The aim of this course is for students to learn about and understand spatial, formal, and tectonic transformations of Mexican architecture within its social, historical and cultural context, from a national and regional perspective.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and comprehend the principles and basic concepts of sustainability in architecture, in order to critically analyze projects renowned for their sustainable design, proposals and paradigms, examining the design as a response to the environment, including passive and active systems.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize the most widely used construction systems and processes , in order to establish a connection between the materials and their construction procedures and techniques with both the site and federal, state, and municipal regulations, as well as with their potential applications in the architectural design.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify basic construction materials such as wood, steel, concrete, and glass, and their properties in order to describe their chemical composition, historical evolution, contemporary uses, constraints, and architectural possibilities, as well as new and potential products.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply the fundamental principles and regulations to be used for the installations, lighting systems, hydraulic, sanitary, and electricity equipment of residential constructions, being able to describe their characteristics, construction processes and the range of possibilities to apply them to an architectural design.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the behavior of the different steel and concrete structures, as well as their advantages and disadvantages in terms of architectural design, based on the theory of basic structural properties of materials, in order to achieve the correct use of structural elements.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply structural behavior concepts to determine the dimensions and geometric properties of the different elements that make up a structure, in order to establish the most suitable materials to build it in accordance with construction needs.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to distinguish and explain the basic concepts of structural behavior (work loads, reactions, shear, momentum, torsion, etc.) and the mechanical performance of materials (deformation, permissible loads, types of failure, etc), in order to obtain the bases to design structural elements.

This course aims to: (1) introduce students to the use of architectural representation applied to the design process, from site registration and the preliminary concept sketches to the presentation of the idea. (2) Have students practice quick drawing and architectural perspective techniques, exploring and using representation techniques with different media for expression and visualization. (3) Have students apply knowledge to generate all the graphic documentation of an architect's design process.