Registration Eligibility
Open
Start Date
09/11/2025
End Date
09/11/2025
Description
Tour Perugia’s major modern interventions woven into the context of world heritage historic architecture and urbanism. Tour Perugia’s “Minimetro” transit system integrated into the historic Etruscan hill town geology, designed by Atelier Jean Nouvelle (Paris), connecting suburban subcenters to the ancient town. Tour Perugia’s unique system of vertical transportation (escalators, elevators, stations) carefully integrated through the rock base of the hill town, linking parking garages and transit to the largely automobile-free historic center at the citadel crowning the top of the rocks. Tour the Rocca Paolina, a historically unique attempt to completely encapsulate a large medieval quarter of the city under one common series of roofs, with ancient streets and buildings gathered to protect the safety and welfare of the town.
Location
Perugia, Todi, Italy, IT
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Sustainable Development & Design
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
5.0
Learning Outcomes
Subject matter involves safeguarding the public health, safety and welfare through innovative design: in geotechnical and seismic upgrades in the context of world heritage historic buildings and sites, relationships between historic towns and surrounding agricultural systems, adaptive re-use of extremely important cultural sites for modern uses, urban ecology, construction systems, site and soils activity, urban planning, and land use across historic and modern eras.
Learning Objective 1:
Identify the historic preservation protections and geotechnical protections and historic layering evident in Perugia from Iron Age, to Etruscan, to Roman, to Renaissance and beyond.
Learning Objective 2:
Explain the unique urban planning and transit system that helps to protect Perugia’s fragile historic center from automobile traffic, environmental degradation, adverse health impacts and noise.
Learning Objective 3:
Describe the system of modern escalators, elevators and stairs that traverse the various layers of Perugia’s geological underpinnings that form the structural foundation for the town, its buildings and inhabitants, including improved handicap accessibility design initiatives in a historic context.
Learning Objective 4:
Summarize techniques used by architects in integrating modern elements of seismic design and life safety measures into the historic environment of Perugia.
Instructors
Patty Stevenson with Jerry Coburn or Nancy Josephson with Stephen Day, plus on site staff
Course Codes
300.3
Provider
The Civita Institute