Brief
From Stonehenge to greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment.
Architecture and landscape are linked by a fundamental continuity that is now starting to fade, damaging the quality of the space we dwell. More than ever today, landscape is a precious heritage that architecture can and must enhance, while protecting it to pass it on to future generations:
architects shall not give up on working on landscape, instead, they should be able to design architectures that respond to each landscape’s specific feature and generate wonderful and unique spaces.
The “Architecture for Landscape” course was created on these premises: it aims at training designers who are able to meet the diverse needs of transforming territories, enforcing an attentive and productive dialogue with the surrounding landscape to respond to the needs of prestigious clients in outstanding contexts.
Through a thorough analysis of the natural world, light and geomorphological features of terrains, the designers will become more and more able to reconnect human design to the natural environment and be inspired by landscape to design outstanding, sustainable and impressive architectures.
The course will be made up of 84 hours of lessons, a 32-hour workshop and multiple lectures by well-renowned professional architects.
At the end of the course, YACademy Placement office will guarantee each student a proposal for an internship / collaboration within the partner studios.
Course info
15 In person
5 Online
Bologna
25.11.2024 - 21.2.2025
3 days/weekMarch 2025 - May 2025
€ 2900 + VAT
Online€ 9700 + VAT
In person3
Full coverage of the enrollment fee for the most outstanding candidatesTeaching modules & Workshops
Theories and history of landscape
Historical and artistic itinerary on the evolution of landscape conceptThe garden site
Management and realization of green areasBotanics for design
Drawing design inspiration from plantsExtreme Architecture
The mountains’ teaching, remote places and impossible building sitesClimate Change
Future scenarios and mechanisms of transformation of environment and landscapeThe landscape project
Building the placesSustainable designing
Principles of sustainability and bio-architectureNewtech for Sustainability
Trends ans innovation in sustainable architectureThe co-existence of species
Understanding and protection of biodiversityClimate Positive Landscape
Protocols and methodologies for reduction of anthropic footprintArt and nature
Contemporaneity compares with placesBuilding with wood
Techniques and possibilities of timber architectureVernacular architecture
Experiences of continuity between landscape and architectureSite Visits
Sicily's salt quarries, Valle dei templi and Scala dei Turchi
Arcari Quarry
Innsbruck, Snøhetta's office
Special lectures and critiques
Shaped by the surroundings: The Whale
Underwater landscape: Under
NYC in green: the High Line
Balance and relation between built landscape and natural landscape
Architecture of Nature: Chinese scenario between history and landscape
Ca'n Terra: the return to the caves
BIG: architecture between landmark and research
Arcari Quarry: the anthropic landscape as performative stage
Juvet Landscape Hotel: experiencing nature
Underground cities and architecture
Design workshop
Patrick Lüth / Snøhetta
The workshop will represent an opportunity for practical synthesis through which all the notions that will be made available through the other didactic modules will be tested, guaranteeing strategic responses to a real architectural project. The workshop, conducted in collaboration with Italkali, will look at the reuse of an old disused quarry in the Petralia Soprana hills, in the heart of Sicily. An outcrop of the mammoth layer of salt that was created millions of years ago in southern Europe by the evaporation of the ancient Mediterranean, the Petralia quarry is a true underground city: not a narrow maze of claustrophobic ravines and gloomy passages, but rather a succession of immense, immaculate halls, punctuated by massive pillars supporting 15 levels carved out of the heart of the mountain, for a total height of over 200 metres. A superlative place of complex description, sculpted by the explosions of dynamite and voracious machines, scratching through immaculate salt to carve twisted and complex geometric motifs that resemble cave writings. The Patralia quarries are truly an alien location, capable of abstracting the visitor from space and time, and not by chance contended - though rarely granted - by the most famous fashion brands and Hollywood productions, for their most exclusive settings and events. In the heart of the Sicilian mountains, in one of the most singular and evocative contexts on the planet, students will have the opportunity to measure themselves against the mystery of an underground landscape, a contemporary result of industrial activities, but a rare materialisation of that 'underworld' that has inspired legends and mythologies of all times.
Construction workshop
Construction is a fundamental step in architecture. For this reason, YACademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in the process of producing their own ideas. Thus, the students will gain practical experience on construction sites and, above all, the authorship of projects built for excellent commissions, destined for a major media echo and capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.
Placement
At the end of teaching modules and workshop, YACademy’s Placement office will guarantee every student an internship or collaboration proposal in one of our partner studios.
Teachers
Admission
Requirements
Students or graduates in Architecture/Design can apply to the course. The commission, based on the assessment of the application, may admit students with different qualifications.
Registration
To apply, it is necessary to register online and submit a Curriculum Vitae, a Portfolio, and a Motivational Letter. Moreover, it is necessary to pay the administration fee (€60 + VAT). The best 20 candidates will be admitted to the course according to the rules.
Scholarship
By applying for the course, the students automatically become eligible to obtain a scholarship: one will be granted to each of the best 3 applicants for each course, consistently with the Selection Committee's evaluation. Therefore, it is not necessary to make specific actions to apply for a scholarship. The scholarship covers the entire enrollment fee - regardless of the type of attendance chosen -, but does not cover the administration fee (€60 + VAT) that have to be paid in order to complete the application process successfully.
Timeline
Complying with deadlines is a fundamental requirement to take part in the course. All students are encouraged to pay the utmost attention to the timeline and to complete each phase in advance.
Applications opening
Applications deadline
Publication of the provisional ranking
Beginning of second-round admissions
Enrollment fee payment deadline for students admitted according to the provisional ranking
Publication of the official ranking (including second-round admitted students)
Lessons start
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Make sure you have downloaded the course brochure, from which you will be able to obtain any information about YACademy, as well as every single detail on how to access and enrol in the courses.
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Find out all the statistics and placement methodology for the year 2023/24: 39% of students entered Pritzker studios.
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