Session 2: LANGUAGE
Chair: Dr Tim Martin
De Montfort University
LOCATION: Fletcher Low Rise
9.30am Duan
Wu: (University of Cambridge)
Mapping the Promenade Experience of
Therme Vals in the Form of Narrative
10.00am Alex
Albans: (Birmingham Institute of Art and Design)
Resurrecting Footprints: The Power and
Influence of Revealing and Re-interpreting Lost Landscape
Features
10.30am Lea-Catherine
Szacka: (Bartlett School of Architecture)
1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: A
New Street for the Display of Architecture
11.00am Kush
Patel: (University of Michigan)
An Inquiry into Definitions of Space:
Discussing the Theoretical Works of Architect-Theorist, Bernard
Tschumi; Social-Theorist, Henri Lefebvre and Spatial-Theorist,
Bill Hillier
11.30am Anne
Hultzsch: (Bartlett School of Architecture)
Rendering Buildings in Words: Methods
of Representation in John Evelyn’s Diary and Nikolaus
Pevsner’s Buildings of England
12.00pm Farid
Ziaei: (The University of Liverpool)
Architecture: Space of Interpretation
beyond the Intention: Investigating the creative role of users
in the process of architectural identity
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Session 3: URBANISM
Chairs: Dr Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture
Dr Katharina Borsi, University of Nottingham
LOCATION: Fletcher Low Rise
2.00pm Mohamed
Abdelmonem: (University of Sheffield)
The Cairene Harah in 1800: Reading Domestic
Space as a Spectrum of Social Spheres
2.30pm Gehan
Selim: (University of Sheffield)
Planning the Urban Image: Re-Making
Bulaq Abul Ela in Colonial Cairo
3.00pm Lucia
Pérez-Moreno: (Polytechnic School of Architecture,
Madrid)
Cannaregio: Three Ways of Understanding
History
3.30pm - TEA/COFFEE
4.00pm Miao
Xu: (School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff
University)
A Contextual Reading of China’s
Gated Cities and Neighbourhoods: Prototype and Evolution
4.30pm Robin
Kim: (Cities Programme, London School of Economics)
The Impact of the Millennium Bridge
on London: Integrating the North and the South of the River
Thames
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Session 4: PHILOSOPHY
Chair: Jonathan Hale
University of Nottingham
LOCATION: Fletcher Low Rise
2.00pm Mona
Abdelwahab: (Newcastle University)
Platonic Chora: Towards a model of place
2.30pm Anja
Karina Nydal: (University of Kent)
The Masters of Stone: On the Geometric
Imagination in Rock Climbing and its Relationship to The Geometric
Art of Stereotomy in the Early Renaissance
3.00pm Lars
Hopstock: (Department of Landscape, University
of Sheffield)
Organic Modernism in landscape architecture:
Hermann Mattern (1902–1971)
3.30pm - TEA/COFFEE
4.00pm Bernhard
Langer: (University of Technology, Vienna)
Purity and Scenography: On Two Concepts
in Contemporary Architectural Discourse in Switzerland
4.30pm Kristine
Mun: (Architectural Association)
Digital Materialism and the Concept
of Matter
