The Architecture for Landscape course at YACademy allows students to develop their own projects under professional guidance and use the skills they learn collaboratively.

The Architecture for Landscape course at Yacademy trains students in designing architecture that responds to each landscape's specific features and generates wonderful and unique spaces.

The course provides students with a deep understanding of the diverse needs of transforming territories.

The design workshop is tutored by Patrick Lüth, Managing Director at Snøhetta Innsbruck, and will focus on the development of a school dedicated to the production, experimentation, and dissemination of local cultivation practices in Hawaii.

The workshop is conducted in collaboration with LWCircus and with contributions from Simon Bussiere, landscape architect and professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

With a frequency of three days per week for two months, Architecture for Landscape hosts several frontal teaching modules with the participation of numerous well-known professionals working at world-renowned companies, including Snøhetta, Ensamble Studio, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Toyo Ito, and Smiljan Radić Clarke.

Believing that construction is a fundamental step in architecture, Yacademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in a construction workshop, gaining practical experience on construction sites, and the authorship of projects capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.

At the end of the teaching modules and workshops, Yacademy's placement office will guarantee every student an internship or collaboration proposal in one of its partner firms.

The course offers multiple scholarships for the most deserving students. It is also possible to participate in the course remotely.

School: YACademy
Course: Architecture for Landscape
Type: Short course
Location: Bologna, Italy and online
Course dates: September to November 2026
Application deadline: 26 June 2026

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What will I learn during this course?

– Thorough analysis of the natural world, light, and geomorphological features of terrains
– How to reconnect human design to the natural environment
– Drawing inspiration from landscape to design outstanding, sustainable and impressive architectures

What are the requirements?

– Participants should have at least a B1 level in English
– Participants should be students or graduates in architecture, landscape architecture, design, or heritage-related studies

The Selection Committee can admit applicants who hold a different certificate from those mentioned above after examining their CV, portfolio, motivational letter and, possibly, interviewing them.

What facilities and resources are available?

– An educational hub of excellence in a prestigious medieval place in the heart of Bologna
– An architecture library of more than 5,000 volumes
– Numerous apartments in the same building that houses the institute's classrooms

The accommodation service is to be considered outside of the fees for attendance to the courses, and it is activated upon request of the students.

What career prospects can I expect upon graduating?

Trained in enforcing an attentive and productive dialogue with the surrounding landscape to respond to the needs of prestigious clients in outstanding contexts, students will carry out a period of collaboration with one of Yacademy's partner firms.

Such collaboration will have a minimum duration of two months and guaranteed remuneration, consistently with regulatory requirements.

Some of the professional players with expertise in relation to the course topic include BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Ensamble Studio, Kengo Kuma & Associates, Snøhetta and IBUKU.

Who teaches this course?

– Patrick Lüth, managing director at Snøhetta Innsbruck
– Miles Nelligan, associate principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro
– Toyo Ito, founder of Toyo Ito & Associates
– Kengo Kuma, founder of Kengo Kuma & Associates
– Antón García-Abril, founder of Ensamble Studio
– Giulio Rigoni, associate at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
– Elora Hardy, founder and Director of IBUKU
– Smiljan Radić Clarke, founder of Smiljan Radić Clarke Architects

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