English that architects need
Common needs include :
Speaking with prospective or actual clients, suppliers, business
partners and colleagues
Reading rules and regulations, catalogues, architecture journals
and textbooks
Writing emails, proposals, reports (e.g. progress reports) and
essays
To pass exams and to join professional associations
Attending and
presenting at conferences
Giving
presentations
If they are spending time in an
English-speaking country, they might also have to deal with government
representatives (e.g. health and safety inspectors).
Functions that are likely to come up while
speaking are (in no particular order):
Negotiating
Dealing with
enquiries
Explaining why
things have changed
Explaining why
things are impossible
Responding to
complaints
Asking for more
information
Making
arrangements
There will also be things specific to
emailing, teleconferencing etc if (as is likely) they have to do those things.
A lot of the language above can easily be adapted from ESP and Business English
books by replacing words like “balance sheet” and “corporate restructuring”
with more relevant vocabulary.
Vocabulary they might need includes:
Types of building (“old people’s home”)
Parts of buildings and particular types of them (“thatched roof”,
“partition wall” etc)
Building and
decorating materials
Stages of the process of finishing a building
Things architects do (e.g. “estimate” and “model”)
Things they use in their job (e.g. “set square”), especially if
they have foreign colleagues
Things other related people use and do, e.g. “lay foundations” and
“estimate”
Vocabulary connected to rules and regulations
Colours
Shapes
Fittings and
decorations
Positive and negative adjectives to describe buildings and people’s
reactions to them
Actions that people do in buildings
Finance related to buildings (e.g. “mortgage” and “rent”)
Architectural styles and trends (“postmodern” etc)
The grammar they need will obviously be more
general, but in the same way as a Technical English or Business English
textbook will vary the order and priority given to grammar points, you can do
the same for your English for Architects classes. For example, time expressions
and future tenses are likely to be even more important for architects than for
other professionals. Depending on what exactly your students do, the same may
be true for numbers and quantifiers.
Profesor: Rita Leticia Cordero Olvera
Analizar, diseñar y revisar elementos de concreto, sujetos a diferentes tipos de solicitaciones y deformaciones, generadas por las cargas a las que va a estar sometida durante su vida útil, de acuerdo a los reglamentos y especificaciones vigentes.
Profesor: ALDO ALEJANDRO BARRERA RAMOS
Que el estudiante adquiera los conocimientos neces arios de las técnicas de elaboración,
correcta aplicación, manejo y manipulación de materiales y herramientas que le ayuden para la
planeación y realización de modelos tridimensionales en tres dimensiones.
Que el estudiante desarrolle capacidades de percepción del espacio para concebir, crear y
realizar modelos de tres dimensiones, siguiendo una lógica constructiva de acuerdo a la
selección de materiales acordes al objetivo temático del tipo de modelo a edificar.
Profesor: Alejandro Delgadillo Garcia
Que el alumno dispongan de un ámbito que les permi ta reflexionar sobre la práctica y los métodos de la investigación científica en el campo de la Arquitectura, del Diseño y del Urbanismo.Debatir las perspectivas y principales categorías de análisis que emplean en la producción de sus ideas científicas en su disciplina; puedan debatir sobre los esquemas de investigación (exploración, descripción, verificación de hipótesis, etc.); las diversas estrategias investigativas (estudio de desarrollo de caso; estudio de tendencias; estudios de comparación de desarrollos, etc.); y los grados de profundización en la dinámica del objeto (estudios analíticos, estructurales, funcionales, históricos).
