s School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Escola Técnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSAB-UPC) for postgraduate students. The MBArch is created in response to the need to define new professional profiles for graduate students willing to go in depth in the specialised architectural fields of research, innovation and the contemporary project. It is the result of merging the six existing master’s degrees offered by the ETSAB until 2014 with the aim of creating a new, integrated master with a greater international reach and prestige, introducing new specialities better aligned with the current demand. Theory, History & Culture Urbanism Project, Process & Program Technological Innovation in Architecture Architecture, Energy & Environment Architectural Restoration & Rehabilitation Architectural Structures Urban and Architectural Management & Valuation Contemporary Project
The academic interest of MBArch lies in the fact that one single common structure is offering different flexible developments, double specialisations, personalized programme routes, academic exchanges at certain stages of the studies, or education in English, among others, at the same time that it is creating synergies between the different lines of specialisation. All these elements are combined with in the pursuit of offering a master’s degree of a greater international reach and which reflects the unique and integrated understanding that the ETSAB has of the study, the specialisation, the innovation and the research in architecture. This is the first distinguishing feature of MBArch. The second is the introduction of the word “Barcelona” in its title. Its purpose is to express the global importance and impact of the urbanism and the architecture of the city, as well as the influence received by the teachers of the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC). This connection with the city, however, does not mean that this is the main subject of study of the master, as this would disagree with the universal and cosmopolitan disposition of Barcelona. On the contrary, based on from a local perspective, MBArch expects to provide our students with the latest knowledge, the current panorama scene, and the latest international innovation and research trends in the fields of Architecture, Urbanism, Liberal Arts and Technology, all seen from a unifying perspective that gathers, synthesises and communicates them through the teachings and the professional experience of expert professors, provided in the frame of a culturally enriching context. This conjunct of knowledge will allow students to develop both a global and a specialised perspective. And here is where the scientific and professional interest of MBArch resides in:
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in the combination of research and project designing, specialisation and a cross-disciplinary scope, theory and practice —thus generating new expectations and innovative study fields.
The Architectural Structures speciality won’t take place during the 2017-2018 school year.
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TEORÍA, HISTORIA Y CULTURA Tiene como objetivo principal ofrecer una formación amplia y rigurosa en teoría, historia y crítica de la arquitectura, así como en el conocimiento del ámbito de la cultura en relación al espacio habitado y a la ciudad.
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URBANISMO El objetivo principal es ofrecer una formación teórica y práctica sobre la intervención urbanística a diversas escalas suficientemente rigurosa y amplia como para afrontar los retos del urbanismo contemporáneo.
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PROYECTO, PROCESO Y PROGRAMACIÓN
Xavier Monteys
Estanisalo Roca
El objetivo principal de esta línea es ofrecer una formación analítica en el campo de la arquitectura y la ciudad que proporcione nuevas maneras de aproximarse al proyecto con capacidad para construir nuevos enfoques.
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INNOVACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA EN LA ARQUITECTURA Tiene como objetivo principal formar especialistas en los ámbitos de las nuevas tecnologías de la construcción, la innovación en las instalaciones, la sostenibilidad y la eficiencia energética de los edificios.
Se pretende ofrecer unos conocimientos útiles para ser aplicados en las tareas de análisis, de proyecto y de investigación referentes al amplio ámbito de la rehabilitación y restauración de edificios ubicados en áreas urbanas, rurales o industriales.
ARQUITECTURA, ENERGÍA Y MEDIO AMBIENTE
Adrián Muros
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RESTAURACIÓN Y REHABILITACIÓN ARQUITECTÓNICA
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Tiene como objetivo principal profundizar en los conocimientos sobre la evaluación energética de la arquitectura y de las estructuras urbanas.
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GESTIÓN Y VALORACIÓN URBANA Y ARQUITECTÓNICA Tiene como objetivo principal fomentar la investigación en el campo de la planificación y la gestión de la ciudad y el territorio
CONTEMPORARY PROJECT Barcelona forma parte de la vanguardia del diseño arquitectónico y urbano. Este programa tiene como objetivo actualizar y expandir esta situación, con un especial énfasis en el papel de la materialidad y el trabajo a diferentes escalas en cualquier momento del proyecto arquitectónico.
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ESTRUCTURAS EN LA ARQUITECTURA
Pedro Pegenaute
Tiene como objetivo principal impartir conocimientos y capacidades para el desarrollo de tareas de análisis, de proyecto y de investigación en el ámbito de las estructuras arquitectónicas.
General structure Postgraduate Degree Architecture, urbanism and construction Organisation Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB-UPC) Orientation Academic and research Duration 1 academic year Credits 60 ECTS Specialisation lines Theory, History & Culture Urbanism Project, Process & Program Technological Innovation in Architecture Architecture, Energy and Environment Architectural Restoration & Rehabilitation Architectural Structures Urban and Architectural Management & Valuation Contemporary Project Structure The MBArch is divided into three phases. A first common and compulsory phase (15 ECTS) offers a global perspective on current issues and the knowledge and research trends of the different specialisations. A second specialising phase (30 ECTS) provides students with specific knowledge accordingly to the line of specialisation. In the third phase (15 ECTS), students are asked to prepare, present and defend a master’s thesis (TFM in Spanish) based on some of the chosen fields of interest. Speciality The master can be completed with or without a speciality. The nine specialities are developed through a set of subjects of 5 ECTS each. In order to complete the master with a speciality, 25 ECTS of the corresponding line of specialisation must be obtained in addition to the 15 ECTS of the common phase. The remaining 5 ECTS can be obtained by taking any of the subjects offered in the entire programme; the TFM will be connected to the line of specialisation. To complete the master without a specialisation, students must follow a personalised and cross-curricular programme route of 30 ECTS in addition to the common phase and the TFM; in this case, the TFM will have to be related to the followed programme route. Languages
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Catalan, Spanish, English.
The Architectural Structures speciality won’t take place during the 2017-2018 school year.
Course aims The main aim of MBArch is to train graduate architects as competent professionals in each of the lines of specialisation. The second aim, which complements the former, is to provide them with education in research, innovation or the contemporary project of architecture. The third aim, and given the possibility to follow flexible programme routes and double or combined specialisations, is to create synergies among fields of knowledge which, although they might appear to be different beforehand, they do not only share the same methodologies but also the same knowledge backgrounds —which, combined, increase one another. This is one of the uniqueness of this master.
Characteristics of MBArch: • Specialisation: Based on the specialisation in different knowledge areas. • Research: Aimed to train students in the research, the innovation and the contemporary project of architecture. • Cross-disciplinary: With an alternative flexible programme route combining all lines of specialisation.
The fourth aim is to contribute to this training on the grounds of the prestige of architecture in the UPC University and in Barcelona; from the experience, erudition, tradition, professional exercise and comprehensive approach of the Barcelona School of Architecture, and from the reality of the city of Barcelona and its area of influence. Basic Learning Outcomes: In the different phases of the course, students will learn: • In the irst, common phase of the master, to have a balanced and reasoned global perspective on the status of the issue, the current affairs and the knowledge and research trends of the different specialities; • To analyse the above mentioned aspects, taking into account environment and the architectural technology, urbanism and the architectural project, or theory and critique of architecture; • In the specialisation phase, to acquire speciality-speciic knowledge; • In the master’s thesis (TFM), to demonstrate a wide knowledge of the state of the issue in their specialisation field, to provide a diagnosis of problems, and to set out hypothesis and development proposals to the questions of the project;
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• Finally, to create, present and defend an original, individual master’s thesis before a university committee.
Structure The MBArch is divided into three phases. A first common and compulsory phase of 15 ECTS offers a global perspective on current issues the knowledge and research trends of the different specialisations. A second specialising phase of 30 ECTS provides students with specific knowledge accordingly to the line of specialisation. In the third phase of 15 ECTS, students are asked to prepare, present and defend a master’s thesis (TFM in Spanish), based on some of the chosen fields of interest. Common and compulsory phase The first phase of the MBArch provides an introduction of general interest based on the context of Barcelona. It is conducted through three subjects that define the initial part of the master: Architecture, Environment and Technology (5 ECTS); Architecture, City and Project (5 ECTS); and Architecture, Theory and Critique (5 ECTS). Each of these three blocks is an introduction to the master and constitutes a point of view that unfolds a global and balanced perspective on current issues, actual knowledge, future proposals and research lines of architecture. The main aims of this initial phase are: • To investigate, innovate and specialise in order to interpret the present and its significance in the fields of architecture, urbanism, technology, theory and history from the cross-disciplinary perspective that characterises BarcelonaArch; • To locally apply the latest and locally developed knowledge in the ields of architecture, urbanism, technology, theory and history as acquired from the experience and erudition characteristic of BarcelonaArch and to relate it to the international context; • To apply basic research methodologies to the innovation and specialisation in the field of architecture parting from the will of improvement and tradition characteristic of BarcelonaArch. Specialisation Line The second phase of MBArch is based on the specialisation in one field of interest, according to the preference made by each student from a choice of 9 lines of specialisation covering all areas of the sector. At the same time, a flexible programme route allows students to alternatively create their own route with subjects from different fields according to their personal interests and motivation. Specialisation lines: Theory, History & Culture Urbanism Project, Process & Program Technological Innovation in Architecture Architecture, Energy and Environment Architectural Restoration & Rehabilitation Architectural Structures Urban and Architectural Management & Valuation Contemporary Project Master’s Thesis (TFM)
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The Master’s Thesis (TFM) constitutes the final phase of MBAr ch. It is an original and comprehensive project, in which students must prove their intellectual maturity, critical spirit and academic progress as to the common and specialisation phases through descriptive and informative aspects as well as their reasoning. The synthetics skills in the presentation of their personal contribution in the topic addressed will be specially valued. The TFM can be presented in different forms and lengths, depending on the chosen topic and speciality: from written essays of a definite length to design projects accompanied by explanatory reports. The thesis must be original and individual and will be presented and defended before a multidisciplinary university committee.
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COMMON PHASE 15 ECTS ARCHITECTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
ARCHITECTURE, CITY AND PROJECT
ARCHITECTURE, THEORY AND CRITIQUE
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SPECIALISATION LINE 30 ECTS THEORY, HISTORY AND CULTURE
URBANISM
PROJECT, PROCESS AND PROGRAM
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION
ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES
URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT AND VALUATION
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MASTER’S THESIS 15 ECTS SEMINAR, TUTORING AND FINAL EXAMINATION
The ETSAB The Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) is the largest and oldest architecture school in Catalonia, offering training at all levels of university education, both with first cycle (bachelor) degrees as well as with masters, and playing a significant role in the university research world in Spain and Latin America thanks to the work carried out by its teachers from the research groups of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia·BarcelonaTech (UPC). Furthermore, the School is the leading training institution in Landscape studies in Spain in collaboration with the most renowned European schools. As a public school, its main will is to serve the society as a whole, with a strong commitment to architecture and a contemporary city, habitable and educated, and a special awareness of the public space, democratic and of high quality. The studies offered by the School have a strong technical, cultural and urban component, allowing graduate students to establish themselves in a variety of positions inside the definition and construction processes of the environment, either as freelance workers, civil servants or employees in the architectural industry, always with the ability of understanding the reality through the architectural project. Regarding its history, Barcelona School of Architecture was established inside the University of Barcelona in 1875, first merely as a Course on Architecture by the School of the Trade Board of Catalonia, and later continuing its teachings from the Master Crafstmen’s School created in 1850. In 1972, the School confounded the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and took the current name of ETSAB. In terms of figures, it currently counts with 3,500 students (2,000 bachelor degree students, 700 students working on their bachelor’s thesis, and 800 students of master’s and doctoral degrees) and has an exchange program for 130 students per year with 40 of the best architecture schools around the world. An average of 375 students completes their degree every year, and there are a total of 300 full and adjuncts professors teaching at the School. Among the most distinguished students and professors of the School, we can find its first director, Elías Rogent, the modernist architects Lluís Domènech i Muntaner, Antoni Gaudí and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, the modern architects Josep Lluís Sert and José Antonio Coderch, or contemporary architects such as Rafael Moneo, Oriol Bohigas, Enric Miralles, Manuel and Ignasi de Solá-Morales, Carlos Ferrater, Josep Lluis Mateo, Joan Margarit or Carlos Martí, among others. Many of the former students and professors of the School have designed and built the city of Barcelona and have had a significant influence on the national and international territory, thus turning the School into a contemporary world model in the fields of urban design and construction. In addition to its academic activity, the School completes its humanistic dimension by means of a lively cultural guide offering expositions, lectures, seminars, round tables, publications, projections or concerts, among other activities. At the same time, the School is responsible for the documentation centre Cátedra Gaudí (Gaudí Chair) and its highly important archive, a distinguishing element which must be taken into account in the current context of Spain and the proliferation of public and private architecture schools in the country. The ETSAB stands out thanks to the intellectual and social commitment of its graduate students, fruit of the demanding dedication and work requirements of the School, both inside and outside the lecture rooms. Its greatest effort is dedicated to making the most of a great school in a great university. The result is a school characterised by a high level of excellence.
