NYIT has overseas programs and campuses in Jordan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and China, among other places. Presently, the School of Architecture and Design administers an Interior Design program in Bahrain and Abu Dhabi. For more information, please refer to the NYIT International and Off-site Programs web site.
The School of Architecture and Design also enjoys an international reputation for its summer abroad programs. Under the direction of one or more full-time faculty members, as many as three diverse programs are offered during the summer, depending upon interested students, and faculty availability. NYIT has offered programs in China, France, Italy, Egypt, Germany, Spain, Greece, and Turkey, where students and faculty come in contact with foreign students and architects while living in another culture, enabling them to understand first-hand the range, diversity, and power of living architecture as individual buildings or as entire cities and spaces. Summer study abroad course credit can be applied to a student’s specific curriculum and field of study. The summer programs are open to students enrolled in any degree program offered by the School of Architecture and Design.
SUMMER ABROAD PROGRAMS 2010
ARCHITETTURA MODERNA – ATELIER ITALIA NORD
Professor Paul Amatuzzo – Director
June 7 – July 14, 2010
This program will study a wide range of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in Northern Italy. It will also carefully examine the urban form of two particular and unique Italian cities, Venice and Bologna, and visit a number of others. The work examined via on site sketching will form the analytic and cultural foundation for the design studio program to be conducted in affiliation with the Western world’s oldest university – The University of Bologna, its Dean, two of its most distinguished faculty and a number of its students.
The premise of this design studio program will be to examine the integral relationship of the fabric of a city and the buildings that are invented within them and subsequently to make our own design interventions informed and transformed by the modern architectural works visited.
The Bologna studio will serve as the central “railhead” for visits to modern works in Venice and the Veneto, Bologna and Emilia Romagna, Milano and Florence. Such works will include those of: Scarpa, Aalto, LeCorbusier, Michelucci,… as well as a number of lesser known but excellent architects: Bottoni, Gardella, Ricci, Figini,…
After two days of studio preparation in Old Westbury, New York, we will travel to Venice for a brief period prior to moving on to our permanent atelier in Bologna. Our work in Venice will focus on the city structure itself, works by Carlo Scarpa and, most importantly, intense analysis and documentation of the site of the design problem. All on site studies and field trips will be documented via analytic freehand sketching.
The design problem which will form the largest part of our work in Bologna will be undertaken by small groups in conjunction with Italian students and Italian studio teachers/jurors. The problem will be an Architecture Center for American Students in Italy (Venice). The program will include housing accommodations for a student group and faculty, as well as studio and seminar space and various supporting spaces such as breakfast room, library, exhibit gallery, gardens, etc. Thoroughly developed drawings and three dimensional paper models will be the medium for final review.
The design studio component will be directed by me and co-taught with Prof. Silvio Cassara of the University of Bologna. Prof. Cassara will join me for juries on June 23, 30, and July 14 and be responsible for the studio from July 1-8.
Other jurors and lecturers include: Filippo Buldrini – Engineer – Bologna, Prof Gianjio Dallerba, Architect – Bologna, Prof. Giuliano Gresleri, University of Bologna, Dr. Jacopo Gresleri, Architect – University of Ferrara, Prof. Pascal Hofstein, Architect – Paris, Dean Carlo Monti, University of Bologna
EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION
Charles Matz – Director
May 26 - June 28, 2010
The Foreign Study Program to Egypt will incorporate an intimate survey of the country’s land features, its rich historic tradition of ecologically sound architectural, site and building practices. Most especially it will emphasize the ancient, holistic-spiritual dynamic which pervades all aspects of daily life –connecting all that thrives to the sun ---the sun to the gods and ultimately the gods to humanity through the building arts. The recent application of solar technology, to drive the electrical needs of an ever expanding population in both rural and urban areas, has been a rousing success. Viable alternatives are being sought to counteract the negative effect of large-scale hydro interventions; dams and sluices, which have altered the millennia-old ecological balance of the Nile valley.
