A university course about the representation of the city across media and disciplines. Edition 2025 at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona.
Architecture is an urban action.
The course analyzes a series of experiments of description and analysis of the urban environment that can be considered significant and original in the development of the intellectual and theoretical debate around architecture. The theoretical presentations and exercises will consider specific cases that have generated a paradigm shift in the vision of contemporary urban space, both for their ability to integrate different disciplines into their discourse, and for the fact of establishing a perspective capable of stimulating diverse and new evaluations about specific urban conditions and the role of architecture for its transformation.
The course proposes a series of description exercises, applied to the urban reality of Pamplona, where students will experiment with themes and techniques derived from the theoretical classes, generating innovative representations of the contemporary urban condition.
The edition 2025 of this course is being presented within the Máster Universitario en Teoría y Diseño Arquitectónico / Theory and Architectural Design, as visiting professors.
https://www.unav.edu/web/master-en-teoria-y-diseno-arquitectonico
Download syllabus here, Programa Architectural theory EN FG15022025
Authors evoked in the lectures were: Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Peter Blake, Kevin Lynch, Ed Ruscha, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Madelon Vriesendorp, Louis Huart, Thomas De Quincey, Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Atget, Walter Benjamin, Franz Hessel, Hans Ostwald, Siegfried Kracauer, Guy Debord, Michele Bernstein, Gilles Ivain, Carey McWilliams, Mike Davis, Forensic Architecture, Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, Reyner Banham, Edward Soja, Henri Lefebvre, Aldo Rossi, Massimo Scolari, Carlo Aymonino, Giorgio Grassi, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow, Gianfranco Caniggia, Saverio Muratori, Charles Jencks, François Lyotard, Paolo Portoghesi, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Paul Rudolph, Gordon Cullen, Colin Rowe, Wajiro Kon, Akasegawa Genpei, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Atelier Bow Wow, Mikan Gumi, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, August Sander, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Martha Rosler, Zoe Leonard, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lewis Baltz, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Richard Wentworth, Taryn Simon, gruppo A12, Daniela Rosell, Daniela Ortiz.