This autumn marks the 53rd anniversary of the establishment of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville. It is the largest architecture school in Andalusia, and the third largest and oldest in Spain, after Madrid and Barcelona. Over its history, the lecturers of the centre have developed their teaching role within the guidelines framed by five curricula. Architecture is considered in our country as a generalist discipline of an artistic and technical nature which is characterized by its contribution to the transformation of the physical environment on any scale through development and implementation of the conception and management of buildings and all kinds of urban arrangements. Technical training in the knowledge of the phenomena and physical laws involved in the foundation, construction and energy exchanges included in the building are paramount in the design, construction and rule-enforcement stage for a new construction or rehabilitation. In this paper, characteristics are analysed of the subjects of applied physics taught in the five curricula of the centre since its