ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY - YAC Academy

ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY2021 edition

Humanity at the heart of design

Special provisions for the Covid-19 emergency

Due to the pandemic situation, in site of the courses taking place between September 2020 and February 2021, YAC has taken extra-ordinary measures for the best performance of its activities and to facilitate access to its courses, in accordance to safety criteria.As far as the 2021 programs are concerned, it is specified that:

1. based on merit, 5 scholarships are provided for each course (for a total of 30 scholarships in 2021) to fully cover the enrol-lment cost;

2. the course will also be open to students of architecture or simi-lar disciplines who have not graduated yet;

3. although the courses will be held in person, 10 students per course will have the opportunity to participate in the courses virtually, without any limitations in participating in the work-shop and in the placement service at the end of the course.

In the cover: Nano by Gensler, render by MIR

Shenzhen Opera House, project by: Kengo Kuma and Associates, render by MIR

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SummaryYACademy

Where

Main partners

Reasons why Lectures Placement Visits Workshops Become the protagonist

The course Overview Structure

Calendar

Program Lessons Lectures Workshop Visits

Placement

Rules

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YACADEMYThe greatest innovation in postgraduate education

YAC is an association which promotes architectural competitions aimed at fostering culture and design research. Over the years, YAC has broadened its experience of work and collaboration with the main architectural firms of contemporary architecture, dealing with diverse and numerous topics of architectural design. Nowadays, YAC’s expertise can serve young designers better, providing them with the creation of high-level educational programs aimed at rein-forcing the skills of the students and offering them a valuable con-nection to the labour market. Thanks to the close relationship with internationally renowned professional and academic actors, YAC is the perfect frame within which complete or specialize one’s skills, and create a significative link with the most internationally-renow-ned architectural firms.

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Via Borgonuovo, 5 Bologna, Italy

In the heart of Bologna’s historical city center, close to the Two Towers and next to Piazza Santo Stefano, YACademy is located in a prestigious medieval building which has been renovated to wel-come an educational center of excellence which can also count on a library of more than 3.000 books donated by Sapienza University. YACademy is the perfect place where to continue or enrich your ed-ucation, in a prestigious context immersed in the commercial and historical centre of an always-on the-go and lively city located at a short distance from Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan. From Bolo-gna Central Station, it takes just a brief bus ride or a short pleasant walk under the marvellous porticos to get to YACademy’s head-quarters: here, among history, innovation and internationality, the young designers will be able to meet some of the most celebrated personalities of contemporary architecture and build up a network of excellence while laying the foundations of their future careers.

Where

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Main sponsor Workshop partner

Villa Imperiale is located a few kilometres away from Pesaro, immersed in the and-scape of the Natural Park of the mount San Bartolo that protects its original rela-tion with nature.

An ancient residence of the Sforza in the sixteenth century, it was enlarged and frescoed at the behest of Della Rovere duchies in the sixteenth century by the ar-chitect Girolamo Genga, from Urbino. Its splendour faded for a long period, from 1631 to the nineteenth century, when the Villa passed to the Albani family, joined with the Castelbarco family. Thanks to the care and to the restoration of thenew owners, it has been possible to return to the ancient splendour of the residence.

villaiperialepesaro.com

Terreal Italia is a company specialized in the production of terracotta building envelope systems, which has been able to transfer to an industrial level an ability historically born on an artisanal level. The firm is part of the multinational Terreal, world leader in the brick sector with premises all over the world. From January 2018 we acquired the Pica brand, an important historical company in the clay building sector, together with the already well-known brand SanMarco.

Terreal Italia’s operations are based on the key principles of tradition, innovation, resear-ch, quality, safety and sustainability. Terreal Italia’s terracotta products - from mediter-ranean roof tiles to flat roof tiles, soft mud bricks to wire cut bricks, terracotta flooring to architectural elements, slabs to ventilated facades - are characterised by extremely high performance standards and rigorous quality control, and are available in a wide range of shapes, colors and finishes.

terreal.it

Manni Group, a historic company founded in 1945 in Verona, works in the field of steel pro-cessing, insulated metal panels, renewable energies and energy efficiency. Manni Group provides innovative systems, products and skills for the dry construction industry. It promotes new scenarios in order to remove energy waste and polluting emissions in the existing estate stock. Thanks to new buildin-gs or new retrofitting architectures, it sup-ports the real estate fileds or design firms to reach a high value for their projects based on the prnciples of sustainability and know how in construction.

Thanks to its 75-years experience, its com-mitment, its long-term vision and remarkable dedication, the group has dealt with several market changes. It was able to wisely adapt to new international business scenariosand embrace the Circular Economy philosophy.

mannigroup.com

Founded in 1989, Scrigno is a leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of exclusive counter frames for disappearing sli-ding doors and windows, 100% Made in Italy. The company is based in Sant’Ermete, in the municipality of Santarcangelo di Romagna (Rimini), occupying a site of 50,000 sq.m. Its production facilities are located in Savi-gnano sul Rubicone, only a few kilometres away, with a total covered surface area of 30,000 sq.m. With 300 employees, 400,000 counter frames manufactured every year and exported to over 30 countries, Scrigno boa-sted a turnover of about 87 million euro in 2019 - 50% of which recorded abroad - and is positioned as a solid group on the market, as well as a benchmark for its sector. Since 27th June 2018, the company is part of the fund Clessidra Capital Partners 3, managed by Clessidra sgr, the leading manager of Priva-te Equity funds exclusively dedicated to the Italian market. The operation opened a new path for Scrigno. Thanks to significant finan-cial resources devoted to its expansion plan, the Group will pursue its internationalisation and diversification strategy with a renewed strength.

scrigno.it

Urban Up is the real estate project of Unipol Group aimed at enhancing some of the most important architectures in Italy which are owned by the Group through works of mo-dernization and renovation that combine an innovative drive with the respect for tradition.

The Urban Up project, which started from the city of Milan with the redevelopment of some key-buildings of the city, history-wise and po-sition-wise, continues in various Italian cities with interventions that both promote their own trophy assets but also regenerate urban suburbs, by declining the value of sustainabili-ty in the real estate field through the adoption of design solutions inspired by environmental safeguard.

urbanupunipol.com

The Department of City Planning (DCP) is New York City’s primary land use agency and is instrumental in designing the City’s physical and socioeconomic framework. DCP’s ambition is to make all of New York a better place to live, to maintain what works and improve what doesn’t.

City planning lies at the nexus of many disciplines. It blends theoretical insights from the social sciences and natural sciences with urban, planning, and design concepts. Through this merger of ideas, it engages communities to bring about healthier, more inclusive, more vibrant places.

nyc.gov

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Reasons why

Rwanda Chapel, project by: Aubin Prost, Romain Orth

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Reasons why | LECTURES

YACademy offers training courses in which young people can learn from the experience and testimony of some of the most illustrious names of design. An extensive offer of special lectures, together with numerous moments for informal discussion, will give the stu-dents the opportunity to both enrich themselves with design refe-rences and suggestions, and to get to know and chat personally with the great masters of contemporary architecture.

01. Learn from the great masters

1. Eduardo Souto de Moura2. Kazuyo Sejima - SANAA3. Shigeru Ban - Shigeru Ban Architects4. Pippo Ciorra and Carlo Ratti5. Michele De Lucchi6. Kengo Kuma - KKAA

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Dublin

London

Oslo

Lisbon

Rome

Basel

Amsterdam

Innsbruck

Turin

Merano

BolognaGenua

Syracuse

Madrid

Santiago de Chile

Bogotà

Rotterdam 2 Mccullough Mulvin Architects

1 Zaha Hadid Architects2 all Design

2 Rintala Eggertsson Architects1 Jensen & Skodvin

4 Aires Mateus1 Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos

2 Alvisi Kirimoto3 Ateliers Jean Nouvel

2 HHF Architects

2 UNStudio

3 Snøhetta

2 Carlo Ratti Associati

3 Markus Scherer Architekt

13 MCA

1 Atelier Alfonso Femia

5 Vincenzo Latina Architetti

1 Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

2 Duque Motta & AA

2 El Equipo Mazzanti

3 OMA

Paris

Barcelona

2 Jean Nouvel Design

1 EMBT Miralles Tagliabue

Tokyo

Beijing

Pune

Toronto8 Kengo Kuma and Associates 1 Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design

1 Vector Architects

2 Anupama Kundoo

2 Partisans

Reasons why | PLACEMENT

Milano2 Edoardo Tresoldi1 Stefano Boeri Architetti3 Lombardini 226 David Chipperfield Architects Milan1 Studio Urquiola10 AMDL CIRCLE

At the end of the program, participants are guaranteed a proposal of collaboration or internship to carrying out specific communication projects within one of the professional firms of YAC’s network, either important companies or established architectural firms. This stage of the program is a fundamental distinctive feature of the service offered by YACademy, aimed at guaranteeing students an effective career orientation service.

