C.1. Advanced ability to concept, development and sketch for blueprints, preliminary designs and architectural design projects of buildings and urban designs.

C.2. Advanced ability to work out with functional programmes of buildings and urban areas.

C.3. Advanced ability for architectural theory.

C.4. Advanced ability to oral explanation, to reason and to defend ideas of the architectural and urban project.

C.5. Advanced ability for the communication by a drawn design.

C.6. Advanced knowledge of the general theories of form, composition and architectural typologies.

C.7. Advanced knowledge of dwelling types, programmes, etc.

C.8. Advanced knowledge of the basis of vernacular architecture and of the urban history.

P.01. Study and rendering of a public area into an historic urban context.

P.02. Intervention on a public area by means of a pavilion or any other kind of constructions.

T.01 Course Presentation Class I

T.02 Course Presentation Class II

T.03. The city or town to be studied. Urban history of the plot.

T.04. The site of the project into its urban context.

T.05. An urban typology: evolution and development.

T.06. Public spaces: evolution and development.

P.03. Study, draw, survey and rendering of a historical urban context.

P.04. Intervention into an urban context via one or various buildings with several functional progammes.

T.07. The study area in its urban context

T.08. Urban Typologies proposals I: evolution and development.

T.09. Urban Typologies proposals II: evolution and development.

T.10. Urban Typologies proposals III: evolution and development.

During each exercise development we can distinguish different types of activities to work during the in-person classes:

1 Prefaces: classes addressed to fix the main ideas of the project based on the explanation of architectural examples.

2 The workshop: is the main activity of the subject, which is done by personal work. The review of the design development will be made in general on the desk, and are mainly addressed to a single student.

3. Team work: Studio drawings and renderings of the site will be done by a limited group. Additionally the days devoted to the “taller integrado” (integrated workshop) shared with other subjects, will be made in groups and all of the issues will be related to the second exercise of the academic year.

4 Public discussion: the public review will be performed on the blackboard or by beamer on the screen. It is devoted to fix general concepts and, at a time, broadcast to the whole of the students explanations and suggestions about the project.

5 Final public presentation: All the projects will be presented in public to the classmates and the jury. By doing this, the different proposals will be shared by all the students, opening the possibility of a debate.

6. Virtual tuition: whenever live tuition is not available it will be held through blackboard collaborate app within the virtual classroom. Previously, this situation will be announced through the same platform.



On the non-in-person class hours, mainly at the beginning of the work, each student will work in groups, searching for documentation and drawing the site of the project. Later on, each student will develop the design by him-herself, drawing sketches up to the final architectural plans, renderings and model to be submitted at the end of the academic period. These materials will be discussed in class.

The continuous appraisal is done over the projects developed during the term, which mean the engagement of the student to conclude and complete delivery of all the works to be eventually graded. If any of the exercises is not delivered or unfinished, the mark will be: Not Delivered. In the case of a submission out of time, the last option to submit the exercise will be the examination date of the term.



For the final appraisal, attendance will be taken into account, as well as the workshop review, due to the practical role of the subject. The attendance, the review and edit of the projects, are esteemed necessary to get a right learning of the subject, and subsequently the final grade.

For the continuous appraisal, the students progress will be take into account, furthermore, the quality of the main exercise of the term, which percentage account into the final mark is seminal.



Minimum Mark: the student need a minimum final mark of 5, of a total of 10 points; to pass the academic year/term. Justified exceptions only admitted by the Professor´s permission: The student who could not afford to deliver the work on time, because a justified cause, will have an extra, but limited, date to deliver his work, once finished the term. This date will coincide with the date to review the marks.





APPRAISAL SYSTEM

Continuous Appraisal System

The evaluation will be done over the individual and the team work. It will be taken into account the following criteria;



-first, the correspondence of the proposal with the requirements of the exercise,

-second, the level of development and definition of the work,

-and third, the quality of the graphics and drawings.



The ability of the student to improve the design during the term will also be taken into account.

The evaluation of the second part of the term is higher, due to the more difficulty of the projects and targets, and also because of the longer duration.

Assessment percentages: Personal work 85%, Team work 15%



Alternative Final Assessment system:

Each student will be able to shift from the continuous assessment system to a final exam model under a justified agenda consisting of:

1 Previous written notification of relinquishing the regular system procedure before the 9th week included, counted from the beginning of the semester according to the academic schedule of the School.

