GENOA SUMMER SCHOOL (or University of Genova Summer School) was a two-week course conceived and curated by Vittorio Pizzigoni and Valter Scelsi, form 2013 to 2016. The full-time programme (which included design studios, seminars and conferences) was open to architects and architecture students from all over the world, and a portfolio was required to apply.
GENOA SUMMER SCHOOL 1, Genova, 28th August - 6th September 2013
The first edition of the Genoa Summer School was organized by the University of Genova in collaboration with the architectural magazine San Rocco, from 28 August to 6 September. The task of the GSS1 was to design a new Mosque for Genoa in the pier-head of Molo Vecchio.
GSS1 was curated by Paolo Carpi, Giovanni Piovene, Vittorio Pizzigoni, Valter Scelsi, with (as assistant curators) Veronica Caprino, Antonio Lavarello, Alex Macaluso, (photographers) Andrea Bosio, Ilaria Caprifoglio, (web designer) Michele Marchetti.
TEACHERS Ido Avissar (LIST), Paolo Carpi (Baukuh), Matteo Costanzo (2A+P/A), Kersten Geers (Office KGDVS), Matteo Ghidoni (Salottobuono), Anne Holtrop, Wonne Ickx (Productora), Giovanni Piovene (PIOVENEFABI), Oliver Thill (Atelier Kempe Thill / STUDENTS Lecchini Giulia, Badano Riccardo, Jochen Jurgensen, Chapman Robert, Torokovà Zuzana, Lesina Debiasi Lukas, Van der Zee Floris, Bauer David, Camilla Corsi, Castellini Gloria, Hamzeian Boris, Jorem Hanna, Lagomarsino Francesca, Samovich Valeriia, Luy Philipp, Munteanu Daniel Tudor, Van der Leeuw Rolf, Varjabedian Rita, Chiabrera Andrea, Lepre Federico, Maani Sara, Huegel Adrian, Henttonen Taavi, Di Bella Guya, Schutz Carlos, Duthoit Gautier, Bassi Carlotta, Zamojski Patrick, Barut Julie, Monarcha Souza Silva Fernandes Alessandra, Geh Alexander, Guerrisi Valeria, Oancea Maria Daria, Berdan Alexandra-Iona, Benvenuto Serena, Brands Mattijs, Burst Philipp, Markaki Metaxia, Papadantonakis Andreas, Vieriu Magda, Diddi Nicholas, Pregesbauer Patrick, Abel Michael, Lambrechts Maarten, Proskuriakova Anna, Pisano Mariagiorgia, Jancok Martin, Lundahl Erik Oskar, Shoghi Mehdi, Van Noten Camiel / CRITICS Noura Al Sayeh, Carmen Andriani, Guglielmo Bilancioni, Giovanna Borasi, Marco Casamonti, Giovanni Galli, Massimiliano Giberti, Joseph Grima, Salah Husein, Eric Lapierre, Alireza Naser Eslami, Franz Prati, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Andrea Zanderigo.
GENOA SUMMER SCHOOL 2, Genova, 20th July - 3rd August 2014
The second edition of the Genoa Summer School was organized by the University of Genova. It explored the possibility of an approach based on architectural, environmental and economic knowledge. The field of application of the design was the two great Asylums located in the Genoese metropolitan area: Quarto dei Mille in the eastern side, and Pratozanino in the western side.
In Italy the hospitalizations to the Asylums stopped abruptly in the 1978, when the Law 180 (Basaglia Law) introduced significant changes in the provision of psychiatric care. From there, the two Psychiatric Hospitals of Quarto and Pratozanino were gradually empty and patients discharged into the community.
GSS2 had the financial contribution of the EU-Community that will cover the costs for both the teachers and the students involved. GSS2 belongs to the European Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) and it works as an Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP).
