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| Travel Abroad Continuing Education for Architects |
.jpg) New Continuing Education Program for Architects
and Landscape Architects in Italy and the Mediterranean
Approved AIA and Canadian learning units for Professional Architects
The objective of the program is to extend the current debate on architecture by providing professionals with a learning experience in a traditional Mediterranean urban context, as a uniquely qualified evaluative measure for contemporary issues confronting architecture, cities and the environment. Hand drawing exercises at selected sites will accompany the formal lectures exploring representational techniques for urban and natural environmental issues.
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EARN UP TO 24 AIA-CES LU'S
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| Arrival in Rome Airport/Transfer to Capri: |
Sunday, March 7, 2010 |
| Course Program: |
Monday, March 8th - Friday, March 12th |
| Island Tour/Free Day/Optional Early Departure: |
Saturday, March 13th |
| Departure from Capri/Transfer to Rome Airport: |
Sunday, March 14th |
Full Program Fee: $3,975.00
The Fee Includes: Course Tuition, Rome airport pick-up and bus transfers to Capri, lodging in Capri with continental breakfast, three dinners (welcome dinner, midweek, farewell dinner), the AIA-CES program, free day and island tour, bus transfers back to Rome airport, AIA-CES certificate of completion.
Cost Breakdown:
Tuition: $2,000.00
Lodging: $1,600.00
Meals: $180.00
Transfers to/from Rome: $125.00
Participants may arrive at Capri on their own or take advantage of the Rome bus transfers. The bus will depart Fiumicino airport at 1:00pm on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 and return to Rome Fiumicino airport at 12:00pm on Sunday, March 14th. Please book your air travel to accomodate these dates and times.
Contact Info
If you would like to participate or have any questions please contact us at
info@pantheon-institute.com
Instructors
Professor Allen Ceen and Professor James Wines
Click HERE for Instructors Credentials
Course Description
This course is designed to present ways to meet the demands of the economic crisis, energy efficiency and sustainable design, gleaned from exceptional examples of architecture and the traditional Mediterranean city. The one-week program will also illustrate a variety of hand drawing techniques for communicating the relationships between environmental thinking, green design, and the fusion of site-specific buildings, parks, gardens and public spaces.
The course is divided into two parts.
Part 1 will be presented by Professor Allan Ceen who is an expert in urban topography, cartography, and architecture. Professor Ceen will discuss cartographic representation and re-presentation of experience in route map drawings; urban and sub-urban morphology of settlements; and reciprocity of line in street space mapping and urban form within the site-specific context of the island of Capri.
Part 2 of the course will be presented by Professor James Wines, well-known author of the
pivotal book on “Green Architecture”. In this series of lectures, Professor Wines will discuss, in a broader sense, environmentally responsible practices in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning based on ecological principles, sustainable design, and construction with regional materials. And more specifically, in the context of the island of Capri, will discuss the inclusion of geological form, plants, trees, and locally manufactured green technology into architecture as a site-specific way of dealing with structure and nature.
Part 1 Learning Objectives: 
• Participants will acquire an understanding of the precision necessary in accurate
cartographic representation and will understand the poetic potential of hand-drawn route
maps of an urban experience.
• Participants will acquire the ability to distinguish levels of urban development by means
of drawing these differing levels of streetscapes and street sections. Participants will learn
about safety and security systems in developing streetscapes and edgelines.
• Through an analysis of walking communities planned around people and scaled for
sustainability of resources, participants will acquire a new understanding of the
timelessness of street space as defined by its linear edges.
• Through experiential learning (walking the paths) participants will gain an understanding
of the extended significance of the street line as a physical entity embodying other levels
of significance, as etched in the daily patterns of movement through the city.
• Participants will acquire the ability to discern the topographical limits of human
movement and the form determining aspects of the natural landscape condition in its
relation to a cartographic understanding of architecture and urban form.
• Through route mapping, participants will learn about natural path systems and (a) how to
design movement respecting existing ecological systems (b) at the same time as ensuring
public safety.
• As many areas of the island of Capri do not permit automobile access, participants will
learn about alternative modes of transportation designed to preserve sustainable
communities and ecological systems, in regard to improving individual and public
welfare.
 Part 2 Learning Objectives:
• In this course, participants will learn how to identify and use unique natural and cultural
elements of the Mediterranean region in achieving sustainable design.
• Through utilizing these unique natural and cultural characteristics of Mediterranean
communities,
• participants will learn about ways in which to apply these characteristics in developing
sustainable communities for North America.
• Participants will learn about innovative sustainable design concepts based on preservation
and reuse of existing facilities.
• Participants will learn about innovative sustainable design approaches using space
zoning, sun shading, and the use of vegetation for sun control.
• Through learning about sustainable systems, as applied to safety and security systems,
participants will learn about defensive planting, innovative design, and defensive space.
• Through the use of hand-drawing in site-analysis, students will develop a more in-depth
awareness of the connectedness between nature and design, as well as preserving the
aesthetic quality within sustainable design solutions.
COURSE SCHEDULE
Sunday - 7th
Arrival, checking into the Hotel, registration
17:00 Introductory Orientation to the Professional Development Course
18:00 Opening Reception
19:00 Dinner
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Monday - 8th
9:00-11:00 Professor Allan Ceen – Introductory Lecture and Walk #1 - Cartographic Representation vs. Re-Presentation of Experience in Route Map Drawings (2 LU’s)Presentation on methods of recording the architectural experience of urban form. Learning Objective: Students will acquire an understanding of the precision necessary in accurate cartographic representation and will understand the poetic potential of hand-drawn route maps of an urban experience.
