Florence, Italy / July 23rd – August 1st, 2026
The sixth edition of the Summer School on Architectural Reuse will take place in Florence in summer 2026, from 23 July to 1 August. Architecture students and young architects from around the world will gather in Florence to meet some of the leading European architects and university professors working in the field of reuse.
Following in the footsteps of its five successful predecessors, Summer School on Architectural Reuse is an intensive course designed to train the next generation of architects to meet this challenge. The program offers a full immersion in adaptive reuse, architectural restoration, and sustainable design through lectures and critiques with international practitioners and university professors, an applied design studio, a public exhibition, and a book publication.
The course is open to students and graduates in architecture, interior design, design, landscape, and art. It is a multidisciplinary experience meant to provide a complete framework for a critical approach to adaptive reuse projects, from concept development to construction issues.
Supported by the Municipality of Florence and HouseEurope, the Summer School will focus on a real case study: a former factory in Firenze to be transformed into social and affordable housing. Through this partnership, participants will develop concrete proposals for the future of this abandoned industrial area, offering citizens and stakeholders new scenarios for its regeneration.
The experience enables participants to engage with the concept of 'reuse' in architectural design through an abandoned ruin. Following a site visit to this year's case study, the abandoned Campolmi Factory in Florence, participants will develop a reuse proposal for the ruin during a design studio, with lectures and critiques. New insights gained from the lectures will be applied in hands-on practical workshop sessions, guided by the teaching staff of leading academic and international firms. The event will close with the final public exhibition of the projects and the publication of a book.
The international teaching staff includes Carmody Groarke, HArquitectes, Bricolo Falsarella, Archea, HouseEurope!, some Italian University Professors and other local architects and scholars.