2 Presentation of the proposed exercises during the course before the examination day. This presentation will consist on a DIN A1 complete layout of the exercise, and will be defended orally before the jury or professor assigned.

3 Taking an examination on the day, place and time determined by the School for the final exam. This is a mandatory and personal aptitude test that will be held at the school facilities.



Virtual Assesment.

Whenever live tuition is not available, in case of any health emergency, the same live tuition assesment criteria to be applied

Alongside the general statement of the term, -and the different statements of each particular exercise-, the student will be given sufficient information about the context of the site of the project, which means; historical plans, current plans and general info, monuments plans and cross sections, new and antique pictures or drawings of the site, etc., in order to help the student to understand the situation and evolution of the urban-architectural problem. Besides, personal or group research info is recommended in order to better understand the site and context, and support the final proposal.

Basic bibliography

La Poética del espacio

Gastón Bachelard.Económica. México 1975



La Philosophie des formes symboliques

Ernst Cassirer. Ed.Minuit. Paris 1976



La lección de las Ruinas

Alberto Ustarroz

Caja de Arquitectos. Archithesis nº1.Barcelona 1997



History of architectural types

Nicholas Pevsner. Londres 1979



Louis I Kahn. The complete work

Princeton Press 1998



Oeuvre complete

Le Corbusier. Les éditions d’Árchitecture. Zurich 1970



Soane and alter. Dulwich Art Gallery

Londres 1987



Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Hilberseimer. Clup.Milano 1984



Las variaciones de la identidad. Ensayo sobre el tipo en arquitectura

Carlos Marti . CLUP. Ed. del Serbal. Barcelona 1993



Genius Loci

Christian Norbert-Schulz. Electa 1987



Historia de la arquitectura (2 tomos)

August Choisy. Ed. Víctor Leru. Buenos Aires 1963



Historia de la arquitectura

Sir Banister Fletcher



Formes,Composition et Lois d´harmonie (5 tomos)

André Lurçart. Ed. Vincent, Fréal & cie, Paris.1953



Saber ver la arquitectura

Bruno Zevi. Ed. Poseidon. Buenos Aires 1963.



Architektonische Lerhbuch (ed. De G. Peschken)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Deutcher Kunstverlag. Berlín-Munich 1979

In-depth bibliography

Considerations sur l´état des Beaux Arts
Jean Clair. Gallimard. Paris 1983

El sueño de Polifilo
Francesco Colonna. Murcia 1981

La obra de arte en la época de su reproductibilidad técnica
Iluminaciones I
Walter Benjamín. Taurus. Madrid 1988

Du bon usage des fragments grecs
Pierre Pachel. Le Nouveau Commerce. París 1976

Fascino di Roma antica
Rodolfo Lanciani. Quasar.Roma 1986

L’archeologie comme Project
Pierre Pinon. AAM-Bruxelles 1983

Ruinen Fascination
Jeanot Simmen. Die Bibliophilen Taschenbücher. Dormund 1980

La memoria perdida de las cosas
Eugenio Trías. Mondadori. Madrid 1988

La idea fija
Regards sur le monde actuel
Paul Valéry. París

El tiempo, gran escultor
Marguerite Yourcenar. Alfaguara 1989

Sketches
Alvar Aalto. The MIT Press. Cambridge Mass.1985

Voyage d’Oriente. Carnets
Le Corbusier. Munich. Electa 1987

La plaza en la ciudad y otros espacios significativos : Galicia, Asturias,Cataluña, País Vasco, Navarra
José Luis García Fernández et altri.Ed. Blume. Barcelona 1986

Plazas con Frontón en Euskal Herria
A.Ustarroz& M. Iñiguez (dirección) con I.Viar, J.J.Arrizabalaga
Departamento de Arquitectura. Donostia. 1995

Journals

AAM. Archives d’Architecture Moderne.

Arquitectura: Revista del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.

Arquitectura Viva

AV: Monografías

Casabella: Rivista internazionale di architettura.

El Croquis: Publicación de Arquitectura, Construcción y Diseño.

En Blanco: Revista de Arquitectura

Lotus internacional: Rivista internazionale di architettura.

Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme.

TC: Cuadernos. Serie Dédalo.

2c.: Construcción de la Ciudad.