Cada Módulo es coordinado por un directorio técnico conformado por un grupo de profesores y especialistas de todo el mundo. Los seminarios de cada módulo duran aproximadamente 35 horas lectivas. En cualquier caso, el enfoque es especialmente práctico y la información complementaria se proporciona digitalmente o en papel.
ENERGY & SUSTAINABILITY
Javier García-Germán
This specialty explores the design opportunities which the field of thermodynamics and ecology is opening to architecture, and specifically to the field of collective housing. From a practical and project-oriented stand point, the module focuses on connecting thermodynamics and ecology to architecture with the objective of finding potential design strategies which bridge the void between quantitative and qualitative approaches. Contrary to current energy approaches to architecture which are based on quantitative analysis, the module bridges the gulf between energy and architecture, exploring those disciplinary parameters —such as spatial and material structure, program or perception— which are specifically connected to its material and atmospheric performativity.
director de módulo | Javier García-Germán |
profesores invitados | |
créditos | 4.5 ECTS |
duración | 9 días |
tema | "Climatic typologies. Body, climate and architecture" |
HOUSING THEORY
Carmen Espegel
Based on the historical context of the 20th century housing, this course will analyse the different solutions of each time, figuring out the elements to recognize an architecture that stands away from trends and becomes a reference because of its universality.
Participants will develop their critique skills on the most relevant projects in the recent history of multi-family housing, through research and debate. Likewise, critique methods will be studied deeply to avoid superficial analysis and to be able to recognize a reasonable architecture.
directora de módulo | Carmen Espegel |
profesores invitados | |
créditos | 3.0 ECTS |
duración | 6 días |
tema | "PERSPECTIVE 20th century + PROSPECTIVE 21st century" |
HOUSING PROJECTS
Fernando Altozano
This specialty approaches the central issue of the course through the experience of professional architects that have made a significant contribution in the field of collective housing. The projects are explained regarding the intentions of the architect, as well as the conditions that determined the different paths taken from the genesis to the realization of the building.
Participants will also study the experience of several classic cases in the history of housing, explained by some of today’s greatest architects. There will be special emphasis on the architect’s role and the necessary tools to solve common problems in the residential building process. The debate will define the integrated strategies when facing this kind of projects.
profesores invitados |
Carlos Higinio Esteban Cartama Cristina Gamboa, La Col |
créditos | 3.0 ECTS |
duración | 6 días |
tema | "Thesis, antithesis, synthesis" |
CONSTRUCTION & TECHNOLOGY
Ignacio Fernández-Solla
The aim of this course is to analyse the building as a physical system within the technical and integration systems in the design process. The theory is focused on the description of the main solutions given by architects in their most relevant buildings and the analysis of the different technical systems that make up the building.
Highly experienced professionals in housing construction and design will transmit their experience and knowledge in these fields.
director de módulo | Ignacio Fernández-Solla |
profesores invitados | |
créditos | 5.0 ECTS |
duración | 10 días |
tema | "Syllabus" |
LEADERSHIP, PROCESSES & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Sacha Menz
The knowledge of management tools is an important factor that determines the quality of the education that this course offers. By these means, the architect not only becomes the project designer, but also the economic manager.
Participants will learn basic concepts of management such as value, cost, price and time, which will help adding realism to their architecture proposals and enabling them to be part of the economic debate during the building process.
This specialty is enclosed in a context determined by globalization and deals with the experience of professional architects and companies that have spread their activity worldwide.
specialty leader | Sacha Menz |
director de módulo | Sacha Menz |
profesores invitados | |
créditos | 3.5 ECTS |
duración | 7 días |
tema | "Syllabus" |
SOCIOLOGY, ECONOMY & POLITICS
Daniel Sorando
This course, which is subdivided into three other specialties, deals with housing from the disciplines that complement the other architecture-related fields. The scope of work of the three disciplines is tightly related, overlapping each other in many cases.
Sociology will include the study of residential behaviour, housing demand and characteristics, evolution and changes in households, typology and land use development, among others.
Economy will study financing and valuation, the economic impact on housing production, house emancipation and youth housing, patrimony and investment, among others.
specialty leader | Daniel Sorando |
director de módulo | Daniel Sorando |
profesores invitados |
Margarita Barañano Max Gigling |
créditos | 3.5 ECTS |
duración | 7 días |
tema | "Social change and housing" |
LOW COST & EMERGENCY HOUSING
Sonia Molina
Three fourths of the world’s dwellings have been built without the presence of an architect or under any normative rule. This specialty seminar analyses the essential shelter conditions under emergency conditions.
Based on a case study approach, customs and rules capable of generating an urban environment will be withdrawn. Likewise, a specific case will be developed under real circumstances.
Specialised researchers in the processes and architecture generated in these settlements will present their contributions in diverse locations during the last decades.
directora de módulo | Sonia Molina |
profesores invitados | |
créditos | 4.0 ECTS |
duración | 8 días |
tema | "Syllabus" |
CITY SCIENCES
Alejandro de Miguel
Cities will attract 2.5 billion inhabitants by 2050 as stated in 2014 by the Population division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Thereby, cities will need an intensive housing development in the coming years. The key of this growth is being sustainable.
Cities are the natural ecosystem for architects but cities are a complex system difficult to be understood. This module provides the main tools to manage the complexity of the city backed by its twinned Master in City Sciences.
director de módulo | Alejandro de Miguel |
profesores invitados | |
créditos | 2.5 ECTS |
duración | 5 días |
tema | "Present & Future Cities" |
URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE
José María Ezquiaga
The dwelling and the house: to speak and to think about what we could call "the dwelling discourse", is intimately and inevitably rooted in the deeper and more essential core of the architectural discipline.
Implicit within the dwelling/project, there are to try out full genomes. An explicit one: to optimise the domestic space, and what could be obtained in and from it; and an embedded one: to anticipate a city/project, and viceversa, to translate it in so far as the city/project sets up essential conditions for future dwelling/projects (often without saying or knowing it, and only occasionally in an explicit way).
director de módulo | José María Ezquiaga |
profesores invitados |
Salvador Rueda |
créditos | 5.5 ECTS |
duración | 11 días |
tema | "New urban perspectives for South-west Madrid Metropolitan Area" |
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