DA 3000 Comprehensive Architectural Design I

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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply theoretical knowledge and design skills to a residential project with real characteristics and low programmatic complexity in order to develop critical judgment and the capacity to explore and innovate in terms of the architectural proposal, without overlooking the research and incorporation of the structural criteria, materials specifications, construction processes, and installation design.

DA 2966 Theory of Sustainable Architecture

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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 analyze critically projects renowned for their sustainable design, proposals and paradigms, examining the design as a response to the environment, including passive and active systems.

DA 2225 Generative Geometry

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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.

DA 2224 History and Critique of Contemporary Architecture

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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.

DA 2091 Urban Design

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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.

DA 2080 Site Analysis

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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.