Urban space and architecture have been one of the main themes of photography since the origins of this discipline. And it is through images, mainly photographs, that we know and study the architectural works of the past and today. Throughout the 20th century, photography became an instrument in the different stages of architectural processes: an essential tool for design, dissemination, documentation, theory, criticism, etc.

This course will study the relationship between photography and architecture through some of its most relevant chapters: the rules established by the first architectural photographers; the essential role of photographic images in the production and diffusion of mid-century modernism; its later role in criticism during the last decades of the century; and the meanings of the digital image in the contemporary architectural world. The study will emphasize the work of photographers and their relationship with architects, as well as the meaning of photographs in architectural publications: magazines, books, manifestos, etc.