Single Sessions
Tuesday March 21 2023
- 20.12–20.12Building for Prosperity: Private Developers and the Western-European Welfare State. Cupola Hall (Kuppelsaal)
‘Uneasy Bedfellows’ Conceiving Urban Megastructures: Breeding consumer-citizens in British New Towns
Janina Gosseye, University of Queensland
Welfare as Consumption: The Role of the Private Sector in the Development of Oslo Satellite Town Centres
Guttorm Ruud, Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Negotiating the post-war Italian city: developers’ strategies, models and visions for the design of the ordinary city
Gaia Caramellino, Politecnico di Milano
A Trojan Horse for Private Investment: the Manhattan Plan for Brussels, 1962-1967
Sven Sterken, KU Leuven
Changing the skyline: How a network of developers, private enterprises and housing companies contribute to the realisation of an architect’s vision of the city – the case of Léon Stynen (1899-1990)
Bart Tritsmans, Flanders Architecture Institute
Bruno Notteboom, KU Leuven - 20.12–20.12Measure every Wandering Planet’s Course. Residential systems in Early Modern Europe 1450-1700. Cupola Hall (Kuppelsaal)
“Going Back and Forth”: Residential Systems in Renaissance Venice
Johanna Heinrichs, University of Kentucky
The materialisation of power and authority: the architectural commissions of Charles of Croÿ (1596-1612)
Sanne Maekelberg, KU Leuven
Residential systems and spatial appropriation: the rise and fall of a Senatorial family in Early Modern Bologna
Giovanna Guidicini, The Glasgow School of Art
Images of Wealth, Pride and Power. Country House Culture on the Island of Walcheren (the Netherlands), 1600-1750
Martin van den Broeke, Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs - 20.12–20.12The United Nations in the Non-Western World: Norms and Forms of ‘Development’ Programmes. Main Conference Hall
“A World Picture”?: The UN’s Audio-Visual Apparatus for Mediating Habitat, 1976
Felicity D. Scott, Columbia University
Open Door: UNBRO and the Spatial Planning of Cambodian-Thai Refugee Camps
Jennifer Ferng, University of Sydney
Counter Currenting: The production of locality in the case of the Training for Self Reliance Project [TSRP] – Lesotho; 1983-1987
Iain Low, University of Cape Town
Tourism and Leisure Politics: The United Nations Development Agenda in Cyprus
Panayiota Pyla, University of Cyprus
Dimitris Venizelos, University of Cyprus
Infrastructure if Pan-Africanism: The Trans-African Highway Network
Kenny Cupers, University of Basel - 20.12–20.12Centralizations and Territories in the Architectural Production of the Socialist World. Small Conference Hall
The Unsettling Norms: Identity Politics in China’s Search for Socialist Architecture with National Form
Yan Geng, University of Connecticut
Revisiting Socialist Baltic Regionalism: Between Local Myths and Critical Approaches
Marija Drėmaitė, Vilnius University
Adapting Soviet Prefabricated Housing for the Regions
Nikolay Erofeev, University of Oxford
Architects Displaced: Making Architecture at the Periphery in Communist Romania
Dana Vais, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Dialectics of Centrality in the Global Cold War
Łukasz Stanek, The University of Manchester - 20.12–20.12Architecture’s Return to Surrealism. Main Conference Hall
From the Fulfilment of Needs to the Mediation of Experience. The Uncanny Theater of the Urban Enclaves of Ricardo Bofill and Taller de Arquitectura
Anne Kockelkorn, ETH Zurich
A Surrealist Earthwork: Museum Abteiberg, Hans Hollein, and the Indiscipline of Collage
Craig Buckley, Yale University
Happening in Japan. Arata Isozaki’s Surreal Intakes and the Gunma Museum of Modern Art
Marcela Aragüez, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
From Miller to Mollino. Carlo Mollino’s Interiors as Surrealist Cabinets
Gerlinde Verhaeghe, KU Leuven
Dominique Bauer, KU Leuven
Bedroom Architecture: Aldo Rossi and Raymond Roussel
Victoria Watson, University of Westminster - 20.12–20.12Rediscovering the Rediscovery of Antiquity. New Sources and New Interpretations of Old Ones. Corner Hall (Nurgasaal)
Mapping across space and time: Renaissance views of ancient Rome
Flavia Marcello, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Antiquated Antiquarianism and Enduring Invented Antiquities in the Sixteenth Century
Michael J. Waters, Columbia University
Palladio and the knowledge of the Antique, c. 1550
David Hemsoll, University of Birmingham - 20.12–20.12Rethinking architectural colour. Auditorium 3107
Colourful Middle Ages?
