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Critical Architecture

1st Annual AHRA Conference
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

25-27 November 2004

 

For abstracts of papers please follow this link to:
Critical Architecture conference website

PROGRAMME:

DAY 1: Fri 26 Nov 2004
G02 & 101, The Bartlett, UCL, 22 Gordon Street

9.30-9.50am Introduction
Dr Jane Rendell and Dr Jonathan Hill, UCL
Prof Murray Fraser and Dr Mark Dorrian, AHRA


10.00am-11.30am
Criticism, Negation, Action
Session 1, Room G02
Chair: Dr Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh

  • Andrew Leach: Critical Practice and the Plan: Tafuri and l'Architetti e Urbanisti Associati
  • Dr David Cunningham: Architecture As Critical Knowledge
  • Dr Teresa Stoppani: Unfinished Business: The Historical Project after Manfredo Tafuri


10.00-11.30am
The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture Session 1, Room 101
Chair: Prof Murray Fraser, University of Westminster

  • Prof Elisabeth Tostrup: A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation
  • Dr Charles Rice: Putting the Critic Out of Work: Architecture's Adoption of Experience
  • Dr Jianfei Zhu: The Opening of a Critical Architectural Space in Contemporary China


11.45-1.15pm
Architecture-Writing
Session 1, Room G02
Chair: Dr Jane Rendell, The Bartlett, UCL

  • Dr Katja Grillner: Stockholm - Writing Architecture Out of Focus
  • Robin Wilson: The Garden of Suzuki: Architectural Photography and Utopic Criticism
  • Igea Troiani: A Critical Architectural Documentary?


11.45-1.15pm Criticism by Design
Session 1, Room 101
Chair: Dr Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett, UCL

  • Dr Tim Anstey: Alberti, Authority and Authorship
  • Dr Victoria Watson: On Drawing, Drawing Forth, Designs and Ideas
  • Dr Stephen Cairns: Post-medium Diagrams and the Urban Edge

1.15-2.15pm Lunch for presenters and chairs, Room G19

2.30-4.00pm Criticism, Negation, Action
Session 2, Room 101
Chair: Dr Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh

  • Dr Naomi Stead: Criticism in/and/of Crisis: The Australian Context
  • Dr Maria Theodorou: Critical Activism: the Athens Experiment
  • Daniel Barber: Militant Architecture: Towards an Architectural Culture of the Environment


2.30-4.00pm Criticism by Design
Session 2, Room G02
Chair: Dr Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett, UCL

  • Igor Marjanovic: Cheerful Chats: Alvin Boyarsky's Vision of Critical Architecture
  • Dr Penelope Haralambidou: The Fall: The Allegorical Architectural Project as a Critical Method
  • Katarina Bonnevier: Out of the Salon


4.15-5.45pm
The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture Session 2, Room G02
Chair: Prof Murray Fraser, University of Westminster

  • Gini Lee: Degrees of Containment: Mobile Architectures and Altered Contexts
  • Ana Betancour: The Responsive City: a City of Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
  • Dr Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Ganit Mayslits Kassif, Ehud Kassif: Neuland: Disenchanted Utopia(s) in Tel Aviv


4.15-5.45pm
Architecture-Writing
Session 2, Room 101
Chair: Dr Jane Rendell, The Bartlett, UCL

  • Dr Rolf Hughes: Writing Hybrids: Creative and Critical Writing in/as Design
  • Laura Ruggeri: Abstract Tours. The Poetics of Urban Inscription: Abstract Dérives as Rhetorical Strategy
  • Paul Shepheard: Critical Action and Active Criticism


6.30pm
Keynote Lecture:
Prof Hal Foster, Princeton University
Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building, UCL
Introduction: Prof Adrian Forty, The Bartlett, UCL

 

DAY 2: Sat 27 Nov 2004
Chemistry Auditorium, UCL, Gordon Street

9.00-9.30am
Introduction
Dr Jane Rendell and Dr Jonathan Hill, UCL
Prof Murray Fraser and Dr Mark Dorrian, AHRA

9.30-11.30am Criticism, Negation and Action
Chair: Dr Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh

  • Prof Andrew Benjamin: Affirming a Politics of Design
  • Dr Hilde Heynen: Utopia, Critique and Contemporary Discourse
  • Prof Eyal Weizman: Temporary Facts/Flexible Lines: The Architecture of the Israeli Occupation


11.45-1.15pm
Architecture-Writing
Chair: Dr Jane Rendell, The Bartlett, UCL

  • Prof Howard Caygill: The Neopolitan Staircase
  • Patrick Keiller: Film as Spatial Critique
  • Dr Sharon Kivland: Memoirs


1.15-2.15pm Lunch for presenters and chairs, Room G02

2.30-4.00pm Criticism by Design
Chair: Dr Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett, UCL

  • Prof Philippe Rahm, Décosterd and Rahm: Time and Space Shifts
  • Prof Ben Nicholson: Horror Vacui: The Desire to Fill Space


4.15-6.15pm
The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture
Chair: Prof Murray Fraser, University of Westminster

  • Prof Kim Dovey: I mean to be critical, but...
  • Steve McAdam: Taking a/part
  • Prof Sarah Wigglesworth: Critical Practice


6.15-6.45pm
Final Discussion
Responses/Questions from the floor

6.45pm, Drinks for presenters and chairs, Room G02

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