The International professor’s formation at architectural design. The Form experience

Abstract

This paper aims to show the way UPC research group “Form” has developed education in the field of Architectural Design through a specific methodology, both on a teaching and research way, addressed to international professorship. The international nature of postgraduate students has led to orientate their education on teaching and research, either on Master or on PhD courses, in an International approach of   Modern Architecture.  Thereby, students who have become university teachers are today in charge of the research lines following the guidelines learned during their studies. Those lines have formed a teaching corpus spread through a wide network of international connections linked to the research, recovering and communication of modern heritage. Pedagogical basis is focused on the investigation of the idea of Form as a visual relationship system. That concept of Form distinguishes the best XXth century architecture.