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Architecture for Fashion at Yacademy

The Architecture for Fashion course at Yacademy is an intensive programme providing students with architectural knowledge and technical expertise collected from industry professionals around the world.


School: Yacademy
Course: Architecture for Fashion
Location: Bologna, Italy
Course dates: March 2025 to May 2025
Application deadline: 13 December 2024

Yacademy's Architecture for Fashion course collects the most relevant international experience in the field.

The course offers three scholarships with full coverage of the enrolment cost for the most deserving students. It is also possible to participate in the courses remotely.

With a frequency of three days per week for a duration of two months, Architecture for Fashion hosts several frontal teaching modules and has participation from numerous well-known professionals and world-renowned companies, including Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid Architects, David Chipperfield Architects, MVRDV and Herzog & de Meuron.

The course's workshop is tutored by Giuseppe Zampieri, a partner at David Chipperfield Architects and the founder of its branch in Milan, and is conducted in partnership with Missoni. It will deal with the design of a pop-up store for the historic Milan-based brand.

In addition, Yacademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in the process of producing their own ideas, gaining practical experience on construction sites and the authorship of projects capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.

To conclude the course, each student will carry out a period of collaboration with one of Yacademy's partner firms. Such collaboration will have a minimum duration of two months and will guarantee remuneration, consistent with regulatory requirements.

Some of the professional players with expertise in relation to the course topic include SANAA, Duccio Grassi Architects, Claudio Silvestrin Architects and OMA.

Find out more about the course and apply ›

Top image: courtesy of Yacademy.

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