Project, Process and Programming

The Project, Process and Programming Line (PPP) of the MBArch offered by ETSAB it's a program of Advanced Studies structured around the Architectural Project as an inducer of different types of reflections. These range from those aimed at testing attempts to update their own production of architecture, to those that activate the critical and strategic thinking necessary not only to position architecture in the contemporary cultural context, but also to also to defend their need in the face of a new conjuncture determined by the globalisation, social inequality, climate change and the resource crisis.

For the first time in history, the architect, in addition to knowing how to interpret the world material, it requires, in order to be able to intervene in it, also to know how to decipher the i. e. the scope of the data. In this regard, the research initiated by the PPP aims to discover the different dimensions that condition the “project architectural contemporary”, expanding the boundaries that circumscribed his own technical instruments towards more diffuse, transversal and transscale areas.

The learning process to meet this challenge is based on two approaches: complementary: the retrospective, from which the canonical study of architecture from its practical and theoretical side, and the prospective, from which will try to decipher the role that architecture and the architect should assume in the contemporary world. While the former is based on capacity-building reflects the student from reading, writing and analytical drawing of architecture, the second, it does so using the strategic plan and the speculative test with the to define what architecture can become in this new scenario.