Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze the transformation in spatial, formal, and tectonic concepts in architecture and urbanism, from the second post-war period to the present day, in order to comprehend the historical grounds and debate topics of contemporary critique through critical judgment.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze the spatial, formal, and tectonic transformations in architecture and urbanism, from the age of humanism to the age of reasoning in order to comprehend the development of different aspects of today’s architecture, generating a critical judgment of it.

By the end of this course the students will be able to learn about and understand spatial, formal, and tectonic transformations of Mexican architecture within its geographic and social - historical - cultural contexts, connecting it with the inheritance that defines the identity of Latin-American nations, in order to develop a critical judgment about the different architectural events that took place both in Mexico and Latin America.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to communicate an architectural project in all its different stages in order to use the most appropriate tools to structure a speech, according to the different application fields.

Know and apply the presentation regulations and techniques and the elaboration of sketches, architectural and constructive drawings, constructive details, including the different installations and basic equipments, in order to create a technical description of the project from the design process until its final presentation.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to comprehend concepts in urban space design at different scales based on the creation of urban spaces by experimenting with the morphology, patterns and structural elements such as spatial districts, nodes, edges, paths and landmarks, and through the dynamic between the social-cultural aspects and city functionality, applying analysis results as an essential part of design methodology in the fields of urbanism and sustainable development.

By the end of this course, students will have studied the most important issues in the current international system and discussed options for possible solutions.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe the historical, social, cultural, and economic phenomena that have an impact on urban morphology and city sustainability, communities and urban districts; explaining the role played by the municipality, developers, communities, architects and urban planners, in order to comprehend and create critical judgment about urban growth and development, through a theoretical analysis and case studies.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze sites of different scales and determine their degree of environmental sensitivity , land-use aptitude and potential for development, in order to define coherent working lines in the ensuing design process.