With its megacities and very high population density, China is the world’s most built-up country, but it has only 50,000 architects, a third of the number in Italy. This is therefore an enormous business potential for Italian professionals, but one that is difficult to access.
In order to promote the skills of professionals and create new opportunities, the project of the Association of Architects of Turin and the Polytechnic University of Turin, POLITO Studio, has published the call to select 12 professionals, single or associated, who will take part in a two-year training and accompaniment course for the Chinese market. The call is selecting working groups – made up of professionals, researchers, and Chinese partners – to participate in high-level applied training workshops, to transfer skills and networks of relationships useful for applying for real projects and architecture competitions in China.
The POLITO Studio call for applications is open to architects enrolled in the Turin Association of Architects, as well as architects enrolled in other Associations if they have graduated from the Polytechnic University of Turin. Applications are open until 8 March and the results will be published by the end of the month to begin the two-year period (2021-2023) next April. DOWNLOAD THE CALL
The call was presented last Tuesday during the online meeting Working with China. Opportunities and exchanges in architectural practice, promoted in collaboration with TOChina Center of the University of Turin and Fondazione Cina-Italia.
‘The collaboration model between professionals and academics that POLITO Studio is launching is innovative, as it allows international markets, such as China, to be addressed with the articulation of skills and critical weight that they require. I am convinced that this pilot project in the international sphere will help to establish new synergies between the professional world and the university world, which are still too distant compared to other European contexts, also at a national level’ stated Guido Saracco, Rector of the Polytechnic University of Turin.
‘With POLITO Studio we concretely realize one of the goals we have set ourselves: to support the work of architects and offer opportunities to look at other markets. Thanks to the collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Turin we offer highly specialized training and intercept a market with great potential’ Architect Massimo Giuntoli, President of the Turin Association of Architects, commented.