12-14:00 Lunch
14-17:00 Professor James Wines - Introductory Lecture: "Economy of Means"/"Drawing on Capri" (3 LU’s) In his introductory lecture, Professor James Wines will present ways to meet the demands of the economic crisis, energy efficiency and sustainable design, without a loss of aesthetic quality. He credits some of the most revolutionary artistic triumphs of the early 20th century including Le Corbusier’s “machines for living in” and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonion houses – which confirm that big ideas can often be realized through a great economy of means. The lecture also explores a selection on materiality and environmentally prudent contributions to the Radical Architecture movement of the 1970s and 80s. The lecture concludes with a range of innovative proposals for the present era; featuring buildings and public spaces that use frugality itself as an inspirational raw material for art.
19:00 Dinner
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Tuesday - 9th
9:00-11:00 Professor Allan Ceen - Walk #2 - Urban and Sub-Urban Morphology of Settlements (2 LU’s) This session will focus on evolution of movement systems as an imprint of urban form and morphology – natural paths becoming articulated routes becoming urban streets. Learning Objective: Students will acquire the ability to distinguish levels of urban development by means of drawing these differing levels of streetscapes and street sections.
12-14:00 Lunch
14-17:00 Professor James Wines - The Integration of Landscape and Architecture (3 LU’s)
Lecture (Lecture Hall) and on site drawing exercise on the island of Capri. This in-class presentation explores the history of drawing from Paleolithic caves to the digital revolution concluding with today’s increasingly fluid interaction between hand-generated graphics and computer renderings in architecture. Professor Wines will discuss the work of SITE
New York and its idea development process, based on an integrative fusion of pen, pencil,
charcoal, watercolor, and digital representation. The lecture will also demonstrate a variety of techniques for communicating the relationships between environmental thinking, green design, and the fusion of site-specific buildings, parks, gardens and public spaces as related to the Mediterranean environment and the Island of Capri. A selected site will be used for the first hands-on drawing exercise.
19:00 Dinner
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Wednesday - 10th
9:00-11:00 Professor Allan Ceen - Walk #3 - Reciprocity of Line in Street Space Mapping of Urban Form (2 LU’s) Discussion and on-site illustration of the theoretical and physical persistence of street edge lines in urban space perimeters and the significance of street/path lines in delineating patterns of urban movement. Learning Objectives: Students will acquire a new understanding of the timelessness of street space as defined by its linear edges. Through experiential learning (walking the paths) students will gain an understanding of the extended significance of the street line as a physical entity embodying other levels of significance, as etched in the daily patterns of movement through the city.
12-14:00 Lunch
14-17:00 Professor James Wines - Borrowed from Nature, Organic Form and Cosmic Symbolism (3 LU’s) Lecture (Lecture Hall) and on site drawing exercise on the island of Capri. With Capri as the case study, this presentation of hand drawing for architecture and landscape focuses on concept development, calligraphic interpretation, media choices, and the search for an appropriate language of signification in the 21st Century age of information, environment and ecology. A specific historical site in Capri (Casa Malaparte) will be used as the field study for drawing exercises that highlight the relationship between nature and built form.
19:00 Dinner
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Thursday - 11th
9:00-11:00 Professor Allan Ceen - Walk #4 - Hill Climb to Monte Solare (Optional) (additional 2 LU’s) Examining natural paths through the least developed part of the island.
Learning Objectives: Students will acquire the ability to discern the topographical limits of human movement and theform determining aspects of the natural landscape condition in its relation to a cartographic understanding of architecture and urban form.
12-14:00 Lunch
14:00-17:00 Professor James Wines – Drawing Methodology – Drawing Materials – Drawing Final Results (3 LU’s) Lecture and on site drawing exercise.
In this presentation Professor Wines will discuss the interface between art and technology, and look at the development of calligraphic innovation from ancient China to the digital revolution, demonstrating the present era’s increasingly fluid relationship between hand sketching and computer technology in architecture and planning. The lecture will draw on site-specific examples from the island of Capri. An on-site drawing exercise will follow the lecture presentation. Professor Wines will comment and guide participants during all the drawing exercises.
19:00 Dinner
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Friday - 12th
9:00-12:00 Formal Review of Participants' Drawing Exercises and Exhibit Opening (3 LU’s)
Interactive review of participants’ drawing exercises and exhibit with instructor and all
participants.
12-14:00 Lunch
14-17:00 Juried Commentary of the Exhibit (3 LU’s) The juried commentary will be by local dignitaries. Meeting with the Mayor of Capri, the Soprintendente Archeologico, and the Assessore alla Cultura. This is an interactive critique of participants’ work in the context of the exhibition by professional architects and related practices.
19:00 Dinner
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Saturday - 13th
AM Boat Tour of the Island
Optional Swim in “Tiberius' Swimming Pool” – The Grotta Azzurra
PM Optional Early Departures
Sunday - 14th
AM Final Departures
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About the Pantheon Institute AIA CES Program
The Pantheon Institute is an "AIA CES Registered Provider" of continuing education programs for AIA members. This means that the PI is one of more than 2500 educational providers within the AIA/CES systems made up of AIA Chapters, affiliate organizations, manufacturers, universities, other non profit organizations, and government agencies. Our goal is to provide the best available continuing education opportunities to member architects and related industry professionals. All programs sponsored and presented by PI are reported to AIA CES Records.
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