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

  Title:

  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@fa.cvut.cz

  Brief description of the initiative:

Within the Project, students of architecture from different European countries have met and worked together in Florence, Italy, the cradle of the Renaissance. The aim consisted in studying Renaissance architecture in its authentic place. The Project will go on for two 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 have drawen and measure architectural details related to the respective period of time, and thus, through ”touching”, were able to perfectly understand the material, the scale, the space, and also the genius loci. In addition, in mutual work they have made friends and confront their experience with that of their colleagues from other schools.

See works of past editions

  The partecipants:

 

• Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University,
  Prague, Czech Republic
  Prof. Bohumil Fanta
  E-mail: fanta@fa.cvut.cz
   

• Faculty of Architecture,  University of Architecture & Urbanism,
  Bucharest, Romania
  Prof. Nestor Sergiu
  E-mail: sergiu.nistor@xnet.ro
   

• Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw Technical University,
  Ph.D., Adj. prof. Robert Kunkel
  E-mail: kunkel@arch.pw.edu.pl
   

• Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology,
  Ing. Arch. Martin Vascak
  E-mail: mvascak@hotmail.com
  
   

This masterclass has been realised thanks to the co-operation of Viva hotels - Hotels in Florence