Each specialty seminar is coordinated by a technical director that relies on a group of architecture teachers and specialists from all over the world.

Approaches

This specialty approaches the central issue of the course through the experience of professionals 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 a number of 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 resolve common problems in the residential building process.

The debate will define the integrated strategies when facing this kind of projects.

This specialty deals with energetic performance, active and passive systems and calculus programs which are studied in depth along with the formalization process of the project under sustainability criteria.

Strategies approach the energy-efficient systems that can be applied to the housing building and deals with the integration of these elements in the design process of architecture and urban planning.

Based on the historical context of the 20th century housing, this course will analyze 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 in depth to avoid superficial analysis and to be able to recognize a reasonable architecture.

Three fourths of the world´s dwellings have been built without the presence of an architect or under any normative rule. This specialty seminar analyzes 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Based on a case study approach, customs and rules capable of generating an urban environment will be withdrawn.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.

Specialized researchers in the processes and architecture generated in these settlements will present their contributions in diverse locations during the last decades.