Study tour of Europe

05 October - 26 October

Dimity Reed’s seventh tour will focus on three famous architects: Corbusier, Aalto and Gehry. It will include time in Paris, Strasbourg, Interlaken, Lyon, Montpellier, Bilbao, Helsinki and Southern Finland. Two remarkable feats of engineering and architecture in southern France, Eiffel’s 1885 Garabit Railway Viaduct and Norman Foster’s 2004 famed Millau Viaduct are also on the agenda. The tour concentrates predominantly on the works of Charles-Edouard Jeannerat – better known as Le Corbusier – in and beyond Paris, and Alver Aalto’s key works in Paris, Helsinki, Jyvaskyla and Turku, with a digression to visit Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum and some of the important projects generated by and after it in Bilbao.

Dimity Reed AM is Adjunct Professor of Urban Design at RMIT, a Melbourne architect and a leading commentator and writer on architecture and the built environment. Tour Director is planning and transport advisor Jim Webber. Introductory material prepared by Dimity Reed will be given to all tour participants, with background information on the buildings, spaces and places visited. Prior to departure, a meeting will be arranged in Melbourne to provide information for those participants who are able to attend.

For more information and booking contact Travelrite International Pty Ltd at balwyn@travelrite.com.au