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As a result of this spirit, in the last years the School has established a firm structure for the exchange of students and professors with universities both from Europe and America, Asia and Oceania.
Jordi Ros Director of ETSAB
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“With MBArch, the ETSAB wants to offer a master in architecture with an academic excellence comparable to that of the postgraduate degrees offered by the most renowned architecture schools in the world. To this end, several existing and well-known masters of specialisation offered by the ETSAB have been brought together in this unique Master, complemented with a new programme route taught exclusively in English and focused on the contemporary project of architecture. The result of this polyhedral cluster of courses are nine integrated lines of specialisation, coordinated by professors and highly regarded architects. One of the most relevant attributes of this new MBArch is its cross-disciplinary approach, unique in the current scene of postgraduate degrees of our academic context. Without a doubt, the versatile structure resulting of this concept offers students different routes that will allow them to better channel their future interests, both in the research field and in the professional exercise. Welcome to MBArch.”
Target Group Due of its flexible, multidisciplinary and cross-wide structure, MBArch is mainly addressed to graduate architects around the world willing to extend their training in the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC), an institution with long tradition and prestige in this field. On successful completion of MBArch, students will have acquired the necessary knowledge to, firstly, start working as experts in their corresponding specialisation lines in teams of professional enterprises and institutions. Secondly, it may also allow them to join the faculty of a university to teach in the fields of architectural projects, critique, technology or urbanism. Thirdly, students interested in the research field will be able to continue with a Ph.D. on the base of a strong foundation and the capacity to innovate, to create enterprises related to the constructive process, or to join the directive bodies of such companies. Finally, MBArch also gives students the possibility to specialise in the management of architecture related cultural issues, citizen participation regarding urban processes or strategic decision making at different scales of the architectural and urban project, or as technical experts in the public administration or curators of expositions focused in architecture.
Access and Admission The evaluation and selection criteria of the applicants include the weighting of the academic transcripts, the relationship between the curriculum of the completed studies and the master, as well as a certain command of languages. The minimum documents to be submitted by applicants are: • Corresponding degree and transcript of records • CV • Letter of intent • Completed ETSAB questionnaire • Portfolio • Availability of grants • Language command: B2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference or similar (Spanish and/or English depending on the courses chosen) The desired line of specialisation must be stated in the application, including an order of preference. Furthermore, applications must include the preference of the teaching language (Spanish/English) and if they desire a monolingual or bilingual teaching, as well as the knowledge level of the corresponding language(s).
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The Academic Commission will prioritize applications on the basis of the average mark of the academic transcript and the assessment of the complementary documents. The academic transcript and the complementary documents will both be weighted 50%.
Joan Ramon Pascuets Student of Máster de Teoría y Práctica del Proyecto
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“The Máster de Teoría y Práctica del Proyecto (currently MBArch) has provided me with a larger interdisciplinary knowledge between theory, architecture and urbanism, allowing me to generate project ideas and strategies which respond to the present forms of life. The master encourages the critic analyse of the present as a tool to improve the architectural project as well as the skills to foresee possibilities and necessities at all scales: the building, the street, the city, the territory... With respect to the research per se, I remember having intense discussions with professors and students of around the world during the seminars, and colleagues’ theses proposing solutions to challenges of contemporary society.”
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THEORY, HISTORY & CULTURE
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The main aim of this line is to provide a wide and rigorous education on the theory, history and critique of architecture, as well as on the field of culture regarding the inhabited space and the city.
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THEORY, HISTORY & CULTURE Title: Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in ArchitectureBarcelona, MBArch Duration: 1 academic year (two semesters) Total Credits: 60 ECTS Compulsory Credits: 15 ECTS Optional Credits: 30 ECTS Master’s thesis: 15 ECTS Line’s language: Spanish,
This specialisation wants to provide education in the specific domain of the theory and history of architecture, as well as to encourage the knowledge of culture concerning the fact of inhabiting. It offers a variety of subjects and seminars, contents, discussions and methodologies that will allow students to specialise in this field. It intends to prepare students for exercising reflection and critique, for historical research, communication and theoretical conceptualisation in the context of the tradition of art and architecture, of urban history and of the reality of the inhabited and constructed space. This field of knowledge includes topics parting from the domain of history to the situations defined by the contemporary world and the analysis of the present. This speciality shall provide students with the excellence knowledge required for the professional practice in the fields of museums and culture management, management of architectural and urban heritage, arbitration in participatory processes, creation of historical and heritage documentation (both private and public), as well as in the collaboration with publishing houses and the media. It is born from the belief that general architecture education needs this process of specialisation in order to effectively contribute to the demands of society from the grounds of culture, responsible critique and research. Furthermore, it is also addressed to those persons with a non-architectural background interested in the knowledge of architecture and inhabited space. Finally, this speciality may provide students with the basis for a further development in research, the preparation of doctoral theses, or the academic career in the area of history and theory of architecture.
Aims • To widely and rigorously know the theory and history of architecture in the frame of the theoretical and critical thinking traditions of our culture and of the general context of arts, techniques and the design of space. • To know and have a good command of the analysis methodologies and current historiography trends related with the theory of art, architecture and the city. • To develop critical reasoning against architecture and its social and cultural context, both historically and contemporary, in order to suitably communicate and synthesise those ideas and arguments related with the artistic and architectural creation, the production of space, and urban and cultural management. • To introduce students in scientiic research in order to provide them with the skills required for the development of research projects regarding theory and history of architecture, the preparation of doctoral theses, and the collaboration in cultural, urban and museums management processes. ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Theory, History & Culture: Marta Llorente Díaz marta.llorente@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Structure First term History of art and architecture Historiography of art and architecture Theory of arts and architecture Second term History, architecture and city Architecture and culture Critique of architecture: production, reproduction and discussion Architecture, science, technique
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
Methodology This line of specialisation is conducted through lectures and seminars. In lectures, the nodal points of the syllabus are developed from the different general scientific approaches of each subject. Seminars, on the contrary, provide a discussion and working space, again related to each subject, with the aim of guiding students in the variety of research issues chosen for their personal projects. The learning process ends with the preparation of a master’s thesis under the guidance of a personal tutor to finalize the learning process. The seven subjects of this speciality present a wide learning frame with a series of issues chosen through an active dynamic powered by the research projects of the teaching unit in the context of the research groups they belong to. Currently, the teaching unit of this line of specialisation is mainly composed of professors of the Department for Architectural Composition who collaborate in the following established research groups: • Architecture, City and Culture, an anthropological perspective on the constructed space and the habitat (ACC). • History of Architecture in Catalonia and the international context (GRHACCI). • Urban perspectives: compared approaches. • Theory and Critique of the City, Architecture and Arts. In addition to the creation of knowledge, these research groups also contribute to review methodological resources which can be useful in the education of the students. Therefore, they constitute the grounds for the transmission of innovative methodologies used in the study of architecture and urban history, in the general approaches of human sciences to study the inhabited space, and in the theoretical and critical conceptualisation in the fields of architecture and arts.
Reference Bibliography AZARA, Pedro: La reconstrucción del Edén: Mito y arquitectura en Oriente. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2010. GRANELL, Enric; PIZZA, Antonio; ROVIRA, Josep Maria; SANZ, José Ángel (ed.): A.C.: La revista del G.A.T.E.P.A.C., 1931-1937. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2008. GUÀRDIA, Manuel; OYÓN, José Luis (ed.): Hacer ciudad a través de los mercados: Europa, siglos XIX y XX. Barcelona: Museu d’Història de Barcelona, 2010. LLORENTE, Marta (coord.): Topología del espacio urbano: palabras, imágenes y experiencias que definen la ciudad. Madrid: Abada Editores, cop., 2014. MONTANER, Josep Maria; ÁLVAREZ, Fernando; MUXÍ, Zaida (ed.): Archivo crítico modelo Barcelona: 19732004. Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2011. PIZZA, Antonio; PLA, Maurici: Chicago - Nueva York: Teoría, arte y arquitectura entre los siglos XIX y XX. Madrid: Abada Editores, cop., 2012.
First Semester
History of Art and Architecture
Historiography of Art and Architecture
Theory of Arts and Architecture
This subject develops a reflection on
This subject approaches the set of texts
This subject offers a space to review, in
the nature, the limits and the forms of
and discourses which constitute the model
a very wide sense, the established ideas
construction of history, and approach
of historical reflection on art and architec-
and discourses regarding the practice of
monographic issues of history of art and
ture over time. During the course, students
architecture and of the artistic production
architecture.
will examine the existing relations between
in general. The course will propose single
It will propose the understanding of history
an analysed object (the work of art or archi-
topics to study the description of different
as a science under construction; a science
tecture in this case) and the methodologies
historical and cultural contexts, as well
which is originated both in reality and
applied in its description, explanation and
as reflections on the changes and the
in its sources and documents, therefore
interpretation.
evolution of ideas on architectural matters
building its own object: it establishes
Contents include:
over time, with the aim of understanding
events, intervals, durations, reasons and
• History of art and architecture as the
the situation.
consequences.
establishment of a new discipline
Contents include:
Contents include:
• The relation between history of art and
• Origin and development of the latest
• Introduction to the essential authors of
architecture and the contemporary world:
theories of architecture from the second
history of the 20th century
philosophy, literature and aesthetic theory
post-war era until today; changes in the
• Cases in the history of the 20th and 21st
• The understanding of history of art and
meaning and the evolution of ideas regar-
century; reconstruction of their enabling
architecture as a “cultural construction”
ding the architectural production
processes and schemes
• Different forms of the historical discourse
• Theories of architecture in the Spanish
• Thinking history, writing history
over time, from its origin in the 19th century
and Catalan context from the Modernism
• Formulation of historiography and deli-
until today
until today; monographs and revision of texts and documents supporting historical events closer to our cultural reality • The theory of the different artistic productions in relation to the ideas on architectural matters • Revision of the current forms of knowledge in relation to architecture and the different disciplines dealing with the knowledge of the inhabited space
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mitation of problems
Second semester
History, Architecture and Town
Architecture and Culture
This subject offers a space to reflect on ur-
This subject offers a panoramic vision
Critique of architecture: production, reproduction and discussion
ban history and on the culture of the city and
of culture as a framework from which
This subject reviews the critical produc-
approaches the relation between architectu-
to specify the role of architecture as an
tion of the contemporary cultural space.
re and the urban social context. It suggests a
agent and exponent of the various cultural
Its contents will compare and analyse the
glance that emphasises the different times
contexts. Its aim is to develop specific rela-
various forms of evaluation of architec-
and aspects of the production of architectu-
tions between different cultural tools and
tural production, as well as the reception
re and the city. It will combine a comprehen-
forms of production and understanding of
and dissemination of its ideas. It will also
sive vision (based on the model conceptuali-
architecture and the city such as literatu-
analyse the ways and means of disse-
sations used until today) with the analysis of
re, cinema and performing arts. It will also
mination and the scope of its reception:
specific study cases.
include the critical review of particular
the social groups and their access to the
Contents include:
historical scenes approached from a wide
architectural culture.
