South America

Summer 2025 Programs in South America

Public Utopias: Architecture in Argentina and Brazil

Public Utopias is a Summer Studio Abroad set to unfold in the vibrant cities of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires.

Public Utopias is a 2025 Summer International Course that promises an extraordinary academic experience for the architecture students at Syracuse University, exploring landmarks like Vilanova Artigas’s School of Architecture in Sao Paulo, Lina Bo Bardi’s MASP and SESC Pompeia, Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s MUBE and SESC, Mario Roberto Alvarez’s San Martin Theater in Buenos Aires, Niemeyer’s MAC in Niteroi, among others. These public spaces are crucial to the collective experience of Southern American cities. (ARC500)

Peru and the Machu Picchu Trek: the Human Response to High Altitude

This course will be centered on the legendary trek to Machu Picchu, Peru, bringing students first to the Peruvian capital city of Lima, and then into the highland Andes mountains for multiple days of instruction in the city of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire.  Cusco is at approximately 11,000 feet above sea-level, and the breathtaking 5-day hiking trek to Machu Picchu crosses mountain passes at nearly 16,000 feet above sea-level. The course is focused on the human adaptive response to high-altitude, including exercise at altitude and mountaineering, high altitude acclimatization, altitude illness, and the adaptive response of high-altitude native populations like the Quechua in Peru (descendants of the Inca). (EXE500)