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Architecture for Landscape at YACademy

The Architecture for Landscape course at YACademy prepares students with design knowledge to create architecture that responds to the natural environment.


School: YACademy
Course: Architecture for Landscape
Location: Bologna, Italy and online
Course dates: September 2023 to November 2023
Application deadline: 14 July 2023

YACademy's Architecture for Landscape course collects the most relevant international experience in the field.

The course offers three scholarships with full coverage of the enrolment cost for the most deserving students. It is also possible to participate in the courses remotely.

With a frequency of three days per week for a duration of two months, Architecture for Landscape hosts several frontal teaching modules and numerous interventions by well-known professionals working at world-renowned companies, including Toyo Ito, Snøhetta, David Chipperfield, Renzo Piano, Dorte Mandrup, Ibuku.

The course's workshop will be carried out in collaboration with Snøhetta and will focus on the reuse of an ancient disused cave located in the renowned marble caves of Carrara.

In addition, YACademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in the process of producing their own ideas.

Thus, the students will gain practical experience on construction sites and, above all, the authorship of projects built for excellent commissions, destined for a major media echo and capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.

To conclude the course, each student 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 SANAA, Snøhetta, David Chipperfield Architects Milano, Dorte Mandrup, AMDLC, HHF Architects, Park Associati and Edoardo Milesi & Archos.

Applications to this course have now closed.

Top image: courtesy of YACademy.

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