• The complexity of the contemporary city
concept of culture related with architectu-
Students will be provided with monogra-
and of architectural production in relation
re, the town and the inhabited space.
phs on specific critical discussions and
to the first
Contents include:
will receive training on a global sense of
• The bases for the development of urban
• Roots of the architectural imaginary in the
the power and the mechanics of criticism
history
ancient world; the context of the myth and
in particular publications and forums of
• The revision of particular approaches
the rituals in relation to art, architecture
public discussion.
from social history
and the town
Contents include:
• City and architecture in the historiagra-
• The inhabited space in the literary culture;
• Key issues of contemporary architecture
phic tradition
forms of verbal expression of the inhabited
criticism
space, the experience of architecture and
• The context of architecture criticism: diffe-
the town
rent sciences and disciplines approaching the
• Architecture among other artistic expres-
culture of inhabiting in the present times
sions: literature, cinema and performing
• Mass culture and its capacity to guide ideo-
arts
logical discussions
• Architecture and cultural contexts over
• Development of architecture publications in
the time
the general context of the history of dissemi-
Architecture, Science, Technique
• Cultural contexts different to the wes-
nation of texts, from printed publications to
This subject offers a space for the
tern tradition; cultural diversity, town and
the online dissemination
reflection on the history of science and
architecture
• Technologies of information and commu-
technique in relation to the architectural
nication in relation to the dissemination of
production and to its meanings. It will
ideas and the architectural production
combine the theoretical reflection on basic concepts with a historical approach that pictures the interrelations between science, technique and architecture in the context of western culture. Contents include: • History of science and philosophy of science in relation to architecture as a form of knowledge and production • The coordination between science and technique in the shaping of the contemporary world • The knowledge of history of construction as an architectural technique • Tectonics and poetics of construction; the relation between the technical imaginary and architecture • The thought of technique in the historiographic tradition of architecture
Academic Coordinator
Enric Granell Trias http://futur.upc.edu/EnriqueGranellTrias Architect (Ph.D.) and Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture of the ETSAB-UPC. He curated several exhibitions: Mundo de Juan-Eduardo Cirlot (IVAM 1996), Juan Navarro Baldeweg (IVAM 1999), Dau al set (MACBA 2000), AC. La revista del Gatepac. 1931-1937 (MNCARS. 2005), La habitación imaginaria de Juan Eduardo Cirlot (Centre d’Art Santa Mònica 2011). As an author, he published Bankinter, 1972-1977. Ramón Bescós, Rafael Moneo (Almería. Archivos de arquitectura 1994), Praga Apache (Universidad de Oviedo, 2005), Lluis Domènech i Montaner. Viatges per l’arquitectura romànica (Barcelona COAC 2006), Col·legi d’arquitectes de Catalunya 1874-1962 (Barcelona COAC 2012). As editor, he published: En la llama, poesía completa de Juan-Eduardo Cirlot 1943-1959 (Madrid, Siruela 2005), Karel Teige. Anti-Corbusier (Barcelona, ETSAB 2008). Among others, his texts have been published in the following architectural journals: Arquitecturas bis, Barcarola, Carrer de la ciutat, Casabella, CAU, 2c construcción de la ciudad, DC, Diseño interior, Dyonisos, Hablar de poesía, Ínsula, Lars, Lateral, L’avenç, Quaderns, Rey lagarto, Turia,, as well as in many others exhibition catalogues and conference proceedings.
Unit Staff Pedro Azara Nicolás Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Fernando V. Álvarez Prozorovich Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Carolina B. García Estévez Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Josep Giner Olcina Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAV-UPC) Ramon Graus Rovira Architect (Ph.D.) and Technical Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (EPSEBUPC) Manuel Guàrdia Bassols Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAV-UPC) Juan Jose Lahuerta Alsina Architect (Ph.D.) Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Marta Llorente Diaz Architect (Ph.D.) Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Raúl Martínez Martínez Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAV-UPC)
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Celia Marín Vega Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Josep Maria Montaner Martorell Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Jordi Oliveras Samitier Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Pau Pedragosa Bofarull Architect (Ph.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy. Adjunct Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSABUPC) Antonio Pizza de Nanno Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Antoni Ramon Graells Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Carmen Rodríguez Pedret Art Historian and Technician in Research. Adjunct Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSABUPC) Maribel Rosselló Nicolau Architect (Ph.D.), Technical Architect, Graduate in Contemporary History. Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (EPSEB-UPC) José Ángel Sanz Esquide Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAV-UPC)
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Estanisalo Roca
The main aim of this specialisation is to offer a theoretical and practical education on urban intervention at different scales in order to provide students with a rigorous and wide basis that will assist them to face the challenges of contemporary urbanism.
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URBANISM Title: Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in ArchitectureBarcelona, MBArch Duration: 1 academic year (two semesters) Total Credits: 60 ECTS Compulsory Credits: 15 ECTS Optional Credits: 30 ECTS Master’s thesis: 15 ECTS Line’s language: Spanish and English
Course overview The field of urbanism cannot be unaware of the fast transformations of our society in today’s information age. The growing complexity of the urban phenomena, the impact of new communication technologies on the relationship between the city and the territory, as well as the increasingly important role of large metropolises, force us to reflect on interpretation and intervention methods and instruments suitable to the new realities. The subjects of this line are organised according to six main research fields approved by the Department: Theory and History of the city (TeH); Urban morphologies, analysis and project (MU); Public space and urban project in the contemporary metropolis (EP); Emerging cities and territories (CTE); Territorial analysis and project (PT); Landscape analysis and classification (OP). The first three are grouped in the block City, urban project and public space (substance and form of the urban reality), including those subjects typically listed under “Urban studies”, but introducing a specific dimension of long tradition in Barcelona, an interest on Urban History with a focus on the morphological dimension, as well as a concern for theories related to the new urban situations. On the other hand, and based on the large experience in applied research that characterises the activity of the School’s professors and of Barcelona, this block presents a discussion on subjects as relevant as the urban project and the public space. The other three research fields are grouped in the block Urban planning (designing the city and the territory), where students will discuss the nature, the problems and the perspectives of urban planning and its strategies, tools and mechanisms of intervention in the current process of urbanization, characterised by urban explosion. Lectures will approach a variety of issues, from spatial planning to urban scale proposals, parting from a reflection based on models, methods and instruments that have evolved and require an attentive review and update effort. The approach used in these subjects is the result of academic and professional experience, which prioritizes the technical and projective dimension, the architects’ perspective to participate in the design and management of great urban transformations.
Aims • To introduce other urbanism’s dimensions (environmental, energetic, sociological, economical or operational) in the discussion about physical intervention forms. • To consider the different scales of the urban project in the study of urban and territorial spaces. • To prepare a personal and grounded relection on the main issues of the different fields of action of urbanism. • To critically relect on the urban complexity and its dynamics from a clear conceptual framework. ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Urbanism: Joaquín Sabaté Bel joaquin.sabate@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• To promote a large perspective on the coniguration of the current and future city.
Structure Block: City, urban project and public space Town planners in their cities (TeH) 5 ECTS The rules of urban form (TeH) 5 ECTS The city as local vs global interface (MU) 5 ECTS Contemporary residential urban project (MU) 5 ECTS Public space, housing, projects and policies (EP) 5 ECTS Key aspects of urban projects (EP) 5 ECTS Block: Urban planning Designing the city. emerging cities and territories 5 ECTS Urbanism of the resting 98% (CTE) 5 ECTS Territory as architecture (PT) 5 ECTS Territory as a project, territorial-mosaic-city (PT) 5 ECTS Territorial and urban transformations by the “sun-and-beach” tourism (OP) 5 ECTS Cultural landscape, heritage and territorial project (OP) 5 ECTS
Methodology
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This speciality wants to provide students with the necessary skills to face the challenges of contemporary urbanism. In each subject, they will have to prepare critical essays related with the issues that will later be addressed in the master’s thesis.
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Theory and history of the city focuses on the city and the urban being, both closely related to human progress. It studies the construction of this artifice that transforms the physical environment in order to use it intensively and to meet the requirements of the crowds. Urban morphologies, urban project and analysis studies urban forms and its components, particularly highlighting matters such as the construction and regeneration of tissues, its sustainability and urban efficiency, and urbanism in residential compounds. Public space and urban project in the contemporary metropolis analyses and understands the constitutive elements of a metropolis and the qualities that participate in the design of its parts, studying the creation of new collective spaces linked to complex architectures, to mobility or to urban free spaces. Emerging cities and territories pays special attention to those cities and territories characterised by an explosive growth, particularly in Latin America, going in depth in its causes and the effects on the urban and territorial form. Territorial analysis and project addresses both the interpretation of metropolitan and territorial transformations and the intervention through the project. It reflects on the forms and processes which are not traditionally considered as urban, analysing techniques to build the territory (by means of stratification or of the evolution of ancient models). Landscape analysis and classification presents a discussion about the connection between the human being and a nature made of work and history. It places landscape in the focus of the urban and territorial debate as an organizing element of the contemporary city and as a comprehensive system of the environmental and cultural matrix of the territory.
Mariana Debat
Departament d’Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori . ETSAB . UPC
Propuesta de Tesis
LOS NUEVOS LUGARES DE LA COLECTIVIDAD
Autor: Pedro José dos Santos Ferreira da Fonseca Bento Director: Estanislao Roca i Blanch
UNA CIUDAD PARA LA PAMPA
Diciembre 2011
Idea, técnica, proyecto y construcción de las ciudades de la provincia de Buenos Aires durante el siglo XIX Melisa Pesoa Marcilla
E entre la ABSTRACCIÓN y la REALIDAD ideas de ciudad en la construcción de Córdoba y Rosario
Block: City, urban project and public space
Key aspects of urban projects This subject presents a detailed reading of
The city as a local vs global interface
a set of urban projects, analysed from the
This subject introduces students to the
idea and the development until the cons-
challenges that the global city often issues
truction. The examples have been chosen
to urban habitability, and highlights the
according to several aspects: public and
responsibility of designers, architects
private initiative plans, large dimensions
or urban planners, among others, in the
and smaller scales, reform and enlarge-
quality of enlargement projects and urban
ment plans, residential, industrial and
improvement. It proposes a reflection on
tertiary projects, renovation or transfor-
the significance of urban architecture,
mation plans, and management based on
buildings, spaces and infrastructures
the subdivision or expropriation of land.
with the aim of creating useful categories
All projects share a common element: an
suitable for all cities irrespective of their
important contribution in their cities to the
transformation stage. The method applied
urban and transportation systems, resour-
is based on the presentation of cases and
ces and public spaces. Students will lay
their historical and geographical context.
out an investigation work based on some of these urban projects.
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Town planners in their cities This subject studies those theories of the city posed by urban planners that lived, with particular intensity, in the city they described. In all these, urban history is seen as a process where space plays a decisive role. This phenomenon has contributed to an essential progress in the creation of the bases for urban knowledge and development. Students will work with compared analysis of cities in order to consider an intended history of the urban project and of its impact in the construction of the contemporary city.
Contemporary residential urban
The rules of urban form
project
Public space, housing, projects and politics
This subject focuses on the residential
This subject offers a space for the reflec-
tion of urban regulation tools, particularly
urban project. It is based on study cases
tion and discussion on the contemporary
of those examples in the fields of urban
and the application of analysis methodolo-
public space. It will combine the reflection on the experience and the significance of
design and planning. Sessions are divided
gies to compare and evaluate projects and their implementation.
public space with the reflection on design
This analysis will be used to typify the
and management mechanisms. The first
variety of design strategies and the
reflection aims to contribute to build the
development tools applied. Its aim is to
theoretical framework of the students’
evaluate the result and to establish useful
research, whereas the second will provide
consolidation of these tools in different
taxonomies which can be generalised
them with working methods. The course
cities and historical periods. The second
and systematised. It focuses particularly
goes into depth into the unyielding plura-
block aims to deepen in the analysis of the
on those aspects regarding structure,
lity of contemporary public spaces (urban
different options that these tools assume
composition and land use related with the
spaces, collective spaces, territorial free
today in the city interpretation and inter-
creation of the residential urban fabric in
spaces, infrastructural spaces), as well as
vention.
the urban transformation processes of
into the important influence of the diversi-
European cities.
ty of cultural contexts in this matter.
This subject analyses the recent evolu-
in two blocks. The aim of the first block, regarding the evolution of urban regulations, is to identify the contents and concerns of current regulations in the appearance and
Block: Urban planning
Designing the city. Emerging cities and territories
Urbanism of the resting 98%
Territory as architecture
Two realities which are apparently diffe-
Based on the analysis of a set of plans
This subject presents conceptual discus-
rent result in two similar situations of
and studies, this subject wants to offer an
sions regarding the evolution of urban
urban disadvantages: residential urban
interpretation of the origin and evolution
planning, with the aim of creating a theory
areas with low population density and
of land management, as well as a critical
of intervention based on the disciplinary
self-produced urban areas. Both need
evaluation of the current situation in our
contributions offered by the main texts,
specific tools and processes in order to be
context. The analysis is focused on the
plans and designers. Its aim is to explore
considered as neighbourhoods or habitats.
definition of goals, the technical develo-
an interpretation of the current situation
Contents include:
pment and the enforcement tools of the
through the discussion of those planning
• Evolution and development of the
proposals. The origins of this discipline,
figures or theoretical reflections that have
suburb: from dream to nightmare; self-
the construction, the methodology and
approached new and normally unattended
production of habitat
the main tools of intervention are object of
issues. The subject will primarily focus on
• Gender perspective applied to urban
reflection during the course. The scope of
the project of the city in emerging territo-
studies and projects
study will mainly focus on European and
ries, particularly in Latin America.
• Daily life in the suburbs and selfproduced neighbourhoods • Daily networks as a tool or indicator of urban quality • Strategies and tools applied to improve two forms of growth • Mapping • Participatory processes and charrettes • Study cases • New Urbanism • Rio de Janeiro, Medellin, Buenos Aires
North American countries.
