Iuav University
Posted On 28-01-2019
Every year for three weeks in June and July, Università Iuav di Venezia turns into a big open campus, or a festival, thanks to the W.A.Ve. Workshops that see the participation of over 100 teachers, professors and assistants, and 1.800 students enrolled in undergraduate courses.
Uniqueness and ritual: these are the values that characterize W.A.Ve. summer workshops. Unique because, in the global educational landscape, there is no institution that offers this specific type of architectural education. Ritual because, now in its sixteenth edition, W.A.Ve. has become a big recurring appointment in the Venetian cultural scene. The idea is to mix the attractiveness of Venice with the specificity of an academic institution fully dedicated to design such as Iuav. An experiment that intensifies the learning experience of students by offering a scenario in which to test the level of their training through the energy and passion that flows from the joint work of such a large number of global architects.
In the years W.A.Ve. hosted over 200 international professors including winners of prestigious awards such as the Pritzker Prize, Aga Khan Award for Architecture and EU Mies Van Der Rohe Award. 43 countries have been represented: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Paraguay, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Switzerland, Turkey, USA.