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International Summer Schools / Abroad
Thanks to our Faculty's Summer / Spring / Winter Schools, which have become a tradition and to which new ones are added every year, our students strengthen their international experience.
ICSA (Inter-Cultural Study of Architecture) in Japan Summer School
The ICSA (Inter-Cultural Study of Architecture) in Japan summer school is an international exchange program jointly conducted by Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Faculty of Architecture and Design and the Department of Architecture of Mukogawa Women's University (MWU) in Japan, with the aim of creating an intercultural architectural studio environment. First held in 2009, the program held its 10th edition in 2019, and a total of 96 BAU students have stayed in Japan on scholarship within this program.
The ICSA program, which lasts about six weeks, aims to enable students to experience a studio environment on site in a different country, outside their usual working environment, with new frameworks and architectural concerns. The studio work carried out within the architecture program concludes with jury and exhibition events. In addition to architectural studio courses, our students take various theoretical and practical courses on subjects such as the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement and traditional wooden joinery systems.
Another important aim of the program is to create environments that help students grasp the culture more quickly by organizing trips and social activities in addition to the work at the university during their stay in Japan. Within the program, technical trips are organized to Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, Hiroshima and Tokyo. In this way, students can visit important examples of traditional Japanese architecture while also seeing contemporary designs by world-famous Japanese architects on site and in their context.
Social Media Accounts
https://www.instagram.com/icsainjapan/
https://twitter.com/icsainjapan
Related Web Pages
http://www.mukogawa-u.ac.jp/~itcs/ICSAinJapan/ICSAinJapan.html
http://www.mukogawa-u.ac.jp/~arch/event/icsainJapan/ICSAinJapan2012
Italy Summer School
The Italy summer school takes place in Italy's leading cities in terms of classical and contemporary architecture. The school lasts two to three weeks and includes indoor and outdoor classes, field trips, sketch sessions and studio work. The visual works produced by students during the summer school are exhibited in Italy on the last day of the summer school and later at BAU Faculty of Architecture and Design.
The Italy summer school enables architecture and design students to read historic Italian cities, where identity is a reflection of historical continuity, and to develop a critical thinking methodology regarding contemporary approaches to architecture and urbanism.
Italy Summer School Photos
Spain/BCN Summer Program & ETSAB Workshop
BAU Faculty of Architecture and Design has always highly valued the idea that architectural education should be nourished by activities beyond design studios. Cultural trips and design workshops have been seen as a means of improving education and establishing new cultural ties. Within this framework, since 2013 the Spain Summer Program has included a design workshop collaboration with UPC ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia).
Among the reasons for launching the Spain Summer Program in 2012 were the interest in the architectural movement known as Catalan Modernism, in which Gaudí was one of the leading figures, and in the urban transformation triggered by the Olympic Games in Barcelona. The personal efforts of two academics from BAU and UPC can be added to these. Each year the workshop is held under a different theme and is enriched by visits to museums and architectural offices. The summer program is carried out every year with a group of 15 to 20 BAU students. Observation, research, being in a living laboratory, attempts to reach from the local to the universal, and the sharing of various sensitivities and creativity with international student groups are the most accurate descriptions of the summer workshop.
Spain Summer School Photos
BAU-FH Salzburg Winter School (Austria)
The Winter School, held every year in Salzburg, takes the form of workshops during the winter semester at Fachhochschule Salzburg University in Austria, with the participation of students from the Departments of Architecture, Industrial Design, and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design of Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Architecture and Design. Mutual visits between the two universities have continued for ten years. The work in Salzburg is carried out as a one-week design workshop with the participation of students at FH Salzburg as well as exchange students from other universities. During the trip to Salzburg, places, museums and exhibitions reflecting the historic and modern identity of the city are also visited. At the FHS Winter School, where mixed groups are formed from different countries and departments, students collaborate by working together on applications of design at different scales. Each year, the evaluation jury of the workshop includes Prof. Dr. Elçin Tezel and Lecturer Sinan Polvan from Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Architecture and Design, together with FH Salzburg faculty members Ulrike Szigeti, Günther Grall, Michael Ebner, Alexander Petutschnigg and Bernd Stelzer.
