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The course, which focuses on architecture, will also highlight the link between architecture and poetry within a pre-defined historical and cultural context.

Each sequence - of one or two classes, or even three - will attempt to identify the essential elements of an architectural style, and relate them to the historical and cultural context in which this style emerged. The approach will be chronological: Spain of the Three Cultures, the Renaissance, the Baroque, Neoclassicism, etc. Some sequences will be reserved for specific architects -Gaudí, Calatrava, for example. Each architectural stage will be complemented by a course devoted to poetry, in which a limited selection of representative poems will be used to explore the link between the forms of architecture and those of the poem, and to identify structural similarities (poetry and architecture in the Renaissance, poetry and Baroque architecture), contrasts (neoclassical architecture, Romantic poetry, etc.) or parallel shifts induced by the tension between attachment to the forms of the past and experimentation with new forms in the contemporary era.