KUMA, BILBAO, SHIGERU BAN: Discover Internships and Lectures in YACademy's "Architecture for Humanity" Course [Sponsored]

Apply for YACademy's course in Architecture for Humanity and get the chance to meet archistars with the likes of Kengo Kuma and Shigeru Ban! At the end of the course, each student will be granted an internship or collaboration opportunity with the most renowned studios in the contemporary architectural field.  Hurry applications close on Friday July 17th! 5 scholarships  full-coverage of the enrollment cost and opportunity to participate in the courses from remote connection YACademy – EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES FACING THE COVID-19 EMERGENCYDue to the recent pandemic situation, despite the courses should be held between September 2020 and January 2021, YAC has taken extraordinary measures for the best performance of its activities and to facilitate access to its courses, in accordance to safety criteria and participation in the courses from remote connection. For more information, we invite to read the rules of the course. THE COURSE Pandemic, economic crisis, migration and climate change: every area - from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village - can now be defined as “emergency context”. The United Nations - already before the pandemic cycle - estimated that the fragmentation of conflicts, combined with the effects of the economic and ecological crisis, was generating a humanitarian emergency greater than that caused by the Second World War. In this context, the architect plays a fundamental role, because architecture responds to man’s primary needs. Finding shelter, receiving education, living healthy are rights that require “containers” in the first place, and architecture - great architecture - would be very little if limited to contexts of well-being; since man is at the center of architecture, and man, in any context, in any condition, deserves dignity and beauty. This is why the course in Architecture for Humanities was born, to train designers who know how to compose meaningful architectures even in the most complex contexts, to bring quality where you have always designed to the bottom, beauty where you are used to not seeing it. Accostumed to design in terms of objectives, budget and understanding of anthropological phenomena, the designers will - instead - acquire a method that can be used in any context, capable of optimizing resources and design stimuli to produce, in any condition, a refined architectural phenomenon. Through the study of the global scenario and the comparison with the experience of some of the most authoritative voices in the field (from the UN to representatives of the government of territories in emergency) the designers will focus on the technical and compositional strategies to be adopted in the humanitarian, social and emergency field, during 91 hours of lessons, 32 hours of workshop and numerous interventions by renowned professionals. At the end of the course, YACademy Placement office will guarantee each student a proposal for an internship / collaboration within the partner studios.  Read the full post on Bustler