The Master Classes will explore an innovative idea of a sustainable construction industry able to provide a catalogue of possible site-specific and off-grid housing configurations.
The character and features of materials used, but also how details are developed, have a part in the impact of architecture that should not to be underestimated.

1-6.9.2022

Given the global consequences related to the climate change, the post-pandemic dynamics and the Ukrainian conflict an ecological approach is needed in order to respond to the growing request of affordable housing solutions for different social and environmental scenario. Such approach will have to face the dramatic rising cost of living, particularly in relation to energy, food and construction materials towards off-grid communities.

Paolo Cascone and Maddalena Laddaga

with the contribution of Maximiliano Romero Università IUAV Venice

• Booklet

27.1-4.2.2023

A building always conveys a message to the public and to everyone who pass by or enters it. It says also something about the time of  its origin and the cultural surrounding. 
The character of a city a landscape, a building, a room is specific and unique and sometimes we visit a city or a building because of its character.

Irmgard Frank and Judith Augustinovic

• Booklet

Andrea Vass

with Raffaella Cavallaro

• Booklet