Territorial and urban transformations by the “sun-and-beach” tourism
Cultural landscape, heritage and territorial project
Based on the analysis of a set of plans
Mass tourism is probably one of the most
Cultural landscapes receive a growing
and studies, this subject wants to offer an
important territorial phenomena in the
significance in the post-industrial land use
interpretation of the origin and evolution of
world. However, our discipline has not paid
and planning. Its management has beco-
land management. The course will investi-
a special attention to it so far. This subject
me an important factor of development.
gate the urban project and the intervention
aims to study some of the large projects
The rich complexity of cultural landscapes
at a territorial scale in the metropolis of
involved and to analyse their evolution.
requires a new conceptual framework and
Barcelona, as well as the design project in
Contents will be presented in three blocks.
the development of new methodologies.
territories of a blasting city with a varied
The first block will focus on the Spanish
This subject aims to offer an outlook of the
morphological configuration –the so called
coast: Costa Brava and Ciutat de Repòs i
evolution of heritage from the protection
territorial-mosaic-city. The aim is to reflect
Vacances by GATCPAC in Catalonia, Beni-
of monuments to cultural landscapes, as
on the global context of the urban world
dorm in Valencia, Manga del Mar Menor
well as to critically evaluate the situation
on the basis of relevant urban issues and
in Murcia, Marbella in Andalusia and
of cultural landscapes in our context. It
topics and the experience of Barcelona.
Maspalomas in the Canary Islands. In the
will continue with the research that has
second block, examples by the students
been taking place in cooperation with the
will be analysed. Finally, the third block
Schools of architecture of Bamako (Mali)
will evaluate the recovery policies for the
and Tsinghua (Beijing) on cultural landsca-
touristic coast spaces.
pes in extreme contexts.
Núria Moliner
Territory as a project, territorialmosaic-city
Academic Coordinator
Joaquín Sabaté Bel http://futur.upc.edu/JoaquinSabateBel Architect (Ph.D.) and Economist. Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) since 1976. He is the Director of the Department of Urbanism and the European Master in Urbanism (Delft, Leuven, Venice and UPC). He founded the International Laboratory on Cultural Landscapes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology-UPC) and directs the magazine Identidades. He has given lectures and conferences at numerous European, American and Asian universities. He has conducted researches focused on theories, instruments and methods of the urban and territorial project and on heritage resources and local development, resulting in numerous articles in specialised magazines and books such as El proyecto de la calle sin nombre (The project of the unnamed street), Proyectar el territorio en tiempos de incertidumbre (Designing the territory at times of uncertainty), Designing the Llobregat Corridor or Event Places. He has guided over thirty doctoral theses and over one hundred master dissertation projects. Author of plans and projects in Europe and in Latin America, his work has been honoured three times at the Spanish National Urbanism Award, as well as with the Catalan Special Heritage Award and the Urbanism Award.
Unit Staff Isabel Castiñeira Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Miquel Corominas Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Carles Crosas Architect (Ph.D.). Reader at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Xavier Eizaguirre Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Jordi Franquesa Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Julián Galindo Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Carles Llop Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Miquel Martí Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Ángel Martín Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Zaida Muxí Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) José Luís Oyón
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Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Francesc Peremiquel Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Ricard Pié Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Estanislau Roca Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) María Rubert Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Ferran Sagarra Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Adolf Sotoca Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Miquel Vidal Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Josep María Vilanova Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC)
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PROJECT, PROCESS AND PROGRAM
Xavier Monteys
The main aim of this line is to offer an analytical education in the fields of architecture and the city in order to provide students with new strategies to address the project and to create new approaches.
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PROJECT, PROCESS AND PROGRAM Title: Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in ArchitectureBarcelona, MBArch Duration: 1 academic year (two semesters) Total Credits: 60 ECTS Compulsory Credits: 15 ECTS Optional Credits: 30 ECTS Master’s thesis: 15 ECTS Line’s language: Spanish
Course overview This speciality is mainly conducted by professors of the Department of Architectural Design. It works on the basis of the architectural project, analysing it from what it could be called “the previous stage of the strategic project”. Students of this speciality should preferably have a firm knowledge of the architectural project and be interested in extending this field of knowledge to other fields, parting from its starting point, the previous phases and the corresponding decision making. The contents of the different subjects will allow them to deeply analyse the various aspects of the project to consolidate these approaches. This point of view is coherent to the current spirit of reconsidering certain concepts of the field of architecture and the city. This is in line with a way of addressing the architectural project that discusses its causes, and it is an obvious understanding of the contemporary role of the architect. The origin of a project is connected at the same time to the analysis and to the theory supporting it. The origin cannot be dissociated of the critique of cases preceding and supporting it. This speciality takes place always in an open context of the project, considering the project as an inseparable element of larger plans and goals. To this end, some subjects of this speciality line invite to acquire more inclusive and curious approaches on other representations of contemporary theory, culture, geography, technology and economy. Its aim is to provide the necessary education to act in the different labour contexts where architects are required –and in those where the convenience of hiring one has not yet been discovered. These range from the development of the traditional project (building designing and construction), through the design of elements for the industry, to the detection of conflict areas and opportunity spots, as well as cultural and logistical planning.
Aims • To improve the analytical skills in the ield of architecture and the city; • To improve the ability of creating new approaches; • To improve the conceptual development of an architectural project; • To improve the ability of relating concepts of different ields of knowledge; • To improve the aptitudes to develop and manage projects beyond the ield of architecture.
Structure
ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Project, Process and Program: Xavier Monteys Roig xavier.monteys@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
First term Theories of the project Project, residue and recycling Architecture and invention Urban settings Segundo semestre Compared architecture Project, system and infrastructure Doméstica The project and the city. Inner Barcelona Theories of the project
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
Methodology The methodology of this speciality has been largely used in lecture rooms, particularly in courses taught in small groups of students such as in the subjects of this course. Small groups produce a special atmosphere which encourages the discussion of concepts and the debate. All subjects will comprise informative classes and discussions, using seminars or lecture plus discussions, depending on the syllabus of the course.
Web http://habitar.upc.edu/
Stella Rahola Matutes
The tasks that will be performed during the course will guide students to their master’s thesis, which will be prepared in the final seminar. In addition, the necessary tools for an ambitious and interesting final project will also be provided, highlighting issues such as the research tasks, texts and the different writing styles and formats, graphic analysis as a way of reasoning, the preparation of expositions for discussions, and the different forms of graphic and multimedia expression as a tool to communicate research results. The syllabus and lectures of these subjects shall force and invite to study, visit, write, paint, detect and make the most of conflict, propose and research.
First semester
Theories of the project
Project, Residue and Recycling
Architecture and invention
This subject is constructed around the
This subject wants to prioritize recycling
concept of objectivity and will suggest a
as an essential aspect of sustainable
new approach to the way of being of archi-
architecture and ecology and analyse
tecture its nature and its tradition. Exam-
current projects of reuse and urban,
ples will be used to show that architecture
territorial and architectural renovation
has forms of its own which are based on a
in seven simultaneous scales: material,
large set of objective elements: the useful
object, detail, building, neighbourhood, city
forms of architecture. These forms are
and territory. It pursues to understand the
subject to the modifications of the project
strategies of projects intended to take the
order (life, place and technique) and result
most of obsolete buildings and environ-
in the sense of style. The subject will
ments, as well as to obtain information
analyse works which have been conducted
to create a catalogue of waste materials
in the present and their value as a tradi-
and design objects currently offered in the
tion. At the end of the course, students
market. Students will be provided with the
This subject pursues a double aim. On the one hand, the course provides students with a set of critical tools to evaluate their own competences as architect-inventors with the aim of improving their abilities to produce architecture. On the other hand, it intends to train architect-teachers in the fields of invention and design. Finally, it proposes a comparison between two systems or institutions -language and architecturein order to create an epistemology of the architect’s thought in the design action.
will be able to discern the meaning of the
corresponding tools of the speciality of the
activity of the project and to improve its
architectural project.
fulfilment, finding a balance between the reflex and the thoughtful dimension of their work.
Urban settings This subject approaches public space considering it as an architectural work and urban setting and explores its nature as a collaborative project as well as its unifying role in the city. The public space is there where events take place and constitutes an essential element for architecture: without it, architecture has a lack of meaning. It is also there where the commitment of neighbours resulting of the rules of good citizenship takes place and the political space par excellence. From the very beginning, architecture and public space have built a complex relation that invalidates any attempt to view them as independent elements. Public space is one of the various forms in which the sedimentation of the city appears over the time. This subject aims to create a relation between the public and the private space.
Second semester
Compared architecture
Project, systems and industry
Domestics
To compare buildings means to analyse
This subject studies those architectu-
This subject wants to introduce students
them. This subject uses comparison as a
ral works in which technological issues
in the analysis of architectural works
methodology to analyse the project. A use-
have been used as a tool to conceive the
using housing as the study element and
ful thought is to consider that we are also
architectural form. The adaptation of the
approaching it from a variety of themes. It
comparing while we are designing. During
project to its constructive project influen-
pursues a multiple aim: to deepen in the
the development of a project, we use
ces its stages and sales, from the choice
field of the domestic idea, to widen the
comparison to search the arguments of its
of the components to deciding its cons-
perspective including other fields (from
dimension, program, composition, form or
truction systems. The process of designing
the city to contemporary art), to use the
relation with its context. While we compa-
a project favours the system over the
comparison as a method of study and, fi-
re, we seek certainties or reveal doubts.
object, and it is closely related to industry.
nally, to become familiar with architecture
Some of the points inherent to the diffe-
Through the analyse of study cases, the
criticism. The subject will be structured in
rent comparisons that will be studied are:
course aims to reveal the strategies and
twelve sessions and students will prepa-
version, analogy, contradiction, defor-
systems that integrate form and cons-
re works on the basis of the mentioned
mation, transformation, enlargement,
truction. This analytical stage will allow
issues.
reference, paradox, reminiscence and
students to discover tectonic strategies
hyperbole.
based on the principles of order that make it possible to harmonise the whole with the parts of the architectural object.
The project and the city. Inner Barcelona Architecture has the ability to solve complex conflicts from multiple points of view. One of the characteristic role of the architect is to solve the dialogue with the context, arranging and combining the necessary variables to transform the context, proposing innovative alternatives and coordinating different knowledge and multidisciplinary teams. The architectural project must no longer be considered from exclusively formal premises, but rather to pay attention to a large system of new variables. Nowadays architecture produces much more complex combinations than the elements it was intended to create in its origin. During this course, students will study the present to learn to apply and project.
NĂşria Moliner
combine its variables in the architectural
Academic Coordinator
Elena Fernández-Salas http://futur.upc.edu/MariaElenaFernandezSalas Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC). She has been teaching at the ETSAB-UPC since 1999 and at the ESARQ-UIC, the Escola EINA (UAB) and at the UPC Foundation. She combines her academic work in the undergraduate and post-graduate courses with research that derives from projects from the MEC, part of the FORM Group + (2014 SGR 1049). At the same time, she runs managing activities at the Department of the Architectural Design, where she exercised as its Academic Secretary from 2009 to 2014. Currently, she’s the deputy director of the Department. From 1995 to 2005 she was the secretary of the ARQ-INFAD, the association that’s in charge of the FAD Awards of Architecture and Urbanism and the Premis Habitàcola.
Unit Staff Antonio Armesto Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Jaime Coll Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Elena Fernández Architect (Ph.D.). Reader at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Pere Fuertes Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAV-UPC) Cristina Jover Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Magda Mària Architect (Ph.D.). Reader at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAV-UPC) Alberto Peñín Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Anna Puigjaner Architect (Ph.D.). Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAV-UPC) Pere Joan Ravetllat Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Félix Solaguren Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC)
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TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE
Adriรกn Muros
The aim of this specialisation is to train professional experts in the fields of the new construction technologies, facilities innovation, sustainability and the energy efficiency of buildings.
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TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE Title: Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in ArchitectureBarcelona, MBArch Duration: 1 academic year (two semesters) Total Credits: 60 ECTS Compulsory Credits: 15 ECTS Optional Credits: 30 ECTS Master’s thesis: 15 ECTS Line’s language: Spanish and English
Course overview The main aim is to deepen in the knowledge acquired during the bachelor’s degrees related with the construction sector in order to train professional experts in the fields of the new construction technologies, the most innovative facilities, and of the sustainability and energy efficiency of buildings. It intends to provide students with advanced technological knowledge and with the necessary skills to join professional and technological research teams in the above mentioned specialisation fields. This specialisation is addressed to a target group with a professional profile of graduate architects and engineers, particularly construction engineers. The education provided will enable students to exercise the profession as high-level experts in the fields of construction technologies and environmental control, as well as to develop a scientific research or professor career in the field of architectural construction technologies.
