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Architecture for Humanity at Yacademy

The Architecture for Humanity course at Yacademy equips students with valuable hands-on experience in designing spaces that are beneficial for the community.


School: Yacademy
Course: Architecture for Humanity
Location: Bologna, Italy and online
Course dates: March 2025 to May 2025
Application deadline: 13 December 2024

Yacademy's Architecture for Humanity course collects the most relevant international experience in the field.

The course offers three scholarships with full coverage of the enrolment cost for the most deserving students. It is also possible to participate in the courses remotely.

With a frequency of three days per week for a duration of two months, Architecture for Humanity hosts several frontal teaching modules and the participation of numerous well-known professionals working at world-renowned companies, including Elemental, Foster + Partners, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Shigeru Ban and El Equipo Mazzanti.

The course's workshop is tutored by Giancarlo Mazzanti, founder of El Equipo Mazzanti and will focus on the design of ETCRs (Territorial Spaces for Training and Reintegration), which will have the rehabilitation of Colombian ex-combatants and their families as their mission.

In addition, Yacademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in the process of producing their own ideas, gaining practical experience on construction sites and the authorship of projects capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.

To conclude the course, each student will carry out a period of collaboration with one of Yacademy's partner firms. Such collaboration will have a minimum duration of two months and guaranteed remuneration consistently with regulatory requirements. Some of the professional players with expertise in relation to the course topic include Anupama Kundoo Architects, TAMassociati, Orizzontale, SelgasCano, Estudio MMX and MONOatelier.

Find out more about the course and apply ›

Top image: courtesy of Yacademy.

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