High-rise shuffle - 4th International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 27 August 2011
Seminar venue: The main auditorium of the University of Jyväskylä (designed by Alvar Aalto 1954-55)8.15 Registration begins
9.00 Opening
9.15 Panu Lehtovuori
10.00 Lecture panel
10.15-11.45 Pecha Kucha* Towers
*The Pecha Kuchas will be held with a 10 minutes cycle / 20 slides.
Basmaji, Marwan NasriTower Part cemetery for the three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem
Fok, Wendy
Forming Plaza through Residential Towers
Hartoonian, Gevork
Can the Tall Building be Artistically Reconsidered?
Hunker, Kurt
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered … Critical Events since 9/11
Lopez-Perez, Daniel
From and Isotropic to an Isomorphic Organicism: Myron Goldsmith’s New Found Organic Principle in High-Rise Structures and its Legacy in Contemporary Design Practice
Roberts, John
Instead of Apocalypse: Aalto and Utzon and a gentler structure for high-rise life
12.00 Lunch break
13.30 Eva Castro
14.15 Lecture panel
14.30 Pecha Kucha R&D
Beslioglu, BaharExperimental Programs in the Design of High-Rise Buildings
Cohen, Donna L.
Rare Earth
Fleming, Patrick; Ramage, Michael; Smith, Simon
Super-Tall Timber
Frith, Ed; Salem, Caroline
Dancing Tower – searching for freedom
Niemi, Renita; Suominen, Jarmo; Karinki, Juha-Pekka; Heikkinen, Tero
Redefining the apartment – The facilitation of industry collaboration as a tool for change
Rocha, Joao
From Molecular Gastronomy to Molecular Architecture
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Patrik Schumacher (studia generalia)
17.45 Lecture panel
18.00 End of day one
19.30-21.00 Drinks at the Alvar Aalto museum
21.00-00.00 Reception (venue to be announced later)
SUNDAY 28 August 2011
Seminar venue: The main auditorium of the University of Jyväskylä
9.00 Opening
9.15 Anne Stenros
10.00 Lecture panel
10.15-11.45 Pecha Kucha Shuffle
Carneiro, Karine; Maia, Marcelo
Space of desegragation: an academic practice to contaminate
Kiris, Irem Maro; Soygenis, Sema
Skyscraper in Istanbul urban context
Komossa, Susanne
Groot – Great European and Dutch hybrid buildings; vitalizing the tradition of the urban low rise, mixed building
Patt, Trevor
Taipei 2.0.2: Computation and the Urban Generic
Vela Castillo, José; del Santo Mora, Maria de la O
The void in the city; the graft, the tower, and the (not exactly) new public space
12.00 Lunch break
13.30 Steffen Lehmann
14.15 Lecture panel
14.30 Zhiqiang Wu
15.15 Lecture panel
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Reinier de Graaf (studia generalia)
16.45 Lecture panel
17.00 Conclusion
17.30 Ending of the Meeting
The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme.
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