Iuav Specialisation School in Architectural and Landscape Heritage

 

Iuav Specialisation School in Architectural and Landscape Heritage (SSIBAP) is a two-year postgraduate programme.

 

The School aims to form highly qualified specialists in restoration, protection, and architectural heritage and landscape. These specialists will be able to draw projects, direct the execution of complex commissions, and have a thorough methodological, theoretical, and scientific preparation.

 

During the study period, students must obtain 120 university credits (CFUs). At the end of the programme, the Specialisation School will issue a Specialist Diploma.

 

 

why choose Venice

 

The Specialisation School is located in the Veneto region, which has a rich heritage of historic buildings, and precisely in an area of the Venetian lagoon with its peculiar environmental conditions.

 

In the lagoon area, the entire complex of buildings rises only a few decimetres above the average water level, and it is therefore particularly sensitive to the main effects of climate change: the continuous rise of sea level, the increasingly extreme weather events, the higher amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.

 

Edifices are also often affected by environmental aggressions, atmospheric pollution, and industrial and agricultural pollution. These conditions can multiply the effects of degradation, especially when combined with other natural or anthropogenic causes of deterioration and the great unbalanced year-long mass tourism.

 

Venice has been and still is a place for analysis and methodological elaboration of architectural and urban development studies. It is a focal point for debate and reflection on restoration, for experimentation and development of techniques and procedures for protection, conservation, and restoration. For these reasons, the city is an ideal laboratory for studies and experiences that can be valid for most other Italian, European or Mediterranean coastal areas.

 

 

why choose SSIBAP

 

The Specialisation School reflects the high-level tradition of teaching and research of Università Iuav di Venezia. Issues related to knowledge, conservation and enhancement of architectural and landscape heritage have always been important areas of interest and a common ground to promote dialogue between various disciplines.

 

The distinctive interdisciplinary approach that characterises Iuav is reflected in teaching, giving a lot of space to workshop experiences, where various lectures converge to favour a continuous exchange of knowledge and points of view.

 

SSIBAP focuses on the architectural “project”, intending architecture as a “built” reality. It includes lessons on Architectural Renovation, History of Architecture, Archiving, Archaeology, Relief and Design, Heritage, Urban and Landscape Regeneration, Chemistry, Geology and Petrography, Technology and Geotechnics, Appraisal, Cultural Heritage Legislation, Architectural Design, Exhibition Design, Museography and Installations.

 

The Specialisation School aims to increase critical awareness of the various conceptual issues underlying the renovation processes. Topics like the study of past operations on buildings and landscape, the study of the persistence of original material in its authenticity, the importance and role of preserving the traces of the past in their complexity and stratification, and the relations between ancient and new.

 

Participation in Iuav nationally and internationally renowned laboratories offers the opportunity to expand specialist knowledge and develop skills and tools for intervening in a wide range of constructions: from historical architectures to those of the twentieth century, from testimonies of antiquity to industrial archaeology, from single factories to industrial complexes and sites that are subject to seismic risk.

 

 

what you achieve at the end of the specialisation programme

 

SSIBAP goal is to provide theoretical and practical skills to lead consciously the project of conservation, restoration and reutilization of monuments, widespread constructions and landscapes. Skills that are necessary to face coherently the problems that the constructed patrimony poses when new functional requirements emerge and require adjustments and transformations in terms of consolidation or strengthening, planimetric and spatial changes, plant adaptation, and design of new structures and artefacts.

 

At the end of the Specialisation School two-year programme, the graduate will have achieved:

– proficiency in theoretical-scientific aspects, as well as in methodologies and techniques, related to architectural and landscape heritage

– thorough historical preparation that will allow further studies and research

– complete knowledge of critical tools for a well-founded assessment of architectural and landscape heritage

– skills in all of the different aspects of the project’s phases of preservation, renovation, consolidation, enhancement, and maintenance; as well as management of architectural works, architectural complexes or landscaping

– mastery of aspects related to the direction, organisation, and management of a construction site

– expertise in the field of exhibition design and museography and the arrangement of archaeological and/or natural sites

– expertise in the field of monumental, environmental, and landscape protection

– advanced knowledge of legislative, administrative, and financial aspects to manage and preserve architectural and landscape cultural heritage.