2020_21
Educational guide 
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura
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english 
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture (2010)
 Subjects
  LEGAL ARCHITECTURE
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Sources of Law What is the origin of laws and regulations, or what is the system of coexistence that we have ended up building humans?
The Law has origins, and for each norm there is a reason.
We will discover them here.
The Legal and Institutional Framework in our environment The rules that govern our coexistence and activity also define, or are also defined by, a series of decision, application and control institutions.
Our framework of action is multiple: Europe, Spain, Catalonia and local entities, among others.
Social norms The coexistence between the people needs rules that empower the weak, stop the strong, and set limits to everyone according to the fact that we are Human. The rules of a complex and ever-changing game.
In the first month, this topic will be worked out, from an ideal point of view, by groups and teams. In the second month, it will be necessary to locate and analyze the specific regulations. In the second half of the quarter, the knowledge of this first half will be applied.
Territory and Environmental norms The activity as Architects implies our intervention in a specific field. Our needs and likes shosk against the needs of the territory and society. And, at the same time, we need securities in the day to day.
Mainly, all this happens in the environment in which we move.
In the first month, this topic will be worked out, from an ideal point of view, by groups and teams. In the second month, it will be necessary to locate and analyze the specific regulations. In the second half of the quarter, the knowledge of this first half will be applied.
Project norms The activity as Architects generates objects, destined to certain activities and people. Our achievements are in the way users will be within them.
Each created space is the cause of multiple consequences on whoever uses it and who is in it.
In the first month, this topic will be worked out, from an ideal point of view, by groups and teams. In the second month, it will be necessary to locate and analyze the specific regulations. In the second half of the quarter, the knowledge of this first half will be applied.
Expertise and forensic practise The recognition of the circumstances of an architectural or urban element is multiple: it can be building pathologies, economic conflicts or regulatory breaches.
In this practical work, an expert opinion (or forensic, according to the team) will be drafted by teams, who will have to defend their "client" without forgetting the truth.
Instruments for Strategic (urban) Planning The implantation in the Territory follows at the moment some norms. Our legislation provides for different instruments and different ways of working them.
A specific case will be drafted to each team so that they can be written during the second half of the semester.
Activity projects Mainly a matter of environmental police at present, but also with affectations in other areas (for example, of course, tax collection)
A specific case will be drafted to each team to write an activity project during the second half of the semester.