The seminar will provide a framework for understanding building technology, constructive elements, materials properties and embedded structural concepts— while addressing questions of scale, context and logic.

Looking back at historical references in the construction practice, we will seek to understand the basic principles that define and characterize the behavior of objects (or systems) subjected to forces and what those forces themselves are.

Following the development of an idea into an image, a construction drawing, the building site, logistics and execution, we will examine the physical properties of structural concepts, elements and systems, construction materials, and learn about building techniques.

Through short exercises and the analysis of several case studies, we will dive into the world of architecture technology, exploring materials, not only as constructive matter, but as a generator of precise architectural thought.