-          Interest in critical understanding of the modernist phenomena in architecture, as well as curiosity of knowing one of its peripherical European approaches.

-          Graphic skills enough to address critical approaches and express ideas on architecture.

-          Capacity to read architecture or urban design, both in-site visits and technical documents.

-          Broad cultural and social interest.

1. In-depth reading of the most significant architecture and urban design built in Madrid in the last 70 years.
2. Exploring methodologies to express critical thinking in architecture and townscape.
3. Deepening knowledge about Madrid and Spanish modern and postmodern architecture, through different cultural and interdisciplinary approaches.

The workshop will address the most significant architecture and urban designs of the last seven decades in Madrid, including Alejandro de la Sota, Rafael Moneo, Alberto Campo Baeza, Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, Ensamble Studio or Elii office buildings. The workshop will combine short lectures with laboratory time and in-site visits to several buildings. They will be combined as follow:

Day 1

-          Introductory lecture: Madrid in the modernism crisis

-          Laboratory

-          In-site visit

Day 2

-          In-site visit

-          Lecture 2: Postmodern Madrid

-          Laboratory

Day 3

-          Laboratory

-          Lecture 3: Supermodernism and poetical new modernism

-          Review

Day 4

-          In-site visit

-          Lecture 4: Madrid in the climate crisis

-          Laboratory

Day 5

-          Laboratory and print