Your voyage will begin at the gate of Africa, Cairo. Your itinerary will include the multilayered neighborhoods that make up one of the world’s largest metropolis, Including the Pyramids at Giza, the Sphinx, and the stepped Pyramid at Saqqara. Your exploration will include site visits to exotic places, master-classes in watercolor and travel sketching and studio lectures on Ancient Egyptian Architecture, Archeology and Urban Planning. In Cairo you will board the overnight sleeper train to the upper reaches of the Nile, Aswan. The desert is tangible at the very fringes of the lush Nubian city. There, you will witness the birth of architecture at its very root. Our project will encompass an approach to design as a register and marker of natural phenomena. In Aswan the studio courses will consider vernacular architecture and intuitive construction techniques.
From Aswan you will travel to Abu-Simbel to view the Colossi that stand at Egypt’s Southern gate. You will see the result of the monumental project of salvage undertaken by the Egyptian Government and UNESCO to relocate the carved figures of Ramses II and Nefertari before the flooding of Lake Nasser. From Aswan you will travel by convoy to Luxor. You will see the temple of Karnak; visit the Valley of the Kings. The seat of Middle Egypt, Luxor holds some of the ancient world’s most precious architectural treasures. It is against this exotic backdrop that our project will blossom. Your proposals will be reviewed in a studio setting. You will visit the Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert and ply the Nile to and from your studio in a traditional sailboat. At journey’s end we will all return through the Western Desert, visit Hassan Fathy’s experiment in urban planning to Luxor for final reviews of the projects and a celebration of the travelogue you will have completed.
You will be asked to design a new housing development and retrofit a traditional building as a Study Center for locally and foreign-trained archeologists and preservation specialists. The property is located on the West riverfront bank of the river Nile, in the City of Luxor. The backdrop of the property is the historically significant Valley of the Kings and Queens. The housing development and Study Center incorporates the construction of both new and traditional construction and planning methodologies. Doubling as a residential complex and a workshop facility, the Center’s design will address current efforts of government-sanctioned support for local ecologically viable infrastructure initiatives.
BICYCLE WORLD
Professors Lars Fischer and Nader Vossoughian
May 26 - June 30, 2010
Planners, designers, and policy makers widely acknowledge today that bicycles represent a far more sustainable means of transportation in cities and suburban communities than do automobiles. Bicycling is healthy (reduces the chance of hypertension and diabetes), social (not as isolating as driving), and environmentally sound (does not damage the environment). Bicycles do not move as quickly as cars, but they do not usually get caught in traffic jams, either. What are some of the innovative ways in which the bicycle is being used in order to serve social, cultural, and ecological needs, as well as transportation concerns? How has the bicycle changed architecture and planning, and how can design effect a change towards a bicycle-based culture? How, then, do you re-engineer automobile-centered suburbs such as Long Island and congested megacities such as New York so that they operate in a more bicycle-friendly way?
In order to investigate this question, this studio will study the bicycle culture of one context in particular: The Netherlands. The Netherlands has led the world in encouraging bicycle-based forms of transit for decades. In the Netherlands, more journeys under 5 miles are made by bicycle than by any other means. Older people are also mobile, as over 10% of cycling journeys in the country are made by people 60 and over. Virtually all children ride bicycles to school. What can we learn from the Dutch experience?
The studio will be part analysis and part design. The analysis portion will involve site visits to relevant housing developments in Rotterdam and elsewhere in The Netherlands, using the bike as the primary mode of transportation. We will base ourselves in Rotterdam, but will also make day trips to Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Delft, and Brussels. We will attend lectures at the Netherlands Architectural Institute and the Berlage Institute, and invite a number of our own guest speakers.
As part of the design portion of the studio, you will collectively develop a single site strategy for a selected location situated along the periphery of Rotterdam. The development of the site should be informed by a critical study of existing urban developments and policies in relation to your own experience of moving through the city on a bicycle. You will then be asked to each derive a speculative proposal for a lot in the developed site plan that investigates models for rethinking housing prototypes. How could each of these building types be reimagined so that they address the challenges posed by the bicycle? What are some of the issues raised by the bicycle for housing designers generally?
The studio will be team-taught by Professors Nader Vossoughian and Lars Fischer. For one week during the course, Professor Matthias Altwicker will also be leading lectures and site visits. In Rotterdam, our guest critic and on-site liaison will be Salomon Frausto. Other jurors and lectures may include Huib van der Werf (Netherlands Architectural Institute), Pier Vittorio Aureli (Berlage Institute), Toine van Goethem (Amsterdam City Planning Office), Tihamér Salij (Why Factory, Space Intelligence Agency), Tom Avermaete (TU Delft), and the Crimson Architectural Historians (Rotterdam).
