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YAC's latest competition invites architects to rethink sacred architectures in Ireland as places to host contemporary cultural innovation

2022-09-26T08:50:00-04:00

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YAC launches ART CATHEDRAL, the second competition located in Ireland and inviting architects to rethink ancient sacred architectures as places where contemporary cultural innovation can be hosted again.

The cash prize of € 15,000 will be distributed to the winning proposals selected by an international jury panel composed of some of the most world-renowned architects: Manuel Aires Mateus, Valerie Mulvin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Edoardo Tresoldi, Claudio Silvestrin.

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Beams of light are sculpted by a thick atmosphere dense with the vapor of candles and spirals of perfumed incense. The metallic and faint jingle of silver incense burners, long and peaceful days marked by the tolling of bells and Gregorian melismata.

It has been over a millennium since the religious zeal animated Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Centuries of history have passed since the age of cathedrals. Many...

YACademy students measure themselves in the world of yacht design

2022-09-19T16:20:00-04:00

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Design Attitude is a project from the Fondazione Fashion Research Italy, a nonprofit foundation by Cav. Alberto Masotti that has worked with a series of YACademy alumni and collaborated with some of the most distinguished names in contemporary design in order to actualize the Renzo Brandone Fund.

Consisting of a collection of invaluable textile art designs, the Brandone Fund is an inexhaustible mine of creative inspirations predominantly oriented to the fashion industry but also able to express much in the design field.

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Design Attitude then asked 6 leading designers, including De Lucchi, Ben Van Berkel, and David Chipperfield, along with YACademy students, to imagine furniture and interior solutions that would make use of the textures preserved in the Fund. Among these collaborative experiences, the primary and most successful is the collaboration of students with renowned yacht designer Francesco Pazskowsky. An ar...

YACademy’s alumni and BIG’s designers work together for greener cities and hotels as icons of urban sustainability

2022-09-13T14:15:00-04:00

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In the meeting rooms of the Royal Carlton, in Bologna, the working table promoted by the Monrif group carried out research aimed at re-imagining the group’s hotels as tools for green and urban sustainability met for the first time.

The idea came from the group’s head of operation, Nicola Foschini, who imagined the group’s hotels as destination hotels. To this end, they involved YACademy, a leading international institute in the field of architectural design, Danish firm Bjarke Ingels, and architect Giulio Rigoni to lead a group of alumni of the academy in creative brainstorming. The goal was that within a month, they would have suggestions to imagine a more beautiful, green, and sustainable Bologna, thanks to the presence of the group’s hotels.

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The research and project consisted of eight architects from five different countries who started to develop a design for the requalification of the facades of the Royal Car...

Don't miss your chance to attend YACademy's high-level 2022 architectural courses: Featuring internships and lectures with SANAA, Souto de Moura, and Toyo Ito

2022-09-05T01:00:00-04:00

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The arrival of autumn coincides once again with the launch of in-presence and online courses by YACademy, the school founded by YAC through collaboration with some of the most prestigious names in contemporary architecture. Its fifth edition offers a unique experience to young designers that are looking for postgraduate international training.

30 merit-based scholarships are available to cover the whole cost of the courses. You can access the entire training offer at this link.

Here are 5 of the reasons why YACademy is an experience that a young architect should not miss:

1. Seven Pritzker Prize winners among our lecturers

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Every year, YACademy is pleased to welcome renowned international firms that create a blooming frame where students have the opportunity to get in touch with some of the most distinguished interpreters of contemporary architecture.

This year’s lecturer panel includes 7 Pritzker Prize winners: Yvon...

5 reasons to apply to YACademy’s high-level architectural courses: Featuring internships and lectures with SANAA, Souto de Moura and Toyo Ito

2022-07-11T13:00:00-04:00

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The arrival of spring coincides once again with the launch of in-person and online courses by YACademy, the school founded by YAC through collaboration with some of the most prestigious names in contemporary architecture. Its fifth edition offers a unique experience to young designers that are looking for postgraduate international training. 30 merit-based scholarships are available to cover the whole cost of the courses. You can access the entire training offer at the following link.

Here are 5 of the reasons why YACademy is an experience that a young architect should not miss:

1. Seven Pritzker Prize winners among our lecturers

Image courtesy of YACademy.

This year’s lecturer panel includes 7 Pritzker Prizes: Yvon...

Don't miss YACademy's Architecture for Humanity course with Lacaton & Vassal, Mariam Kamara, Anupama Kundoo, and others

2022-07-04T09:00:00-04:00

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Pandemic, economic crisis, migration, and climate change: every area - from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village - can now be defined as an “emergency context”. The United Nations - already before the pandemic cycle - estimated that the fragmentation of conflicts, combined with the effects of the economic and ecological crisis, was generating a humanitarian emergency greater than that caused by the Second World War.