02. Work with great firms

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Reasons why | VISITS

Design feeds on perceptions: suggestions and references that only direct experience can offer. For this reason, YACademy courses are also composed of a series of visits and trips aimed at enriching the cultural baggage of the students so they can improve their design approach. Surveys, building-site visits and company visits complete the offer of a program that is based on experience by leading stu-dents to get in touch with some of the most excellent firms on the Italian and international scenario.

03. Enjoy a full and exciting experience

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Reasons why | WORKSHOP

After the lectures, students will develop a real project under the su-pervision of a renowned architectural firm. Through the workshop, the students will therefore not only have the opportunity to learn the processes and methodologies used by their tutor, but also to enri-ch their curriculum with new design experience (whose outcome is often realized) for some of the most prestigious clients in the world.

04. Designs for prestigious clients

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Reasons why | WORKSHOP

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Reasons why | BECOME THE PROTAGONIST

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Reasons why | BECOME THE PROTAGONIST

The core of the academy is the enhancement of the young people who are part of it, helping them to lay the foundation for a pro-fessional growth and affirmation even beyond the duration of the training program. In this sense, the academy places student at the center of a wide and prestigious media circuit, oriented to tell their design and talent, both through specific communication projects, and through the collaboration with press and various newspapers that report to YAC.

05. Build your professional image

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Rwanda Chapel, project by: Anton Igumnov, Aleksei Sofinskii, Lenoid Batalov

The course

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BriefPandemic, economic crisis, migration and climate change: every area - from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village - can now be defined as “emergency context”.

The United Nations - already before the pandemic cycle - estimated that the fragmentation of conflicts, combined with the effects of the economic and ecological crisis, was generating a humanitarian emergency greater than that caused by the Second World War.

In this context, the architect plays a fundamental role, because architectu-re responds to man’s primary needs. Finding shelter, receiving education, living healthy are rights that require “containers” in the first place, and architecture - great architecture - would be very little if limited to contexts of well-being; since man is at the center of architecture, and man, in any context, in any condition, deserves dignity and beauty.

This is why the course in Architecture for Humanity was born, to train de-signers who know how to compose meaningful architectures even in the most complex contexts, to bring quality where you have always designed to the bottom, beauty where you are used to not seeing it.

Accustomed to designing in terms of objectives, budget and understan-ding of anthropological phenomena, the designers will - instead - acquire a method that can be used in any context, capable of optimizing resour-ces and design stimuli to produce, in any condition, a refined architectural phenomenon.

Through the study of the global scenario and the comparison with the experience of some of the most authoritative voices in the field (from the UN to representatives of the government of territories in emergency) the designers will focus on the technical and compositional strategies to be adopted in the humanitarian, social and emergency field, during 76 hours of lessons, 32 hours of workshop and numerous interventions by renow-ned professionals.

At the end of the course, YACademy Placement office will guarantee each student a proposal for an internship / collaboration within the partner studios.

Scolarships5, full-coverage of the enrollment fee

Course periodNovember 2021 - February 2022

Attendance to lessons3 days per week (physically or virtually)

Maximum number of students25 in presence + 10 online

Language Italian

Elements of innovation• The first course that gathers a multidisciplinary experience in design

in the humanitarian, social and emergency fields and offers it as an educational program;

• the course aims at providing the students with a critical approach to design that can be applied to any situation to optimise the architectu-ral process (from slums to luxury contexts);

• within a two-month course, the students are offered a prestigious range of future job opportunities;

• the course envisages and aligns different educational tools (lessons, workshops, placements, company visits);

• the course offers new competences and new technology like 3D prin-ting, thanks to the contribution of the main players in the field;

• the workshop deals with a real design case agreed with the Gover-nment of Kiribati and offers a great opportunity to deal with a real topic of international interest.

ObjectivesThe course in “Architecture for Humanity” aims at training designers who know how to respond effectively and aesthetically to the challenges of architecture in the humanitarian, social and emergency fields. Students will enrich their knowledge of the global phenomena underlying huma-nitarian emergencies by analysing different types of interventions: from social housing to schools, from public spaces to the health buildings, always focusing on the opportunity to produce refined architecture in any context. Particular attention will be paid to the anthropological and com-munity components - which are the key elements of any intervention with a social feature - to enter into an understanding of the three fundamental stages of humanitarian architecture: containment of the emergency, reha-bilitation and development cooperation. Through the course, students will learn, therefore, a method that can be replicated in any condition (from the weakest situations to the most stable ones) because it focuses on understanding the person (or client) and on optimizing the environmental conditions and the available resources (budget and technologies).

Professional qualificationsThe students will gain sensitivity regarding social and human phenomena that lay at the foundation of architecture, with the aim of optimizing re-sources for the production of functional and prestigious architectures.

AdmissionThe admission to the course is based on the evaluation of:

• curriculum vitae, also in European format• motivational letter (max. 200 words)• portfolio

In order to ensure the best quality of teaching and the most effec-tive absorption of the students in the labor market, the course will have a limited number of students (max. 35); it will be delivered in Italian and addressed to students and graduates who have ob-tained a master’s degree in Architectural Sciences or other equiva-lent titles. The commission, in line with the preliminary assessment, together with the outcome of a possible interview, may admit stu-dents with different qualifications.

The course | OVERVIEW

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Lessons76 hours

INTERNATIONAL SCENARIO | 8 HOURSConflicts, migrations and climate change: the global framework of emergency architectureLaura Heykoop | International Organization for Migration

SUBURBS | 6 HOURS“First World” emergencyMatteo Agnoletto | Università di Bologna

CLIMATE CHANGES | 6 HOURSEffects and consequences of climate changeSIlvio Gualdi | CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

TECHNOLOGIES FOR HUMANITY | 6 HOURSTechnical solutions in emergency situationsAlessandro Marata | Università di Bologna

URBAN RESILIENCE | 8 HOURSSandy & Urban Warming: NYC challengesEugenia Di Girolamo | NYC Department of City Planning

3D CONSTRUCTIONS | 8 HOURSSustainable solutions for complex scenariosMassimo Moretti | WASP

SOCIAL HOUSING | 6 HOURSHousing scenarios in emergency contextsAgostino Ghirardelli | SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli

EXTREME ARCHITECTURE | 6 HOURSArchitecture in adverse natural environmentsRoberto Dini | Politecnico di Torino

CULTURE & HERITAGE | 4 HOURSHuman beings and the anthropological factor at the center of humanitarian architectureAndrea Angeli | DONTSTOP Architettura

CASE HISTORY | 8 HOURSSuccessful examples of humanitarian architecturesSilvia Berselli | Università di Bologna

HUMANITARIAN ASSOCIATIONS | 4 HOURSArchitecture and private initiativeRaoul Vecchio | Balouo Salo

SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY | 6 HOURSPerformance of the humanitarian projectAlessio Battistella | Arcò architettura & Cooperazione

LecturesVOLONTARIAT HOME FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY OF A HUMANITARIAN PROJECTAnupama Kundoo | Anupama Kundoo Architects

LOW INCOME HOUSES: LIVING IN ACUÑA, MEXICOTatiana Bilbao | Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

ESPAÑA LIBRARY: CULTURE AND BEAUTY IN MEDELLÌN, COLOMBIAGiancarlo Mazzanti | El Equipo Mazzanti

ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: ARCHITECTURE ACCORDING TO FOSTER + PARTNERSNicola Scaranaro | Foster + Partners

JUSTICE & BEAUTY: EXPERIENCES FROM RWANDAJean Paul Uzabakiriho | Mass Design

RESEARCH IN MATERIAL: PAPER SHELTER HAITIShigeru Ban | Shigeru Ban Architects

BEAUTY AS A PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICERaul Pantaleo | TAMassociati

ARCHITECTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF THE COMMON GOODMariam Kamara | Atelier Masōmī

TRANSPOSITION OF COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES INTO GOVERNMENT AGENDASDiana Lopez Caramazana | UNDP United Nations Development Pro-gram

SELF-CONSTRUCTION AND NEW MODELS OF SOCIAL ARCHITECTUREGiuseppe Grant | Orizzontale Architettura

