Architecture for Fashion at Yacademy
The Architecture for Fashion course at Yacademy trains students in interpreting the identity of a brand and transforming it into an architectural space.
The course provides students with transferable skills in the luxury sector by delving into the technical and compositional issues of design in the service of fashion.
It will focus on the design of the first Cancellato Uniform concept store in Milan, aiming to translate the avant-garde brand into an architectural identity.
With a frequency of three days per week for two months, Architecture for Fashion hosts several frontal teaching modules with the participation of numerous well-known professionals working at world-renowned companies, including David Chipperfield Architects, SANAA, ZHA Architects, Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito and many more.
To foster an all-round experience, students will be given the opportunity to visit significant sites for the course’s theme, including Fondazione Prada and Armani Silos in Milan, as well as Gucci Garden and Ferragamo in Florence.
Believing that construction is a fundamental step in architecture, Yacademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in a construction workshop, gaining practical experience on construction sites, and the authorship of projects capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.
The workshop is tutored by Francesca Singer of SANAA and conducted in collaboration with the Italian contemporary knitwear brand cU Cancellato Uniform.
At the end of the teaching modules and workshops, Yacademy’s placement office will guarantee every student an internship or collaboration proposal in one of its partner firms.
The course offers multiple scholarships for the most deserving students, and several financial support options. It is also possible to participate in the course remotely.
School: Yacademy
Course: Architecture for Fashion
Location: Bologna, Italy, or online
Type: Short course
Course dates: March to May 2027
Application deadline: 18 December 2026
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What will I learn during this course?
– How to design spaces and architecture for the fashion world
– Developable skills in the entire luxury sector
– Gaining familiarity with a market segment characterised by timeless appeal and continuous and rewarding employment opportunities
What are the requirements?
– Participants should have at least a B1 level in English
– Participants should be students or graduates in architecture, landscape architecture, architectural engineering, heritage-related studies or design
– The selection committee can admit applicants who hold a different certificate from those mentioned above after examining their portfolio and motivational letter and, possibly, interviewing them
What facilities and resources are available?
– An educational hub of excellence in a prestigious medieval place in the heart of Bologna
– An architecture library of more than 5,000 volumes
– Apartments in the same building that houses the institute’s classrooms. The accommodation service is to be considered outside of the fees for attendance to the courses, and it is activated upon request of the students
– Scholarships and other forms of financial support are available
What career prospects can I expect upon graduating?
Trained in transferring those meanings of exclusivity, luxury and elegance from the garment to the environment deputed to exhibit it, students 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 guaranteed remuneration, consistent with regulatory requirements.
Some of the professional players with expertise in relation to the course topic include SANAA, David Chipperfield Architects Milan, Duccio Grassi Architects, AMDL CIRCLE, Christopher Ward Studio, Marco Costanzi Architects, Claudio Silvestrin Architects and Herzog & de Meuron.
The course includes lectures by
– Giuseppe Zampieri, founder of David Chipperfield Architects Milano
– Saman Dadgostar, senior associate at ZHA Architects
– Claudio Silvestrin, founder of Claudio Silvestrin Architects
– Iva Smrke, associate at Herzog & de Meuron
– Joaquín Bonifaz, senior project designer at Aranda\Lasch
– Francesca Singer, Partner at SANAA
– Toyo Ito, founder of Toyo Ito & Associates
– Martine Bedin, art director at Jean Nouvel Design
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