we are presenting a description of the week accompanied
with photos and with the participants’ works

Title:

"Touches of the Renaissance": studying Renaissance architecture in its authentic place.
 

Project Leader:

Prof.Ing.Arch. Bohumil Fanta
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture
Czech Technical University of Praga
Thákurova 7, 166 34 Praha 6, Czech Republic
Tel. (+420 2) 2435 4320 or (+420 2) 2431 1086
Fax (+420 2) 2431 0573
E-mail: FANTA@FANET.FA.CVUT.CZ


Brief description of the initiative:

Within the Project, students of architecture from different European countries will meet and work together in Florence, Italy, the cradle of the Renaissance. The aim consists in studying Renaissance architecture in its authentic place. The Project will go on for four years and will cover the period from 1400 to 1600. Each year will be devoted to half a century of the Italian Renaissance, and will be therefore divided in four parts: A (1400-1450), B (1450-1500), C (1500-1550), D (1550-1600).
The name, Touches of the Renaissance, is meant both literally and metaphorically: the students will draw and measure architectural details related to the respective period of time, and thus, through ”touching”, will be able to perfectly understand the material, the scale, the space, and also the genius loci. In addition, in mutual work they will make friends and confront their experience with that of their colleagues from other schools.

 

1.   a) Students pay travel and board expenses.
b) Romualdo del Bianco Foundantion ensures an accommodation and rooms for work  and presentation of  works

2.   The number of participating students will be binding; should a student fail to come another one will replace him.

3.   The students will bring and use their own tools.

1.  Student’s works will be made in the A3 format, with shorter side down
     and according to
     prescribed specifications.

2. The works will be property of the Fondazione Romualdo del Bianco
     and will be kept in Florence.

Teachers and students of schools of architecture from 4 – 5 countries will participate. Depending on the number of participating schools the number of students from each school will be fixed so that working groups can be created with one student from each school. Thus, if  5 schools of architecture participate in the Project, four students from each school will come to Florence; with 4 schools, five students will come, etc.

The partecipants:

• Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University
  Prague, Czech Republic
  Prof. Bohumil Fanta
   

• Faculty of Architecture,  Warsaw University of Technology
  Warsaw, Poland
  Dr. Robert Kunkel
   

• Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology
  Cracow, Poland
  Prof. Elzbieta Weclawowicz-Bilska
   

• Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology
  Bratislava, Slovakia
  Doc. Pavel Gregor
   

• Department of Art History, Eotvos Lorand University
  Budapest, Hungary