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AND INNOVATION: THE TRADITION OF PLACES AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATIONMario Cucinella | MCArchitects

BRIDGING THE GAP: SELF-BUILDING IN BURKINA FASODiébédo Francis Kéré | Kéré Architecture

Workshop32 hours

DESIGN OF HOMELESS SHELTERS AND COMFORT STATIONS IN NEW YORKGiulio Rigoni | Big Bjarke Ingels Group

PlacementAt the end of the course, YACademy’s Placement office will guaran-tee every student an internship or collaboration proposal in one of our partner studios relevant to the course topic, among which:

Anupama Kundoo Architects - Tatiana Bil-bao Estudio - El Equipo Mazzanti - Foster + Partners - Mass Design - TAMassociati

The course | STRUCTURE

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The course | CALENDAR

Applications opening

3rd May 2021Applications deadline

1st October 2021Publication of the provisional ranking

11th October 2021Enrollment fee payment deadline

15th October 2021Publication of the official ranking

25th October 2021Lessons start

29th November 2021Lessons end

21st January 2021Workshop start

24th January 2022Workshop end

25th February 2022

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Kiribati Floating Houses, project by: Thomas Gossler

Program

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Laura HeykoopINTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION

Laura is a Shelter and Settlements Officer at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), based in Geneva. Laura has a background in architecture, urban development plan-ning, and humanitarian re-sponse and recovery. Since 2008 she has worked for multiple international deve-lopment and humanitarian organisations in a variety of project management, tech-nical advisor and consultan-cy roles. These roles have focused primarily on shelter, participatory planning, so-cial infrastructure, disaster risk reduction and resilience building programming, and have involved working in Haiti, Bangladesh, Nepal, Lebanon, Iraq, DRC and South Sudan. Laura also has several years of expe-rience working in housing and planning policy, strate-gy, advocacy and capacity building in the UK.

International scenario

Program | LESSONS

8 hours

Conflicts, migrations and climate change: the global framework of emergency architecture

This session will provide an overview of the global trends and challenges around confli-ct, disasters and displacement, and will out-line the scope of humanitarian shelter and settlements programming within contexts of crisis and recovery. This will include insi-ghts into understanding the wider impacts of built environment interventions (for exam-ple on health, protection and livelihoods), and the range of different types of inter-ventions and approaches that can be used to support the recovery pathways of crisis affected communities. Through scenarios and role playing, the workshop will enable participants to explore approaches to crisis response, recovery and resilience building from the perspectives of a range of different stakeholders.

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SIlvio GualdiCMCC - CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI

Silvio Gualdi is Senior Scientist at the Euro-Medi-terranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), where he leads the “Climate Simula-tions and Predictions” divi-sion. For over twenty years he has been working in the field of numerical climate modelling, simulations and climate predictions. During this period he participated in numerous international research programs and projects and coordinated the CMCC contribution to the climate change projections used to define the climate scenarios di-scussed in the IPCC reports. He teaches Climate Dynami-cs and Predictability for the Doctoral School “Science and Management of Clima-te Change” at the Ca ‘Fosca-ri University of Venice. He is the author of more than 90 scientific publications in international journals, mem-ber of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Research En-cyclopedia of Climate Scien-ce and current president of the Italian Society for Clima-te Sciences (SISC).

Climate changes6 hours

Effects and consequences of climate change

The main objective of this lecture is to pro-vide an overview of the basic physical me-chanisms that govern the climate system, its variability and possible changes. The lecture will illustrate and explore the scien-tific basis of climate change, starting from analysing the observational evidences of climate change, and providing an overview of the tools - mostly numerical models - that the scientific community uses to investigate the climate variations and their impacts. The fundamental concepts underlying climate modelling and climate change projections will then be discussed, trying to analyse and discuss what the models and these projections for the future can and what they cannot tell us. Particular emphasis will be given to the results that these projections produce for the European continent and the Mediterranean basin.

Matteo Agnoletto UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA

Matteo Agnoletto teaches architectural composition at Alma Mater Bologna and has worked for Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Cino Zucchi Architetti As-sociati. Since 2005, he has been collaborating with Milano’s Triennale for its architectural section: he was advisor for the Italian Architecture Golden Medal award and curated sections of many exhibitions. He published architectural essays on Casabella, Lotus, Domus and numerous other national and international magazines. He is head of the “Ricerca Emilia” work-shop which was created by the Faculty of Architecture following the earthquake of 2012: the workshop focuses on studying the rural terri-tory and the practices for a conscious environmental re-generation. In 2020, he was appointed Scientifical Head of G124, Senator Renzo Piano working group which deals with the renovation of suburbs.

Suburbs6 hours

“First World” emergency

Nella trattazione delle architetture umanita-rie, una particolare riflessione andrà condot-ta non solo in riferimento ai contesti comu-nemente definiti “emergenti” o appartenenti al “terzo mondo”, ma anche in funzione delle aree poste ai margini del “primo mondo”. La società di impianto capitalista, se in gene-rale ha garantito un benesserep iù o meno diffuso, risponde a meccanismi che creano emarginazione e disparità sociali. In questo senso, un laboratorio di straordinario inte-resse è costituito dalle periferie. Il corso si orienterà a una riflessione di carattere stori-co e teorico sul ruolo delle periferie urbane, per aprirsi all’esemplificazione di una meto-dologia orientata all’inclusione e rivitalizza-zione delle stesse. Mix generazionale e fun-zionale, l’introduzione di funzioni pubbliche e strategiche, il potenziamento del verde e di una mobilità lenta sono solo alcune delle strategie che verranno analizzate per dota-re i corsisti di strumenti concreti, orientati a fare della periferia un luogo di maggiore integrazione e benessere sociale.

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Eugenia Di GirolamoNYC DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING

Eugenia Di Girolamo is a senior urban designer with the Department of City Plan-ning in New York City. Euge-nia’s experience spans large scale developments, climate resiliency, neighborhood planning, and community engagement and outrea-ch. Her work focuses on seamlessly integrating city planning and place-making techniques with great desi-gn. Eugenia is an instructor at Cornell University, where she teaches an Urban Desi-gn Studio for graduate and undergraduate students on how public realm interven-tions can improve the qua-lity of life of everyone living in, working in, and visiting a city. She previously worked at the architecture and ur-ban design firm WXY, where she managed large scale mixed-use development projects and was a member of the inaugural class of the Forefront Fellowship with the Urban Design Forum. Eugenia earned a dual ma-ster’s degree in architecture and building engineering from the University of Bolo-gna, Italy.

Program | LESSONS

Urban resilience8 hours

Sandy & Urban Warming: NYC challenges

In the face of recent global events, it’s clear that urban resilience is a topic relevant today more than ever. New York City’s vibrancy is tied to the vitality of its streets and the pu-blic life in the many different neighborhoods that make up the five boroughs. Just in re-cent years, New York had to face many chal-lenges to its resilience, both from a physical and social standpoint. From 9/11, to Hurri-cane Sandy, rising temperatures and, now, a global pandemic that hit our city in the hardest way and questioned our interaction in the public realm. New York has faced and had to adapt, and it’s still adapting, to many risks. The question we pose is how can ci-ties adapt over time and how do we preser-ve the public realm and public life in the face of risk? This lecture will address these que-stions and, through a hands-on workshop, we will develop together potential solutions at the architectural level.

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Alessandro MarataUNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA

Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Designof the University of Bologna, owner of the Architettura Tecnolo-gia Ambiente design studio, director of architecture ma-gazines, coordinator of the Environment Sustainability Department of the Natio-nal Council of Architects, he leads his professional and research activity in the field of techniques and the languages of represen-tation, visual perception, innovative technologies and bioclimatic design. He has won prizes in national and international architectural competitions and is the au-thor of numerous scientific publications.

