STUDY TOUR TO FLORENCE
September 2014
2/12/14
ESTIMATED STUDENT COSTS
DRAFT
Items that must be paid in advance to the
Drexel Study Tour to cover your expenses
Unit
Drexel Study Abroad Forms Fee
Study Tour Fee
Room PLUS FLORENCE
cost per night
Buffet Breakfast @ Hotel
Dinner in Florence
Room in Umbertide
cost per night
Meals in Umbertide
Room near Florence Airport
Advance ticket purchases
Train to Perugia
Chartered Bus
Qty
Total
$25
$400
35 €
6€
25 €
6
6
1
$288
$49
$34
$60
$40
40 €
5
4
1
$40
1
$300
$160
$54
$100
$40
$150
Subtotal
Estimated Individual Course and Travel Costs (not paid to Drexel)
Books (estimated)
Air Fare (Philadelphia-Florence)
Passport
Medical and Travel Insurance
Ground Travel Florence (Bus RT)
10 €
1
Fiesole AREA ARCHEOLOGICA E MUSEO
ARCHEOLOGICO E MOSTRA TEMPORANEA
8€
1
Firenze Pass
2€
1
Duomo Pass
10 €
1
Palazzo Davanzati Ticket
1€
1
Bargello Ticket
11 €
1
Miscellaneous Add'l Entry Fees
20 €
1
Additional Meals
$30
12
Miscellaneous Personal Expenses
Contingency Fee
$1,600
$50
$1,200
$150
$36
$14
$11
$3
$14
$1
$15
$27
$360
$300
$200
Subtotal
$2,381
TOTAL ESTIMATED NON-TUITION COSTS FOR TRIP
$3,981
TOTAL ESTIMATED COST
$3,981
1 EUR = 1.37 USD 02/11/14
Florence Itinerary
DRAFT 11 febbraio 2014
Study Tour proposed by Rachel S. Schade, AIA
Drexel University Department of Architecture + Interiors
September 2014
Florence Itinerary
DRAFT 11 febbraio 2014
Pre-trip classes and exercises
Lecture I
WHY FLORENCE?
An introduction to the social, cultural and historical background of Florence, in an emphasis on art and
architecture
Reading Assignments
Project Assignments
Sketching 1
Introduction to sketching in the field
Visit Kahn Archives/view travel sketches of Frank Miles Day, Lawrence Halprin
University Museum Courtyard- timed sketches, plan/section/elevation
Lecture 2
Pre-history to early Renaissance
Etruscan Tuscany
Roman Fiorentia
Byzantine & Medieval development- the walled City
Rise of the Guild structure
Sketching 2
Sketching in the field
Center City Philadelphia, Perspective. vignettes
Lecture 3
Early Renaissance to contemporary
Painting, sculpture & architecture (Lecture by art historian)
The Medici / Banking / looking back at Rome & Greece
High Renaissance
Villas and Gardens
Baroque / Mannerism
Unification of Italy
Modernismo / Nervi / Michelucci /
Florence Itinerary
DRAFT 11 febbraio 2014
DAY 1 SATURDAY 6 September
Students arrange for flights individually.
Arrive at Hotel by 2:00PM, orientation meeting
Walk to Piazza San Marco, Piazza del Duomo, Piazza Signoria, over Ponte Vecchio to Oltrarno, up to Piazzale Michelangelo
DAY 2 SUNDAY 7 September
Morning: Bus to Fiesole
Tour Etruscan & Roman Ruins, Museo Civico (sketch)
STUDENT REPORTS
Walk back to Florence via Villa Medici (tour gardens, sketch)
Evening: Festa delle Rificolona: Traditional festival of the lanterns, walk from Piazza Santa Felicità to Piazza SS. Annunziata
DAY 3 MONDAY 8 September
Ancient and Medieval Florence
Morning: Santa Croce, Torre della Pagliaza , Torre dei Corbizi, Bargello (sketch),
Baptistry
STUDENT REPORTS
Afternoon: Orsanmichele, Palazzo Davanzati (sketch)
STUDENT REPORT
DAY 4 TUESDAY 9 September
Early Renaissance Florence
Morning: Duomo, Crypt, Climb to the lantern, Opera del Duomo
STUDENT REPORT
FREE AFTERNOON
5:00 Concert at Villa Bardini
Florence Itinerary
DRAFT 11 febbraio 2014
DAY 5 WEDNESDAY 10 September
Morning: The Piazza: Piazza San Marco, Santissima Annunziata (Ospedale degli Innocenti)
Piazza della Signoria, Piazzale degli Uffizi
STUDENT REPORT
Afternoon: Piazza della Republica, Piazza Santa Maria Novella, sketching
DAY 6 THURSDAY 11 September
Florence of the Medici & Brunelleschi
Laurentian Library, Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, sketching
STUDENT REPORTS
Lunch: Mercato Centrale
FREE AFTERNOON
DAY 7 FRIDAY 12 September
A trip to the country
Bus to Umbertide, stopping at Antinori Vineyard, Bargino (potential tour with Archea Architetti)
Settle in at Hilltown residence
DAY 8 SATURDAY 13 September
STUDENT REPORT
Tour town of Umbertide, sketching
DAY 9 SUNDAY 14 September
Bus ride to Arezzo
STUDENT REPORT
DAY 10 MONDAY 15 September
Bus ride to Urbino
STUDENT REPORTS
Florence Itinerary
DRAFT 11 febbraio 2014
DAY 11 TUESDAY 16 September
Last day in the country
Sketching, eating, journaling
DAY 12 WEDNESDAY 17 September
Bus to Perugia, Train to Florence
Stay final night near airport
DAY 13 THURSDAY 18 September
Depart for home, or continue to other destinations individually
Alternatives & Options:
Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens
Lecture with Janet Smith Tonnarelli at Gallery of Prints and Drawings of the Uffizi
Tuscan Villas: Petraia, Castello
Florence Itinerary
DRAFT 11 febbraio 2014
Required Reading
Florence, An Architectural Guide by Guido Zucconi & Pietro Ruschi, Arsenale Editrice, 1995
The Art of Urban Sketching by Gabriel Campanario, 2012
Recommended Reading (selected readings from the following will be provided)
Florence: The City and Its Architecture by Richard J. Goy, Phaidon Press, 2006
Chambers of a Memory Palace by Donlyn Lyndon & Charles W. Moore, MIT Press, 1996
Merchant of Prato, Francesco di Marco Datini by Iris Origo, Octagon Books, 1963
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy, 1959
The Italians by Luigi Barzini, 1964
The Food of Italy by Waverley Root, 1977
Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King, 2000
The Uffizi: Museum as Urban Design by Michael Dennis (Perspecta 16) 1980
Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World by Peter D’Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish, 2001
Fun Reading
Inferno by Dan Brown, 2013
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi, 2008
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, 2003
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster, 1908 and movie 1985