The city and its context
Identifying and differentiating urban models.
Analyzing urban realities, morphologies, growth processes, and metropolitan areas.
Ideals of the city and visionary projects
Assessing creativity in the processes, theory and materialization of urban models.
Informality: An urban phenomenon
Understanding informality as the driver behind large cities, showing it as a phenomenon that demands new ideas and change processes.
Urban planning and infrastructure: Development strategies and policies
Links between urban infrastructure and equipment, services, transport and mobility, in the framework of management and resources for large urban projects, zoning and development policies, with an analysis of sustainable urban management in the Latin American context.
Local government, public and private management: governance as the basis for good urban planning
Analyzing the concept, model and structure of governance at the local and federal level; describing different types of government administrations and organizations and urban infrastructure management methods – either public, private or a combination of both.
Workshop: The metropolitan scale and urban infrastructure
Applying the lessons learned in the development of infrastructure and urban improvement projects with reflections on scale, urban fabrics and transport hubs.
Thesis seminar I
Consolidating and reinforcing key concepts related to architecture, urbanism, urban planning and management with a view to structuring and directing a thesis research project.

Urban morphology: Permanence and transformation
Comparing the various urban types and patterns in Latin America and Europe in order to understand the explosion of urban growth over the past century.
Establishing the basic models for constructing the city: rehabilitation, renovation, transformation, adaptation, risk and resilience.
Citizenship, creativity and participation
Establishing methods of insertion in the city with concepts of citizenship, creativity, participation, social cohesion and dialogue with the city’s polycentrism, moving toward a creative approach to urban initiatives.
The role of housing in transforming the city
Identifying features and systems of housing development systems, how they are inserted into the city, their density, typology and basic components. Understanding housing as a problem to be addressed by urban planning.
Mobility and collective transport
Developing small- and large-scale urban planning capacities, applying projects for cities’ road improvements and transformations, in order to meet the needs of pedestrians and private and collective transport infrastructure.
The sustainable city
Consolidating the concept of sustainable development in relation to urban transformation, analyzing lines of work in the city as a solution to local environmental problems.
Workshop on urban creativity: The citizens’ city
Understanding the application and bases of participative processes built on creative foundations and taking an urban and community approach.
Thesis seminar II

Graduated as an architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) and holds a PhD in Architecture from the European University of Madrid. Founder and Director of Arquine, and recipient of the Mexican government’s prestigious FONCA-SNCA grant for artists.Director of Architecture MA programs at CENTRO.

Graduated as an architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB), with an MA in Architectural Analysis, Theory and History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Graduated as an architect from the Pontifical Bolivarian University (UPB) of Medellín in Colombia, with a PhD from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). Director of the Medellín city transformation plan (2000-2004). Director of Urbam.

Architect, critic and professor of architecture at the Iberoamericana University and Anáhuac del Norte. Chief editor at Arquine, a leading Latin American architecture magazine and book publishers.

Architect and urban planner with an MA from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he also teaches a course on Urban Planning.

MA in Transport from the Institute of Infrastructure and Water, Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. Director of the Institute of Transport and Development Policies in Mexico.

Studied architecture at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), Sapienza University of Rome, Venice Institute of Architecture, Paris-Val-de-Marne School of Architecture, and the Madrid Polytechnic University and Spain’s Ministry of Education and Science. Director of PKMN architecture office and collective.

Graduated as an architect from the Iberoamericana University and Schumacher College. He founded Taller 13 in 2001 as an initiative to generate a transdisciplinary dynamic that links architecture, sustainability and the environment.

Graduated as an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with an MA in Urban Management (UPC/UIA/Arquine). Executive Project Director of the Mexico City government’s Department for Public Space.

Graduated as an architect from the Iberoamericana University, with a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Harvard. Founder of arquitectura 911sc and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Project Cycle.

Graduated as an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has also studied the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism and has an MA in Architectural Analysis, Theory and History from the UNAM. Coordinator of Innovation and Sustainability at ICA, and professor of theory and research at the UNAM’s Faculty of Architecture.

Graduated as an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), with an MA in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Project coordinator for the Mexico City government’s urban development office, SEDUVI.

Studied architecture at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), Sapienza University of Rome, Venice Institute of Architecture, Paris-Val-de-Marne School of Architecture, and the Madrid Polytechnic University and Spain’s Ministry of Education and Science. Director of PKMN architecture office and collective.

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