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June 30 – July 11, 2025
STUDIO
SNØHETTA
Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Oslo, Norway. 2008
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Studio Details
Location
Venice, Italy
Date
30 June-11 July, 2025
Studio Directors in Venice
Jette Cathrin Hopp (Director, Snøhetta)
Tommaso Maserati (Architect, Snøhetta)
Jules Gallissian (Architect Urbanist, Snøhetta)
Studio Project
Urban Regeneration
Field Trips and Site Visits
A kayaking tour in the Venetian lagoon
A site visit to the islands of the lagoon
Studio Project
Snøhetta is interested in exploring the past, present and future of space, and providing a place of connection at both local and global contexts. Venice is a city that is distinctively authentic, and curiously exotic at the same time. The studio will consider the environmental and social fragility of the city to inform programming through a series of discussions and explorations.
Students should propose architectural responses to the past, remembering the vital parts, whilst acknowledging the changing nature of the city to consider both local and global audiences. We will explore various techniques and methodologies to unveil the site’s conditions and understand various ways to gain new perspectives to the site context without being bound by architectural typologies.
We invite students to explore solutions to these issues by thinking about the future of production in Venice. The speculative proposal will not be bound by scale, typology or whether the space should be new, existing or a transformation.
Throughout the studio, students will formulate and depict individual perspectives and visions to answer questions at the core of the topic. Is there a way to integrate a notion of industry and production in our cities? If so, could that be a driver to create more awareness of the physical implications capitalism has on the built environment? Can these spaces be reintegrated to deliver a more diverse notion of city? Venice will act as a backdrop to mould and form part of the process extending beyond our discussion of architectural discourse to imagine a space for the future of production – Venice not as a museum city but as an ecosystem of functions. To test these premises the studio will focus on the potential of the lagoon.
Snøhetta (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈsnøːˌhɛtɑ]) began as a collaborative architectural and landscape workshop, and has remained true to its trans-disciplinary way of thinking since its inception. Our work strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit, whether feral or human-made. Museums, products, reindeer observatories, graphics, landscapes and dollhouses get the same care and attention to purpose. Today, Snøhetta has grown to become an internationally renowned practice of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, product, graphic, digital design and art, with 280 employees of more than thirty different nationalities, and an equal gender distribution. Snøhetta is a place nobody is from, but anyone can go to.
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Partner
TBA21–Academy
TBA21–Academy is TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary’s research center fostering a deeper relationship with the Ocean and other bodies of water through the lens of art to inspire care and action. Established in 2011, the Academy has since worked as an incubator for collaborative inquiry, artistic production, and environmental advocacy, catalyzing new forms of knowledge emerging from the exchanges between art, science, policy, and conservation. In 2019, TBA21–Academy opened Ocean Space in Venice, a planetary center that hosts exhibitions and public activities that accelerate critical ocean literacy through the arts. Building on TBA21–Academy’s expansive work, this embassy for the Ocean fosters wonder, engagement and collective action on the most pressing issues facing the Ocean today.
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Internships
Students accepted into the Snøhetta Studio at Venice Studio may be considered for available internship or job opportunities at Snøhetta. Selection of candidates is at the sole discretion of the studio director and Snøhetta. Places are not guaranteed.