Anneli Randla, Estonian Academy of Arts
Pioneer polychromy: geology, industry and aesthetics in Irish Victorian architecture
Christine Casey, Trinity College Dublin
Ornament without ornamenting: whiteness as the default materiality of modernism
Susanne Bauer, Norwich University of the Arts
A new chromatic vision: the early impact of colour photography in architecture
Angelo Maggi, Università Iuav di Venezia - 20.12–20.12Coming Back to Haunt You: The History of Rejecting History in Architecture. Main Conference Hall
The Great Labyrinth: Schinkel’s Struggles Against History
Emma Letizia Jones, ETH Zürich
The Modernity of Rejecting Modernity in Architecture
Richard Wittman, University of California at Santa Barbara
Riegl’s Untimely Walls
Lucia Allais, Princeton University
Collage/ Camouflage: Mies’s and Reich’s Strategies to Engage the Past
Laura Martínez de Guereñu, IE School of Architecture and Design, Madrid-Segovia
Specters of Modernism
Mari Lending, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design - 20.12–20.12The persistence of a provincial baroque. Corner Hall (Nurgasaal)
Extra moenia. The developments of Roman baroque at the periphery of the Papal State during the 18th century.
Iacopo Benincampi, Università di Roma, Sapienza
Translatio. Provincial architecture of the baroque Baltic relic, c. 1600-1800
Ruth Noyes, Wesleyan University
At the peripheral edge – Baroque architecture in Malta
Conrad Thake, University of Malta
Baroque(s) in Piedmont: survival, revival, regionalism (1780-1961)
Mauro Volpiano, Politecnico di Torino
The Neobaroque style in private secular architecture in Spanish and French Catalonia in the first half of the 20th century: from cosmopolitan to vernacular model.
Esteban Castañer, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - 20.12–20.12A Woman’s Situation: Transnational Mobility and Gendered Practice. Main Conference Hall
Enclosed Bodies: Circulation and its Discontents
Ross Exo Adams, Iowa State University
The gendered user and the generic city: Simone de Beauvoir’s America Day by Day (1947/54)
Mary Pepchinski, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden
“Dear Ms. Comrade” or A Transnational Agent in the Communist World: Architecture, Urbanism, and Feminism in Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Post-War Work, ca. 1945-1960
Sophie Hochhäusl, University of Pennsylvania
Georgia Louise Harris Brown and the Myth of Brazilian Racial Democracy
Anat Falbel, Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroRoberta Washington, Roberta Washington Architects, New York
Horizons of Exclusion: Lina Bo Bardi’s Exile from Exile
Sabine von Fischer, Architecture Agency, Zurich - 20.12–20.12European Peripheries in Architectural Historiography. Small Conference Hall
The Modern Margin at the Classical Centre: Critical Regionalism as Historiography
Stylianos Giamarelos, UCL
Architect Migrants from Former Soviet Republics to Western Europe: A Blind Spot of Eurocentric Historiography
Eva Radionova, Amsterdam University of the Arts
Yelizaveta Yanovich, World Bank Group / Independent researcher
Peripheral and Central Stances in Portuguese Architecture Culture
Ricardo Costa Agarez, University of Évora, Portugal
From Tendenza to Tendenzen: Rewriting Ticinese Architecture, 1975–1985
Irina Davidovici, ETH Zurich - 20.12–20.12Modernity and rurality: mapping the state of research. Auditorium 3107
To subordinate, unite or confront architecture with nature? Knut Knutsen´s regionalist
strategies and their impact
Espen Johnsen, University of Oslo
“Architecture, in the sense of prewar times, is dying.” –– Ernst May’s Housing Schemes
in Weimar’s Rural East
Sarah M. Schlachetzki, University of Bern
Agrarian Penal Colonies and the Project of Modern Rurality in Italy
Sabrina Puddu, Leeds Beckett University
“Only human tirelessness built on science can conquer the desert”: Planned agricultural communities in early 19th century Hungary.
