Date: 8th to 15th December, 2017
Venue: Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) and other venues in Italy
Event: Guest workshop between IDS and POLIMI students
Workshop Instructors: Prof. Nora Lombardini (POLIMI) and Prof. Nick Shavishvili (IDS)
A group of IDS students took part in a guest workshop with POLIMI titled "Assessment of modern heritage in Italy: the example of the "Colonia Elioterapica" by BBPR in Legnano, Lombardia", initiated by Nora Lombardini and Elena Fioretto and supported by Nick Shavishvili who, at the beginning of the workshop, conducted a lecture on the current state of the Georgian architecture for POLIMI and IDS students. The workshop was based on the analysis of an example of modern Italian architecture built in 1938 by the BBPR group and connected with the Fascist policy at the time of building tuberculosis sanatoriums. The workshop attempted reconstruction of the building, helped by archival research, in-site surveys, and bibliographical studies, and resulted in joint design proposals by a cross-school mixed group of students. The results of the workshop were published in various papers by POLIMI. In its time in Italy, the IDS group also visited Venice and Florence.