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The tour includes visits to over 20 case studies, rangingfrom major buildings of leading practitioners including sev-eral Pritzker Prize awardees such as Herzog & de Meuron,Jean Nouvel, Santiago Calatrava, Richard Meier, TadaoAndo, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and others, to buildings by

many important Swiss contemporary architects. It also in-cludes some important historical work such as Le CorbusierChapel at Ronchamp. The trip is completed with contextualwalking tours.

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A unique six-day study-tour of TechnologicallyAdvanced Buildings in Switzerland that in-cludes a stay in the Vals Thermal Baths by PeterZumthor, and travels from Vicenza to Basel, Lu-zerne, and Le Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Hautin Ronchamp. Granting 22 contact hours (over 2

years) of Continuing Education HSW Credits, andApproved by State of Florida Architecture and In-terior Design Licensure Board.

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Sunday, September 4 through Saturday, September

11, 2010. (Dates include Labor Day, so that participants

will need to take only four working days from their ob-

ligations)

Course name: Designing Switzerland Contemporary

Buildings

Course Number: HSW (9877908)

Approved Contact Hours: 22 HSW Credits

Level of Instruction: AdvancedOrganized by the School of Architecture, University of

Florida

Tours and lectures led by Alfonso Perez-Mendez,

Professor of architecture, author of several books and a

long time practicing architect in Europe and USA.

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Hadid/Weil am Rhein

Continuing Education European Trip 2010Vicenza/ Zumthor baths/ Switzerland/ Ronchamp

School of ArchitectureCollege of Design, Construction and PlanningPO Box 115702Gainesville, FL 32601 5702

Bus departure to Vitra Compound. Visit to Vitra Compound includ-ing buildings by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza,Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Prouve among others. Visits toRenzo Piano Beyeler Foundation, Herzog & de Meuron Swiss Cen-ter for Paraplegics, and Herzog & de Meuron Pfaffenholz SportsComplex. All in Basel metropolitan area.

Thursday, September 9, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. Le Corbusier Ron-champ, and Basel Business Center

Bus departure to Ronchamp. Visit to Notre Dame du Haut in Ron-champ. Return to Basel. Contextual tour of Public Modern Build-ings in Basel Center including Herzog and de Meuron, Basel TrainStation commercial Addition Elsassertor II, Richard Meier Eureg-gio Building, Diener & Diener UBS training and Conference Center,Cruz/Ortiz train overpass and commercial Mall in Basel Train sta-tion, Herzog & De Meuron Suva House, Mario Botta Bis Building,Diener & Diener Picassoplatz Business Center, and Peter MarkliPicasso House.

Friday, September 10, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm: Basel Botta ad Her-

zog de Meuron and LuzerneBus departure to Mario Botta’s Jean Tingueli Museum. Visit to Her-zog & de Meuron Roche buildings. Bus departure for Luzerne. Visitof Jean Nouvel Luzern Convention Center and Museum, SantiagoCalatrava Luzern Train Station, and Herzog & de Meuron AstoriaHotel. Return to Vicenza. Farewell dinner.Participants stay in Hotel Due Mori in historic urban center of Vi-cenza, a 2-minute-walk from Palladio’s Basilica.

Saturday, September 11: Participants depart for airport. (Partici-pants are invited to paticipate in a complementary tour of Veniceon the last day.)

Sunday, September 5th:

Any time by 6:00 pm: Arrive in Vicenza, Italy, City declared anUNESCO World Heritage Site and the European base of Univer-sity of Florida School of Architecture’s VIA. Introductory walkingtour to Vicenza and complimentary welcoming dinner.

Monday, September 6, 7:00 am – 6:00 pm: Public Buildings inthe Chur/Flims/Vals Area

Bus departure towards Chur and Vals in Switzerland. Visits to“Chur Roman Ruins Enclosure Museum” by Peter Zumthor.“Flims Cultural center Das Gelbe Haus“by Valerio Olgiatti andVals Thermal Baths.Participants stay the night in Peter Zumthor’s hotel and thermalbaths in Vals, with extended time for personal visit.

