Students enhance their international experiences with the traditional Summer / Spring / Winter schools of our faculty, which are increasing in number each year.
ICSA (Inter-Cultural Study of Architecture) in Japan Summer School is an international exchange program coordinated by BAU Faculty of Architecture & Design and Mukogawa University (MWU) Department of Architecture in Japan, aiming to create an intercultural environment for architectural studio. Held in 2009 for the first time, the program was organized for the 10th time in 2019;, in total, 96 BAU students have participated in Japan under scholarship
Within six week program, ICSA aims to provide students the experience of working out of their usual environment in a studio environment with new setups and architectural concerns in a different country, The studio work is conducted within the scope of the Department of Architecture, ending with a jury and exhibition activities. In addition to architectural studio courses, our students take other theoretical and applied courses as well in subjects such as the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging and traditional interlocking wooden joints.
In addition to the academic studies, another objective of this program is to create environments for students to grasp this culture in a better way through planned trips and social events within the scheduled time in Japan, including technical trips to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, Hiroshima, and Tokyo. In this way, important examples of both traditional Japanese architecture and contemporary buildings designed by world-famous Japanese architects can be experienced on site and within their context.
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Related web sites
http://www.mukogawa-u.ac.jp/~itcs/ICSAinJapan/ICSAinJapan.html
http://www.mukogawa-u.ac.jp/~arch/event/icsainJapan/ICSAinJapan2012
Italy Summer School is held in cities of Italy that are prominent in terms of classical and contemporary architecture. The school runs for a period of two to three weeks and comprises indoor/outdoor courses, site visits, sketching sessions, and studio work. Students’ visual works produced throughout the school are exhibited in Italy on the last day and afterwards in BAU Faculty of Architecture & Design.
Italy Summer School provides architecture and design students an opportunity to visit and explore historic Italian cities where identity is the reflection of continuity and develop a methodology for critical thinking towards the understanding of contemporary architecture and urban planning.
Italy Summer School Photos
BAU Faculty of Architecture & Design values the idea that extracurricular activities feed architectural education. Cultural trips and design workshops are seen as a tool for developing education and establishing new cultural bonds. Within this framework, Spain Summer Program initiated a design workshop in cooperation with UPC ETSAB (Polytechnic University of Catalonia - Barcelona School of Architecture) in 2013 which has been continuing ever since.
Among the reasons for this initiation in 2012 were "Catalan modernism" as they call it—the architecture movement of which Gaudi is one of the leading architects—the attention that Barcelona drew with its urban renewal and hosting the Olympics, and also the personal efforts of two academicians from BAU and UPC. Each year, the workshops are organized under a new topic and are reinforced with visits to museums and architecture offices. Approximately 15-20 BAU students participate in each workshop. The program can further be described with the notions of observation, research, a living laboratory, local and global experiments, and sensitive and creative sharing within international student groups.
Florence Summer School has been held by Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Architecture and Design since 2004. This three week summer school, including stays in Rome,Venice, and Florence, introduces students to the Renaissance concept of space. Participating students get the chance to enhance their ability in watercolor and sketching techniques through the Water-Color Workshop they attend in Florence for three full days. The summer school also includes daily trips to surrounding sights such as Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano, Assisi, and Milan. Students also develop conceptual projects on site that vary in scale and subject from year to year.
ICSA (Inter-Cultural Study of Architecture) is an international summer school course held twice a year in Japan and Turkey with the participation of Japanese and Turkish students under the collaboration of Mukogawa Woman’s University and Bahçeşehir University. The main purposes of this course are to provide students with the opportunity to experience unfamiliar design processes and observe the role of “cultural interaction” in a design studio education. This program also aims to create a greater awareness of significance of cultural background in the design developing process.