Aims • To train highly skilled professional experts able to deepen in the knowledge of the latest and most innovative constructive techniques and systems, which stand out due to its eco-efficiency, versatility, industrialisation and on site installation. • To provide students with analysing elements and to deepen in the knowledge of environmental conditioning techniques and systems and the latest equipments liable to meet the highest environmental requirements. • To provide the necessary skills for the introduction of highly specialised techniques and systems in architecture projects and in the entire modifying intervention of the perceptible or habitable space. • To train professional experts in the abilities that will allow them to conduct the incorporation of the latest constructive, environmental and energetic technological processes in the technical development of the architectural project. • To provide students with the knowledge, critical capacity and ability to analysing skills in order to develop forward-thinking research in the fields of constructive technologies, environmental control systems, sustainability and energy efficiency.
Structure
ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Technological Innovation in Architecture: Adrián Muros Alcojor adrian.muros@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya de los contenedoMaqueta
First term Strategies towards buildings with zero energy expenditure Techniques and systems of industrialized construction Evolution of construction materials and products Acoustic environment and advanced architectural acoustics
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
Second term Advanced technology for the space construction Integrated building envelope Digital design and manufacturing in architecture
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
Architectural lighting and advanced landscape architecture
Methodology
5 ECTS
The teaching and learning process is based on: • Theoretical informative lectures. Case studies.
Reference Bibliography
• Practical lectures for individual development and knowledge application.
DAUMAL, Francesc: Arquitectura acústica 1-Poètica,
• Seminars and external exercises. Visits to the studied buildings. Group work.
3-Rehabilitació. Barcelona: Edicions UPC,1998, 2000
• Tutorials, study and personal follow up of the group work.
Collaborators
Arquitectura acústica 2-Disseny, Arquitectura acústica 2007. FOLGUERA , Eduard; MUROS Adrián: La iluminación artificial es arquitectura. Editorial Iniciativa Digital Politécnica, 2013.
Ignacio Paricio Ansuategui Architect (Ph.D.). Emeritus Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC) Fernando Ramos Galino Architect (Ph.D.). Emeritus Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
GUZOWSKI, Mary: Energía cero: estética y tecnología con estrategias y dispositivos de ahorro y generación de energías alternativas. Barcelona: Blume, 2010. RITTER, Axel: Smart materials in architecture, interior architecture and design. Basel: Birkhaüser, cop., 2007. KNAACK, Ulrich, CHUNG-KLATTE Sharon, HASSELBACH Reinhard: Prefabricated systems: Principles of
Víctor Seguí Santana Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
construction. Basel: Birkhaüser, cop., 2012.
Jorge Sutrias Figueras Architect. Partner at Ros Sutrias & Associats (www.ros-sutrias. com)
projects of carbon neutrality in buildings. Munich: New
VOSS, Karsten: Net zero energy buildings: International ed., 2013.
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Lucía Fernández Carrasco Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
First semester
Strategies towards buildings with zero
Techniques and systems of
Evolution of construction materials
energy expenditure
industrialized construction
and products
Based on the concept of the nearly-zero
1. Technological characteristics of
This subject explores the current techno-
consumption described by European
industrialized construction
logical borders of construction materials
regulations, this subject approaches the
- Concepts and principles of industria-
and products from the perspective of their
minimum requirements for the energetic
lized construction
environmental impact of its fabrication
efficiency of buildings and its elements in
- Classification of construction techni-
and how they are used in architecture. It
the pursue of an optimal balance between
ques and processes
will study the evolution of materials in re-
ÂŹÂŹinversions and the energetic expendi-
- Relations between constructive sys-
lation to their properties or their installa-
ture saved during the service life of the
tems and types of buildings
tion over the time.
building. It will take into account both the
- Immaterial technology
Contents include:
building envelope and its technical faci-
2. Techniques and processes of construction
1. Materials of organic origin
lities (ventilation, heating, cooling, water
- Assembly of industrialized wood and
2. Materials of stony origin
heating, lighting and other mechanical
platework systems
3. Materials of metallic origin
components with energy consumption).
- Prefabrication of large concrete
4. Materials of synthetic origin
components - Mobile factories for component production on-site: large formwork 3. Constructive systems - Carcassing: dry and humid - Building envelope: light and heavy - Inner partition - Three-dimensional modules
Acoustic environment and advanced architectural acoustics This subject aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge to analyse and design the existing interactions between acoustics and those indoor and outdoor spaces where architecture and the city occur. It will also provide them with advanced knowledge on the soundlanguage and the representation, modelling, virtualization and auralization of the soundlanscape in architecture, the urban context and the territory.
Second semester
Advanced technology for the space
Integrated building envelopes
Digital design and manufacturing in
construction • Diachronic evolution of the architectural inner space technology • Analysis of the technical requirements for pavement and screed • Analysis of the technical requirements for inner parameters and partitions • Analysis of the technical requirements for false ceilings • Current opportunities for the development of innovation applied to architectural indoor spaces • Innovation proposals and compared evaluation of their suitability • Production and edition of supports for the communication of innovation proposals • Techniques to present innovation proposals in front of a specialize jury or audience
The design of a building envelope involves
architecture
observing both formal aspects which are
This subject focuses on the digital produc-
essential in the definition of the image of
tion and manufacturing.
the building and functional issues which determine the level of comfort of its inte-
• Parametric concepts • Brief historical overview of parametric
rior. They integrate both active and passive
architecture
energy management mechanisms which
• Software skills in parametric design
turn building envelopes into complex devi-
(Rhino-Grasshopper)
ces of environmental control.
• Digital manufacturing machines • Parametric design
This subject will study envelopes from a comprehensive perspective, analyzing all mechanical-constructive and energetic issues as well as all those related with the efficient management of the available resources.
Architectural lighting and advanced landscape architecture This subject presents the latest technologies in the field of artificial lighting and of lighting design strategies. The course will offer a descriptive analysis of those proceedings aimed to promote the formal relation between the architectural space and artificial lighting. It will also approach the technical knowledge and critical analysis of technical solutions from the perspective of an energetic consumption reduction and the durability and sustainability during the life cycle of lighting facilities. Students will be provided with the knowledge and skills to use the graphic expression proceedings of lighting proposals in both a urban and an (indoor and outdoAdrián Muros
or) architectural level.
Academic Coordinator
Adrián Muros Alcojor http://futur.upc.edu/AdrianMurosAlcojor Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC). He is currently teaching several subjects in bachelor’s degrees, speciality lines and masters, and is a member of university committees for bachelors’ and masters’ theses. He gives courses, seminars and conferences in universities and national and international institutions. He directs the Light Studies Workshop at the ETSAB, where research and design projects regarding natural and artificial lighting are conducted. He regularly collaborates with enterprises working in the artificial light sector in specific projects and in the development of patents. He directs the section «Aula CD» of the specialised magazine Icandela. He has written more than 100 architectural works in a variety of fields such as housing, facilities, industry, interior design, restoration, urbanism, product design, lighting and installations. He has been installation adviser and expert in efficiency, energy saving, environmental architecture design, eco-efficiency and sustainability, and has been distinguished with several architecture awards. He is a member of the Spanish Lighting Committee and the Installations Experts Association of the Official Association of Architects of Catalonia. He develops his research work in the «Research Group on Architecture and Technology of the UPC».
Unit Staff German Alvira Subias Architect. Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Jaime Avellaneda Díaz-Grande Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Anna Casas Portet Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Arcadi de Bobes Picornell Architect. Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Enrique Corbat Díaz Architect. Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Eva Crespo Sánchez Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Francesc Daumal i Domènech Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Juan Luís Fumadó Alsina Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
José M. González Barroso Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Josep Ignasi Llorens Duran Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Jorge Pagès Serra Architect. Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
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Cristina Pardal Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Antoni Paricio Casademunt Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Anna Ramos Sanz Architect. Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Ramón Sastre i Sastre Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Josep Antoni Tribó Busquets Architect. Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Santiago Velasco Cerdán Architect. Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Joan Lluís Zamora Mestre Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
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ARCHITECTURE, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Helena Coch
The main aim of this specialisation line is to go into detail about the energetic assessment of architecture and urban structures.
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ARCHITECTURE, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT Title: Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in ArchitectureBarcelona, MBArch Duration: 1 academic year (two semesters) Total Credits: 60 ECTS Compulsory Credits: 15 ECTS Optional Credits: 30 ECTS Master’s thesis: 15 ECTS Line’s language: Spanish
Course overview The course allows students to go into detail about the energetic assessment of architecture and urban structures, as well as to develop the corresponding research skills. An appropriate knowledge of the technical, mechanical and material resources available today should turn architecture into a better living environment than the context where this is located. A correct orientation of buildings and a good distribution of the constructive elements will enable us to improve the habitability conditions of buildings and cities, thus making it necessary to understand which magnitudes are affecting environmental design and how. Through case studies, real measurements with precision instruments, digital simulations with suitable software and the guidance of the professors, students will acquire the necessary education to critically analyse and make decisions in this field, either as a professional architect or by providing energetic assessment from the administration or a private enterprise of this sector. The skills provided in this specialisation line can be applied in the architectural design, the rehabilitation of constructed tissue or the drafting of administrative regulations, as well as in the research of new scientific conceptualisations to improve our knowledge of energy (incidence of light, heat or sound on architecture and the city). The knowledge gained during this line of specialisation allows students to start their doctoral degrees and it is a requirement to apply for the doctoral programme of the UPC in Architecture, Energy and Environment.
Aims The aim of the line of specialisation MBArch Architecture, Energy & Environment is to acquire and develop the research ability and skills in the fields of energetic assessment in architecture and urban structures; environmental assessment of architectural and urban projects; and the usage of natural and artificial techniques of environmental reconditioning.
Structure First term Space and light
5 ECTS
Energy and comfort
5 ECTS
Acoustic in architecture
5 ECTS
Second term Environmental impact of architecture
ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Architecture, Energy & Environment: Helena Coch Roura helena.coch@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
5 ECTS
Environmental assessment
5 ECTS
Visions of the project
5 ECTS
Research: energy in architecture
5 ECTS
Methodology Lectures are run by Professors of different departments of the UPC and of foreign universities who are participating in teaching and research collaboration agreements.
Web http://mastersuniversitaris.upc.edu/aem
Occasionally, other professors and professional workers of the field will collaborate in the course to share their experience with the students in the pursuit of complementing their education. During the course, visits to companies active in the relevant fields or study visits to perform field work may be organised to complement some of the issues addressed.
Helena Coch
The course has access to a measuring laboratory with precision instruments, thermographic cameras, luxmeters, pyrgeometers, luminance meters, etc., and the suitable simulation and calculation software.
First semester
Space and light
Energy and comfort
Acoustics in architecture
This subject focuses on natural and
This subject analyses the inner conditions
This subject approaches acoustics in
artificial light as an element that creates
of an architectural work, its architectural
architectural spaces based on the design
architectural space, as well as on the de-
finish and its repercussions on the user
of the shape of the enclosures and its re-
sign process based on its properties. The
and the context. Principles of environ-
lation with the context. Physics, physiology
visual process. Light physics: magnitudes
mental comfort. Parameters and factors.
and psychology of sound, characterisa-
and qualities. The color in the perception
Sensation and perception. Air conditions:
tion. Physical units. Audiogram of human
of space. The light projection, systems and
psychrometrics. Radiation and its thermal
hearing and measurement units. Evalua-
measures. Design and application consi-
and light effects. Air movement and its
tion of sound in architectural spaces and
derations of natural and artificial light.
effects on the user. Control systems and
its behaviour: reflection, transmission,
their impact on architectural comfort.
absorption. Interior acoustic conditioning systems according to geometry, reflections and volume changes. Control of the room response to sounds of natural origin or
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those produced by electroacoustic means.
Second semester
Environmental impact of architecture
Environmental assessment
Visions of the project
This subject studies the relations between
This subject evaluates the environmental,
In this subject students must individua-
sustainability and architecture. Perception
thermal, acoustic and light phenomena in
lly consider a complex energetic design
of the borders. Definition of sustainability.
architecture. Possible systems: measuring
problem which involves the usage of
The Brundlandt Report. Sustainability and
and simulation systems. Measurement of
systems of renewable energies in a project
variables and possible relations. Mea-
requiring passive design. In order to give
suring devices: their limits. Principles
a solution for the problem, students will
of operation and good use. Survey as an
have to develop the project using the co-
opinion measurement system. Simulation
rresponding computer tools, scale models
of behaviours: the limits of calculations.
or other means. The final result will be
Operation and good use of calculation pro-
presented as an architectural project that
grams. Used and recommended programs.
uses natural and renewable energies as
economics. Physical sustainability. The necessary condition. Material flows in architecture. Domestic waste. Construction materials. Energy. Water. Sustainability measures.
design tools in order to create a space that offers thermal, light and acoustic comfort to the user. This resulting projects should ideally be examples of architectural quality from a global point of view.
