Future Architecture Summer School

Desperate Houselives / Ideas for peri-urban areas

Workshop

The House of Architecture is organizing the Future Architecture Summer School 2018 in Graz. A selection of ten international and austrian emerging architects - participants of the Call of the Future Architecture Platform - will be tutoring 25 young students form Europe over the course of two weeks in Graz. The Summer School participants’ works will be shown in an exhibition, offering them the opportunity to make their developed ideas and concepts accessible to a broader public.

Summer School: 27th August to 7th September 2018
Lectures by Emerging Architects PART I: August 29, 2018, 6pm
Lectures by Emerging Architects PART II: August 30, 2018, 6pm
Guest Crits: 31st August, 3pm, 7th September, 4pm
Exhibition opening: 7th September, 7pm
Exhibition: 8th to 14th September 2018

Topic: "Desperate Housing / Ideas for peri-urban aPreas"
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 / Tao Baerlocher (Studiospazio, IT) & Stefano Tornieri (Babau Bureau, IT)
GÖSTING: Ibai Rigby (Parallel Sprawl, CH) & Elena Karpilova (Architectural Thinking School for Children, BY)
STRASSGANG: Benedict Esche (Kollektiv A, DE) & Lera Samovich (fala atelier, PT)
LIEBENAU: Francisco Fonseca (SKREI, PT) & Francisco Moura Veiga / Elena Chiavi (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 at the Haus der Architektur. With the aim to make the program a public experience, the work situaton was designed to be open for public.