The building is home to the teaching activities of Iuav bachelor and master degrees. The building was inaugurated in 1883. The previous year a company for cotton spinning in Venice had been established. Rebuilt after a fire partially destroyed it in 1916, the factory employed about a thousand workers. It remained in operation until 1960 and was then abandoned for thirty years before being restored in the 1990s to a project by Gino Valle Studio. Today, the Cotonificio is one of the busiest university buildings and home to Archivio Progetti, ArTec archive on techniques and materials for architecture and industrial design, and a number of classrooms.

Closest ACTV (public transportation) stop: “Santa Marta” (lines: 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6)

Palazzo Badoer was home of San Giovanni Evangelista priory, belonging to Badoer family. In 1350 the Badoers were granted the right to bury there the brethren of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista. Further interventions are documented to 1712. Other operations on the interior space were carried out later. In 1974, Iuav bought the palace belonging to the Santa Caterina Institute, Sisters of Nevers. Extraordinary maintenance and functional adaptation of the building as the location for the Department of Architectural History began in April 1978. Since 2008, Palazzo Badoer has been home to Iuav School of Doctoral Studies.

Closest ACTV (public transportation) stop: “Ferrovia” (lines: 1, 2, 2/, N, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2) or “Piazzale Roma” (1, 2, 2/, N, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6)

Accessible route for people with physical disabilities: from ACTV stop “San Tomà” (lines: 1, 2, N).