ARCH_500-600 International Summer Studio: ‘Barcelona: Intersections”

It has been said, wisely, that Barcelona is a city of lyrical profiles rather than epic movements. It is this complex cacophony of light, architecture, and spectacle that inspires students, year after year, in summer exercises in Barcelona. Distances collapse, impressions abound, and conversations appear fluid and constant, in a rhythm that does not slow down during the summer months.

This intense 8-week course is divided into a Seminar and a Studio. Meetings take place every day with studio activities, field trips, and presentations by local architects. Student projects and papers aimed to engage the specific milieu of a paradigmatic European city through their own eyes and day-to-day experiences. The affirmation of personal identities grows and expands in this unique city where the deep traces of history and the pulsation of a dynamic culture collide with unusual force.