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Piacenza Campus of Politecnico di Milano hosts the three-year Architecture Design Bachelor and the Architecture International Master “Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design”.

The academic curriculum of the first three years aims at training designers with a specific sensitivity to architectural issues while the two final years are devoted to sustainable projects and to landscape design. The creation of the International Summer School OC OPEN CITY is an important initiative, with a strong international vocation, and it’s oriented to the design the “open spaces” in different scales of intervention, from landscape transformation to regeneration of public areas and to specific architectural components. The school is open is open to students attending the 3rd year of Bachelor Degree Courses and to students attending a Master in Architecture, Design, Engineering and Planning, as well as to PhD research students in disciplines of architecture and urban planning.

The workshop aims at maintaining an open dialogue among the different design specialties needed to face the problems arising from architectural, urban and environmental transformations, becoming a discussion forum and a brainstorming workshop, where issues on the general development perspectives of contemporary habitats can be discussed. The wide consensus this initiative has received during the last 8 editions, both inside and outside the academic scene, is the result not only of the scientific reputation of Politecnico di Milano but also of the innovative format and the fascinating history of the host city.

Piacenza is the ideal venue for an initiative focused on complex design problems, both for the quality of its landscape, artistic and monumental environment and for the wide range of case-studies, as well as for its solid traditions in the building sector. Located in the fascinating buildings and pavilions of the former slaughterhouse, the International Summer School OC OPEN CITY hosts each year tens of students, tutors and professors coming from different parts of the world, gathering to discuss issues of architectural, urban and environmental design. The School high scientific value is confirmed by its intense schedule of lectures and public conferences with speakers of international renown in the field of architectural design.
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