Genoa Summer School 3

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Can Lis House | September 9th – 18th, 2015

Genoa Summer School 3 (GSS3) is based in the Jørn Utzon house in Maiorca, the house he build for himself in 1971. The summer school will focus on designing a building, through drawing, modeling and discussion in groups. The students will work in groups of three, the professors will work in couple. Each four days the professors will change and the only constant in the project will be provided by the students. The students will design a small building related to long term or short term hospitality. The building will be made of twelve rooms. A jury will evaluate the final projects.

Location
Can Lis House by Jørn Utzon, Avinguda Jørn Utzon 77, 07691 Portopetro, Mallorca, Spain

Teachers
9 – 12 september:
Sam Jacob (AA – London)
Vittorio Pizzigoni (Scuola Politecnica – Genova)

12 – 15 september
Simona Malvezzi (Kuehn Malvezzi)
Guro Sollid (Royal Danish Academy- København)

15 – 18 september:
Carmen Andriani (Scuola Politecnica – Genova)
Morten Meldgaard (Royal Danish Academy – København)

Critics
Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes (AKKA architects)
Andreas Lechner (TU – Graz)
Valter Scelsi (Scuola Politecnica – Genova)
Pier Paolo Tamburelli (UIC – Chicago)

Eligibility
GSS3 is open up to 36 partecipants, who will be selected from among university students, graduates and practicing professionals.

Applications
Applicants are requested to send a PDF file (made of two A4, portrait) comprising a CV and a presentation of their work in whatever form they prefer, making sure to include the following mandatory information: name, surname, date of birth, education background, email address. Please send a file here named “name_surname.pdf”. The maximum file size is 4 Mb.

Deadlines
Applications must be submitted no later than 12:00 on May the 25th.
Applicants chosen for participating and a ranking of possible substitutes will be communicated on May the 27th.
Selected applicants wishing to partecipate must communicate their acceptance and pay their fees by June the 2nd

Fees
School only: € 500,00
A limited amount of rooms is available in an hotel nearby at the price of € 23,00 per night per person.

Enquiries
summer.school@arch.unige.it

Language
English

Equipment
Partecipant must bring their own laptop computer, wifi connection is avaible.

Organization
Università di Genova, Scuola Politecnica,
Dipartimento di Scienze per l’Architettura
Stradone S. Agostino, 37 – 16123 Genova

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture,
Design and Conservation, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Institut for Design og Kommunikation
Philip De Langes Alle 10, 1439 Kbh. K

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