Research: energy in architecture This subject focuses on the process of research. From the hypothesis to the thesis. Research tools. The State of the Art and the research of the existing knowledge. The development of research and its techniques. Field, laboratory, bibliographic and online research. Verification of hypothesis. Evaluation of results. Establishing partial and general conclusions. These different issues will be discussed based on considerations presented by the teacher. Students will be asked to provide examples to these issues and to refer to existing research projects which can be found in the Master’s Archive.
Academic Coordinator
Helena Coch Roura http://futur.upc.edu/HelenaCochRoura Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC) She is currently teaching several core and elective subjects of the bachelor’s degree at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) and the Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV). She coordinates the doctoral programme in Architecture, Energy and Environment and directs the master’s degree Integration of Renewable Energies in Architecture (IDERA). She is a researcher in the field of environmental comfort and energetic behaviour of buildings in the research group «Architecture, Energy and Environment» and has participated in numerous research projects awarded by public call. She is a member of the scientific committees of international conferences World Renewable Energy Congress (WREN) and Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA), and editor at the magazines Renewable Energy, Energy and Buildings, Architecture, City and Environment ACE. She also works as an assessor at the Spanish National Agency of Assessment and Prospective (ANEP) and as an external examiner at the Italian National Agency of University Assessment and Research (ANVUR).
Unit Staff Benoit Beckers Telecommunications Engineer (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Urban Systems Engineering at the Technology University of Compiègne Luis Castañer Muñoz Telecommunications Engineer (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering (ETSETB-UPC) Isabel Crespo Cabillo Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Representation and Visual Analysis I (ETSAB-UPC) Albert Cuchí Burgos Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAV-UPC) Manuel García Gil Industrial Engineer. Professor at the Department of Engineering Projects (ETSEIB-UPC) Antoni Isalgué Buxeda Doctor of Physical Science. Professor at the Department of Applied Physics (FNB-UPC)
Alessandro Rogora Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Polytechnic University of Milan (POLIMI) Jaime Roset Calzada Doctor of Physical Science. Professor at the Department of Applied Physics (ETSAB-UPC)
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Anna Pagès Ramon Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
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Cèsar Diaz
This line of specialisation aims to provide relevant knowledge for the analysis, design, and research tasks related with the broad field of rehabilitation and restoration of buildings in urban, rural or industrial areas.
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ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION & REHABILITATION Title: Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in ArchitectureBarcelona, MBArch Duration: 1 academic year (two semesters) Total Credits: 60 ECTS Compulsory Credits: 15 ECTS Optional Credits: 30 ECTS Master’s thesis: 15 ECTS Line’s language: Spanish
Course overview Given the increasing intervention in existing buildings and the growing social sensibility towards the preservation of the values associated to historical urban centres and heritage buildings and ensembles, it seems advisable to set out a specific framework to deepen into these issues that builds upon the knowledge taught at the bachelor’s degree in order to allow for a more explained, rigorous, analytical and proactive development of architectural rehabilitation and restoration tasks. Therefore, the subjects of this speciality approach from different perspectives those issues related with the historical construction, the resources available for the assessment and analysis of existing buildings, the techniques to be employed in such interventions according to the given security and habitability conditions, or the practical application of these techniques -always taking into account the particular circumstances that need to be observed in the intervention in heritage buildings. Furthermore, the proposed programme also wants to provide students with the necessary knowledge to meet the growing demand of adapting existing buildings according to the current requirements of energy, accessibility and habitability, and to address the specific casuistry of the change in use, an increasing trend in buildings of very different nature located in urban, industrial and rural areas. This program benefits from the large teaching experience developed in first cycle (bachelor) degrees and postgraduate degrees in the field of building rehabilitation and restoration, specially at the ETSAB, with the participation of professors established as teachers and researchers, authors of widely spread publications, projects and studies.
Aims • To provide the necessary knowledge to discover and critically analyse the historical and architectural value of the works and urban spaces which are to be restored, conserved or transformed. • To deepen in the command of the resources that can be employed for the assessment and diagnosis of buildings, understanding that this is an essential requirement in intervention processes of restoration and rehabilitation. • To provide the skills to recognise, choose and appropriately apply speciic techniques for the rehabilitation of regular buildings and the restoration of heritage buildings. • To supply the methodological resources for the research in the ields of theoretical and practical intervention in buildings and heritage ensembles. • To foresee the need of knowledge in particular ields regarding rehabilitation intervention on a broad scale or the analysis and intervention in structures of particular buildings. ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Architectural Restoration & Rehabilitation: Cèsar Diaz Gómez cesar.diaz@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Structure First term Intervention techniques in architectural rehabilitation and restoration: security conditions
5 ECTS
Intervention techniques in architectural rehabilitation and restoration: habitability conditions Segundo semestre Heritage historical construction Rehabilitation of large residential compounds and industrial areas Architectural rehabilitation and restoration projects
Methodology
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
The applied proceedings take into account specific teaching methods from previous courses, such as the so called “systemic” analysis based on a 21st century adaptation of Alois Riegl’s theory of values, and on the project design practice of objective restoration of heritage buildings developed by Antoni González Moreno Navarro. In addition, other recently developed methods for information management and group discussion, characteristic of active teaching methodologies, will also be used. The highly interdisciplinary nature of this specialisation line leads to the participation of specialists of particular fields such as history, archaeology, social science, urbanism, structural analysis or energy efficiency. Their lectures will be presented as discussion forums open to the participation of professors and students. Students will put the contents of the program into practice through a project design exercise of synthesis focused on a rehabilitated or restored building. Finally, the master’s thesis will deal with topics freely chosen by the students, and previously approved by the unit staff, including contents related with the taught programme, and following a set of established study or research methods. If the innovation or singularity degree of the proposal justifies so, the project can be focused on project design proposals for a specific building.
Reference Bibliography GONZÁLEZ, Antoni: La restauración objetiva. Barcelona: Diputació de Barcelona, 1999. ABÁSOLO, Andrés et. al.: Tratado de rehabilitación (5 Tomos). Madrid: Munilla-Lería, 1998-1999. AA.VV.: Arquitectura Tradicional mediterránea. Barcelona: Rehabimed, 2007. AA.VV.: Reviure els barris. Generalitat de Catalunya, 2002 BUSQUETS, Joan. et. al.: El centro histórico de Barcelona: un pasado con futuro. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2003. ÁLVAREZ, Marta et. al.: Spain Architects. Rehabilitation (Vol. 1 y 2). El Masnou: Manel Padura, 2005.
Collaborators Xavier Casanovas Technical Architect. President of REHABIMED Joan Lluis Fumadó Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC) José Luís Oyón Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC) Josep Linares Technical Architect. Rehabilitation Director of the Catalan Housing Agency Fernando Ramos Galino Architect (Ph.D.). Emeritus Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
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The course has been structured with a theoretical and practical approach that allows students to globally and operationally understand the taught programme and which can be applied to the variety of tasks related with the intervention in existing constructions.
First semester
This subject aims to provide students with
Intervention techniques in architectural rehabilitation and restoration: habitability conditions
methodological resources to investiga-
This subject aims to provide students with
te in the theoretical and practical fields
methodological resources to investigate
of the intervention in heritage buildings
in the theoretical and practical fields of
and ensembles, and in existing buildings
the intervention in heritage buildings and
in general, deepening in the correspon-
ensembles and in existing buildings in
ding specific diagnosis and techniques
general, deepening in the corresponding
with a focus on those aspects regarding
specific diagnosis and techniques with
the security conditions. Particularly, the
a focus on those aspects regarding the
course will approach the resources for the
habitability conditions. The course will
characterization and research of historical
approach the rehabilitation techniques for
constructive systems and materials, the
historical facades, the several methods
variety of procedures for the consolidation
for the improvement of the thermal and
or restitution of structural elements, and
acoustic conditions of buildings, and the
the adaptation of buildings to the current
effects of adapting the existing facilities to
requirements of structural security and
the present regulations and their energetic
fire protection.
optimization. Furthermore, it will analyse
architectural rehabilitation and restoration: security conditions
the casuistry of functional restructuration, the changes of use and the improvement of the vertical accessibility conditions of buildings.
Cèsar Diaz
Intervention techniques in
Second semester
Rehabilitation of large residential compounds and industrial areas
Architectural rehabilitation and restoration projects
Heritage historical construction
This subject offers a methodological
The aim of this subject is to implement the
the necessary knowledge and understan-
approach to two casuistries of different
contents of those subjects concerning the
ding to work with heritage historical cons-
profile and scale, bonded by the conve-
restoration and rehabilitation of buildings
truction, since both of these are essential
nience of a rehabilitating intervention in
by developing work topics suggested
in the professional practice of restoration
by the teaching team. In these projects,
and rehabilitation -among other reasons,
students will have to apply methodological
because these are key for the building cha-
and intervention procedures according
racterization, evaluation and assessment,
to previously exposed guidelines. During
and constitute an essential element of
the course, presentation and discussion
the project as they enable us to avoid
sessions around cases and experiences
a perfectly classified mistake: to apply
1975) and are currently object of impor-
regarding the studied issue will be com-
regular solutions for works of the 20th
tant inadequacies in the social order, the
bined with the presentation and criticism
century to historical buildings which are, in
public space and the buildings’ functional
of the projects in sessions attended by
their essence, radically incompatible with
and energetic conditions. On the other
professors of diverse disciplines.
such solutions. The course will study the
the short and medium term. On the one hand, the course will study the problems of large residential compounds which were built during episodes of enormous growth in some metropolitan contexts (1950-
This subject aims to provide students with
hand, it will analyse the specific situation
key elements of the historical construction
of historical or obsolete industrial areas
as well as historical treaties as reference
which are currently requiring remode-
documents for its understanding, and will
lling, transformation or adaptation to new
broadly review the relation between the
functions.
architectural space and the interrelation of enabling elements such as walls, vaults, domes, etc.
Academic Coordinator
Pere Joan Ravetllat Mira http://futur.upc.edu/PereJoanRavetllatMira Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC). Master of Science of Building Design at the Columbia University of New York in 1985. He received his Ph.D. from UPC-School in 1994. He has been a professor at the UPC-School since 2004. He’s the academic coordinator of the “Habitatge i Ciutat” (Housing and city) design course since 2000. Author of various monographic on the housing topic. He collaborated on numerous national and international magazines with opinion articles and writing about the work he has carried out alongside Carme Ribas Seix since 1985.
Unit Staff Albert Albareda Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Belén Onecha Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Còssima Cornadó Architect. Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Anna Ramos Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Margarita Costa Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC
Pere J. Ravetllat Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC
Joan Lluis Fumadó Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at theDepartment of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Joan R. Rosell Engineer (Ph.D.) and Technical Architect. Director of the Laboratory of Materials (EPSE-UPC)
Moisés Gallego Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC
Pere Santamaria Architect. Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Ramon Graus Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Galdrich Santana Architect. Associate Professor at the del Department of Architectural Representation and Visual Analysis I
Ramon Gumà Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Javier Sanz Architect. Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Alfred Linares Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC
Marc Seguí Architect. Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Andrés de Mesa Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the del Department of Architectural Representation and Visual Analysis I
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Marta Morales ArĂs
The aim of this line of specialisation is to provide students with knowledge and skills to develop tasks regarding the analysis, project designing and research in the field of architectural structures.
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ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES Title: Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in ArchitectureBarcelona, MBArch Duration: 1 academic year (two semesters) Total Credits: 60 ECTS Compulsory Credits: 15 ECTS Optional Credits: 30 ECTS Master’s thesis: 15 ECTS Line’s language: Spanish
Course overview This line is created to provide the basic and necessary knowledge for the development of the professional and academic functions required in the sector. The responsibility that society recognises on and requires from architects in their professional context makes it essential for them to acquire a basic knowledge of the structures of the buildings they are designing. Therefore, this specialisation line focuses on the skills required for the application of structures in architectural projects. It is important to point out that the teaching unit of this line is formed by recognized and prestigious professionals of the sector who, thanks to their direct connection with the professional world, are able to link at all times the contents of the course with the professional practice of architecture. The line addresses the study of architectural structures from an interrelated perspective with other fields and subjects of the architectural project such as construction, facilities or aesthetic. In this way, the technical knowledge provided is not addressed from an isolating or compartmentalized perspective, but interrelated and balanced with the different subjects required to approach the entire construction field.
