Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
Architectural promenade as a method to understand the city of Madrid
Year:2017

Research Areas
  • Civil engineering and architecture

Information
Abstract
Phenomenology and personal experience are part of a method to articulate knowledge of the world surrounding us. Considering the city as the most effective learning environment for history and urban studies has been the starting point to choose the ?Architecture Promenade? as a way to understand Madrid. Learning spaces are usually indoor classrooms, but we have decided to motivate our students by making them explore the city with us, using a technique applied to building design by Le Corbusier, based on the perception of urban space in movement, as this French architect was doing with Acropolis in Athens: ?Architecture is judged by the eyes that see, by the head that turns, by the legs that walk. Architecture is not a synchronic phenomenon, but a successive one, made up of events that are added to each other and follow each other in time and space, as does music ?[1]. The experience presented here has been done with groups of European foreign university students, which were not familiar with the city, from ?Athens Course UPM-101?. Climatic conditions or noise can be a problem but the advantages of firsthand experience are clear in our study
International
No
Congress
International Conference of Innovation and Education in Building. CINIE 2017
960
Place
Madrid, España
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-84-16397-55-6
Start Date
08/03/2017
End Date
10/03/2017
From page
88
To page
90
Libro de Actas International Conference of Innovation and Education in Building. CINIE 2017
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Departamento: Tecnología de la Edificación