Organized and coordinated by Università degli Studi di Genova (UNIGE), Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Architettura (DSA) / conceived and curated by Vittorio Pizzigoni, Valter Scelsi / Tutors: Valeria Arena, Eleonora Bertolotto, Pietro Bonometto, Elisabetta Canepa, Francesco Forni, Valeria Guerrisi, Valeria Iberto, Alex Macaluso, Alessandro Parodi, Alessandro Perotta / Photographers: Stefano Graziani, Anna Positano / Secretary: Elisabetta Canepa / Web Designer: Michele Marchetti
TEACHERS Ido Avissar (ÉNSA-V), Nicola Braghieri (EPFL), Cherubino Gambardella (SUN), Andrea Gritti (POLIMI), Andreas Lechner (TU GRAZ), Cédric Libert (ÉNSA-V), Enric Massip Bosch (ETSAV), Morten Meldgaard (KADK), Enrico Molteni (USI), Thomas Padmanabhan (ETH), Vittorio Pizzigoni (UNIGE), Franz Prati (UNIGE), Andrea Zanderigo (EPFL), Valter Scelsi (UNIGE) / GUESTS AND CRITICS Carmen Andriani (UNIGE), Michele, Bonino (Politecnico di Torino), Silvia Capurro (Director of Planning Department, Comune di Genova), Nicola Di Battista (Editor of Domus), Maria Linda Falcidieno (Director of DSA, UNIGE), Nerio Farinelli (President of Municipio di Levante, Comune di Genova), Maria Carla Filauro (CDP Imm. Srl), Anna Foppiano (Architect), Amedeo Gagliardi (Associazione Coordinamento per Quarto), Giovanni Galli (UNIGE), Stefano Graziani (Photographer), Daniela Pittaluga (UNIGE), Anna Positano (Photographer), Lucio Ruocco (Architect and member of Associazione Coordinamento per Quarto), Cosimo Schinaia (Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Spi), Maurizio Sinigaglia (City Planning Manager, Comune di Genova), Anita Venturi (Mayor of Comune di Cogoleto) / STUDENTS Camelia Marina Petre (ÈNSAV), Coline Fidon (ÈNSAV), Daniela Morpurgo (POLIMI), Maria del Mar Esteve Guëll (ETSAV), Inés Brotons Borrel (ETSAV), Krenare Juniku (POLIMI), Alexandra Letard (ÈNSAV), Gabriela Patricia Ortega Madarieta (ETSAV), Giorgia Notaro (POLIMI), Hong Ngoc Trinh (ÈNSAV), Ilaria Paleari (POLIMI), Alexander Gebetsroither (TU Graz), Elìn Thorisdottir (KADK), Paul Antoine Terrier (EPFL), Thomas Josef Hörmann (TU Graz), Zuzana Töröková (TU Graz), Adrien Faria (ÈNSAV), Anna Maria Jäger (TU Graz), Federica Carbonara (UNIGE), Luis Antonio Martin Sanchez (POLITO), Nuriye Ceren Kaplan (UNIGE), Sara Abd Alla (UNIGE), Angelo Torre (UNIGE), Barbara Fuseau (ÈNSAV), Claudia Siffredi (UNIGE), Gabrielle Jouy (ÈNSAV), Florian Scheucher (TU Graz), Luigi Mandraccio (UNIGE), Ana Skrebic (TU Graz), Laura Hidalgo Martin (ETSAV), Nikola Jankovic (TU Graz), Stefano Varaldo (UNIGE), Alicia Santacana Duarte (ETSAV), Argenzia Cristina Gallotta (UNIBAS), Claudio Marini (UNIGE), Cristina De Olañeta Santaugini (ETSAV), Natàlia Morató Ávalos (ETSAV), Rune Arleth (KADK).
GENOA SUMMER SCHOOL 3, Can Lis, Avinguda Jørn Utzon 77, Portopetro, Mallorca, Spain, 9th -18th September 2015
The third edition of the Genoa Summer School is organized by the Department of Architectural Sciences, Polytechnic School of University of Genoa in collaboration with The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, with the support of Utzon Foundation.
The task of GSS3 is to design a small hotel for short or long term holidays.
Each group of students has to place their hotel in the given area of the Mondragó Park, near Portopetro, Mallorca. Each hotel should be made of twelve rooms.
Each group of students should reflect on the kind of rooms designed.
It is required a respectful relation with the landscape surrounding the hotel.
Could be researched a relation with Jørn Utzon's architecture.
TEACHERS Konstantinos Pantazis (Point Supreme), Vittorio Pizzigoni (Scuola Politecnica - Genova), Simona Malvezzi (Kuehn Malvezzi), Guro Sollid (Royal Danish Academy - København), Carmen Andriani (Scuola Politecnica - Genova), Morten Meldgaard (Royal Danish Academy - København) CRITICS Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes (AKKA architects), Andreas Lechner (TU - Graz), Lukas Pauer (Architect - Basel), Joan Riera Jaume (Architect - Palma de Mallorca), Valter Scelsi (Scuola Politecnica - Genova) STUDENTS Georgios Alexandridis, Rune Arleth, Philippe Breels, Matteo Botto Poala, Martina Bunino, Joseph Caruana, Vittorio Cassabgi, Sebastian Elsen, Jared Frank, Francesco Garrone, Sofia Giorgianni, Tobias Gruber, Silvia Lanteri, Viktória Lélek, Federico Lepre, Federica Locati, Mihai Mardare, Eudes Vito Margaria, Javier Navarro, Patrick Pregesbauer, Fabian Reinsch, Mihai Turtoi, Giulia Zatt TUTOR Alice Baiardo