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1st Annual AHRA Research Student Symposium:
Department of Architecture, University of Westminster
Room M/421, 4th Floor, Marylebone Building

7th May 2004

 

Review (published in Architects Journal)


For PDF abstracts of papers please click on the names below:

 

PROGRAMME:

10.30am Reception:
Room M/421 + tea/coffee/biscuits

11.00am Welcome:
Professor Murray Fraser, University of Westminster

11.05am Introduction to AHRA:
Jonathan Hale, University of Nottingham

11.10am Keynote address:
Professor Adrian Forty, Bartlett, UCL

11.30am Session 1: Subjective experiences of space
Chair: Dr Jane Rendell, Bartlett, UCL

  • Lilian CHEE (Bartlett): Not quite at home: Intimate spacing in detective fiction and travel writing inside a colonial hotel
  • Jon GOODBUN (Westminster): On the romanticism of immersive technological environments: Or, dancing with the machines
  • Betty NIGIANNI (East London): An avenue that looks like me

Questions and discussion (30 mins)

1.00pm Lunch (all delegates to get £5 voucher for meal in University canteen)

2.00pm Session 2: Reinterpreting the city
Chair: Professor Steven Spier, Strathclyde

  • Gregory COWAN (Kingston): Street occupations: Challenging the architecture of the urban street space
  • Hilary POWELL (Goldsmiths): Recycling junkspace
  • Tatjana SCHNEIDER (Strathclyde): Mechanisms of the
    themed environment: Historical development of thematically organised sites

Questions and discussion (30 mins)

3.30pm Tea/coffee/biscuits

4.00pm Session 3: Cultural meaning and representation in architecture
Chair: Richard Patterson, Leicester De Montfort

  • Florian KOSSAK (Edinburgh College of Art): The cultural
    dimensions of exhibiting architecture
  • Mike MADDEN (Leicester De Montfort): The interpretation of meaning and metaphor in postmodern architecture
  • Francesco PROTO (Nottingham): The logic of Santa Klaus:
    Architectural de-materialisation as an ideological potlatch

Questions and discussion (30 mins)

5.30pm Concluding address:
Professor David Dunster, University of Liverpool

6.00pm Drinks reception for all delegates in Room M/421

 

Attendance at this event is free, and includes lunch and refreshments as well as an early-evening drinks reception. But please do note that anyone who wants to attend must book a place beforehand through Professor Murray Fraser, Department of Architecture, University of Westminster. This can be done by email on:

m.fraser@westminster.ac.uk

You will be notified by return email once a place has been booked for you. Because of the restrictions on room size and catering, there is a maximum of 100 places at this event. Priority will be decided on a first-come-first-served basis.

We very much hope that you would like to attend this event, the first of its kind to be held in the UK for many years, and we look forward to receiving your application for a place.