Aims • To highlight the relationship between the lectures and the subsequent professional practice: this is guaranteed through the selection of the teaching unit, formed by prestigious professionals. • To complete the education acquired during the degree with the latest issues, providing students with the newest calculation techniques for buildings’ structures. • To focus on the knowledge of the most commonly used materials in the structures field (concrete, steel, mixed structures, wood, ceramic, etc.), as well as on the study and interrelation of this field with project designing and design. • To present the newest calculation methods, introducing the latest methods and techniques and the most innovative materials. • To familiarize students with the intuitive studies of the structural behaviour of buildings and, on the other side, on the differentiated use of computing as a knowledgesupportive tool, always under the supervision of the structural consultant.
Structure
ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Architectural Structures: David Garcia Carrera david.garcia.carrera@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
First term Reinforced and high-performance prestretching concrete Structural projects: advanced techniques Innovation in rolled steel and mixed structures Rehabilitation, pathologies and structural effort Advanced methods for structural analyse Second term Soil mechanics and special foundations Structural projects: complex typologies Dynamics and seismography in architectural structures Advanced and innovative structural materials
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
This line of specialisation builds upon the knowledge acquired in the common phase of the master, extending and complementing the skills regarding to architectural structures. Students have two different options. On the one hand, to choose the two subjects of “Structural projects” plus four of the resting seven optional subjects of the speciality. On the other hand, students may also follow a more generic profile by choosing three optional subjects of the speciality, and a fourth subject of another specialisation. Finally, the master’s thesis will be adapted to the acquired knowledge. This methodology wants to offer a new dimension of the course and allows students to make a tailor-made study route. The optionality of this line offers three clearly differentiated itineraries: the first one is entirely focused on the mechanical behaviour of materials and includes subjects that study concrete, steel, mixed structures, the soil or even innovative materials. The second one is focused on the latest analysing methods, including those subjects of advanced calculation methods as well as the dynamics and seismography subject. Finally, the third one is entirely dedicated to the study of rehabilitation, pathologies and structural effort, based on an analysis focused on the calculation of structures, the project design and the process. In this way, students can adapt their course route to their particular personal and professional interests.
Reference Bibliography LIN T.Y. : Conceptos y sistemas estructurales para arquitectos e ingenieros. México D.F: Limusa, 1991. WALTHER, Rene: Construire en Béton, Synthèse pour architects. Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 1993. CALAVERA, José: Proyecto y cálculo de estructuras de hormigón armado para edificios. Madrid: Intemac, 1999. GÓMEZ, Pepa; GÓMEZ, José: Estructures de formigó armat. Predimensionament i càlcul de seccions. Barcelona: Edicions UPC, 2002. COSTET, J. y SANGLERAT, G.: Curso práctico de mecánica de suelos. Barcelona: Ed. Omega, cop., 1975. GONZÁLEZ, Matilde: El terreno. Aula d’Arquitectura/ ETSAB. Barcelona: Ediciones UPC, 2001. JIMENEZ, Pedro: Hormigón armado. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2000.
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Methodology
First semester
Reinforced and high-performance
Structural projects: advanced
prestretching concrete
techniques
Innovation in rolled steel and mixed structures
This subject deepens in the knowledge
This subject focuses on the idea, design
This subject deepens in the knowledge
and techniques applied to reinforced and
and development of a structural project
and techniques applied to rolled steel and
high-performance prestretching concrete
through the knowledge and application of
mixed structures, and proposes an analy-
structures with the development of the
the latest techniques, taking into account
sis of the latest methodologies.
latest systems.
the adaptation to architectural requirements.
Rehabilitation, pathologies and
Advanced methods for structural
structural effort
analyse
This subject approaches the application
This subject presents a systematic study
of expert criteria in the analysis, design
of the structural analysis and its resolu-
and development of the structural project
tion methods for the advanced design of
in the existing building in the fields of
behaviour and highly complex performan-
rehabilitation, restoration and structural
ce strategies.
reinforcement.
Second semester
Soil mechanics and special
Structural projects: complex
Dynamics and seismography in
foundations
typologies
architectural structures
This subject studies the bases of the
This subject approaches the idea, design
This subject deepens in the dynamics of
stress-strain behaviour of the floor as an
and development of a structural project
structures with the development of tech-
elastoplastic solid with all its complexities
through the understanding and application
niques and methodologies of an advanced
and presents the latest special foundation
of highly complex typologies, taking into
level and their application in the structural
account the adaptation to the architectu-
project in systems with a seismic risk.
techniques.
ral requirements.
Advanced and innovative structural materials This subject is based on the specialization in the latest and most innovative techniques and methodologies regarding the development of new structural materials and
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their application in construction projects.
Academic Coordinator
David Garcia Carrera http://futur.upc.edu/ DavidGarciaCarrera He is the president of the Association of Structures Consultants (ACE). He co-founded the Catalan Wood Association (INCAFUST), where he directs the R&D department, and the Institute for Structural Studies (IEE). He is a member of the Scientific and Technical Association of Structural Concrete (ACHE) and of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). From 1996 to 2005, he directed the Department of Structural Architecture at the International University of Catalonia (UIC). He is the coordinator and co-author of L’Estructura i el Projecte (The Structure and the Project), published by the publishing house Editorial Sert of the Official Association of Architects of Catalonia (COAC), and co-author of Guia per a la Comprobació de la Resistència al Foc de les Estructures (Guide for testing the fire resistance of structures), published by the Government of Catalonia. With 30 years of professional practice, he is specialised in the design and calculation of structures. He is a founding member and technical director of the structural consultant group BIS STRUCTURES, focused on architectural structures and its rehabilitation.
Unit Staff Josep Gómez Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Cesc Aldabó Engineer and Physicist. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Carles Jaén Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Jaume Alentorn Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Jordi Maristany Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Juan Ramón Blasco Architect. Associate Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Lluis Moya Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Jorge Blasco Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Agustí Obiol Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Robert Brufau Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Toni Ortí Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Lucrecia Calderón Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Jordi Payola Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Nacho Costales Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Jorge Urbano Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Pepa Gómez Architect. Associate Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
Laura Valverde Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Albert Albareda Architect (Ph.D.). Assistant Professor at the Department of Structural Architecture (ETSAB-UPC)
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Josep Roca Cladera
The main aim of this line of specialisation is to promote the research in the fields of urban and territorial planning and management.
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Course overview The main aim of this line of specialisation is to promote the research in the fields of town and territorial planning and management. This program substitutes the former master’s degree in Urban Management and Valuation and it is oriented to the homonymous doctoral degree. The course wants to train researchers in the fields of urban planning, land management, land administration and urban assessment, particularly of the urban territory, introducing disciplines such as urban management, real estate valuation, environmental impact study and assessment, geographical information systems (GIS), or the application of new information technologies and telecommunications in the urban analysis and management, including remote sensing, 3D modelling and virtual reality. Traditional disciplines such as architecture, geography or economy do not go enough into detail in the emerging disciplines which appear at the frontiers between the different knowledge fields. City planning and management, as well as urban planning and management in general, and the economic, social and environmental assessment of urban transformations, are some examples of these emerging frontier disciplines located between traditional fields and which have been missing the corresponding attention in the syllabus of first cycle (bachelor), second cycle (master) or third cycle (doctoral) studies. This line of specialisation wants to fill the gap in the fields of science and research in Spain.
Aims The main aim of this line of specialisation is to promote the research in the fields of urban and territorial planning and management. It shall help students to develop the research ability and skills regarding the territorial, urban and real estate difficulties from an interdisciplinary perspective, including the technical, legal, economic and social approach. The learning of instrument techniques will be complemented by the critical reflection on urban intervention strategies, together with the analysis of the main national and international experiences. Specifically, the course aims to deepen in the five priority research lines of the research groups promoting the program: • Urban and territorial planning • Urban management • Urban and real estate valuations • Urban and territorial analysis using new information technologies and communications (GIS, remote sensing and virtual reality) • Urban ecology, environmental management and assessment of the town and the territory ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation: Josep Roca Cladera josep.roca@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Structure First term Analysis and planning of the city and the territory Urban politics and city management City, territory and GIS
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
Second term Urban and real estate valuations
5 ECTS
Urban and regional economy
5 ECTS
Urban sustainability and environmental assessment methods
5 ECTS
Research seminar on urban and architectural management and valuation
5 ECTS
Methodology
Reference Bibliography
The teaching methodology of this line is based on face-to-face classes providing the theoretical knowledge of the subjects (including basic concepts, particular examples, case studies, etc.) and introducing practical examples, if applicable.
Barcelona: Ariel, 1986.
In addition, distinguished professors and professionals from the national and international sector will be invited to hold lectures.
urbanística en el ámbito local. Barcelona: CPSV, 2011.
In the regular classes, the active participation of students will be encouraged through direct questions, debates, reading sessions and guided discussions, as well as through the presentation of particular and previously defined themes. Furthermore, the course will develop in an integrated manner all the taught contents through individual and group exercises, individual and group readings outside the classroom, individual assignments, as well as group workshops. Some sessions will be conducted in the computer rooms using specialised software for Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, etc. Here, students will learn to work with these tools from an applied perspective in different territorial and urban fields by preparing practical exercises and using the corresponding tools. In general terms, all exercises and assignments will be prepared using the taught tools.
ROCA, Josep: Manual de valoraciones inmobiliarias.
GARCIA, Pilar et. al.: SIG en la gestión de la información
CAMAGNI, Roberto: Economía Urbana. Barcelona: Antoni Bosch cop., 2005. LEAL, Jesús (ed.): La política de vivienda en España. Madrid: Fundación Pablo Iglesias, 2010. ROCA, Josep et. al.: Urban Structure and Polycentrism: Towards a Redefinition of the Sub-centre Concept. Urban Studies, 2009. HALL, Peter: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1996.
Occasionally, students will have to present reports or fill in specific questionnaires during complementary sessions with on-line material. The course also includes visits to local institutions and to the Laboratory of Virtual Modelling of the City (LMVC). Finally, it also comprises seminars with small groups of students divided according to thematic interests, where the teaching unit will give a series of presentations and students will have to prepare definite assignments and develop a variety of contents.
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The assessment of this line of specialisation will take into account the attendance and participation in the classes, the results of the assignments and workshops, and, in some subjects, final exams or specific assessments.
First semester
Urban and regional analysis and
Urban politics and city
City, territory and GIS
planning
management
This subject aims to provide students with
The aim of this subject is to promote a
This subject presents the legal, adminis-
models of studying and understanding the
conceptual and critical understanding of
trative and financial framework of city ma-
city that incorporate ICTs in general and
the growth and development processes
nagement, as well as the theoretical and
GIS in particular.
of the cities and their territorial con-
ideological bases that guide the urban and
texts, from the industrial revolution until
land planning action of public institutions.
the present time. It will also discuss the
It wants to provide students with the ne-
contemporary challenges of the territorial
cessary knowledge to integrate require-
and urban difficulties that affect tech-
ments and techniques while overcoming
nicians and politicians involved in city
the ancient division between ordinance
planning and management. Furthermore,
and management. The course will deepen
the subject wants to provide students
in the several policy instruments for land
with an understanding of the territorial
and housing used by public administra-
and urban planning system, both from a
tions to regulate the market, focusing
legal-regulatory perspective and from that
on those instruments that improve the
regarding the consequences in terms of
efficiency of these public policies.
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management.
Second semester
Urban and real estate valuations
Urban and regional economy
This subject trains students in the field of
This subject focuses on two aims. On the
the economic theory of urban valuation. It
one hand, it will provide students with an
Urban sustainability and environmental evaluation methodologies
will suggest a reflection on the basic ele-
introduction to the theoretical bases of
This subject develops the concept of
ments of the theory of valuation and study
locational economy and to the science and
sustainability applied to the ensemble
the main methods of soil and real estate
technique of urban valuation. On the other
city-territory. The course will deepen in
valuation as well as the basic instruments
hand, it will analyse the main contribu-
the ecosystem theories for urban and
to develop the evaluation process. It will
tions of regional economy in order to better
territorial systems in the context of Urban
also present the factors that influence
understand the geographical and eco-
ecology, and it will study the main urban
real estate valuation and will reflect on
nomical functioning and the articulation
and territorial sustainability indicators:
concepts such as the comparison method,
process of all kind of human agglomera-
energetic efficiency, conservation and
subjectivity in the process of selection and
tions, as well as the dynamics of temporal
sustainable use of biodiversity, ecological
homogenization of comparables elements,
transformation.
permeability, the water cycle, the lands-
depreciation and amortization of real
cape quality, etc., relating these concepts
estate, or the notions of capitalization,
with the different city models and uses of
updating rate and interest rates.
the territory.
Urban and architectural management and valuation research seminar This subject aims mainly to introduce students to research tasks through the development of a study case. The course will revolve around a real research experience that will take place in the research group of the line, as for instance the analysis of the urban sprawl, the study of polycentrism and subcenters, the city as an area of cohabitation, or the development of new methodologies to evaluate the city, among others.
