The Summer School on Architectural Reuse at Reuse Italy equips students with skills in architectural restoration, offering lectures and workshops guided by industry professionals.

For the sixth edition of the Summer School on Architectural Reuse, architecture students and young architects from around the world will gather in Florence to meet some of the leading European architects and university professors working in the field of reuse.

Following in the footsteps of its five successful predecessors, the Summer School on Architectural Reuse is an intensive course designed to train the next generation of architects to meet this challenge.

The program offers a full immersion in adaptive reuse, architectural restoration, and sustainable design through lectures and critiques with international practitioners and university professors, an applied design studio, a public exhibition, and a book publication.

It is a multidisciplinary experience meant to provide a complete framework for a critical approach to adaptive reuse projects, from concept development to construction issues.

Supported by the Municipality of Florence and HouseEurope, the Summer School will focus on a real case study: a former factory in Firenze to be transformed into social and affordable housing.

Through this partnership, participants will develop concrete proposals for the future of this abandoned industrial area, offering citizens and stakeholders new scenarios for its regeneration.

The experience enables participants to engage with the concept of 'reuse' in architectural design through an abandoned ruin. Following a site visit to this year's case study, the abandoned Campolmi Factory in Florence, participants will develop a reuse proposal for the ruin during a design studio, with lectures and critiques.

New insights gained from the lectures will be applied in hands-on practical workshop sessions, guided by the teaching staff of leading academic and international firms. The event will close with the final public exhibition of the projects and the publication of a book.

School: Reuse Italy Benefit Cooperation
Course: Summer School on Architectural Reuse
Type: Short course/summer school
Location: Florence, Italy
Course dates: 23 July to 1 August 2026
Application deadline: 30 June 2026

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What will I learn during this course?

– Adaptive reuse, architectural restoration and sustainable design

What are the requirements?

– Applicants must fill out a form on the school's website to apply
– Applicants must be aged 18 or over
– The summer school is aimed at architecture, engineering and design students and young professionals who would like to improve their knowledge and practice of adaptive reuse and architecture restoration
– Ideal participants are students at least in their second year of university or young professionals in their first years of work

What facilities and resources are available?

– Lectures
– On-site visit to Campolmi factory
– Final exhibition
– Book publication at the end of the course

What career prospects can I expect upon graduating?

Students can expect to pursue pathways within architecture.

Who teaches this course?

– Xavier Ros, HArquitectes
– Lukas Barry, Carmody Groarke
– Laura Andreini, Archea
– Filippo Bricolo, Bricolo Falsarella
– Architects from HouseEurope!

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