Attend the first informational meeting in AUP 110 on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM.

Program Description

This intensive eight week course of study directed by Gil Snyder and Bob Greenstreet is designed not only to introduce students to important architectural and urban artifacts in Paris, Florence, and Venice, but also to examine the cultural context that shapes and informs them. Structured as a carefully calculated mix of old and new, students undertake field study of canonic buildings and urban spaces in western thought about architecture, while simultaneously exploring cultural themes around the conflicts of modernism and heritage. Excursions to Siena, Poissy, Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, and Chartres follow similar themes. A two-day excursion to Lyon and La Tourette in the south of France, as well as a three-day excursion to walled cities on the Atlantic coast of Normandy follow similar themes and are offered as part of this field study. The course includes an optional London excursion with a three-day examination of architecture and urbanism in this city that gave the world high-tech architecture and the Beatles.

Week 0: Milwaukee
5/22 Program Introduction
5/23 Traversing the Layers of French Architecture and Landscape

Week 1: Paris Flâneurs in the Fabric
5/31 Depart Chicago ORD for Paris CDG
6/1 Arrive Paris CDG
6/2 Orientation to Paris and France, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Place des Vosges, Marais
6/3 Introduction to the Urban Structure
6/4 Seine boat ride on the Bateaux Mouches

Week 2: Paris / St Malo
6/5 Fondation Cartier
6/6 Independent Study Day
6/7 Depart Paris for Normandy on bus, Omaha Beach, American Cemetery, Pointe du Hoc, Overnight in St Malo
6/8 Intro to History and Architecture of St Malo, Overnight in St Malo
6/9 Intro to History and Architecture of Mt St Michel, Depart Mont St Michel for Paris
6/10 Weekend Break for Independent Study
6/11 Parc Citroen, Social Housing

Week 3: Paris / Versailles
6/12 Independent Study Day
6/13 Parc de la Villette
6/14 Masterworks of The Louvre Collection, Ste. Chapelle
6/15 Metal Architecture
6/16 Quai Branly Museum
6/17 Versailles Chateau, Versailles Garden
6/18 Weekend Break for Independent Study

Week 4a: Chartres / La Tourette / Lyon
6/19 Depart Paris for Chartres in chartered bus, Intro to the Iconography of Chartres Cathedral, Depart Chartres for Paris
6/20 Depart Paris for Lyon for l’Arbresle and La Tourette, Orientation to la Tourette, Overnight at La Tourette
6/21 Depart Arbresles for Lyon, Lyon City, Depart Lyon for Paris
6/22 Independent Study Day

Week 4b: Florence
6/23 Depart Paris for Florence, Florence Orientation, Overnight at Florence Hotel
6/24 Pazzi Chapel, Selected Masterworks of the Uffizi Gallery, Overnight at Florence Hotel
6/25 Brunelleschi’s San Lorenzo, Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel, Overnight at Florence Hotel

Week 5: Florence / Siena / Venice
6/26 Depart Florence for Siena, Depart Siena for Florence, Overnight at Florence Hotel
6/27 Independent Study Day, Overnight at Florence Hotel
6/28 Depart Florence for Venice, The Venetian Empire and the Doge’s Palace, Overnight at Hotel Dolomiti
6/29 Venice Biennale Grounds, Overnight at Hotel Dolomiti
6/30 Ca d’Oro, Overnight at Hotel Dolomiti
7/1 Depart Venice for Paris at end of day
7/2 Weekend Break for Independent Study

Week 6: Paris/ independent study
7/3 London Optional or Independent Study Travel Day
7/4 London Optional or Independent Study Travel Day
7/5 London Optional or Independent Study Travel Day
7/6 Independent Study Travel Day
7/7 Independent Study Travel Day
7/8 Weekend Break for Independent Study
7/9 Weekend Break for Independent Study

Week 7: Paris
7/10 Pompidou Center
7/11 Le Corbusier in the City, Pavilion Suisse
7/12 Independent Study Day
7/13 Modern and Contemporary Churches
7/14 Champ de Mars and Bastille Day
7/15 Weekend Break for Independent Study
7/16 Weekend Break for Independent Study

Week 8: Paris / Poissy / Vaux
7/17 Depart Paris for Poissy, Villa Savoye, Depart Poissy for Paris
7/18 Independent Study Day
7/19 Modern Housing on the Periphery
7/20 Independent Study Day
7/21 Depart Paris for Vaux-le-Vicomte by chartered bus, The French Garden, The Chateau, Depart Vaux for Paris
7/22 Weekend Break for Independent Study
7/23 Weekend Break for Independent Study

Week 9: Paris
7/24 Independent Study Day
7/25 Student Dinner Presentations and Awards
7/26 UWM group checks out of Residence, Depart Paris CDG for Chicago
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Trip Directors
Associate Dean Gil Snyder: Paris, France; Florence, Venice, Italy; London Study Abroad

Gil Snyder, AIA, is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at UWM. He received his MArch from Columbia University in New York where he worked as a registered architect for many years with internationally recognized firms. Since coming to UWM, he has served as the program director for sixteen architecture study abroad programs to a total of over 37 students. Having studied for high school in France at Le Douny in Mégève, Professor Snyder brings his fluency in French and his intimate knowledge of French culture together with his intensive research of modern and pre-modern western architecture to bear in developing programs with an insider’s perspective. Professor Snyder’s academic research focusses in urban morphology, vertical surface development, and the art of detailing. He regularly instructs graduate and upper-level undergraduate design studios and seminars at UWM. He has taught in international education at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris, France and Oxford Brookes Unviersity, Oxford, England.

SARUP Dean Bob Greenstreet: Paris, France; London Study Abroad

Professor Robert Greenstreet, Ph.D., is an architect and Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM. Dr. Greenstreet specializes in the legal aspects of construction. He is the author/co-author of seven books, has contributed to twenty other texts and handbooks, and has published over one hundred and seventy working papers and articles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is listed in fifteen international Who’s Who publications. In addition to being a registered architect in the United Kingdom, he is a practicing arbitrator, mediator and expert witness recognized in both the United States and Europe. In 1998 he was selected as a recipient of the national ACSA Distinguished Professor Award , and was named, in 2009, as one of the “Most Admired Educators” by Design Intelligence Magazine. In 2013, he was awarded the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, awarded jointly by the AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Messenger Prize for Journalistic Excellence, and was granted the Freedom of the City of London by the Chamberlain’s Court in the same year. He regularly instructs graduate and upper-level undergraduate seminars at UWM. He has taught in international education at Oxford Brookes Unviersity, Oxford, England, and is an active participant in SARUP Study Abroad programs.

Courses Offered

The 9 week program is set up in a five-segmented summer with a two-day pre-departure session in Milwaukee.
0.) MKE prep 1.) Paris 2.) Italy 3.) Independent Study 4.) London 5.) Paris.
Classes convene at a different building every morning for directed seminar study and on varying urban sites for studio in the afternoons. During the Independent Field Study break, students can choose to stay in Paris or travel abroad on their own.
The courses offered are: The City as Artifact 3cr, The Paris Studio 6cr, The Paris Directed Research Seminar 3cr.