'Let's Build a Beautiful City' summer school 2025

The 2025 edition of our summer school takes place from July 21st until August 7th in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Applications are open until May, 1st. Find for more info at our dedicated summer school page.

Urban design is more important than ever. With the housing crisis, an increasingly vulnerable environment and the threat of climate change, we need to rethink how we approach the building of cities as a society. We cannot afford to create low-quality, short-term solutions - we need to build to sustain, to use less resources in the long term and reduce our environmental impact. We must learn from past mistakes. Many mass housing developments have proven to not be as attractive, and thus as future-proof, as the designers intended. As a society we need more beautiful, attractive places; but how to build these?

Much of the necessary knowledge has been either lost or overlooked by recent…