THE COURSE FOUNDATIONS OF ARCHITECTURE CONSISTS OF A PHENOMENOLOGICAL/EXPERIENTIAL APPROACH, THROUGH DRAWING, TO THE DIFFERENT KINGDOMS THAT MAKE UP OUR SENSORY WORLD: MINERAL, VEGETAL, ANIMAL AND WHAT WE?FOLLOWING JUAN BORCHERS?CALL ?HUMANAL? KINGDOM. ATTEMPTING TO PERCEIVE WHAT SURROUND US WITHOUT PREJUDGMENTS ALLOWS THE EXERCISE TO GUIDE THE STUDENTS REFLECTIONS FROM THE BEGINNING TOWARDS AWARENESS OF THE FACT THAT ARCHITECTURE IS NOT GIVEN (NATURE) BUT RATHER, A MAN MADE OBJECT (SOCIAL). IN DOING SO, IT REVEALS HUMAN ACTS TO BE THE ARCHITECT?S OBJECT OF STUDY AND OBSERVATION ITSELF AS A FIRST MEANS OF APPROXIMATION TO IT.