Bachelor's Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture

• Know the history and theories of architecture, as well as the arts, technologies and human sciences related to it.
• Know the role of fine arts as a factor that can influence the quality of architectural design.
• Know the urbanism and techniques applied in the planning process.
• Understand the problems of structural design, construction and engineering related to building projects as well as the resolution techniques for them.
• Know the physical problems, the different technologies and the function of the buildings in such a way as to equip them with internal conditions of comfort and protection of the climatic factors.
• Know the industries, organizations, regulations and procedures to turn projects into buildings and to integrate plans into planning.
• Understand the relationships between people and buildings and between buildings and their surroundings, as well as the need to relate the buildings and spaces between them depending on the needs and on the human scale.

• Ability to: Apply graphic procedures to the representation of spaces and objects; Conceive and represent the visual attributes of objects and master the proportion and techniques of drawing, including those in computer science.
• Adequate knowledge and applied to the architecture and urban planning of: Spatial representation systems; The analysis and theory of the form and laws of visual perception; Metric and projective geometry; The techniques of graphical surveying in all its phases, from the drawing of notes to scientific restitution; The principles of general mechanics, static, mass geometry and vector and tensorial fields; The principles of thermodynamics, acoustics and optics; The principles of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, electricity and electromagnetism; The bases of topography, hypsometry and cartography and terrain modification techniques.
• Applied knowledge of: numerical calculation, analytical and differential geometry and algebraic methods.

• Ability to conceive, calculate, design and integrate in buildings and urban complexes and execute: foundation solutions.
• Ability to: apply technical and constructive standards; preserve the building structure, foundation and civil works; conserve the finished work; evaluate the works.
• Ability to conceive, calculate, design, integrate in buildings and urban complexes and execute: Building structures; Systems of interior division, carpentry, ladders and other finished work; Enclosure systems, roofing and other structural work; Installations for the supply, treatment and disposal of water, heating and air conditioning.
• Ability to: conserve the structural work; Design urban and building installations for electrical transformation and supply, audiovisual communication, acoustic conditioning and artificial lighting; conserve the facilities.
• Adequate knowledge of: the mechanics of solids, continuous resources and soil, as well as the plastic, elastic and resistance qualities of heavy-duty materials; The conventional constructive systems and their pathology; Physical and chemical characteristics, production procedures, pathology and use of building materials; industrialized construction systems.
• Knowledge of: deontology, collegiate organization, professional structure and civil liability; Administrative procedures and management and professional processing; Organization of professional offices; Methods of measurement, evaluation and expertise; The safety and hygiene project on site; Real estate management.

• Ability to: Suppress architectural barriers; To solve the passive environmental conditioning, including thermal and acoustic insulation, climatic control, energy efficiency and natural illumination; To catalog the built and urban heritage and plan their protection.
• Ability to conceptualize the practice and development of: Basic and execution projects, sketches and preliminary projects; Urban projects; Work management.
• Ability to: Develop functional programs for buildings and urban spaces; To intervene in and preserve, restore and rehabilitate the built heritage; Exercise architectural criticism; Carry out security, evacuation and protection projects in buildings; To draft civil works projects; Design and execute urban tracts and urbanization, garden and landscape projects; Apply urban norms and ordinances; To elaborate environmental landscape studies and of correction of environmental impacts.
• Adequate knowledge of: The general theories of form, composition and architectural types; The general history of architecture; Methods of study of symbolization processes, practical functions and ergonomics; Methods of study of social needs, quality of life, habitability and basic housing programs; Ecology, sustainability and the principles of conservation of energy and environmental resources; The architectural, urban and landscape traditions of Western culture, as well as its technical, climatic, economic, social and ideological foundations; Aesthetics and theory and history of fine arts and applied arts; The relationship between cultural patterns and social responsibilities of the architect; The bases of vernacular architecture; Urban sociology, theory, economics and history; The methodological foundations of urban planning and territorial and metropolitan planning.
• Knowledge of: The civil, administrative, urban, building and industry regulations related to professional performance; The feasibility analysis and the supervision and coordination of integrated projects; Real estate appraisal. The drafting and management mechanisms of urban plans at any scale.

Elaboration, presentation and defense before a University Tribunal of an original academic work done individually related to any of the disciplines studied.