WHAT IS PAO?The tent is the basic architecture: with a tent, nomads define a short-term place for life and work. Mongolian Horse tribes, the Native Americans of the Great Plains, the Chinese rulers, as well as the travelling European masterbuilders of the Gothic Cathedrals – they all lived and worked under tents. Greek philosophers, we may suppose, gathered with their students under a tree, under a sun-shading tent. The tent marks places where people gather and socialise. Close to nature, the tent is a place for immediate experience of wind, sun, and earth. For the PAO architecture summer-camp, the tent is a program, a symbol, and a workplace at the same time.

WHERE IS PAO? In 2010, two workshops will be held in two fascinating places off the main track:
1) In the city of L´AQUILA / ITALY (30.08 - 10.09.2010). A fantastic, beautiful place high up   in the Abruzzo Mountain region, ~ 100km from Rome. After the earthquake in  2009, there are still many tasks waiting for creative architectural and   artistic intervention.
2) In the village of POTOC / ROMANIA (13.09 - 24.09.2010). Last years summerschool was held   here - and prepared an ambitious follow-up project: the re-fitting of the   village school into a "House of Creativity".