Viaggio in Italia

The Landscape Architecture Study Abroad Program in Italy is an exciting opportunity for students to engage Italy’s landscape, architecture, ecology, art and culture.
From an idea of Professor Emeritus Steve Drown, it consists of a 6-weeks program started 15 years ago which takes place in June and July, organized by the Landscape Architecture Program of the School of Art and Architecture at the University of Idaho in Moscow.
Students coming from different disciplines are involved in a multidisciplinary design studio, an urban theory module, and will learn the Italian culture and language while residing in an historic hill-town and traveling through the physical and cultural Italian landscapes.

In 2017 the design studio module comprised the construction of site-specific installations in the Monferrato vineyards of the historic Casa Wallace in Cremolino, and in 2018 the focus was the urban space of the historic hill town of Recanati. In a specific module each student is involved in individual research related to the historic and contemporary gardens, landscapes, archeological parks, urban centers and hill-towns visited. The experience comprise site-visits, including Venice, Genoa, Cinque Terre, Capri, Florence, Pienza and Siena, Tuscany's and Rome’s cultural landscapes, lectures by the tutors, Italian professors and historians; lastly an intensive course in Italian culture and language with an experience of community living in an historic hill town.