Josep Codinachs 

What constitutes the architect learning? It is clear that our discipline, unlike others as history or biology, is unknown for students when they start the degree. This means that the knowledge that you learn along the courses are characterized by a cumulative knowledge between subjects, which allow to you to make progress in all disciplines (projects, construction, installation ...) in parallel. We cannot be good architects if we can't control everything that entails making a project, such as the construction of spaces or the modifications for the project for to be viable the facilities.

 

This is the reason why, while the degree was connecting subjects, we also learn how and why the various disciplines are necessary and essential to develop a project adapted to reality. A clear case is the project of Les Corts (Housing in Les Corts), a project that started from the idea of a housing project in Barcelona, which was planned without the appropriate technician knowledge. Shortly after there was an interest by the technical departments to apply their knowledge to this project, what allowed us to absorb these knowledge to understand the consequences it had in to the project.

I was able to realize the architect cannot adapt the project to the technical needs, this must contain all their part from the beginning and a good project is one that does not forget anything important from the first line that is drawn. This allowed me, as a student, the developing other projects where you could see a direct involvement and since the beginning of the technical disciplines. One example is the project in the Eixample (Eixample Market), where the project is not developed from a concept and then the facilities and the construction are added independently, in this case the concept starts from the constructive section what allows to develop all the project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, as an architect, I believe and argue that we should be able to make an architecture capable of understanding all the disciplines of the architect, only then will we be able to create an architecture adapted to our society and needs.