Bridging Prague
Architectural/Planning Summer Workshop
2013

Prague, Czech Republic
DEADLINE | 31.05.2013
ARCHIP | Architectural Institute in Prague

The ARCHIP Bridging Prague Summer Workshop is a three-week intensive study and life experience, based in Prague, Czech Republic. “Golden Prague” has been described as “the most beautiful city in Europe” and almost every architectural expression is well represented here- Gothic, Romanesque, Neo-Classical, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Functionalist and Modern. Prague’s historic core, fundamentally unchanged since the 14th century, has been a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site since 1992.

WORKSHOP THEME
Participants will propose architecture and planning urban interventions onto the iconic Vltava riverbank, one of the richest historic architectural environments in Central Europe. Through urban analysis of existing conditions and the context, students will propose an appropriate contemporary intervention(s) responding to scale, massing, materials and the existing cultural context of Prague.

The workshop will start with an intensive historical and contextual site analysis, led by respected Czech historians, urban planners and architects. At the end of the first week, participants will choose a specific site and will develop a personal intervention, which could be architectural, site- or landscape-based.
There will be a guided component of the program, where students will study other iconic urban, architectural and historic sites in Prague.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
1. to encourage critical analysis od traditional European urbanism and architecture and the implications and effects of modern interventions;
2. to work in a multi-disciplinary context to encourage a holistic approach to architecture, planning, landscape architecture and urbanism;
3. to provide "real world" situations for the address of the Vltava River banks, with an eye to the long-term planning goals for the city to better address use of public space and pedestrian mobility along the river.

APPLICATION DEADLINE | May 31, 2013
Maximum of fifteen (15) participants. All architecture, planning or landscape architecture students who are currently enrolled or have been admitted to an accredited program are eligible to apply. Students will be accepted first on the basis of merit and then on a first-come, first-served basis.
To apply, email application to info@archip.eu and send electronic transfer, or mail a completed application form and a bank transfer/cheque of the 300.00 USD/ 235 Euro application fee to: ARCHIP, Františka Křížka 1, 170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic.

WORKSHOP COSTS
• € 1120 / 1,500 USD (including accomodation)
• € 800 / 1,100 USD (without accomodations)