Students of SPSUACE and University of Maryland (USA) are working on the program for the development of Saint-Petersburg "Grey Belt"

The work of the Russian-American Summer School of Architecture and Urban Planning goes on in SPSUACE. Its main questions are architectural, planning and economic justifications for the reconstruction of industrial areas in Saint-Petersburg. The summer school is held under the cooperation agreement between Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and the University of Maryland, College Park. American students and students of the Faculty of Architecture, of SPSUACE are taking part in it.

“This program is very interesting for us,” Madlen Simon, the Professor of the University of Maryland says. “It started in the 1990s, and we continue this useful collaboration between SPSUACE and the University of Maryland. It is a wonderful experience for our students to take part in teamwork with Russian students, when they exchange knowledge with each other. Students are working on the program for the reconstruction of former industrial areas in Saint-Petersburg. Nowadays this type of reconstruction is very popular in the USA.”

According to the dean of the Faculty of Architecture of SPSUACE Fedor V. Perov, this is the seventh Russian-American Summer School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Students work from 10 am to 6 pm daily, every Friday there is a presentation of the work done. Upon completion of the Russian-American Summer School the final presentation of the program will be held, it will be attended by experts from the Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture of the Government of Saint- Petersburg.

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Партнёр: Санкт-Петербургский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет