ILAUD

The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, ILAUD, is an association that promotes research and formation at an advanced level in the field of architectural and urban design.
ILAUD was founded in 1976 by Giancarlo De Carlo; during thirty years among the most important European and North-American schools of architecture and planning have taken part in its activities, among which a yearly Summer workshop, permanent activities in each of the associated Universities, urban projects in Italian cities, publications and exhibitions.
Over 1.000 students, some of whom have become renowned architects, have attended ILAUD’s workshops, held in Urbino, Siena, San Marino, Venice.

ILAUD has defined itself since the beginning a Laboratory (neither a School nor Summer Course, it is a place where continuous research is carried on, followed by architects - and non-architects - from different countries who meet, compare their ideas and their work, explore theoretical themes and draw up projects on a line of common interests); International (because comparison between different experiences formed in different contexts fosters the development of new ideas in architecture); of Architecture and Urban Design (because there is a tendency to separate the two terms of the binomial, upon the principle that difference in scale implies a difference in concept. ILAUD maintains instead that architecture and urban design are parts of the same problem).

After the death of its founder, in 2005, ILAUD’s contents and aims have been updated and some of its programmes re-organised. ILAUD has also opened to schools of architecture and planning from Latin America, China and Japan.