Kristof Fatsar, Writtle University College - 20.12–20.12Comprador Networks and Comparative Modernities. Corner Hall (Nurgasaal)
Building cosmopolitanism: Reconsidering the comprador as contractor in the formation of Shanghai’s lilong
Nora Boyd, Hunter College
The 20th-Century Godowns along the Singapore River
Tan Yuk Hong Ian, University of Hong Kong
Sugar and the city: The contribution of three Chinese-Indonesian compradors to modern architecture and planning in the Dutch East Indies (1900-1942)
Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen, TU Delft
Modernizing Macao, the old-fashion way: Macanese and Chinese entrepreneurship in the colonial city
Regina Campinho, Universidade de Coimbra / Université de Lorraine - 20.12–20.12The Foundations of Architectural Research. Cupola Hall (Kuppelsaal)
Research as Persuasion: architectural research in the Tennessee Valley Authority
Avigail Sachs, University of Tennessee
Late Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: the role of the Agência Geral do Ultramar
Ana Vaz Milheiro, Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon
Ameliorating Research in Architecture: The Nuffield Trust and the postwar hospital
David Theodore, McGill University
State-Funded Militant Infrastructure? CERFI’s ‘Équipements collectif’ in the intellectual history of architecture
Meredith TenHoor, Pratt Institute
Workplace Politics: the influence and legacy of public-private collaboration in DEGW’s Office Research Building Information Technology (ORBIT) Study (1983)
Amy Thomas, TU Delft - 20.12–20.12Reform: Architecture as Process, 1870-1920. Small Conference Hall
Exhibitions, Audiences and the Contradictions of Architectural Reform
Wallis Miller, University of Kentucky
Urban Reform and Mobilities of Knowledge: The Villa Medici and Ernest Hébrard’s Work in Greece
Kalliopi Amygdalou, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) / National Technical University of Athens
Shaping the World: The Document and the Architecture of Mondialité
Michael Faciejew, Princeton University
From “Reform” to “Revolutionary” Thinking in Ottoman Palestine’s Settlements, 1870-1920
Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch, Western Galilee Academic College / Technion, IIT
Talia Abramovich, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, IIT
Processes of Reform Photography
Peter Sealy, University of Toronto - 20.12–20.12The Architecture of the Orient before Orientalism. Cupola Hall (Kuppelsaal)
Spatial Narratives on Ottoman Architecture: Aegean Port Cities through the Eyes of Western Travelers
Çağla Caner Yüksel, Başkent University, Ankara
Ceren Katipoğlu Özmen, Çankaya University, Ankara
The Spectator and the Orient, the case of William Chambers
Sigrid de Jong, Leiden University
The Oriental imagery in the eighteenth century: reception and dissemination through Fischer von Erlach and Piranesi architectural plates
Elisa Boeri, Politecnico Milano
Shifting perceptions of the Orient : Pococke, Dalton and Hope
Lobke Geurs, KU Leuven
Egypt and the Interior, Thomas Hope and “Interior Decoration”
Tim Anstey, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design - 20.12–20.12Europe’s Own Islamic Architecture: Heritage, Contestation, and Necessity. Auditorium 3107
Recovering the Great Mosque of Cordoba: The History of an Idea
Michele Lamprakos, University of Maryland – College Park
“Mountainous Mosques: Examining Georgia’s Tradition of Wooden Islamic Architecture”
Suzanne Harris-Brandts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Angela Wheeler, Harvard University
“Mosques, Minarets, and Changing Urban Identities in Bosnia-Hercegovina”
Emily G. Makaš, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Vulnerable Borders Passing through the Mosque Complex: The Design and Construction of Central Mosque in Cologne”
Ahmet Tozoğlu, Abullah Gul University
“Religious Austerity: The Lutheran Limits on Mosque Architecture in Sweden”
