Architecture & Design
Architecture & Design: France and Spain
Paris · Marseille · Barcelona
- Duration
- 9 days
- Price
- From US$2,990
- Group size
- Up to 25 students
Architecture & Design
Architecture as a Social Contract: Berlin, Vienna & Prague
Berlin · Prague · Vienna
- Subject
- Architecture & Design
- For
- Students aged 15 and above
- Duration
- 9 days
- Price
- Priced to your group size and dates
- Group size
- Up to 25 students
- Departure
- Dates set with your school
Overview
The trip
This trip turns Berlin, Prague and Vienna into a living classroom, where buildings reveal how architecture responds to ideology, war and political division.
Students trace the origins of modern design at Berlin's Bauhaus Archive and examine how a divided city rebuilt itself at the Berlin Wall Memorial and Tempelhof Airport, a Nazi-era airport reimagined as public park and open space.
The journey continues to Prague, the only city with a significant body of Cubist architecture, where students study the House of the Black Madonna alongside Frank Gehry's Dancing House, a deconstructivist building built into a centuries-old streetscape on a former WWII bomb site.
A highlight is Vienna's Gemeindebauten, the municipal housing estates regarded as one of the world's most successful public housing models, where students see the ideals introduced in Berlin applied and working at city scale today.
Learning outcomes
What students gain
Students will be able to:
- Trace the origins of modernist architecture and design education through the Bauhaus movement
- Examine adaptive reuse and public space through Tempelhof Airport's transformation
- Study Prague's Cubist architecture as a globally unique built expression of an art movement
- Critically assess how historic cities negotiate radical architectural intervention, through the Dancing House
- Understand Vienna's social housing model as an applied, city-scale realisation of modernist housing ideals
The price covers
What's included
Included
- Educational visits and expert-led sessions
- Expert guide
- Rail transport (Berlin–Prague–Vienna)
- Shared accommodation with breakfast
- Visa appointment support
- Safety briefing
- 24-hour guide support
Not included
- Lunch and dinner
- Entry fees to attractions outside the core programme
- Personal spending
Itinerary
The day-by-day itinerary
The full schedule and quote come with your proposal.
3 trips
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