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CABE Summer School
New Urban Guild
22 - 25 June 2008, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK

CABE and its partners have developed the urban design summer school to respond to the need for an accessible, comprehensive and intensive urban design learning event.

The summer school, which runs over four days, acts as a hothouse, helping people develop the knowledge, skills and passion to confidently create successful urban places. It is a unique learning forum for different disciplines to share thinking and build strong networks and teams, both at the school and back in the workplace.

Now in its fifth year, the summer school aims to make you more effective at ensuring higher-quality designed environments at each stage of the design and delivery process. Learning focuses on hands-on activities and explores best practice, while leading professionals share their experiences to inspire, encourage and challenge you to do more in your own work.

The summer school is growing and developing its programme, to make learning more fun and more exciting, and to ensure that we all become effective champions of good design. The 2008 school programme focuses on:

The urban design summer school, is located in a new place each year and draws on different towns, cities and regions to find new design challenges. Each day of the school focuses on different stages of the design process and different scales at which design works.

Throughout the school, you will experience different classes, seminars, workshops and structured discussions, all aimed at making learning as effective and enjoyable for you. These include:

Plenary presentations
Keynote and high-profile speakers address the whole school, providing the bigger picture and the inspiration to make change happen.

The big design project
This hands-on workshop will introduce you to a choice of sites in and around the host location, Newcastle and Gateshead. Drawing on the theme of the day, you will develop an urban structure and layout for the site, and then design one of the public spaces of your masterplan in more detail.

City walk
On the fist day we observe and analyse parts of Gateshead and Newcastle to find a common understanding of what makes this great location work.

Site visits
Site visits are the starting point, helping you gain an understanding of the project sites and the issues important to each type of site. You will visit a wide range of projects in the Tyneside area and gain a better understanding of what works and the types of spaces you enjoy most.

Group work
Additional group work sessions help you understand the perspectives of fellow delegates and provide direction and planning for taking the learning back to your workplace.

Shop for skills
At certain points, you will be able to pick up new urban design skills that you choose based on your interests. Topics will focus on specific skills related to analysis, design, presentation and delivery.

Anatomy of a development
By exploring a development in Gateshead, calling witnesses from the various stakeholders that shaped a new place and asking you to examine alternative strategies, we will identify the critical factors in the delivery process that reinforce or undermine quality.

Come to Tyneside

"We laughed, we cried, we painted the town red (green, blue and yellow). The CABE urban design summer school is for anyone who has a passion for making places better and who wants to transpose that aspiration and ambition into the fabric of our cities, streets and spaces." Katy Phillips - delegate at the 2007 summer school

The CABE urban design summer school is an intensive, fast-track, action-learning experience, taking you step-by-step through the urban design process. Learn how to make great places through great design. Meet the designers who are shaping the nation. Get to grips with the design process in real-life case study workshops. Understand how others from different professions all contribute to making successful places.

And there's more... fun, inspiration, networking, learning. Core design projects are interwoven with an exciting array of presentations, workshops, discussions and skills sessions, which will give you the design fluency, confidence and contacts you need to really make a difference.

The 2008 school will be in Gateshead and will draw inspiration and design challenges from both sides of the Tyne. Its got history, topography, and drama…streets, bridges, viaducts and rivers. What more could an aspiring urban designer want? Places are filling up fast so click the link on the right to book now, or explore the links on the left to find out more. CABE is rightly proud of the summer school. We hope you can be part of it.

"I am still shell shocked. It was the most intensive, and useful, school, conference, seminar, I have ever attended" - Mike Edwards, 2007 delegate

Further information

Email: info@udss.org.uk
Tel: +44-(0)845 347 9374
Web: www.udss.org.uk/index.html
Bookings: www.udss.org.uk/booking-form.html

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2008 Southwest Summer Institute
for Preservation and Regionalism June 2008
School of Architecture & Planning The University of New Mexico
9 - 27 June 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA

Miguel Gandert, "Las Trampas", 2006, Chris Wilson and Stefanos Polyzoides editors, from Center Place, Plaza, Square: The Community Spaces of New Mexico, forthcoming from Trinity University Press, Fall 2009
The 2008 Southwest Summer Institute is held in conjunction with the UNM School of Architecture & Planning's "Graduate Certificate Program in Historic Preservation & Regionalism," a six-course, 18-hour program integrating proven historic preservation techniques with related planning and design approaches for engaging history and cultural place. The program prepares participants from a wide variety of related disciplines to contribute to the conservation of regional architectural and cultural heritage, while at the same time fostering design, planning, and economic development for increasing the quality of life from urban neighborhoods to rural communities.

