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About this episode

This three week course in Italy offered students experience in preservation, restoration, and adaptive re-use of historic vernacular masonry buildings in the Piedmont region. The site is the abandoned village of Ghesc, near Domodossola. Students analyzed and documented existing structures and devised strategies and designs for the re-use of selected buildings while maintaining their historic features. Studio design time was supplemented with hands-on construction on an abandoned mill. Field trips off-site, guided by an architectural historian, supplemented the main work of the course.

• Release Date

  Nov 8, 2010

• Runtime

  54:22