14|REPORTAJE THE TEACHING OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING Text. Adrián Muros Alcojor, Dr. Architect. Professor of the Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, UPC,) Director of the workshop on Lighting Studies. Most Schools of Architecture, Art and Design include in their programs artificial light tea- chings, covering original interests and points of view on various fields of specialization as: scenographic lighting, urban lighting, lands- cape lighting, commercial and ephemeral lighting, product and interior design, architec- tural lighting, etc. The majority of the works that will be presen- ted have in common an interest and an enthu- siasm for lighting, and their authors are devoid of prejudice and conditions. They will show us topics of investigation that you will rarely find in technical magazines. The following study, that opens this section, analyses one of the basic aspects of lighting: light as revealer of the world. However, what happens if the observer does not have the same ability or sensibility to understand what he sees? We could state that light is one and the same for everybody but what do we learn from different worlds? This is the topic of the Final Thesis of the student of Architecture Nú- ria Hernández Rivera. Throughout the centuries, architecture has evolved parallel to the evolution of human needs. Many styles have been developed but at the end, architecture is determined by the same values and demands according to the place it is found. What about if there were a group of people that perceived the world in a different way? All that architecture had evolved during hundreds of years would be in vain because these people would not feel safe. This is precisely what happens to all the people that are autistic. What is autism? It is a “serious disorder of multifactorial and organic Sección general del proyecto