The School of Architecture and Design also enjoys an international reputation for its summer abroad programs. Under the direction of one or more full-time faculty members, as many as three diverse programs are offered during the summer, depending upon interested students, and faculty availability. NYIT has offered programs in China, France, Italy, Egypt, Germany, Spain, Greece, and Turkey, where students and faculty come in contact with foreign students and architects while living in another culture, enabling them to understand first-hand the range, diversity, and power of living architecture as individual buildings or as entire cities and spaces. Summer study abroad course credit can be applied to a student’s specific curriculum and field of study. The summer programs are open to students enrolled in any degree program offered by the School of Architecture and Design.
SUMMER ABROAD PROGRAMS 2010
ARCHITETTURA MODERNA – ATELIER ITALIA NORD
Professor Paul Amatuzzo – Director
June 7 – July 14, 2010
This program will study a wide range of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in Northern Italy. It will also carefully examine the urban form of two particular and unique Italian cities, Venice and Bologna, and visit a number of others. The work examined via on site sketching will form the analytic and cultural foundation for the design studio program to be conducted in affiliation with the Western world’s oldest university – The University of Bologna, its Dean, two of its most distinguished faculty and a number of its students.
The premise of this design studio program will be to examine the integral relationship of the fabric of a city and the buildings that are invented within them and subsequently to make our own design interventions informed and transformed by the modern architectural works visited.
The Bologna studio will serve as the central “railhead” for visits to modern works in Venice and the Veneto, Bologna and Emilia Romagna, Milano and Florence. Such works will include those of: Scarpa, Aalto, LeCorbusier, Michelucci,… as well as a number of lesser known but excellent architects: Bottoni, Gardella, Ricci, Figini,…
After two days of studio preparation in Old Westbury, New York, we will travel to Venice for a brief period prior to moving on to our permanent atelier in Bologna. Our work in Venice will focus on the city structure itself, works by Carlo Scarpa and, most importantly, intense analysis and documentation of the site of the design problem. All on site studies and field trips will be documented via analytic freehand sketching.
The design problem which will form the largest part of our work in Bologna will be undertaken by small groups in conjunction with Italian students and Italian studio teachers/jurors. The problem will be an Architecture Center for American Students in Italy (Venice). The program will include housing accommodations for a student group and faculty, as well as studio and seminar space and various supporting spaces such as breakfast room, library, exhibit gallery, gardens, etc. Thoroughly developed drawings and three dimensional paper models will be the medium for final review.
The design studio component will be directed by me and co-taught with Prof. Silvio Cassara of the University of Bologna. Prof. Cassara will join me for juries on June 23, 30, and July 14 and be responsible for the studio from July 1-8.
Other jurors and lecturers include: Filippo Buldrini – Engineer – Bologna, Prof Gianjio Dallerba, Architect – Bologna, Prof. Giuliano Gresleri, University of Bologna, Dr. Jacopo Gresleri, Architect – University of Ferrara, Prof. Pascal Hofstein, Architect – Paris, Dean Carlo Monti, University of Bologna
EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION
Charles Matz – Director
May 26 - June 28, 2010
The Foreign Study Program to Egypt will incorporate an intimate survey of the country’s land features, its rich historic tradition of ecologically sound architectural, site and building practices. Most especially it will emphasize the ancient, holistic-spiritual dynamic which pervades all aspects of daily life –connecting all that thrives to the sun ---the sun to the gods and ultimately the gods to humanity through the building arts. The recent application of solar technology, to drive the electrical needs of an ever expanding population in both rural and urban areas, has been a rousing success. Viable alternatives are being sought to counteract the negative effect of large-scale hydro interventions; dams and sluices, which have altered the millennia-old ecological balance of the Nile valley.
Your voyage will begin at the gate of Africa, Cairo. Your itinerary will include the multilayered neighborhoods that make up one of the world’s largest metropolis, Including the Pyramids at Giza, the Sphinx, and the stepped Pyramid at Saqqara. Your exploration will include site visits to exotic places, master-classes in watercolor and travel sketching and studio lectures on Ancient Egyptian Architecture, Archeology and Urban Planning. In Cairo you will board the overnight sleeper train to the upper reaches of the Nile, Aswan. The desert is tangible at the very fringes of the lush Nubian city. There, you will witness the birth of architecture at its very root. Our project will encompass an approach to design as a register and marker of natural phenomena. In Aswan the studio courses will consider vernacular architecture and intuitive construction techniques.
