I workshop all’Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia

Abstract

In 2003 and 2004, in the month of July, Culotta was invited, first among the various Palermitan teachers who subsequently took part in this experience, to hold one of the intensive workshop courses in Architectural Composition at the IUAV. The activity of the workshops as a fundamental preparatory experience of the three-year degree course in Architecture Sciences constituted a didactic innovation of strong experimental value, being a compact themed laboratory, carried out entirely in the classroom. The courses have been designed as an in-depth study, consisting of a second design experience also entrusted to external teachers, with compulsory attendance. One of the objectives, fully achieved at least in the two years of my attendance of these courses with Culotta, was to integrate and deepen the knowledge of the students thanks to the contribution of teaching experiences of external teachers of various origins, given that the student could not follow a laboratory and an intensive course with the same teacher in the same academic year. During the approximately three weeks of the courses, the IUAV was transformed into a great architecture festival, of intense work but also of joy and exchange of experiences.