The last day with the ITAD team! Today we received the certificates inside the special conference room of the “Ordine degli Architetti di Roma e provincia” where the vice president welcomed us and personally gave the documents to the students. After a presentation of the work done during the workshop by each student, the architect
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Today we visited the EUR Congress Centre – Fuksas Studio. After a drawing session we moved to the city of Music Auditorium and Maxxi Museum. The day is dedicated to contemporary pieces of Architecture, built the last decade in Rome by 3 famous architects: Massimiliano Fuksas, Renzo Piano and Zaha Hadid. Contemporary architecture is usually free of
The students had the opportunity to discover as much of Italian culture as possible,by also learning the traditional Italian meals. We prepeared some fresh Pasta noodles and a typical sweet, the Tiramisù with the help of the “Antichi Sapori” team and it’s amazing kitchen. We also visited St. Peter’s square obelisk.
We visited Piazza Augusto Imperatore, Masoleum of Augusto and Ara Pacis and had a drawing session with the artist Massimo Catalani. Later on, we followed Prof. Arch. Chiara Tonelli on her lecture that revealed all the sustainable elements and systems analysed for this prototype project. Chiara showed then the Italian projects deisgned for the Solar Decathlon Europe, with a
We left in the early morning to the fantastic city of Naples that is in the Mediterranean coast. Here the University Federico II welcomed us, the department of architecture professors made a presentation and lecture “Learning from Naples” for the day course. An architecture stroll through the historic city followed to understand the urban tissue of
We moved to the Neoclassical period and we visited Villa Borghese and Galleria Borghese Museum Collection The splendid small palace that hosts the Borghese Gallery was built at the beginning of the seventeenth century as the private residence and for public representation of the Borghese family. From the very beginning it housed the collection of
We visited few fundamental places of the baroque period in Rome : S. Ignazio Loyola Trevi Fountain Church of San Carlo at the Four Fountains Church of Sant’Andrea at Quirinale Palazzo Barberini After an introduction of the period we had a Drawing session with the artist and architect Gildo Incitti. The drawing session is to understand the movement
In the morning we visited The Vatican State, St. Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican museum, the Sistine Chapel. Later in the day we had a lecture of arch. Gianluca Evels: The art history of the building in relation to the landscape, and the history of the relationship between architecture and place in the last century shows how it is long since outdated by
Continue the journey through the Roman Empire by visiting the Campidoglio and Chiostro del Bramante. Drawing session with the artist/architect Gildo Incitti and personal development of the Campidoglio Case Study. Lecture on a design project made by NOS Design. The focus is to understand how the analysis of the urban fabric, the context and the