2008 Courses

These three courses can be taken individually or as part of the UNM School of Architecture & Planning Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation and Regionalism

9 - 13 June 2008
Cultural Landscape Documentation and Planning: Learning from La Bajada

The La Bajada cultural landscape, midway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, includes portions of two roads mythic in American history--El Camino Real and U.S. Route 66--as well as an Hispanic village and acequia. Through this case study, the course introduces methods for documenting and planning for the preservation of historic cultural landscapes, and includes guest lectures and field work, the evaluation of engineering challenges, and the development of management recommendations.

Instructors: Arnold Valdez, UNM Adjunct Associate Professor, Harvard Loeb Fellow, Senior Planner, Santa Fe County,; assisted by Eric Delony, former Chief, Historic American Engineering Record; and Christopher Marston, Architect, Historic American Building Survey.
Course content questions: avaldez@co.santa-fe.nm.us

16 - 12 June 2008
Preservation Law: A Practical Tool Kit

General principles and fundamentals of preservation law, focusing primarily on federal preservation law including Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as well as state, tribal, and local legislation. Class lectures and discussions will be supplemented with practical case studies, and field trips.

Instructors: Jan Biella, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, with Katherine Slick, State Historic Preservation Officer, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division; John Fowler, Director, President’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; and Thompson M Mayes and Elizabeth S. Merritt, Deputy Counsels, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Course content questions: jbiella@oca.state.nm.us

23 - 27 June 2008
Assessment and Preservation Planning for Adobe Buildings: San Antonio Chapel

Introduces the procedures for conditions assessment and preservation planning for historic adobe buildings. The course field study will focus on the eighteenth-century chapel of San Antonio de Los Lentes, south of Albuquerque, and the preparation of a conditions assessment emphasizing structural stability, testing for moisture content, the preparation of measured drawings, and recommendations for site drainage.

Instructors: Jean Fulton, Preservation Programs Coordinator, Cornerstones Community Partnerships, with Pat Taylor, Southern Program Manager, Cornerstones Community Partnerships.
Course content questions: jeanfulton@earthlink.net

2008 Courses focus on experiential learning: This year’s courses on cultural landscape documentation, and adobe preservation each involve extensive fieldwork, while the preservation law class emphasizes the analysis of real world case studies paired with field trips.

Who Should Take the Courses?

Students and professionals in preservation, design, planning, law, cultural resource management, and related fields, including anyone interested in the Southwest, with a passion for historic preservation, or who thrives on the stimulation of interacting with those from other disciplines and parts of the country. Professionals and the general public are welcome as registered as non-degree students.

Each course meets from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, for one week at the UNM School of Architecture & Planning in Albuquerque. Class sessions meet in the new, award-winning George Pearl Hall, designed by internationally-renowned architect, Antione Predock. Fieldwork and class trips take place in and around Albuquerque.

Course Credit

Courses can be taken for credit or non-credit. Each course carries three (3) credit hours (except for the Law School section of the Preservation Law course, which is 2 credit hours). In addition to the intensive week for each course, participants taking courses for credit (except for the Law section) will also be required to complete a term project, due approximately six weeks after the end of formal instruction.

Projected Summer School Tuition Costs

$575 per undergraduate course (400 numbers);
$631 per graduate course (500 numbers);
plus a technology fee of $90 per graduate course.
Projected tuition for students registering for the two-credit Preservation Law section through the Law School is $968.

Further information

Tel: +1-505-277-0071
Email: hprinst@unm.edu
Web: http://saap.unm.edu/ (Click Preservation and Regionalism in upper left)

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ICA&CA Summer Program
in Classical Architecture & Landscape Painting
Monastero di Santa Scholastica di S. Benedetto
15 - 29 June 2008, Subiaco, Italy

"How much painting contributes to the honest pleasures of the mind, and to the beauty of things, may be seen in various ways but especially in the fact that you will find nothing so precious which association with painting does not render far more valuable and highly prized.” (Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, II, 25)

The ICA&CA with its Grand Central Academy of Art faculty (GCA) is pleased to present its first classical architecture and landscape painting program in Italy. Led by experienced faculty of the Institute and GCA and following the great tradition of Grand Tour travel, the program will be based in Subiaco, a dramatic hill town of the Campagna romana, east of Rome between the ancient sites of Tivoli and Alba Fucens. The program will be open to both architects and artists. The course provides instruction in the observation and representation of classical architecture, and landscape painting, allowing participants at all levels to gain direct knowledge of the classical models, improve their drawing and painting skills and discover the vitality of the Roman countryside. Some drawing and painting proficiency is required.
Above, Dan Thompson, Persepolis, Iran, Oil on Canvas, 9 x 18 inches

The tour is led by Victor Deupi, the Arthur Ross Director of Education at the Institute, and GCA artists and faculty members, Michael Grimaldi, and Dan Thompson. Additionally, a number of architects and historians will assist in specialized demonstrations and lectures.