In this context, the architect plays a fundamental role, because architecture responds to man’s primary needs. Finding shelter, receiving education, living healthy are rights that require “containers” in the first place, and architecture - great architecture - would be very little if limited to contexts of well-being; since man is at the center of architecture, and man, in any context, in any condition, deserves dignity and beauty. This is why the course in Architecture for Humanity was born, to train...

YACademy’s alumni design an installation at Arte Sella in collaboration with Mario Cucinella Architects

2022-06-20T07:00:00-04:00

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Michele De Lucchi, Kengo Kuma, Eduardo Souto De Moura, and Stefano Boeri: these are just some of the names of the great Masters of Architecture whose interventions are juxtaposed to the installation of Anna Collatuzzo, Arezoo Mohebpour, and Paula Strieder, three Alumni of YACademy who designed The Journey in the period of collaboration of the same with the studio of Mario Cucinella.

Every year, YACademy guarantees to its Alumni a series of internship or collaboration experiences with the most important architectural design studios, as the completion of their training path and as a bridge to the labor market.

In 2021, a group of international students had the opportunity to collaborate with Mario Cucinella’s studio, to create an art installation to be placed in the extraordinary context of Arte Sella.

The work, inserted in the art itinerary of Villa Strobele (one of the three itineraries that make up Arte Sella’s offer), aims to be a nomadic ar...

YACademy's 'Architecture for Fashion' 2022 Edition offers lectures and internships with MVRDV, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Toyo Ito & Associates

2022-06-14T17:00:00-04:00

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Architecture is a privileged tool of those brands characterized by an elevated positioning that, beyond the quality of their own products, needs to feed an imaginary of prestige, style, and refinement. From the showrooms to the stores, fashion needs architects as much as stylists, photographers and modelers.

For these reasons, the course Architecture for Fashion has been created, with the aim of training designers able to interpret the identity of a brand and transform it into an architectural space, moving the meanings of exclusivity, luxury, and elegance from the dress to the designated environment to exhibit it. By deepening the needs of the fashion world, students will gain skills that can spend in the field of luxury, becoming familiar with a segment of the market characterized by an eternal charm and continuous rewarding opportunities of application.

Throughout the course, participants will focus on technical and compositive topics at th...

International students from YACademy's 'Architecture for Landscape' workshop develop bivouac shelters in the mountains of Italy's Aosta Valley

2022-06-06T06:00:00-04:00

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It was 2019 when, within the workshop of YACademy’s course in Architecture for Landscape, a group of international students developed the project of a bivouac for the Brédy family.

Today, thanks to that experience, in the mountains of Aosta Valley, a magnificent new intervention of contemporary architecture arises, signed by Chiara Tessarollo, Skye Sturm and Facundo Arboit, alumni of the prestigious international academy.

The story has an articulated and complex development and deserves to be told in detail.

Image courtesy of YACademy. (2021)

Each year, YACademy courses offer their students the opportunity to work on real projects for clients of absolute prestige. In 2019, through the collaboration between YACademy and Cantieri d’Alta Quota - an Italian association oriented towards assembled architecture field study and research - the workshop topic concerned the design of a small bivouac in the Vertosan valley.

The design of this architecture...

Participate in lectures and internships with Lacaton & Vassal, Mariam Kamara, Anupama Kundoo, and others in YACademy's Architecture for Humanity 2022 edition

2022-05-23T14:17:00-04:00

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Participate in YACademy's internships and lectures with Snøhetta, Souto de Moura, and Dorte Mandrup in "Architecture for Landscape" 2022 edition

2022-05-17T08:12:00-04:00

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From Stonehenge to Greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on the landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment. Architecture and landscape are linked by a fundamental continuity that is now starting to fade, damaging the quality of the space we dwell.

More than ever today, the landscape is a precious heritage that architecture can and must enhance while protecting it to pass it on to future generations: architects shall not give up on working on the landscape instead, they should be able to design architectures that respond to each landscape’s specific feature and generate wonderful and unique spaces.

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The “Architecture for Landscape” course was created on these premises: it aims at training designers who are able to meet the diverse needs of transforming territories, enforcing an attentive and productive dialogue with the surrounding landscape to respon...

Explore historic architecture and new interventions with YACademy's 2022 Architecture for Heritage training course

2022-05-09T13:04:00-04:00

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Architects have always been asked to breathe new life into ancient architectures inherited from the past or into historical – often monumental – artifacts that no longer respond to the customs and needs of contemporary society. Nevertheless, the ancient architectures tell our story, therefore, it deserves to be restored with interventions that bring along a hint of modernity and show the trace of the design activity. The “Architecture for Heritage” course has been created on these premises.

The course aims to train designers who will be able to understand and enhance the memory of historical architectures and take inspiration from them to carry out new interventions that both meet the new needs and are enriched by the link to the past. In a close dialogue between the ancient and the modern, between existing architectures and new interventions, it is possible to comprehend what has been and what is now, redesigning – through architecture – a h...