Interior Design in Italy: Past, Present & Future
Location
Italy: Florence, Venice
Description
Course is to be based in Florence Italy, with a side trip to Venice.
Course objective is to experience and study Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture and design, gain an in-depth understanding of their concepts and sensibilities, and to explore how these concepts can be reinterpreted and applied to contemporary design today. The course will allow participants to explore how to use their study of history as an inspiration for their own design strategies today and to reinterpret it, without copying it, in their own creative work. They will understand the difference between pretending to live in another time by copying those styles and in creating designs for the present day.
Participants will visit essential historic sites and modern structures - sketch them, analyze them and begin to evaluate how time-tested principles from the past have inspired modern design in those cities. Italian history is valued and alive, and becomes a generator for modern forms. Participants will be witness to how the historic sites have been preserved, in some cases transformed with modern uses, and remain a vital and integral part of the contemporary Italian city. Participants will be asked to evaluate the approach of today's modern architects and designers.
Highlights
Participants will spend time each afternoon visiting important Renaissance and other historic sites supplemented by important modern examples. Site visits will include walks through the urban fabric of selected key areas and specific museums and galleries, public and religious buildings, palaces/ville, parks, public squares, and other important sites. Participants will study and analyze the concepts developed during the historic periods and record their features and innovations in sketch form and annotated sketch notes.