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Off-Site Technologies for Architecture at YACademy

The Off-Site Technologies for Architecture course at YACademy equips students with first-hand experience and knowledge to solve issues in emerging economies and emergency contexts.


School: YACademy
Course: Off-Site Technologies for Architecture
Location: Bologna, Italy and online
Course dates: November 2024 to February 2025
Application deadline: 20 September 2024

YACademy's Off-Site Technologies for Architecture course collects the most relevant international experience in the field.

The course is a project by Manni Group. It 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, Off-Site Technologies for Architecture hosts several frontal teaching modules and numerous interventions by well-known professionals working at world-renowned companies, including Zaha Hadid Architects, UNStudio, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, MVRDV, ARUP, Morphosis.

The course's workshop, tutored by Nicola Scaranaro from Foster + Partners and conducted in collaboration with Urban Up | Unipol Group – the real estate branch of one of the world’s most important insurance groups – will focus on redeveloping the urban periphery in Via Tucidide, Milan.

In addition, YACademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in the process of producing their own ideas, gaining practical experience on construction sites and the authorship of projects 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 Foster + Partners, Lombardini22, ATI Project, Mario Cucinella Architects, Pininfarina, Il Prisma and Manni Group.

Applications to this course have now closed.

Images courtesy of YAC.

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