Future Architecture Summer School
ExhibitionVenue: House of Architecture, Mariahilferstraße 2, 8020 Graz, Austria
The House of Architecture is hosting the Future Architecture Summer School 2018 in Graz. Ten international and austrian emerging architects who participated in the Call of the Future Architecture Platform were selected as tutors and invited to Graz for a two-week Summer School to work with 25 young people. The results of their work during the Summer School will be shown in an exhibition offering participants the opportunity to make their developed ideas and concepts accessible to a broader public.
Summer School: 27th August to 7th September 2018
Exhibition opening: 7th September, 7pm
Exhibition: 8th to 14th September 2018
Theme: "Desperate Housing / Ideas for peri-urban areas"
Developing new ideas for five outlying districts of the city of Graz: Puntigam, Liebenau, Straßgang, Wetzelsdorf and Gösting.
These areas are located around the historic center of the city, all of them share similar issues – the lack of ubanity, centrality or spatial hierarchy. Each district has a fragmented landscape of urban and rural features and despite a steady increase in the number of settlers, none of these districts’ problems have ever been in the center of attention of solution seekers.
Tutors:
WETZELSDORF: Akil Scafe-Smith (RESOLVE, UK) & Therese Leick (TAB Collective, AT)
PUNTIGAM: Samuele Squassabia (Studiospazio, IT) & Stefano Tornieri (Babau Bureau, IT)
GÖSTING: Ibai Rigby (Parallel Sprawl, CH) & Elena Karpilova (Architectural Thinking School for Children, BY)
STRASSGANG: Benedict Esche (collective A, DE) & Lera Samovich (fala atelier, PT)
LIEBENAU: Francisco Fonseca (SKI, PT) & Francisco Moura Veiga (CARTHA, CH)
Future Architecture Platform
The House of Architecture is part of the Future Architecture Platform. Founded in 2015, the Future Architecture Platform is the first pan-European platform for architecture institutions, festivals and producers to discuss relevant ideas for the future of architecture and our cities and to communicate them a wider audience.
Twenty institutions from 16 countries have created an individual event program with young, emerging creatives from various disciplines. The Future Architecture Summer School will be takeing place in the context of this international network.
www.futurearchitectureplatform.org
Architectural Summer 2018
The Future Architecture Summer School is part of the Architectural Summer 2018 and will be held in the Haus der Architektur in the form of a publicly experienceable work situation.
www.architektursommer.at
The taste of cold beer lies in the warm air of summer evenings, unobtrusively joined by a mixture of cigarette smoke, sweat and at times mild despair and the Südtirolerplatz remains illuminated by the glow from the House of Architecture until late at night. It's Summer School in Graz. – a review by Andreas Maierhofer
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