The fourth international Summer School of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design will take the theme of sustainable urban development. Together with leading Dutch and international experts, the participants will work on a new, green future for the site of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (Rotterdam Drydock Company) - a huge former shipyard – and Tuindorp Heijplaat &nd......

The fourth international Summer School of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design will take the theme of sustainable urban development. The Summer School will take place from 6 to 18 July 2008. Together with leading Dutch and international experts, the participants will work on a new, green future for the site of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (Rotterdam Drydock Company) - ......

The Rotterdam Architecture Summer school is a two-week programme designed to provide master students and young professionals an exercise in dealing with a unique,yet realistic design problem as well as an introduction to an intelligent port transformation assignment for one of the biggest ports in the world today.During the Summer School, students will work on the assignment in groups of seven to ......

The preparation of the detailed programme is in progress. More details will appear on this site regularly.......

Participants and staff will be working in the monumental former headquarters of the RDM shipyard, situated right in the middle of the projectarea. Modelling equipment and materials will be available. Although working on computers is possible, the amount of computers is limited. We therefore encourage participants to bring their own laptops and USB memorysticks. It is also advised to bring your own......