We invite curious students from the field of Girna is the corbelled , anthropology and other interested architectural structure which protects herdsman from the groups to take a role at the first international boiling sun in , across Europe architectural summer workshop in , Malta. The and beyond. Drywalling is an workshop is organized in collaboration with the ancient building technique, the Faculty of Architecture from Ljubljana University and only material used is stone. Stone Expeditions from the University of Leuven, Belgium. pieces are set together without mortar; only small pieces of gravel are put between larger stones.

July 12 - July 26 2013 The Islet of Gozo (Malta) Malta Drywall Story 2013 Architectural Anthropology Workshop The aim of the summer workshop Lectures • Develop skills in drywalling; Succeeding in the workshop counts is to raise the awareness of basic • Drywalling and corbelling • Learn composition rules in for 3 credits (ECTS system). More construction methods used in • Economics and vernacular tectonics of drywall stone credits can be accumulated through architecture. The mentors are guest architecture structures; the Off The Beaten Track program. professors of Expeditons, eminent • Dry walling from Iceland to the • Explore the economy and experts of dry wall constructions Near East inventiveness of drywalling Optional courses from Iceland to the Near East. • Stone language and tectonics spatial forms; • Sketching technique Prof. dr. Borut Juvanec, architect, • Sustainability in practice. • Documentation of vernacular Slovenia Special conditions for architecture Assist. Prof. dr. Domen Zupancic, participants Certification • Film making workshop architect, Slovenia The Malta Drywall Story 2013 At the end of the course, participants • Diving course summer workshop will be a labour will receive a certificate of General Workshop Parts intensive course. The participants participation that will summarise Program Cost Field trips and guided tours - should be aware of climatic their course performance. • Meals (breakfast + dinner) exploring the landscape and its conditions of the island at the time Participants that perform exceedingly • Accommodations (rented house architectural structures (architecture, of workshop. No previous experience well will receive a letter of with communal rooms) archaeology, water systems, in drywalling is required. recommendation that will help • Transfers and guided tours beehives). facilitate participation in other • Organisation and supplies. Evening lectures and discussions Goals international research events. All Total workshop fee is 1.650 EUR. Dry walling: labour intensive part - • Evoke the sense of stone as research findings resulting from the Students who sign up before July 2, dry walling elements (base, wall, wall constructive material without summer school will be published 2013 get a 100€ discount. Specific ending and corbelling). mortar; and professionally communicated. student support available.

Interested students should not hesitate to contact us with any questions about the workshop time line and details. Contact: [email protected] and [email protected]. Video on http://vimeo.com/41413185.

University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture www.fa.uni-lj.si

University of Leuven www.kuleuven.be

Expeditions, Research in Applied Anthropology www.xpeditions.eu www.anthropologyfieldschool.org