Jennifer Mack, KTH Royal School of Technology / Uppsala University - 20.12–20.12Launching the Architectural Magazine: The Formation of a Genre. Corner Hall (Nurgasaal)
Printing a New Style: The First Swedish Architectural Magazine and the Creation of Modern Scandinavian Architecture in the 1850s
Anna Ripatti, University of Helsinki
“Ein inniges Zusammenwirken der geistigen Kräfte deutscher Technik”: Professional Organisations and Their Jounals in the German Countries
Christiane Weber, Universität Innsbruck
Architecture and Editorial Culture: The Role of the Architect and Criticism in the Formation of the Portuguese Architectural Magazines
Rute Figueiredo, ESAP – Porto School of Arts
The Emergence of the Professional Architectural Magazine in China
Kai Wang, Tongji UniversityYing Wang, University of Leuven
A Tale of two Journals: La Casa Bella and Domus
Klaus Tragbar, Universität Innsbruck - 20.12–20.12Roundtable: Who (Still) Needs Eastern Europe? Miller Salon
Eastern Europe Is Not the Center or the Periphery
Kimberly Zarecor, Iowa State University, Ames
“Local? Global?: The Power to Define Conceptual Categories”
Veronica E. Aplenc, University of Pennsylvania
Second World Urbanity: Beyond Area Studies towards New Regionalisms
Daria Bocharnikova, Center for Fine Arts BOZAR, Bruxelles / KU LeuvenSteven E. Harris, University of Mary Washington
A spatio-temporal container? A condition? A zombie category? Displacing Eastern Europe
Francisco Martínez, University of Helsinki
Defamiliarizing formal analysis: a new methodology to study ordinary modernism
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology - 20.12–20.12Open Session: Socialist Block. Miller Salon
Leisure and Recreation under Socialism: New Urban Parks in Beijing in the Early 1950s
LIU Yishi, Tsinghua University, Beijing
National in Content, International in Form: National Constructs and Emerging Modernist Scenes in Soviet Socialist Republics of Belarus and Lithuania
Oxana Gourinovitch, TU Berlin
Unvisible Theory of Praxis? Centralized architectural theory in the GDR
Kathrin Siebert, ETH Zurich
Travelling influences from East to West and Back: The case of Finland and Soviet Estonia
Laura Berger, Aalto University
Sampo Ruoppila, University of Turku
Nordic-Baltic Architecture Triennials as meeting grounds of late socialist and late capitalist postmodernisms
Ingrid Ruudi, Estonian Academy of Arts - 20.12–20.12Open Session. Miller Salon
The process of change in Zurenborg: the evolution of the suburban house in Antwerp, Belgium
Susan Galavan, KU Leuven
Postwar Gaudí: Acts of Ventriloquism and Architectural Criticism
Pep Avilés, Penn State University
Formalizing Knowledge. The example of the Ethio-Swedish Building Institute in Addis Abeba
Helena Mattsson, KTH Stockholm
Erik Sigge, KTH Stockholm
Polish Postmodern Architecture – Meaning and Appropriation under Late Socialism
Florian Urban, Glasgow School of Art
Thursday June 14 2018
- 14.30–17.15The Political Aesthetics of Postmodernism: Between Late Socialism and Late Capitalism. Small Conference Hall
Provincializing Postmodernism: Appropriation and Transformation of Postmodern tropes in Česká Lípa
Ana Miljački, MIT
Socialist in Form, National in Content: Postmodern Architecture on the Soviet Periphery
Angela Wheeler, Harvard University
Contra the Late-Socialist Vaudeville: Critiques of Postmodernism in East Germany
Torsten Lange, ETH Zurich
Postmodernism and Neoliberalism in Santiago de Chile in the 1980s
Daniel Talesnik, TU München
The Prince and The Pauper: The Politics of Stirling’s Irony
Joseph Bedford, Virginia Tech - 14.30–17.15Building Knowledge. Locating Architecture in Early Modern Erudite Writing. Auditorium 3107
Rabbinical Scholarship, Antiquarianism and Ideal of the ‘Good Architecture’: Jacob Judah Leon’s Retrato del Templo de Selomo
Robert Madaric, University of Tübingen
François Rabelais sapiens architectus
Olivier Séguin-Brault, McGill University
Architecture of Method. Theories of Disposition in the Kunstkammer
Mattias Ekman, University of Oslo
