ANDREA PALLADIO
TREVISO - ITALY
Istituto Tecnico Statale
“A. Palladio”
Treviso | Italia
THE SCHOOL
Istituto Tecnico Statale per Geometri e Periti Grafici
ANDREA PALLADIO
Institute for Building Surveyors and
Graphic Arts and Communication Technicians
www.palladio-tv.it
• It is a 5-year course and offers general subjects in the first two years (for 14-15 years-old
students) and more specific technical studies in the next three years (16-19 years-old students).
• There are also evening classes for workers and adult students and courses for inmates at the prison.
• Professional outcomes:
•Surveyors, CAD Drafters, Building Sites Managers, Assistants at Architects’ and Civil Engineers’ offices,
Estate Agencies Consultants, Private Practice, Insurance Technical Consultant
Printer in printing works, Editorial Graphic
• Further education:
•Enrolment in all University Faculties like Engineering, Architecture, Town Planning, Industrial Design, Territorial
Information System, Logistic and Production Engineering, etc. (3 or 5 years)
• At the moment we are 70 teachers and about 600 students.
The “Conference room” during a seminar
A student during his final examination
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Lessons begin in the 3rd week of September ( 14th this year) and ends at the beginning of June (10th
in 2010) ). After that period the students and teachers of the final classes are involved in the final
exams for the Diploma, until the first half of July.
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There are some stops of the activity for Christmas, Easter and some other national holidays;
the total amount is 33 school weeks.
The school days are from Monday to Saturday; lessons start at 8.10 a.m. and finish at 13.30 p.m.,
the evening classes from 18.00 to 23.25.
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Our main education aim is broadening and enhancing both the cultural preparation and the
professional skills. At our school we offer learning support for extra help, counselling and vocational
career guidance, monitoring of school results, communication to students’ families, ECDL and CAD
courses, summer internships at local building enterprises.
Students in the hall
Teachers during a meeting in the conference room
Laboratories
Outdoor Activities
STUDENTS
Indoor Sport Activities
Visit to a building site
Conference Room
Diploma Delivery
PRINCIPAL
and
SOME TEACHERS
Teachers of Topography during practice
The Principal
Teachers in the Conference room
EUROPEAN PROJECTS
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Considerable number of European
projects (60 altogether) in the course of
about 15 years
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Solid experience in particular in the
mobility projects of students carrying
out training periods abroad within
companies related to their line of studies
(just over 200 trainees sent abroad)
Free time during an internship
Bergen - Norway
Comenius exchange “Sustainable building”
Groningen - Holland
EUROPEAN COLLABORATIONS UNTIL 2008
OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Biochemical water analysis
Rafting – river Brenta
Mountain byke – Cansiglio
“Ciaspole”- Dolomites
INFORMATION AND CURIOSITIES
“Andrea Palladio”
THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL
Andrea Palladio - Architect
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Andrea Palladio, a well-known talented architect from
Padova, (1508-1580), was chosen by the most powerful
members of the Venetian society for numerous important
commissions.
Palladio designed a classical Roman theatre and many
churches, villas and palaces mainly located in Venice,
Vicenza, Treviso and the surrounding areas. A number of
his works are listed in the World Heritage.
His style ( Palladian style) brought together various
Renaissance ideas, notably the revival of Roman
symmetrical planning and harmonic proportions. He was
the first great professionalarchitect. He was trained to
build and he practised no other art. He became
fashionable all over Europe.
Villa Emo - 1564
La Rotonda - 1567
San Giorgio - 1565
Il Redentore - 1577
Villa Barbaro - 1558
THE TOWN - TREVISO
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Treviso is an old medieval town
(80.000 inhabitants) in the north
east industrial region Veneto (the
big Italian firms like Benetton –
clothes, De Longhi – climatization
systems, Tecnica Dolomite Lotto –
skiboots, Aprilia – motorbikes, etc.
are in this area).
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The location is wonderful, for
history, art and nature : it is about 30
kms far from the beaches, 50 from
the mountains (Dolomites) 30 kms
from Venice and Padua.
THE REGION - VENETO
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With a surface of 18.390 kmq, the region Veneto presents
a great variety of landscapes - rivers and lakes in the
plain, sea shores along the coasts, hills and high
mountains (Dolomites, many of them 3.000 mts – or over)
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It is a very crowded region; inhabitants concentrate in the 7
main towns but are also spread in the country. (Population
4.759.872 - 258 ab./km²)
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Between Padua, Venice and Treviso we can find one of
the biggest industrial regions in Italy
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Art, History, Architecture, Nature, Food and Wines are
among the highlights of the region
Vineyard on the hills – Valdobbiadene (TV)
Dolomites in Winter
Church of San Giorgio_ Venice
Iesolo beach – 15 km long
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION