2	Week of International Integration Touches of the Renaissance: studying Renaissance architecture in its authentic place
	Prof. Ing. Arch. Bohumil Fanta
	from 7th to 14th November 2004

we are presenting a description of the week accompanied with photos and works Title: "Touches of the Renaissance": studying Renaissance architecture in its authentic place. Project Leader: Prof. Ing. Arch. Bohumil Fanta 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 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. See works of past editions The partecipants: Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts of Budapest Faculty of Architecture of Bucharest

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