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Editions |
2017 Bogotá, Colombia past edition 2016 La Habana, Cuba past edition 2015 Lima, Perù past edition 2014 Tokyo, Japan past edition 2013 Quito, Ecuador past edition 2012 Boston, USA past edition 2011 São Paulo, Brasil past edition 2010 Ahmedabad, India past edition 2009 Goris, Armenia past edition 2008 Amman, Giordan past edition 2007 Tbilisi, Georgia past edition 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa past edition 2005 Nanjing, China past edition 2004 Mexicali, Mexico past edition 2003 Tucumán, Argentina past edition |
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Abstract |
WISH, acronym of workshop on international social housing, is a design course of the Accademia di architettura of Mendrisio, conceived with the specific intention to face and investigate, through architectural design, the collective and social housing topic. The course has a profound international vocation and tries to establish with interested countries and institutions, a fruitful academic collaboration. WISH, in fact, moves by the consciousness that the architectural project cannot represent just an intellectual exercise isolated from the concreteness of a real context: the projects are developed in areas truly studied by the local authorities as potential sites for new residential neighborhoods and critically face the rules and the laws in force, suggesting their positive reinterpretation. The investigation, focused on these cities sectors, leads WISH to collaborate with the local authorities, the city administrations and the universities of the country, in a mutual profitable exchange of thoughts and proposals. The workshop wants to be a research and critical analysis opportunity on the topic of dwell and on the social sense of collective living. A research that tries to combine the design desires with the principles of repetitiveness and cost-effectiveness, that are emblematic in large scale architectural projects, with the conviction that, through a coherent and sensitive drawing of a neighborhood or of part of it, it is possible to enrich and to increase the vital and changing weft of the cities. |
1 house = 1 house |
Objectives |
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Direction |
Martino Pedrozzi |
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Assistance |
Vincenzo Tuccillo |
since 2021 |
Assistance (past) |
Otto Krausbeck |
until 2010 |
Credits |
7.5 ECTS (european exchange university credits) |
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Contact |
WISH |