The workshop takes a radical approach to a Learning by doing tradition in architecture. Through Learning-to-build-by-building, where reflection and action are often in resonance, sometimes deliberately separated and analysed through distinct modes of inquiry. This building process starts from a particular set of local availabilities: materials, tools and techniques; a place; and a specific architectural problem that is the spark for an intellectual and physical challenge to the students enrolled, who will work as a dynamic team.

Students will work as a group in order to understand the potential and constraints that wood offers as the main building material for the XXIst century, but also where it comes from, and the vast traditions and craft passed from generation to generation. Simultaneously, they will explore hands-on provisional solutions for wood building systems in our Southern Europe environment, by focusing on its challenges in this particular climatic and cultural context, amidst the current global climate and resources destruction frenzy, in order to contribute as architects to provide an urgent alternative to this war on nature scenario.