Education Programme / Residential Summer School 2010: The Culture of Building

The Prince of Wales’s Residential Summer School 2010:
The Culture of Building

19 July – 6 August 2010
London, Brecon and Neath Port Talbot in Wales, UK

Residential Summer School 2010, Swansea Bay area

Through a series of lectures, workshops, drawing and building exercises and field trips, Summer School participants will develop an in-depth knowledge both of traditional building and repair techniques and how these have been, and can be, applied in the twenty-first century.

After an initial week introducing drawing, geometry and structure exercises, as well as architectural drawing tours of London, students will study the architectural development of South Wales and areas of historic importance. Students will be able to work together with Ty Mawr’s expert craft teams to learn craft and conservation skills in the fields of timber, thatching, plastering and dry stone walling.

The school will end with a week-long design charrette in Neath Port Talbot, Wales with The Prince’s Foundation, where students will design a structure to be built later in the year by The Prince’s of Wales’s Building Crafts Apprentices.

The process will include public consultations, design modelling and technical drawing techniques. The winning design will be chosen by a panel of experts and locals.

Of interest to:

The Summer School, forming part of The Foundation’s annual academic year, will benefit any architects, developers, builders urban designers and planners, and craftspeople who are interested in building crafts and architecture, and how these factors respond to the local identity of historic contexts in a timeless and ecological way as well as a desire to learn from the past to help create a better future.

Location:

This year’s three-week Summer School will be held in London, Brecon and Neath Port Talbot in Wales. Students will begin in London, at the offices of The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, then move to the Ty Mawr workshops in Brecon, South Wales and then on to the Margam Discovery Centre in Neath Port Talbot for the Design Exercise.