From Aswan you will travel to Abu-Simbel to view the Colossi that stand at Egypt’s Southern gate. You will see the result of the monumental project of salvage undertaken by the Egyptian Government and UNESCO to relocate the carved figures of Ramses II and Nefertari before the flooding of Lake Nasser. From Aswan you will travel by convoy to Luxor. You will see the temple of Karnak; visit the Valley of the Kings. The seat of Middle Egypt, Luxor holds some of the ancient world’s most precious architectural treasures. It is against this exotic backdrop that our project will blossom. Your proposals will be reviewed in a studio setting. You will visit the Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert and ply the Nile to and from your studio in a traditional sailboat. At journey’s end we will all return through the Western Desert, visit Hassan Fathy’s experiment in urban planning to Luxor for final reviews of the projects and a celebration of the travelogue you will have completed.
You will be asked to design a new housing development and retrofit a traditional building as a Study Center for locally and foreign-trained archeologists and preservation specialists. The property is located on the West riverfront bank of the river Nile, in the City of Luxor. The backdrop of the property is the historically significant Valley of the Kings and Queens. The housing development and Study Center incorporates the construction of both new and traditional construction and planning methodologies. Doubling as a residential complex and a workshop facility, the Center’s design will address current efforts of government-sanctioned support for local ecologically viable infrastructure initiatives.
BICYCLE WORLD
Professors Lars Fischer and Nader Vossoughian
May 26 - June 30, 2010
Planners, designers, and policy makers widely acknowledge today that bicycles represent a far more sustainable means of transportation in cities and suburban communities than do automobiles. Bicycling is healthy (reduces the chance of hypertension and diabetes), social (not as isolating as driving), and environmentally sound (does not damage the environment). Bicycles do not move as quickly as cars, but they do not usually get caught in traffic jams, either. What are some of the innovative ways in which the bicycle is being used in order to serve social, cultural, and ecological needs, as well as transportation concerns? How has the bicycle changed architecture and planning, and how can design effect a change towards a bicycle-based culture? How, then, do you re-engineer automobile-centered suburbs such as Long Island and congested megacities such as New York so that they operate in a more bicycle-friendly way?
In order to investigate this question, this studio will study the bicycle culture of one context in particular: The Netherlands. The Netherlands has led the world in encouraging bicycle-based forms of transit for decades. In the Netherlands, more journeys under 5 miles are made by bicycle than by any other means. Older people are also mobile, as over 10% of cycling journeys in the country are made by people 60 and over. Virtually all children ride bicycles to school. What can we learn from the Dutch experience?
The studio will be part analysis and part design. The analysis portion will involve site visits to relevant housing developments in Rotterdam and elsewhere in The Netherlands, using the bike as the primary mode of transportation. We will base ourselves in Rotterdam, but will also make day trips to Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Delft, and Brussels. We will attend lectures at the Netherlands Architectural Institute and the Berlage Institute, and invite a number of our own guest speakers.
As part of the design portion of the studio, you will collectively develop a single site strategy for a selected location situated along the periphery of Rotterdam. The development of the site should be informed by a critical study of existing urban developments and policies in relation to your own experience of moving through the city on a bicycle. You will then be asked to each derive a speculative proposal for a lot in the developed site plan that investigates models for rethinking housing prototypes. How could each of these building types be reimagined so that they address the challenges posed by the bicycle? What are some of the issues raised by the bicycle for housing designers generally?
The studio will be team-taught by Professors Nader Vossoughian and Lars Fischer. For one week during the course, Professor Matthias Altwicker will also be leading lectures and site visits. In Rotterdam, our guest critic and on-site liaison will be Salomon Frausto. Other jurors and lectures may include Huib van der Werf (Netherlands Architectural Institute), Pier Vittorio Aureli (Berlage Institute), Toine van Goethem (Amsterdam City Planning Office), Tihamér Salij (Why Factory, Space Intelligence Agency), Tom Avermaete (TU Delft), and the Crimson Architectural Historians (Rotterdam).