Technologies for humanity

6 hours

Technical solutions in emergency situations

The course will focus the attention on the dif-ferent technical opportunities that are appli-cable in humanitarian contexts, with referen-ce to the activities of the National Council of Architects and its own environmental sustai-nability department. Focusing its attention in particular on the African context, the course will overview the different technological and construction solutions that are compatible with the most diverse social, economic and emergency issues present in the continent. With this purpose, a particular focus will be put on the study of local building traditions, to be taken into account as integrated solutions with respect to the opportunities offered by the industrialized world, to produce archi-tectures that are compatible with both the perception and the skills of local workers.

includes visit to Terreal

Massimo MorettiWASP

Massimo Moretti nasce come tecnico elettronico, da sempre vive sviluppando prodotti. La sua progettualità è contraddistinta dall’inven-zione e dall’innovazione. Ha collaborato con Centri di Ricerca, Università, Aziende del territorio nazionale e del sistema internazionale per lo sviluppo di progetti tecnici e prodotti innovativi. Nel 2012 ha fondato WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), tramite la produzione e la vendita di stampanti 3D di va-rie dimensioni dal consumo privato fino alla dimensione architettonica, si propone di incentivare e diffondere la logica dell’autoproduzione e di una economia circolare ed eco-sostenibile. Utilizza la stampa 3D di svariati mate-riali, dai fluido-densi al nylon carbonio, dal cibo alla plasti-ca riciclata per rispondere ai bisogni dell’uomo. Nell’ottica di una diffusione egualitaria di conoscenze e strumenti, Massimo Moretti tiene corsi di formazione e alimenta la ricerca nell’ambito della stam-pa 3D e dell’open source. Oggi è un punto di riferimento internazionale nella ricerca avanzata di modelli circolari di abitazioni interamente cre-ati con materiali riutilizzabili e riciclabili, raccolti dal terreno locale.

3D constructions8 hours

Sustainable solutions for complex scenarios

This course will focus on the techniques used by WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project) which, inspired by the work of the potter wasp, has been developing construction processes based on the principles of the circular eco-nomy, capable of creating 3D printed homes in the shortest possible time and in the most sustainable way. Going through the step of the creation of GAIA, the first 3D-printed clay hou-se, the course will analyze the project TECLA, the first habitat built by using simultaneously WASP’s multiple Crane collaborative printers. In the context of a larger settlement, TECLA has the potential to become a construction model in the context of completely self-suf-ficient eco-districts. Designed to adapt to multiple environmental conditions, the entire process can be realized and self-produced. As far as the humanitarian topic is concerned, this approach is particularly interesting as it will limit the production of industrial waste and provide a sustainable model andthat is able to give a significant boost to national and local economies, improving the well-being of the communities involved. The United Nations estimates that the world population will reach 11.2 billion in 2100 and already in 2030 about 5 billion people will live in cities. Governments will need to face the challenges associated with housing solution and WASP’s solutions could offer a highly valuable response.

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Agostino GhirardelliSBGA | BLENGINI GHIRARDELLI

He worked in New York e Paris and oversaw several construction sites around the world. He manages complex urban planning and urban regeneration projects. Agostino gradua-ted from the University of Genova in 1999. As one of the founding partners of SBGA I Blengini Ghirardelli is often invited as a lecturer to national and international conferences and workshops to talk about Architecture.

Social housing

Program | LESSONS

6 hours

Housing scenarios in emergency contexts

In 2018 the United Nations estimated that over a seventh of the planet’s population lived in slum aggregates around the large metropolises of the planet. It is not neces-sary to look at the more commonly consi-red scenarios like Asia or South America suburbs to realize that the housing problem is still present even in the heart of what is known in the “first world”. The suburbs, the cities, are often put to the test by migratory flows and economic crises as far as the living standards of the people who live there are concerned. These people urgently need to find decent, healthy and connected solu-tions but with reduced economic resources. The course will therefore aim to narrate the different international experiences con-ducted in the field of social housing, in order to extract good design practices with the aim of seeking technical and formal quality in the architectural intervention. The limit of modern suburbs is often a hyper-functiona-list reflection, which values the human and aesthetic components based on budget choices: the course will suggest a new vi-sion that considers beauty and design qua-lity as equal requirements for the economy and functionality of the architectural pro-gram.

Roberto DiniPOLITECNICO DI TORINO

He is an architect, a researcher and a teacher of Architectural and Urban Composition at Polytechnic of Turin. His work at the Mountain Architecture Insti-tute focuses on architecture and alpine landscape in the modern and contemporary age. He is the editor of «Ar-chAlp» and the author of ar-ticles and essays published in books and Italian and international magazines. Among his books: “Rifugi e bivacchi. Gli imperdibili delle Alpi” (2018, con Luca Gibello e Stefano Girodo), “Architetture del secondo Novecento in Valle d’Aosta” (2018), “Rifugiarsi tra le vet-te. Capanne e bivacchi della Valle d’Aosta dai pionieri dell’alpinismo a oggi” (2016, con Luca Gibello e Stefano Girodo), “Alpi Architettura. Patrimonio, progetto, svilup-po locale” (2016), “Architet-tura alpina contemporanea” (2012). Since 2012, he has been a founding partner and vice-president of the asso-ciation Cantieri d’Alta Quo-ta. He loves alpinism and skialpinism, he enjoys being in the mountains in every season of the year.

Extreme architecture

6 hours

Architecture in adverse natural environments

The construction of housing structures in un-favorable natural contexts such as high alti-tude or extremely isolated places has always been the result of an extraordinary “design engagement”, an interesting test bench for issues such as the rationalization of space, the use of new materials and construction techniques, energy efficiency, sustainabili-ty of interventions and the relationship with landscape. The installation of an architecture in difficult contexts from the orographic, en-vironmental, geological and landscape point of view necessarily implies the resolution of complex construction and logistical problems, imposed by the total immersion in climatically and morphologically extreme environments, materializing the most vivid manifestation of the concept of “limit”. It is precisely the need to respond to the severe boundary conditions and, at the same time, to make the best use of scarce resources offered by the place, to trig-ger the possibility of tacking constraints and critical issues in as many opportunities and design ideas, formulating knowledge, techno-logies, innovative construction solutions and virtuous cultural models. The course - starting from a survey of the most significant recent experiences - aims to illustrate what are the issues and problems emerging in this specific design field, providing knowledge and design methodologies applicable in complex contexts from the housing point of view.

Andrea AngeliDONTSTOP ARCHITETTURA

He graduated in Archi-tecture from Milan Polyte-chnic, he collaborated with engineering and architecture companies for the develop-ment of projects at different scales. He has been Tutor for international workshops at the Polytechnic of Milan and has been called to carry out lectures and conferen-ces in different institutes such as NABA, Sino Euro-pean Innovation Institute and LABA Douala. In 2010 he undertook an important experience with Editoriale Domus S.p.A, becoming a consultant for the manage-ment of their photographic archive. In 2016, together with Alice Piciocchi, and the support of 24Ore Cultura, he published “Kiribati, cronache illustrate da una terra (s)perduta” (Kiribati, illustrated chronicles from a lost land”, of which he is co-author and illustrator. Since 2015, he has collaborated with Dontstop architecture where he holds the role of Project leader for projects in Italy and abroad.

Culture & heritage4 hours

Human beings and the anthropological factor at the center of humanitarian architecture

For some masters of architecture, the con-text is the fundamental element for the genesis of the project. But the concept of context collects multiple elements: the choi-ce on which to exclude and which to include as ingredients of the project is a matter of experience, knowledge and sensitivity. The course will focus on one of these facets, the society in which the project is built. Knowing how to relate ro and understand a society different from ours is fundamental, especial-ly in humanitarian architecture projects that often involve territories and people far from the environment of origin of the designer. Focusing on the population of Kiribati - but not only - a series of case studies will be exposed to help refine the students’ sensiti-vity and deepen their understanding of the concept of context.

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Silvia BerselliUNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA

She graduated in Archi-tecture from the Polytechnic of Milan and collaborated with Triennale di Milano (Renzo Piano’s exhibition, 2007 and Casa per tutti, 2008). She obtained a PhD in History of the architectu-re and urbanism from the Polytechnic of Turin. From 2010 to 2014, she was a post-PhD researcher in the FNS research group Da Ravenna a Vals. Luce e oscurità in architettura dal Medioevo al presente with a project on lighting and comfort in the XX-century architecture. From 2014 to 2016 she teaches and rese-arches at the Architectural Academy of Mendrisio in the contemporary art field. Since 2016, she has been teaching at the School of Architecture of the Univer-sity of Bologna. She col-laborates with “Il Giornale dell’Architettura” and “Archi” magazines.

Program | LESSONS

Case history8 hours

Successful examples of humanitarian architectures

The course presents a series of successful case studies in the contemporary panorama of humanitarian architecture. The analysis of the projects presented will allow to highli-ght the contexts and compositional elemen-ts that led to their success and helps create a background of methods and references that are essential for shaping each student’s own design identity. At the same time, this system of references, analyzed critically, constitutes a common language that allows communicating on an equal basis with pro-fessionals in the sector or with future custo-mers.

