Reuse the Ruin – Summer Architecture Workshop is an intensive summer course specifically oriented to provide a full experience in architectural restoration, from the theory to the details.

It is a multidisciplinary experience, meant to give you a complete framework of the issues inherent to the restoration project through various activities: lectures and reviews by international architects and Italian University Professors (Florence and Pisa); an applied workshop about the ghost town of Castelvecchio (San Gimignano), with a site inspection.

This experience gives you the opportunity to deal with the reuse of an abandoned ruin through the lens of the architectural project. Participants were asked to reuse a selected ruin in Tuscany, after a site inspection.

New knowledges acquired during the lectures can be implemented every day in the workshop sessions — learning-by-doing — under the supervision of guests and tutors coming from the academic world and from international firms.