Pengfei Cui - Students' Workshop on Chinese Culture

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

Faculties at the moment participating:

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

How to participate:

Which is the purpose: to foster mutual acquaintance among youth of different Countries and Culture, to make them aware to the principles of tolerance, integration and peace, in accordance with the social mission of international integration of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation.
How it works: for each week below listed, Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation invites in Florence not less than 3 and not more than 5 university Institutes (Faculties, Academies or other) of the same cultural field coming from different countries. Each university Institute must be represented by eight students and one professor: all students (with the help of their professors) will attend a weekly workshop, which subject was defined by a Project Leader (with the previous agreement of the Foundation).

All participants will be accommodated for free: double rooms for Docents, multiple rooms for students, on overnight only basis; meals and travel expenses excluded.

Docents interested to participate with their students to one of the weekly workshops enlisted below, can fill up and send the Participation Request Form directly to the relative Project Leader (see the addresses below) in charge to co-ordinate the organisation of the workshop.

Requsites for admission: please pay attention to following requisites which must be strictly respected:

Request of Participation: each Docent/Tutor interested to take part with his/her students in one of the below listed students’ workshop must send the relevant Participation Request Form; it must be received by the Project Leader and/or the Foundation within 60 days before the beginning of the workshop. Each request of participation will be considered in chronological order, previous requests permitting.

Participants List: If the request is accepted, each Docent/Tutor must then sent to the Project Leader and the Foundation the Participants' List (with name, surname of all members of his group, photo and signature included); it must be received by the Foundation within
3 weeks before the beginning of the workshop.

"Co-operation Agreement Act": at the moment of the arrival to Florence (or before, by ordinary mail) the Docent/Tutor has to deliver two copies of the "Co-operation Agreement Act" signed by the responsible of his/her Faculty/Department/Institute; this agreement doesn'e entail any obligation but it is only a free declaration of interest for mutual co-operation for present and future initiatives with the Foundation.

For further information about the working of these initiative, see the General Regulation of the workshops.

Deadline:

If you want to participate to this student’s workshop, please fill up and send your Participation Request Form to the Project Leader (at one of the addresses above) or the Foundation, which must be received within 16^th November 2004.

Then, if your request is accepted, you have to select some students of yours and send your Participants’ List to the Project Leader and to the Foundation, which must be received within 16^th December 2004.

Premise:

All the students and professors taking part to the weekly workshop are accommodated thanks to Viva Hotel Fleming Novoli, Florence (Viale Guidoni 87 Florence); the final exhibition of the students' works is held on friday at Viva Hotel Alexander Novoli, Florence (Viale Guidoni 101 Florence).

(*)The Project Leader is the person you can apply for more information or for asking to participate to the students’ weekly workshop

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"Touches of the Renaissance": studying Renaissance architecture in its authentic place.
from 7^th to 14^thNovember 2004 promoted by Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation with the support of Viva hotels in Florence
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