STUDIO: Italy
A city whose beauty grows from its unique position in the world and on the water....Venice affords us the opportunity to study an urban fabric which sustains dense human activity via innumerable private, public and religious buildings and spaces which will be the subject of our analysis. Day trips to Vicenza to visit the works of Palladio and to solo to contemplate Scarpa’s modern masterpiece, the San Vito Cemetery, are included. Two day seminar studying villas and gardens in the Veneto including the major Palladrian works will conclude the first part of the journey.
From Venice we moved on to Bologna, Europe’s oldest university town. Bologna’s intact medieval fabric and progressive patronage of modern architecture offer the change to again witness the dialogue between ancient and modern works. Immediately outside the medieval walls we find Le Corbusier’s Pavillion, Aalto’s Church at Riolla, and the other contemporary building including Rossi’s cemetery in Modena, as well as a number of distinguished contemporary churches.
Finally we arrived at Italy’s northern border in Lake Como, home of the modern master Terragni, to study all of his major works there. Como also serves as a base for a trip to Milano to inspect its monuments. A bus trip into Switzerland brings us to the works of Mario Botta as well as the buildings of half a dozen other important practicing architects.
Professor Paul Amatuzzo, Mark Canfield, Thomas Attianese, Araz Akbarien, Joshua Doonan, Nesanel Druxman, Paulina Jatczak, Natalie Lagone, Frank Paliotta, Robert Tilden, Raymond Szuskiewicz, Matthew Weiss, and Matthew Wasnewsky.