Academic Coordinator
Josep Roca Cladera http://futur.upc.edu/JosepRocaCladera Architect (Ph.D.). Professor and Director of the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC). He is the director of the UPC’s Centre for Soil Policy and Valuations (CPSV ) and promoter of the Laboratory of Virtual Modelling of the City (LMVC). He is responsible for the «Research Group on Urban Life Quality and Sustainability», recognised by the Government of Catalonia. He has written several law drafts for the public administration regarding urban valuation and works as a counsellor of the Government of Catalonia for the drafting of the urbanism related regulations. He has led several research projects on issues regarding the territorial planning, urban management and environment, coastal areas, urban mobility, urban life quality and sustainability, environmental and real estate valuation, and urban models in GIS and 3D for a better understanding of the town and urban environment. He has written books, monographs and articles in specialised magazines and directs the indexed magazine Arquitectura, Ciutat i Entorn. He is the director of the International Congress on Virtual Town and Territory, has collaborated as a speaker at different congresses and seminars, and has conducted other national and international conferences and seminars on issues related with soil policies, real estate valuation, geographical information systems, environment, accessibility and sustainability.
Unit Staff
Collaborators
Blanca Arellano Ramos Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Rolando Biere Arenas Architect. Qualified Research Personnel (PQS).
Xavier Carceller Roqué Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Mario Cerasoli Architect (Ph.D.). Researcher at the Department of Architecture of the University Roma Tre, Italy.
Jordi Bernat Falomir Architect. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Daniel González Romero Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor and Researcher at the Department of Art, Architecture and Design of the University of Guadalajara (CUAAD), Mexico.
Pilar Garcia Almirall Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
Pablo Martí Ciriquián Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Construction and Urbanism of the University of Alicante.
Carlos Marmolejo Duarte Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC)
José António Tenedório Geographer (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Planning of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Carlos Pérez Lamas Architect. Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC) Ernesto Redondo Domínguez Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Representation and Visual Analysis I (ETSAB-UPC)
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Pedro Pegenaute
Barcelona is being part of the vanguard of architectural and urban design. This program aims to update and sprawl this position, with special emphasis in the role of materiality and the run of different scales at any moment of the architectural design project.
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Course overview Barcelona is being part of the vanguard of architectural and urban design. The quality of the project and the relationship with its context are its main identity traces. This program aims to update and sprawl this position, with special emphasis in the role of materiality and the run of different scales at any moment of the architectural design project. This line of the MBArch master is based on the Contemporary Project, its main aim being to teach students to design better. Designing is a strategy for action. In order to design better, it is necessary to pay attention to the diversity of the requirements affecting the project (context, program, material, users, etc.), while avoiding their simplification or a plain approach of these as a lineal narration with a foreshadowed end. It is a matter of designing taking into account all the requirements affecting the project, of understanding that the project does not end with the final construction, but rather extends beyond it: in the useful life of the constructed being, either physically or intellectually. It is necessary to update the different knowledge areas —often presented to us as independent and conventional single subjects— in order to overcome the schematic division of subjects and turn interaction into the motor of the design action.
Aims • To intensify the careful attention to the Program until this becomes a basic tool in the project. • To multiply the project’s component that can be considered as its Site. To bring the Site beyond its nature of physical space and turn it into Situation (according to Situationist approaches). • To incorporate Ambience, Perception and Sequence proposals as functional aspects of the project. • To replace the lineal relationship between the Scales of the project with a multiplescale designing based on the specific conditions of the Site, the Program and the Construction of each case. To design simultaneously at all scales, in a global movement, and not necessarily from larger to smaller scales nor vice versa. • To introduce the concept of Materiality from the very beginning of the project. • To share the authorship of the project with its inal users, operators, citizens, flâneurs. • To consider the project not only as the urban space or object obtained, but also as the resulting interaction with larger scales and any other issues affecting the project. • To defend theorizing as a project action. Theories are proposed intertwined with the rest of the project procedures in a process of interaction and, therefore, mutual modification. Theory as a roadmap of the project and as a map for future changes or physical, social and cultural transformations. ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior Arquitectura de Barcelona Av. Diagonal, 649 08028 Barcelona www.etsab.upc.edu mbarch.etsab@upc.edu +34 93 401 1855 Contact Contemporary Project: Eduardo Bru Bistuer eduardo.bru@upc.edu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Structure First Term All scales of the project Urban project. Ideas and praxis Architectural project and thought Contemporary architectural issues
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
Second Term From intimacy to the public space Reshaping the city by the public space New representations. New concepcions Materiality and project Contemporary architectural issues
5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS 5 ECTS
Methodology Students will be asked to present a design exercise as well as an associated and equally weighted theoretical exercise. The course is conducted through several sequences, inspired by the theories of the dérive situationniste, which will comprise: • The introduction of a theoretical and physical frame. • A design exercise as well as a theory exercise, which will be carried out during approx. 1/3 of the course; theoretical and practical elements will be provided to the students ad hoc for each project in individual and group sessions.
Reference Bibliography ANDREOTTI Libero, COSTA Xavier, eds.: Situationists : Art, Politics, Urbanism. Barcelona : MACBA etc., 1996 BRU Eduard: Coming from the South. Barcelona: ACTAR, 2001 BRU Eduard: Three on the site. Barcelona: ACTAR, 1997 LUPANO Mario: Architectural Curatorial Practice. Mar-
• Evaluative workshops based on public correction.
silio Edit.2010
All students will have to attend these three phases or sequences of the course. Precedents and models will be presented for each phase. The unit staff will follow the analysis process of the project and the definition of the proposal, both from a formal and a theoretical dimension.
[etc.]: MIT Press, cop. 1998
Students are expected to prove their ability to design and to explain their proposals, as well as their ability to place their proposal in a definite physical and cultural context, according to the stated internationality of the programme. Finally, a publishable document gathering the results will be prepared.
SADLER Simon: The Situationist City. Cambridge, [MA]
LAGUILLO Manolo. Razón y ciudad. Coedición con el Museo ICO. 2013
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The course is organised in practical corrections and theoretical sessions related with the exercises prepared by the students. The first exercises will be based on the portfolios provided by the students. The following exercises will be based in the proposal of a dérive or drift of a sequence which needs to be improved, emphasised, etc., including several scales and involving intentioned changes. Students must be able to defend their results as a proposal for a urban improvement with an explicit emotional intention.
First Term
All scales of the Project
Urban project. Ideas and praxis
Architectural project and thought
This subject discusses the main topics of
This subject focuses on a detailed inter-
This subject analyses the relation of the
the current architectural debate, focusing
pretation of a set of significant and recent
architectural project with the systems
on the experiences of different cities of the
urban projects, analysing its idea, develop-
of contemporary thought. The cultural,
Mediterranean arch: Sardinia, Naples, Ge-
ment and construction.
social and urban experience of Barcelona
noa, Athens, Syracuse, Marseilles, Beirut,
The selected examples are located in cen-
will be the starting point and it will be
Istanbul and Barcelona.
tres of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
developed in four essential chapters: the
These topics will be studied from the
and will be analysed taking into account
modern project with the urban diagrams
following approaches: the consideration
the following aspects: small and large sca-
and avant-garde movements; the strength
of materiality (not from the final decisions
le projects; remodelling and enlargement
of phenomenology; the value of experien-
but from the beginning of the project), the
projects; residential and tertiary projects;
ce and the perception of materiality in
observation of the program as an essential
renovation or transformation projects;
organic proposals; the consolidation of
architectural fact and not as an obstacle
management based on subdivision or
typological criticism with structuralism
to creativity, and the simultaneous work
expropriation; and public and private
and the emphasis on the context and on
in all scales of the project. The aim is to
initiative plans. All these aspects share a
the social and historical memory; and the
overcome the regular oppositions between
common characteristic: their important
approach of architecture and the urban
architecture/urban planning, abstraction/
contribution to the urban system to which
project to social action.
materiality or creativity/program.
they belong.
Contemporary architectural issues This subject offers a more dynamic approach to research and innovation in the field of contemporary architecture, considering a variety of working topics related with current affairs in accordance with the ESTAB’s interests, based on collaborative agreements with internationally renowned institutions such as the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the MACBA and MNAC museums of Barcelona, the FAD Association, the University of Tongji, the RMIT University and the Columbia University of New York, as well as through the participation in architecture contests, diagnosis of architectural and urban problems and the development of preliminary urban architectural designs of international significance.
Second Term
From intimacy to the public space We live in a society in constant evolution
Reshaping the city by the public space
New representations. New conceptions
where housing has remained indifferent to
The subject offers a space to debate and
This subject is based on the represen-
these changes. This subject wants to offer
reflect on the contemporary public space
tation mechanisms of the contemporary
a typological review and reformulation of
(understood as the intense space where
architectural project and will be closely
housing and to propose an intentioned
citizens meet) with the guidance of the
related to the Projects course. Students
reaction to the evolution of the ways of
teaching team and the participation of the
will be able to implement this course in the
living in accordance with a growingly de-
students. The course combines the theo-
different stages of the project, for instance
manding and diverse social demand.
retical reflection on the experience and
by bringing in analysis and exploration
This subject wants to suggest a new atten-
significance of the public space with the
tools at the beginning of the project, or by
tion of these issues, examining the limits
reflection on the design and management
using communication, production and ma-
of operation: economic, ecologic, social,
mechanisms. The aim of the first is to con-
nufacturing instruments in the final stage.
cultural and spatial limits that force us to
tribute to the construction of a theoretical
The course will encourage students to use
a change of paradigm in the possession,
framework around the students’ research,
solutions beyond the regular answers and
management and interpretation of the
whereas the second aims to provide stu-
will push the creativity skills of students
different scales of the domestic program.
dents with working methods based on the
in order to deepen in the singularities,
presentation of current or recent investi-
intentionality of each project as well as the
gations.
added value of the designing style of the context of Barcelona.
Materiality and project This subject is divided in theoretical and practical lessons. Theory is organised in conferences related with the constructive techniques used in Catalonia since the 1950s until today: constructive tradition; modern construction; construction in the beginning of the 21st century; structure in architecture; building envelopes; the construction of the inside; and rehabilitations. During the course, students will discuss special moments of Catalan architecture from the perspective of its construction. This workshop is based on the architectural project and the relation between architecture, construction, facilities and
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Eduardo Bru Bistuer http://futur.upc.edu/ Eduardo Bru Bistuer Eduard Bru defends with an increasing emphasis an architecture open to the quotidian urge, both due to its repetitions and to the unexpected moments, to situations. He deliberately visited master classes by Professors with a proven knowledge and experience, in all senses, such as Manuel de Sola Morales (Urbanism) and Albert Vilaplana (Projects), where he happened to meet Enric Miralles. He is currently Professor of Projects at the ETSAB, which he also formerly directed, and has been a Professor during two years in the Technical University of Berlin. He works as an external examiner in the UE, the US and Xina. He has been awarded with the FAD Architecture and FAD Review and was finalist of the Mies van der Rohe Award. He has written Coming from the South (Actar), Tres en el Sitio (Three in the site) (Actar), and, together with J.L. Mateo, Arquitectura Española Contemporánea and Arquitectura Europea Contemporánea, among other books, magazines and articles. In addition, he directs the UPC’s research group «Cercle d’Arquitectura Research Group».
Unit Staff Jaume Avellaneda Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC) Josep Bohigas Architect. Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Miquel Corominas Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC) Ricardo Devesa Architect (Ph.D.). Lecturer at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Josep Ma Fort Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Aquiles González Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Xavier Llobet Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Hector Mendoza Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Graphic Expression (ETSAB-UPC) Josep Maria Montaner Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) Jordi Pagès Architect (Ph.D.). Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Technology I (ETSAB-UPC) Mara Partida Architect (Ph.D.). Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC)
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Jordi Ros Architect (Ph.D.). Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC). Dean of the Barcelona´s School of Architecture. ETSAB Enric Serra Architect (Ph.D.). Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning (ETSAB-UPC)
Collaborators Emre Arolat Architect (Ph.D.). Teacher at the GSA of Harvard (US) George Arbid Architect (Ph.D.). Teacher at the American University of Beirut Massimo Faiferri Architect (Ph.D.). Director of the Architecture School of Alghero Ferran Grau Architect (Ph.D.). Adjunct Professor at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Marco Navarra Architect. Teacher at the University of Syracuse (Sicily) Ariadna Perich Architect.Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC) Rita Pinto Architect (Ph.D.). German University in Cairo (Egipt) Richard A. Plunz Architect (Ph.D.). Teacher at the University of Columbia (US) Amadeu Santacana Architect. Partner of www.nugarch.com Roger Such Architect. Lecturer at the Department of Architectural Design (ETSAB-UPC)
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