Tour highlights

The Program commences in Subiaco on Sunday, June 15 at 2:00 PM and concludes on Sunday, June 29 with an evening reception. All participants follow a prescribed schedule of drawing and painting exercises and group events for the length of the program. Activities are scheduled for morning and afternoon sessions with periodic evening instruction. Participants will be accommodated at the comfortable Foresteria of the Monastery of Santa Scholastica, in Subiaco (see www.benedettini-subiaco.it/inglese/index.html).

Tuition for the program is $1,850 which covers the cost of instruction, lecture fees, entrance fees, excursions, all meals and double accommodations. A limited number of single rooms are available for an additional supplement per person. Travel arrangements to Italy are the responsibility of the participant. In addition, participants should allow approximately $100 for art supplies required over the length of the term. A $400 deposit is required along with a registration form to hold a place. Full Payment of the remaining cost is required by May 1.
Right, Michael Grimaldi, Nativity Scene, Napoli, Pencil and Charcoal, 2007

Cancellations

Tuition will be refunded should the ICA&CA cancel the program for any reason. Refunds to participants who withdraw from the program are as follows: up to six weeks before the program commences, 100%; withdrawal up to two weeks prior to the tour, 30%; withdrawal thereafter, no refund will be given.

Further information

Leah Aron
Academic Programs Coordinator
Institute for Classical Architecture & Classical America
Email: la@classicist.org
Web: www.classicist.org

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The Invisible Cities
Lessons in Drawing for a Sustainable Century
International Summer School
22 June - 8 July 2008 United Kingdom & Italy

The event will take place in the following cities of the United Kingdom: London, Oxford, Poundbury, Plymouth and in Italy will be hosted in Morciano di Romagna (Rimini).

The aim of the summer program is to introduce architecture students and professionals to the issues of architectural drawing and sustainable urban design in order to get skills for the century's challenge.The School is dedicated to the study of the European City and to the culture of Regional Architectural Traditions from field drawing to urban analysis and sustainable communities design. The Summer programme is a studio of practical intent, a means of developing realisable visions alongside urban communities and their leaders.

Dedicated to the analysis of historical settlements and traditional urban patterns and design coding, the Summer School includes the study of a series of cities, towns and quarters. This programme, placed under the responsibility of Giuseppe Amoruso from University of Bologna - School of Architecture, gives a group of 20 students (or professionals) the opportunity to improve their technique of surveying, analyzing, and depiction.

Themes

The programme explores the following themes:

1) History of Urbanism;
2) Urban Survey and analysis;
3) Field and Observational Drawing;
4) Urban Analysis & Sustainable Communities Design;
5) Urban and Architectural Representation and Communication

It is scheduled a presentation of the student's projects during a public conference and the publication of a report after the end of the School. The Atelier projects will be presented during a public exhibition and a conference which is scheduled on July 7th 2008 with the participation of an International Jury.

Target group and prerequisites for admission

The scientific contents are addressed to the following topics, source of insightful and innovative ideas: Drawing as the language of knowledge for design communication and architectural graphics, Architectural and urban Measured Drawing to achieve an analytical knowledge, the practice of Urban Design and the conventional and digital representation of architecture.

The school will be both inspirational and highly practical and aims to deliver ideas and guidance for those involved with the creating sustainable neighbourhoods of contemporary urban policy. The Summer School is more than just an architectural experience. It is also a group therapy, a real life experience for everyone involved.

The participant is placed in the position of apprentice, apprenticed to the city, to a studio master, and to a clear and practical vision of what the city needs.About prerequisites for admission, everybody who wants to save the Planet trough the means of drawing and sustainable communities design.

Charrette

It's an international Summer School starting from United Kingdom; in Italy it is scheduled a design charrette. It's a joint programme partnered by The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment in London: The Prince's Foundation is an educational charity which exists to improve the quality of people's lives by teaching and practising timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing and building. The programme creates an opportunity to promote cultural issues about the European Cities design coding through the study of good practice examples.

Languages: English / Italian / French

Credits and evaluation

ECTS credits available from University of Bologna. Drawings and projects will be evaluated during a public exhibition and conference which is scheduled on July 2008 with the participation of an International Jury.