Raoul VecchioBALOUO SALO

He was born in Catania (Italy) in 1985 and since he was a child, he has culti-vated passions for art and culture. During his childhood he develops a great interest in the natural ecosystem and African cultures that he begins to deepen during the degree course. He studies Buddhist philosophies and meditation techniques, so he was inspired by the great humanists and human rights defenders including the SS Dalai Lama, Mahat-ma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Thomas Sankara. In 2014 he graduated in Buil-ding Engineering and Archi-tecture at the University of Catania, with a thesis for an anti-salt dam in southern Senegal, with the aim of solving a humanitarian and environmental emergency that causes malnutrition, poverty and diseases to over 80,000 people in the Sedhiou region. In 2014 he founded, together with Jali Diabate, the Onlus Associa-tion Balouo Salo.

Humanitarian associations

4 hours

Architecture and private initiative

Accanto alle agende di governo e ai pro-grammi degli organi di cooperazione inter-nazionale, un ruolo chiave nel dare risposte concrete a contesti umanitari complessi, è certamente giocato dall’associazionismo. Le forme spontanee di azione con finalità umanitaria hanno rappresentato, nell’ulti-mo decennio, alcune delle esperienze più efficaci e concrete per portare un supporto efficace là dove azioni più strutturate spes-so tardano a produrre i propri effetti. Il corso in particolare si focalizzerà sul metodo della partecipazione comunitaria/auto-costruzio-ne nei progetti a favore dell’appropriazione dello spazio e dello sviluppo sostenibile. Il modulo affronterà l’architettura come stru-mento atto al miglioramento della vita delle comunità in difficoltà, implementandone la salute pubblica, e favorendone una maggio-re cognizione di diritti umani e l’educazione.

Alessio BattistellaARCÒ ARCHITETTURA & COOPERAZIONE

President of Arcò Archi-tecture and Cooperation, where he works for design and applied research in the field of sustainable archi-tecture in humanitarian emergency context. He is a member of the scientific committee and a master professor at Architecture and Design School of Ca-merino University. There-fore, he is a member of the Advisor Board, of the scien-tific committee of IN/Arch (National Institute of Archi-tecture) and Track leader and member of scientific committee of S.O.S. School of Sustainability, and master professor at Milan Polytech-nic for “Design for Develop-ment” course. With Arcò, he produced and showed his research works at 13° and 15° Architecture Biennale, in Venice. Arcò projects appeared on different mo-nographs, on the most important sector’s magazi-nes and they had received international awards such as Renzo Piano Foundation of Young Talent award and Holcim Awards for Sustai-nable Construction.

Social and environmental sustainability

6 hours

Performance of the humanitarian project

Sfida fondamentale della progettazione umanitaria è portare qualità architettonica in contesti in cui manchino i presupposti tecnici od economici per generare progetti complessi. In questo senso uno degli ele-menti centrali della progettazione non può non essere rappresentato dalla performance bioclimatica dell’edificio e della sua capaci-tà di limitare il proprio impatto ambientale e di consumo delle risorse. Il modulo riper-correrà pertanto tecniche e metodologie utili all’ottenimento di perfomance di ele-vato livello attraverso principi passivi, che traggano solidità anche da uno studio delle tecnologie disponibili nei vari contesti, da intendersi quali sintesi tecnica e culturale espressa da una specifica comunità. Lo studio di materiali “poveri” quali la terra cru-da, la paglia, il bamboo, o materiali di riuso completeranno una panoramica generale orientata all’approfondimento delle più co-muni soluzioni performative in ambito emer-genziale.

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Giancarlo MazzantiEl Equipo Mazzanti

Anupama KundooAnupama Kundoo Architects

Tatiana BilbaoTatiana Bilbao Estudio

Giancarlo Mazzanti (1963, Barranquilla, Colombia) is an Architect of the Javeriana University, Bogotá - Colombia (1987) with a postgraduate in Architecture history and theory, and Industrial design from the University of Floren-ce. Italy (1991). He has been teacher in several Colombian Universities. He has also taught at some of the most prestigeous american Univer-sities such as Princeton Uni-versity in 2012 and Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2014 . Amongst some of his most relevant projects are the Convention Center, Biblioteca España and the Southame-rican Games Coliseums in Medellín, Colombia. Porvenir Kindergarten in Bogota and Timayui in Santa Marta. He has been the distinguished winner of the Ibero-Ameri-can Biennial in the category of Best Architectonic Work in 2008 (Lisbon, Portugal), winner of the Panamerican Architecture Biennial in the category of Architectonic De-sign in 2008 (Quito, Ecuador), winner of the Global Award for Sustainable Architectu-re (Paris France ) in 2010, chosen by the MoMA (New York, 2010) and the Museum Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2015) to exhibit his work in their permanent collection.

España Library: culture and beauty in Medellín - Colombia

Anupama Kundoo’s practice started in 1990 in-volves extensive material re-search and experimentation to achieve an architecture of low environmental impact that is socio-economically beneficial. Kundoo, Pro-fessor at Potsdam School of Architecture, Germany, graduated in 1989 from Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai, and received her PhD degree from the TU Berlin in 2008. Her work was exhibited twice at the Venice Archi-tecture Biennale in 2012 and 2016 and will be exhibited as a solo show at Louisia-na Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in 2020. She is the author of ‘Roger An-ger: Research on Beauty/Recherche sur la Beauté, Architecture 1958-2008’ published in Berlin by Jovis Verlag in 2009. Anupama Kundoo is the Spring 2020 William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

Volontariat Home for Homeless Children: Architectural quality of a humanitarian project

Program | LECTURES

Tatiana Bilbao began her eponymous studio in 2004 with the aim of integrating social values, collaboration and sensitive design appro-aches to architectural work. Prior to founding her firm, Bilbao was an Advisor in the Ministry of Development and Housing of the Govern-ment of the Federal District of Mexico City, during this period she was part of the General Development Direc-torate of the Advisory Coun-cil for Urban Development in the City. The work of the office intersects with rese-arch allowing to design for diverse circumstances and in reconstruction or crisis scenarios. Bilbao holds a recurring teaching position at Yale University School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard University GSD, AA Association in London, Columbia University GSAPP, Rice University, University of Andrés Bello in Chile, and Peter Behrens School of Arts at HS Dusseldorf in Germany.

Low income houses: living in Acuña, Mexico

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Jean Paul UzabakirihoMass Design

Nicola ScaranaroFoster + Partners

Shigeru BanShigeru Ban Architects

Program | LECTURES

Jean Paul Uzabakiriho is a Design Director based in Kigali, Rwanda. Jean Paul has contributed to much of MASS’s built work in Rwan-da. He completed his un-dergraduate studies at the University of Rwanda,and as an architecture student, he participated in a traveling studio to analyze architectu-ral styles across East Africa. He joined MASS Design Group in 2013 as an intern and assisted in the design and construction of Buta-ro Doctors’ Housing and the Butaro Cancer Centre of Excellence. As a Global Health Corps Fellow, he oversaw the construction of the second phase of Butaro Doctors’ Share-Housing. He participated in training held at the Harvard School of Medicine on building design and engineering approaches for airborne infection con-trol. Jean Paul was instru-mental in the design and construction of the Univer-sity of Global Health Equity and is currently overseeing the construction of the Rwanda Institute of Conser-vation and Agriculture.

Justice & Beauty: experiences from Rwanda

Nicola is a registered architect in the UK and Italy and a RIBA chartered mem-ber. His experience includes buildings that have pionee-red a sustainable approach to architecture and include a strikingly wide range of work, from urban master-plans, airports, civic and cultural buildings, hospitality and residential, workplaces, R&D and high-rise buildings. He is a Partner at Foster + Partners, one of the most innovative architecture and integrated design practices in the world.

Ethics and social responsibility: architecture according to Foster + Partners

Shigeru Ban starts practi-cing in Tokyo in 1985. Since the early years he studies recyclable but durable materials. Along with these low-cost experiments he inquiries how innovative architectural Solutions may bring interesting outcomes and ideas. His everlasting commitment in integrating structure and material grant Shigeru a prominent role in architectural panorama, allowing him to produce stunning architectures like Metz’s Centre Pompidou. However, his passion in design is equal to his in-volvement in humanitarian projects only: Voluntary Ar-chitects Network is a group he funded in 1995 to raise the awareness of people on social, political and calami-tous issues.