Tuesday, September 7, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm: New Basel devel-

opments reusing the industrial fabric: The Novartis Complex

Bus Departure towards Basel in Switzerland. Visit to the NovartisComplex, including new buildings by Frank Gehry, Diener & Die-ner, Kazuyo Sejima of Sanaa, Rafael Moneo, Victorio Mangano

Lampugnani, Yoshio Taniguchi, Peter Markli, Eduardo Souto deMoura, Tadao Ando, Davis Chippereld, Renzo Piano and Jean

Nouvel. Visit to High Rise for Basel Fair by Morger & Degelo andcomplimentary cocktail at the top of Basel Tower with panoramicview of Metropolitan Basel. Arrival and visit to Hotel Dorint, a workby Diener & Diener.Participants stay 3 nights in this hotel with extended time for per-sonal visit.

Wednesday, September 8, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm: Vitra Com-

pound, Renzo Piano Museum and Herzog de Meuron public

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The cost of this program is $2,700 per person for double roomoccupancy and $2,950 per person in single room occupancy. Theprice is the same for both professionals and companions. Thisprice covers all tour transportation costs starting at your arrival atthe hotel in Vicenza, fees for the lectures tours and the 22 CEUcredits, entry tickets, hotel room accommodations from Sundayto Saturday (6 nights), breakfast each day, arrival and farewelldinners, and cocktail hour in Basel. Additional costs for which theparticipant will be responsible include airfare to and from Europe.If individual participants are interested in arriving earlier or depart-ing later, upon request, we will organize with the hotel the extranights at the group rate, at the participant’s expense. Please e-mail Professor Perez-Mendez (alfperez@u.edu) to list inter -

est in the program or for additional questions.

Reservations will be accepted until May 1, 2010. Please remem-

ber that the limit of participants for this program accepted

sign up today by the licensing board is a maximum of 16, and that reserva-tions will be accepted on a rst come basis. At the momentof reservation, $1000 is required to hold a single place. (This is anon-refundable deposit, as it will activate non-refundable hotel andother reservations in your name). The total program fee is due onor before July 1, 2010. Reservation checks and/or full program pay-ments should be made out to: 

School of ArchitectureUniversity of FloridaBasel Continuing Education Tour, 2010

And mailed to:

Mary KramerOfce Manager, School of Architecture

231 Arch / PO Box 115702, University of FloridaGainesvil le, FL 32611-5702

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Herzog & deMeuron/Basel

Gehry/Basel Markli/Basel

Diener & Diener/Basel

Zumthor/Vals

Herzog & deMeuron/Basel

case studies

Herzog & deMeuron/Basel Zumthor/Vals

Le Corbusier/Ronchamp

Nouvel/LuzerneCalatrava/Luzerne

Piano/Riehen

The School of Architecture has scheduled this continuing educa-

tion course so that it coincides with the celebration in Vicenza ofthe 25th Anniversary of the Vicenza Institute of Architecture. Wehope to facilitate the presence in Italy of some of the architectsthat during the past 25 years have spent a semester in VIA or par-ticipated in earlier European continuing education courses, andwish to celebrate their memories.

Celebrating 25 years of VIA

Twenty ve years ago the School of Architecture of the Universityof Florida made a profound commitment to the education of its stu-dents by starting an educational and research center in Vicenza, aWorld Heritage city at the center of the Veneto Region of Italy. Vi-cenza’s history --with such seminal architects as Andrea Palladioand Carlo Scarpa— contemporary cultural vibrancy, and perfectEuropean communications have proven ideal for the internationaleducation of 1844 architecture students and professionals.

In celebrating this milestone, the School wants to honor all con-tributors to VIA success, especially all the former students thathave given VIA its energy and reason for being. With this intentionthere will be a retrospective exhibit with selected samples of VIAstudent work and research from years past.

The exhibit, will take place on the facilities that the School main-tains in Vicenza, will open with a formal celebration and joyfulparty on Saturday September 4th, 2010, and will remain open tothe public until September 19th.

The School invites all participants in this CE course to the open-ing celebration and party that will take place in the afternoon ofSaturday September 4th, one day before the course starts. Theschool will offer a complimentary night stay in the Hotel

Due Mori in Vicenza to all participants that wish to partici-

pate in the events and will arrive to Vicenza that Saturday.

The School of ArchitectureInvites the continuing education participants to:

VIA 25 Anniversarycelebration, exhibit and party in Vicenza

VIA/UF students/Venice

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