Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid

Being an architect has many formats today. The traditional architect educated at the responsibility of designing and constructing his work, currently lives with other partners, including those who wish to develop their ability to read, describe and even negotiate the reality, transforming it in a kind of contemporary architectural project material from very different and sometimes unknown point of views.

Facing the world of authentic specialization, society demands us to take care of updated needs to interconnect specialized worlds - from the complexity - in order to relate the multiplicity of specialized mediations as organizers, negotiators and communicators of knowledge.

The origin of Graduate Studies in Architectural Communication responds to an emerging demand that tries to provide a specific space for training, study and research, for those graduate students who are interested in developing a graduate linked to the phenomena of communication in the deep scope of the architectural project. Training will be addressed from both a humanistic, sociological and / or scientific approach, and from a technological dimension of experimental and innovative features.

The PhD programme in Architectural Communication (DOCA) is an initiative within the offer of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Born under Royal Decree 99/2011 which provides and promotes interdepartmental links and interschool programs, as well as broaden research lines of research groups from different departments

Created by a group of professors and teachers from the departments of Architectural Graphic ideation, Architectural Design, Architectural Composition, Linguistics, and Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture of Madrid, the PhD Program in Architectural Communication brings together a set of researchers from the university community. The researchers team of this program (mostly UPM_UC campus of excellence), are united by common concerns and interests of professional teaching character and researcher in the field of mediation and architectural communication. This field of studies is understood as a hypermedia space without physical dimensions, hosting power and structuring the activities of people through text, images, video, audio, maps and any other supporting information. Any of the above scopes of studies allow the generation of knowledge through processes of social interaction, which involves management of shared information processing in free processes, and trying to response upon any of the existing formats currently included under the umbrella of communicative codes.