High-rise shuffle - 4th International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture

Jyväskylä, Finland - 27.8.2011 - 28.8.2011

 

 


 

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 Nasri
Tower 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, Bahar
Experimental 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.

 

More information:

www.alvaraalto.fi/conferences/2011

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