Member Institution:
 Cal Poly Rome Program in Architecture
Address:
 Architecture Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0282
Telephone:
 349.561.1463
Fax:
E-Mail, if available:
Links to Website(s), if available:
 Home Campus Website
Italian Program Website
Description:
 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo's Rome Program in Architecture is open to students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning. This semester-long program emphasizes sustainable solutions to the real-world problems of Italy's urban environments, and its landscapes and cultivated lands, including territorial development. In addition to an intensive Rome-based design studio and classroom lessons, the program offers extensive field study throughout Italy. Students study contemporary design, sustainable development, history, theory and analysis, and Italian language.

The program organizes service learning workshops that introduce students to a wide variety of experts, design professionals, officials and local residents, while giving something back to host communities in need. These workshops research design solutions that are supported by marketing strategies and grant proposals.

After this experience students return to Cal Poly better prepared for the independent research and studio demands of their thesis year. From Italy they should take back with them a greater awareness of the potential for the sustainable integration of built and natural environments, of conservation and development, and of historical and contemporary design ideas.