Research in material: Paper Shelter Haiti

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Raul PantaleoTAMassociati

Mariam KamaraAtelier Masōmī

Diana Lopez CaramazanaUNDP United Nations Development Program

Program | LECTURES

Raul Pantaleo is an Italian architect, born in Milano, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Venice. He is one of the co-founder of “TAMassociati”, a practice specializes in IMPACT DE-SIGN. Since 2019 Professor at the architecture faculty of Trieste. Some of the current and completed projects include: The Salam Cen-tre for Cardiac Surgery for Emergency NGO in Sudan (2013-Winner of the AGA KHAN AWARD FOR ARCHI-TECTURE, Children Surgery Centre for Emergency NGO in Uganda with Renzo Piano; healthcare buildings in Dar-fur, Sudan; Central African Republic, Sierra Leon, Afgha-nistan, Iraq, Kenya, Senegal, Rwanda and Uganda. In in 2014 with TAMassociati- BEST ITALIAN ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR; in 2016- CU-RATORIAL TEAM OF THE ITALIAN PAVILION at the 15th International Archi-tecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Mariam obtained her Ma-sters in Architecture from the University of Washin-gton. In 2013, she became a founding member of united-4design, a global collective of architects working on projects in the U.S., Afgha-nistan and Niger. This led to her founding atelier masōmī in 2014, an architecture and research firm through which she tackles a wide variety of public, cultural, residential, commercial and urban desi-gn projects.

Her work is guided by the belief that architects have an important role to play in thinking spaces that have the power to elevate, dignify, and provide a better quality of life. Through her practice, Mariam aims to discover innovative ways of doing so, while maintaining an inti-mate dialog between archi-tecture, people, and context.

Born in Valladolid (Spain), she is a graduate of the Uni-versity of Granada in Politi-cal Science and also holds a MSc on Public Service Management by the Uni-versity of Birmingham (UK). Diana has dedicated more than 20 years of professio-nal life to the importance of local governments in deve-lopment and the essential role they play in providing public services, promoting opportunities, increasing de-mocracy and achieving su-stainability. She is currently Partnership Specialist on Cities and Urbanization at the United Nations Develop-ment Program in New York. In her previous positions at the UN, she has been Head of Local Governments and Decentralization at UN-Ha-bitat in Nairobi and worked at the International Labour Organization on issues related to local economic development, international migration and employment creation. For the past 10 years, she has been involved in the local implementation of the global UN agendas such Agenda 2030, New Urban Agenda, Climate and Financing for development.

Beauty as a principle of justice Architecture as an instrument of the common good

Transposition of community objectives into government agendas

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Giuseppe GrantOrizzontale Architettura

Mario CucinellaMCArchitects

Diébédo Francis KéréKéré Architecture

Program | LECTURES

He was born in Caserta in 1987. He studied at Technical University of Aachen RWTH and he graduate at the faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia of La Sapienza University in Rome. In 2012/2013 he colla-borated with Collectif EXYZT for temporary architecture projects. He is founder mem-ber of Orizzontale, studio/laboratory of architecture based in Rome, active all over Europe on experimental projects including architectu-re, urbanistic, public art and self-construction. He gained different awards such as: “Gio-vane Talento dell’Architettura Italiana 2018” dal CNAPPC, “YAP MAXXI 2014” dal MAXXI Roma e MoMA NYC, “RomAr-chitettura” (2015-2017) dall’I-NARCH. From 2017 he works with the London Metropolitan University for the research project of repopulation of abandoned historical center and new migrations topic. In 2019 he collaborates for Ludovica Carbotta MONOWE project at the 58th Biennale of art in Venice, intitled “May You Live in Interesting Times”. From 2020 he teaches at Uni-versity of L’Aquila Architecture and Architectural Composi-tion IV (ACAIV) that focuses on the temporary architecture intervention started in colla-boration with Maxxi L’Aquila “Strumenti per un progetto urbano incrementale”.

He graduates in Archi-tecture in 1968, collaborates with Renzo Piano in Genoa and Paris. In 1992 founds in Paris the Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) studio and in 1999 opens a new base in Bologna. Currently he is professor at the Faculty of Architecture Federico II di Napoli, he is Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK and Guest Professor in Emer-ging Technologies at the Technische Universitat at Munich. He is an internatio-nal point of reference re-garding sustainable design. In 2012 he founds Building Green Futures, a no-profit organization which aim is to join environmental culture and technology in order to create an architecture able to guarantee dignity, quality and performance respecting the environment. He can bo-ast numerous and valuable awards, one of the most recent ones is the RIBA In-ternational Fellowship 2016 award. His best works are Sino Italian Ecological Buil-ding (SIEEB) in Beijing, the Kuwait School in Gaza, the building One Airport Square in Accra in Ghana, the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.

Francis Kéré is an interna-tionally renowned Burkinabè architect, recognised for his pioneering approach to de-sign and sustainable modes of construction. His voca-tion to become an architect comes from a personal commitment to serve the community he grew up in, and a belief in the transfor-mative potential of beauty.

In 2004, his very first bu-ilding – the Gando Primary School, which he designed, raised funds for and realised in collaboration with the residents of his hometown while still a student at the Technical University of Ber-lin – was awarded the pre-stigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, garnering him critical acclaim from the outset of his career. In 2005 he founded his architectural practice, Kéré Architecture GmbH, as well as the Kéré Foundation e.V., a non-profit organisation that pursues projects in Gando.

Self-construction and new models of social architecture

Vernacular architecture and innovation: the tradition of places as a source of inspiration

Bridging the Gap: self-building in Burkina Fso

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Program | WORKSHOP

Design of homeless shelters and comfort stations in New York

32 hours

The workshop will represent the occasion of practical synthesis to test all the notions available through the other teaching modu-les, ensuring strategic answers with respect to a real architectonic design. In collabo-ration with the Department of Territorial Planning of New York city, the course will focus on the topic of “comfort station” and of “homeless shelters”, garrisons that can guarantee various fundamental services to the weaker section of society in one of the most iconic cities in the west. Thanks to the workshop, students will have the opportuni-ty to deal with a current topic but unconven-tional, which seeks solution of real problems in a well-being context, but at the same time sign of enormous complexities and social inequalities. In the dialogue with the New York Department of City Planning, students will have the occasion to have a design holi-stic experience, which will integrate theorical and practical aspects of social and natural sciences, with also design, engineering and planning concepts in the urban context. The workshop is oriented to prototype the best lab results, it will define a multi-disciplinary method aimed to the inclusion of citizens, in order to create a more liveable New York, open to everyone and full of life.

Giulio RigoniBIG BJARKE INGELS GROUP

In 2004 Giulio Rigoni gra-duated at the IUAV Universi-ty of Venice with A. Cornoldi and a dissertation concer-ning the Ground Zero recon-struction in NYC. He worked in Switzerland in numerous architectural practices as Livio Vacchini (Locarno) and Herzog&de Meuron (Basel). In 2017, he started working at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (NYC). In the academic years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, he was the Assistant of professor Muck Petzet in the Sustainable Design courses of the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio – AAM. In 2017, he became the Italian Project Architect/Project Manager of the BIG’s project SPFF S. Pellegrino Flagship Factory.

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Program | WORKSHOP

Downtown’s skyscrapers, Hudson river, Central Park, Brooklyn Brid-ge: it is not possible to give a description of one of the liveliest cities of contemporary collective imaginary. Economic Capitol of United States, entertainment center, holiday destination and homeland for about 9 million of inhabitants, New York it is a very complex city, where different languages are spoken in the world, about 200, and in which a third of the population was born abroad and then migrated in the United States. Icon of welfare and progress typically western, NY during the years had to deal with numerous crisis: not the last, a big social disparity between the most influent people of the nation and entire districts of disadvantage population, especially in case of immigrate community and ethnic minorities. The America system is based on opportunities, but it is led to make difficult the access to base service for some population sections, like education and health care. Therefore, NYC qualifies itself as an extraordinary architectural and social laboratory where it is possible experiment architecture that can be defined humanitarian.

New York

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Program | VISITS

* the timing and methods of the visits will be confirmed according to the regulatory evo-lution regarding the containment of the contagion from Covid-19

WASPInternational leader in the study and implementation of 3D printing systems, WASP places its action in the wake of a firm social desi-gn. Indeed, the planet’s resources are not sufficient to sustain the ongoing demographic explosion, and this is where WASP’s dream fits in: to print a healthy, beautiful and human-sized house with a cost that tends to zero. a home for everyone is an essential piece for the realization of equality and meritocracy, of shared well-being. During the visit to the company, the designers will have the oppor-tunity to experience first-hand results, tools and methodologies of this approach.