Admission and fee

Enrolment: 700 €
Accommodation: 1000 €
The cost of the programme, includes a sixteen-night stay (double room accommodation), dinners (in Italy), translation service, fees and insurance, a seminar at The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment – London, a slow food seminar in Plymouth, an historic pubs tour, coffee breaks, three special events, lectures, travelcards and train tickets, transfers in UK and in Italy, a flight transfer from London Stansted to Forlì Airport, private tours, a wine production seminar, visits to wine domains and a welcome kit.

Candidates are invited to submit the following documents, in a printed form:
Application form available on web site: www.unibo.it/summerschool
CV stating education and employment history (max. 2 A4's);
Portfolio of 5 A3 or 10 A4 (max.);

Deadline for application: 15 May, 2008
Deadline for payment: 22 May, 2008

Scholarships opportunities

Scholarships are available, under request and after the CV evaluation.
Payment swift received after 1 April, 2008: entire admission fee (no scholarships available)

Further details

Prof. Giuseppe Amoruso
Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione Territoriale
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2 – BOLOGNA ITALIA
Tel. (+39) 339 7232347 Fax (+39) 051 2093156
E-mail: summerschool.arch@unibo.it
MSN giuseppe_amoruso@hotmail.it

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ICA&CA 2008 Summer Intensive Professional Program
SESSION I: THE LANGUAGE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
30 May – 7 June 2008
Scholarships Available
SESSION II: TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM
11 – 19 July 2008

Course provides participants with a working knowledge of architectural classicism as a practical discipline.

Participants learn how to draw, identify, render, and design with the elements of the classical vocabulary.

Students completing both sessions receive a Certificate in Classical Architecture.

Classes are held at ICA&CA, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY, USA.

For detailed information about course offerings and instructors please click here.

Further details

For further information about scholarships or to register, please contact:

Leah Aron
Email: la@classicist.org
Tel: +1-212-730–9646 ext 101
Web: www.classicist.org

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The Culture of Building
The Prince's Foundation's Residential Summer School
8 - 28 July 2008 Lincoln Cathedral, Poundbury & London - UK

Through a series of lectures, workshops, drawing and building exercises and field trips, Summer School participants will develop an in-depth knowledge both of traditional building and repair techniques and how these have been, and can be, applied in the twenty-first century.

After an initial introduction to historic materials and a two-day drawing course, students will study the architectural and constructional development of Lincoln and Lincolnshire. Students will be able to work together with Lincoln Cathedral’s expert craft teams in the cathedral workshops to learn craft and conservation skills in the fields of masonry, joinery, leadwork and stained glass.

You will also be conducted on study and drawing tours of local historic centres. The school will end with a week-long live build project in Poundbury, Dorset. The Summer School, forming part of The Foundation’s annual academic year, will benefit any architects, developers, builders and craftspeople who are interested in building crafts and architecture, and how these factors respond to the local identity of historic contexts in a timeless and ecological way.

Attendance fee

The cost of the course is £900 + VAT, which includes accommodation for three weeks, plus breakfast, lunch and dinner on teaching days, and tuition and materials.

Further details
Education & Skills Department
T+44 (0)20 7613 8508
E: education@princes-foundation.org
W: www.princes-foundation.org

The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
19-22 Charlotte Road
London
EC2A 3SG
United Kingdom

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Timber Framers Guild
Camp Letts Rendezvous
International Summer School
19 - 24 August 2008, Camp Letts, Maryland USA

Camp Letts is a year-round conference and retreat center about 10 miles from Annapolis and 34 miles from Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Located on the Chesapeake Bay, the 219-acre peninsula has miles of wooded trails for hiking, horseback riding, and nature discovery. In the summer months, it is the home of the Washington area YMCA. The retreat offers heated lodges, hearty meals, and recreational activities.

The plans for the Camp Letts Rendezvous are coming together and we are expecting hundreds of timber framers and their families to come together for a challenging and fun week of training, demonstrations and hands-on activities. Currently we are determining the rates and looking for sponsors.

One low registration fee will include most rendezvous activities, meals and lodging (there are options for either cabins or camping); additional fees (see below) will need to be charged for certification courses and those with limited enrollment. Registration should be available early March. Below is a brief description (tentative) of the planned activities, many of which are training courses with certificates:

Timber Framers Guild
PO Box 60
Becket, MA 01223
USA
Tel/Fax: +1-888-453-0879 (toll-free)
Email: info@tfguild.org
Web: www.tfguild.org

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