Architectural Transactions. Communicating Architectural Knowledge in the Early Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665-1677)
Gregorio Astengo, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London - 14.30–17.15Spaces for children as ‘citizens of the future’ in the service of 20th century political ideologies. Cupola Hall (Kuppelsaal)
From social spaces to training fields: Changes in design theory of the children’s public sphere in Hungary in the first half of the 20th century
Luca Csepely-Knorr, Manchester School of Architecture
Maria Klagyivik, independent scholar
Constructing Childhood: The Development of the Summer Camp in the Fascist Era
Stephanie Pilat, The University of Oklahoma
Paolo Sanza, Oklahoma State University
Building Soviet Childhood
Juliet Koss, Scripps College
Spaces of Empowerment: Architecture of Israeli Youth Villages, 1930-1960
Ziv Leibu, Technicon- Israel Institute of Technology
Educating a ‘Creative Class’: Anti-Disciplinary School Architecture in the Early 1970s
Anthony Raynsford, San Jose State University - 14.30–17.15Mediating Architecture and its Audiences: The Architectural Critic. Main Conference Hall
Critique vs Criticism. Giulio Carlo Argan and the Manifold Practices of Critica
Cesare Birignani, The City College of New York
Architects vs. the Public in Architectural Criticism: From the Press to Radio and Television
Jessica Kelly, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Designs on TV: Aline Bernstein Saarinen and Public Reception of Architecture in the Postwar US
Emily Pugh, Getty Research Institute
Data Dread and Architectural Criticism
Matthew Allen, Harvard University
The “Critical” in the Architectural Criticism of Kenneth Frampton
Mary McLeod, Columbia University
Wednesday June 13 2018
- 14.30–17.15The Architecture of the Tasman World, 1788–1850. Corner Hall (Nurgasaal)
Sealer Dealers and the Architecture of the Tasman World
Philippa Mein Smith, University of Tasmania
The Architecture of Van Diemen’s Land’s Timber
Stuart King, University of Melbourne
The Architecture of Pastoralism and the (De)industrialization of Port Phillip
Harriet Edquist, RMIT Design Archives, Melbourne
Pilfering and the Tasman World: Commerce, Criminal Cultures and the ‘Securitisation’ of Space in Early Colonial Sydney and Hobart
William M Taylor, University of Western Australia
The Earle Panoramas of the Tasman World
Robin Skinner, Victoria University of Wellington
Saturday June 16 2018
- 09.00–11.45The Architectures of Creativity. Auditorium 3107
Ivory towers as creative refuges for writers: architectural models since the 19th century
Jesús A. Sánchez-García, University of Santiago de Compostela
The interior form of creativity – how modernist architects’ studios were influenced by their own design paradigm and vice versa.
Rachel Simmonds, University of Edinburgh
The Art of Work: Bürolandschaft and the Aesthetics of Bureaucracy
Joseph L. Clarke, University of Toronto
Play Hard, Play Fair, Nobody Hurt – Corporate Spaces of Play
Joachim Hackl, Columbia University
Transient computational designed boundaries enhancing creativity in workspaces
Laurence Kimmel, University of New South Wales - 09.00–11.45Beyond Instrumentality: Environmental Histories of Architecture. Small Conference Hall
Narrating Modern Architecture and Economic Growth
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Columbia University
Architects and the Circular Economy: Knud Lönberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller and the Structural Study Associates
Suzanne Strum, American University of Sharjah
How did it fail? Considering the decline of environmental experiments
Paul Bouet, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Marne-la-Vallée (Université Paris-Est)
Why we must destroy the Environment
Ingrid Halland, University of Oslo
Oil Spaces: The Global Petroleumscape in the Rotterdam/The Hague area
Carola Hein, TU Delft
The Air-conditioning Complex: Toward a Global Historiography of Environmental Technology, Architecture and Society
Jiat-Hwee Chang, National University of Singapore