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Placement

Rwanda Chapel, project by: Myat Htoo Aung

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Placement | OVERVIEW

For each student, the classes and the the worhshop will be followed by a period of collaboration or internship with different partners of YACademy. This stage aims at improving the students’ skills and will offer them the rare opportunity to work and interact with some of the most important firms in the world. By enriching their expe-rience through internships and collaborations, students will have the opportunity to build a solid network of relationships which will be useful to accelerate and imrpove their professional develop-ment. Here follows a list of some of the professional firms, partners of YACademy, that are more relevant in relation to this course’s to-pic.

Internships and collaborations: the career orientation service

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YACademy allows me to discover different designers and humanitar-ian architecture points of view that helped me define what I want to do.Paride Zambelli

I think the academy is a valid space to give useful tools to fill the gaps of university education. A place to meet people that share your thoughts. Giulia Lodetti

Paride Zambelli and Giulia Lodetti attended the course Architecture for Humanity, 2020 edition. Through the course they have been se-lected by Michele De Lucchi for the participation in INoltre, the proj-ect of Unipol Group for the rehabilitation of Milan suburbs. BUM, the project of Giulia, Paride and David Villegas is currently in phase of realization and will lead, in summer 2021, to the inauguration of a new urban market at Milan City Hall 9.

more info on: www.yacademy.it/alumni

Paride, Giulia and Michele De Lucchi

Placement | ALUMNI

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I was impressed by the academy’s openness to dialogue and the versa-tility of the course based on the specific needs of individual students.Tiziana Tasca

YACademy allowd me to realize a dream: to work at David Chipper-field Architects has always represented my main aspiration.Carmelo Legato

During the course we had the opportunity to face and to personally collaborate with those architects at whome we usually look in awe and admiration and that we study on books and magazines.Alessia Ianiri

Carmelo Legato, Alessia Ianiri and Tiziana Tasca attended the cour-se Architecture for Exhibition, 2020 edition. For the workshop they developed an exhibition project in collaboration with Automobili Lamborghini. At the end of the course, they have been selected for a collaboration with David Chipperfield Architect Milan.

more info on: www.yacademy.it/alumni

Carmelo, Alessia, Tiziana and David Chipper-field Architects

Placement | ALUMNI

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fosterandpartners.com

orizzontale.org

massdesigngroup.orgelequipomazzanti.comkundooanupama

sbga.it tatianabilbao.comtamassociati.org

Placement | PARTNER FIRMS

LondonFoster + Partners is a global studio for sustainable

architecture, urbanism and design, founded by Norman Foster in 1967. Since then, he, and the team around him, have established an international practice with a worl-dwide reputation. With offices across the globe, we work as a single studio that is both ethnically and culturally diverse.

BogotáEL EQUIPO MAZZANTI/TEAM MAZZANTI, is a Co-

lombian design studio specialising in socially driven architectonic design and academic research. With over twenty-five years of experience, the studio has gained wide national and international recognition. The studio’s practice is characterised by open, collective and non-hie-rarchical working processes, which bring together ar-chitects, urban planners, sociologists, artists and other professionals. On-going questioning and discussion, as well as a motivation to transgress given limits, constitute part of the development of every project.

PondicherryAnupama Kundoo’s practice started in 1990 involves

extensive material research and experimentation to achieve an architecture of low environmental impact that is socio-economically beneficial. Kundoo, Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture, Germany, graduated in 1989 from Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai, and received her PhD degree from the TU Berlin in 2008. Her work was exhibited twice at the Venice Ar-chitecture Biennale in 2012 and 2016 and will be exhibi-ted as a solo show at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in 2020.

Rome

Boston

Orizzontale are an architects’ collective based in Rome whose work crosses the fields of architecture, urbanism, public art, and DIY practice. Orizzontale since 2010 has been promoting projects of common relational spaces, giving form to both dismissed and unseen images of the city. These projects have represented the ground for experimenting new kinds of collaborative interactions between city dwellers and urban commons as well as occasions to test the boundaries of the architectural creation process.

Mass Design is a team of over 120+ architects, land-scape architects, engineers, builders, furniture designers, writers, film makers, and researchers representing 20 countries across the globe. They believe in expanding access to design that is purposeful, healing, and hopeful. In 2017 MASS was awarded the National Design Award in Architecture, given each year by the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Museum for Design. In 2019, Architect Ma-gazine ranked MASS 4th in Design. Their work has been featured in over 4,000 publications.

MilanSBGA | BLENGINI GHIRARDELLI features a variety of

projects including Urban and Architectural Design, Inte-rior and Industrial Design. The Studio built a vast expe-rience and developed a pragmatic and multidisciplinary method working on complex projects. Specialized de-signers handle every phase of the project collaborating with clients to meet their needs and specific requests. Our passion for innovation and creativity enables us to create functional projects and become emerging players in the international market.

Mexico CityTatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO is a Mexico City based archi-

tecture studio, founded in 2004. At the core of the stu-dio´s practice is an analysis of the context surrounding projects, which scale from masterplans to affordable housing typologies. A goal of the work is to both con-tribute to its surroundings while remaining flexible to absorb shifting needs.

VeniceTAM was born in Venice as an architectural research

group since the late 1980s, within the Utopica European Architects Network Association. TAM works as a design firm since 1996, with the headquarter in Venice and offi-ces in Bologna, Trieste and Paris. Active in Social Design internationally since the last millennium, TAM combines a civil and professional commitment, working in sustai-nable architecture, urban planning, landscape design, participatory and educational processes, graphic design and social communication.

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Rwanda Chapel, project by: Yihang Zhang

Rules

I. General indications (both for physical and virtual attendance)

1. The courses will be taught in Italian (in case there are foreign students, a simultaneous translation service from Italian into English will be activated);

2. the admission to the courses is limited (max. 35 students per course: 25 in presence and 10 online) and the admission is ba-sed on a selection whose criteria are reported in section III;

3. the courses will be held at YACademy’s headquarters in via Bor-gonuovo, 5, Bologna, Italy;

4. YACademy reserves the right to modify the calendar and the program for a better operation of the courses. Possible modifi-cations will be previously communicated to the students;

5. the course is made up of two parts:

• lessons• a 32-hour workshop

6. at the end of the course, YACademy’s Placement office will guarantee to each student an internship or collaboration propo-sal whose duration and conditions will depend on the hosting firm;

7. in order for the student to activate a training period, as descri-bed at p. 6, they must:

• have completed the workshop activity (certified by the work-shop course professor)

• have attended at least 75% of the classroom lessons These conditions apply to students who will attend the cour-se physically. For the online students, the relevant conditions

II. Prerequisites1. 1. Being fluent in Italian or English (pre-intermediate fluency, at

least level B1);

2. 2. being students or graduates from one of the following cour-ses:

• Landscape Architecture• Architecture and architectural engineering• Preservation of environmental and architectural heritage• Preservation and renovation of cultural heritage• Design

The selection board can admit applicants who hold a diffe-rent certificate after examining their CV, portfolio, motivatio-nal letter and, possibly, interviewing them;

3. completing the application procedure as reported in par. IV;

4. paying the administration and enrollment fees.

III. Admission1. The applications will be assessed by a selection board which

will assign a score from 60 to 100 to each applicant;

2. the selection board’s members are appointed by the executive board of YAC srl;

3. the selection board’s verdict is unquestionable;

4. each applicant’s final score will be composed by:

• CV (max 30 points)• motivational letter (max 20 points)• portfolio (max 50 points)

are reported at par. V.

8. the matching of the students to the professional bodies for the training period is under the total and complete discretion of YA-Cademy’s scientific committee, which will keep the host firms’ availabilities into account;

9. the students can refuse the training period/collaboration op-portunity they receive from YACademy’s Placement office;

10. the training period/collaboration will start within 3 months from the course’s end, which corresponds to the conclusion of the exam session for online students as specified at p. 8.b, par. V;

11. at the end of the courses, participants will be given a certificate of attendance;

12. to receive the certificate of attendance, it is fundamental to:

• have completed the workshop activity (certificated by the workshop course professor)

• have attended at least 75% of the classroom lessons These conditions apply to students who will attend the cour-se physically. For the online students, the relevant conditions are reported at par. V.

13. to have more information on the courses, it is possible to con-tact the course tutor at [email protected];

14. it is necessary that the applicants who come from extra-EU countries and want to attend the course physically verify the terms and conditions for visa release prior to the publication of the provisional ranking, so as to be able to start the courses according to the set schedule. YACademy’s staff is available to release any document - within the area of its competence - that may be necessary for visa applications and release.

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5. besides any other information that the applicant deems intere-sting, in order to be complete, the CV must also contain:

• the year of graduation and degree mark, for those who have already graduated; non-graduated applicants should speci-fy the presumed date of graduation and presumed degree mark.

• indication of the level of English proficiency according to the CEFR standards.

6. on the basis of the scores, a provisional ranking will be formed and published in each applicant’s online private area. The best 35 applicants for each course will be admitted according to the scores described at point 4 in this section;

7. a scholarship (full coverage of the enrollment fee) will be gran-ted to the applicants ranking 1st to 5th; the first 5 ranking appli-cants – regardless of their chosen type of attendance, online or in presence– are assigned the scholarships univocally: in case one of them refuses the scholarship, this cannot be assigned to any other applicant;

8. the applicants ranking 6th to 35th (included) will be admitted to the course after the enrollment fee payment (3249€ for physi-cal attendance and 2198€ for virtual attendance);

9. the applicants ranking from 36th on will not be admitted to the course, but may be admitted following the retirement of some of the admitted applicants. In this case, the course tutor will get in contact with the applicants within 10 days from the publica-tion of the provisional ranking;

10. according to enrollments and retirements, after 14 days from the publication of the provisional ranking, the official ranking will be published in the online private area of each applicant;

11. all the admitted applicants, who have either received a scho-larship or not, will be contacted by the course tutor in the days following the publication of the provisional ranking to confirm their enrollment and the type of attendance of the course (phy-sical or online);

The uploaded files shall be in .jpg or .pdf format and of a ma-ximum size of 10MB;

6. the application will be evaluated by YACademy staff, once the administration fee payment has been made and all the required documents have been uploaded;

7. at the end of the revision of the applications, on the day of pu-blication of the provisional ranking, the applicants will be infor-med of their status in their online private area:

• ADMITTED WITH SCHOLARSHIP• ADMITTED (an additional field will be activated in order to

upload the bank wire receipt for the enrollment fee)• NOT ADMITTED

The applicants shall be aware of the status of their applica-tion in order to act accordingly in case of admitted applican-ts’ retirement;

8. in case of admission without a scholarship, the applicant must pay the enrollment fee of

• 3294 € (2700 € + VAT) for those who will participate physi-cally

• 2196 € (1800 € + VAT) for those who will participate virtually with a single payment and upload the bank wire receipt on their online private area within five days from the publication of the provisional ranking;

9. not paying the enrollment fee will exclude the applicant from the course;

10. the enrollment fee (3294 € for physical attendan-ce and 2196 € for virtual attendance) must be paid by bank wire to the following IBAN (Solution Bank S.p.A.) IT45X0327302400000600103285 indicating the following re-ason for payment: “name and surname of the student; course

12. in case two or more applicants obtain the same score, priority will be given to the applicant who has received the highest sco-re for their portfolio, and in case of an additional ex aequo, the priority will be given to the applicant who has made the admini-stration fee payment earlier as specified at p. 5 of par. IV;

13. the selection board may require a motivational interview for some applicants;

14. the date of the motivational interview will be agreed upon with the applicant and the interview will be carried out via video call;

15. if an applicant does not show up for the interview, they will be automatically excluded from the admission.

IV. Enrollment1. Access www.yacademy.it;

2. fill in all the required fields in the personal details form;

3. at the end of the registration procedure, the applicant will recei-ve an email (check the spam folder in case this email is not in the inbox) with username, password, and a confirmation link: click on the link to confirm the registration;

4. log in to the online private area with the activated username and password and choose the course to which you want to apply;

5. for the application, the following documents are required:

• a copy of a valid identity document• motivational letter (max 200 words)• CV (also in Europass format)• portfolio (free format)• administration fee payment of 73,20€ which can be sent

through PayPal or bank wire (following the instructions on the private account area);

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title; enrollment” (e.g. for student John Smith’s enrollment in the Architecture for Exhibition course: “John Smith; Architectu-re for Exhibition; enrollment”). As for the upload of the receipt of payment, please, follow the instructions on your online priva-te area.

V. Virtual attendanceFrom 2020 YACademy offers the opportunity to participate in its courses with virtual attendance. The online participation in YACa-demy’s courses can take place in two different modes:

1. live streaming; the lessons will be accessible through an onli-ne platform, therefore it is necessary that the students have a computer with internet access; the students who take part in the live streaming of the lessons will be given the opportunity to ask questions and interact with the teachers according to the lesson delivery mode and with moderation carried out by YACademy staff;

2. deferred streaming: the lessons will be recorded and made available to students within 3 working days from their delivery so as to allow attendance to students who live in different time zones that are not compatible with the Italian classroom timetable. The lessons will be uploaded on a specific web por-tal with access reserved to YACademy students. Therefore, it is necessary that the students have a computer with internet access. The students who attend deferred-streamed lessons can send their questions to YACademy staff who will proceed to forward them to the teachers.

For the students who will participate in the course virtually, either in live-streaming or deferred-streaming mode, it is confirmed that:

3. there are no different registration/evaluation procedures or different rankings: all applicants who wish to participate in the course physically or virtually are considered equally in the se-lection and, once they are admitted to the course – either with

a scholarship or without - they will decide how to join the cour-se (i.e. physically or virtually);

4. the interpretation service from Italian into English will be gua-ranteed to the students who participate in the course online;

5. the course enrollment fee for students who will be admitted wi-thout a scholarship and participate in the online mode is redu-ced to € 1,800 +VAT;

The students who will take part in the course in the online mode:

6. will be able to attend all lessons, except for the parts of the lessons which involve a visit or a workshop (as described in the chapter “Program” of the course brochure);

7. will be able to participate in the workshop activities without any limitations (by carrying out their project revision via video call with the workshop tutor)

8. will have access to the post-course Placement service and will be granted a collaboration/internship proposal with the part-ners of the course, provided that:

• they have completed the workshop activity (certificated by the workshop tutor)

• they have passed a final assessment interview (certified by a commission made up of at least 3 professors appointed by the whole teaching staff and whose final judgment is unque-stionable);

With regard to the interview mentioned at point 8.b, it is specified that:

9. the interview will take place via video call;

10. the interview will take place in Italian or English, according to the student’s choice;

11. the evaluation commission will be composed of at least 3 members of the teaching staff;

12. the assessment interview will focus on the contents of the les-sons section of the course;

13. the assessment interview will take place within 4 weeks after the end of the classes (which corresponds to the conclusion of the workshop) on a date that will be communicated with at least a 7-day notice;

14. if a student is unable to take part in this assessment interview, a second date will be set within 21 days after the first schedu-led date;

15. if a student is not available on any of the two dates, they will not have the right to access the post-course Placement service provided by YACademy.

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VI. Notes1. This whole document constitutes an integral part of the Terms

and Conditions of the service;

2. the applicants agree to the Terms and Conditions when they register;

3. administration fees and enrollment fees are not refundable;

4. if an applicant retires from the course after paying the enrol-lment fee, the enrollment fee will not be refunded;

5. the administration fees and enrollment fees can be paid by a third party, provided that the reason for payment correctly re-fers to the applicant as indicated at point 10 of section IV.

6. YACademy declines all liability for missing communications depending on incorrect information given by the applicant or missing/late communication of address change (compared to the one indicated during the online registration), and for mista-kes attributable to third parties, chance or force majeure;

7. in case an applicant declares false or untrue statements regar-ding details necessary to the course enrollment, in addition to the sanctions envisaged by Article 76 of the Italian Presidential Decree 445/2000, the applicant’s paid fees will not be refunded. False or untrue statements declared by the applicant may bring to an action for damages carried out by those affected;

8. applicants will be held accountable for the personal data they provide and the promoter does not assume any responsibility for wrong data provided. The promoter, according to privacy policies, has the right to verify the applicants’ data by reque-sting a copy of an identity document regarding the data of the registration;

9. the access to the courses and to the training periods can be suspended for disciplinary reasons or force majeure;

10. maintaining the firms listed in the course brochure, a complete list of hosting firms will for the training periods will be given to the students at the beginning of the course;

11. The result of the educational program (hereafter named “project”), including any (available) intellectual and/or indu-strial property rights on the project, it is held definitively by YAC srl, which therefore acquires the exclusive right to economic exploitation, as well as reproduction, in any way or form, inclu-ding the rights to use, execute, adapt, modify, publish on any media channel, exhibit, reproduce and distribute the project - also for marketing and advertising purposes -, carry out edi-torial reviews, create derivative works based on it, and license the project - or some of its parts - to third parties, in any form, mode or technology including the “right of panorama” without any limitation of time or place.

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