Innovation & Local Tradition in Climate-Responsive Design
Mar
20

Innovation & Local Tradition in Climate-Responsive Design

SESSION CHAIR: Wessel de Jonge

  • From Health to Climate: Czech Modernist Avant Garde and the Sun
    Alexander Kuric

  • Farouk El Gohary: Shaping Gulf Modernism via Liverpool
    Marco Sosa

  • Sunny Side of Soviet Modernism: Post-Stalin Architecture in Baku
    Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson

  • "Sun Acceptance"/Adaptation-Restoring the Roofs at Taliesin West
    Rebecca Barron

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Schools of Modernity: Pedagogy, Politics, Architecture
Mar
20

Schools of Modernity: Pedagogy, Politics, Architecture

SESSION CHAIR: Andrea Canziani

  • A School Designed by Students in Uruguay in the Late 20th Century
    Alfredo Peláez Iglesias

  • Late Modern Schools: Ecuadorian Architecture's Hybrid Modernism
    Veronica Rosero Añazco

  • The Final Facade: International Style at Robert College
    Zeki Furkan Sarilican

  • A Social History of America’s Concrete College Campuses
    Emma Connolly

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Revitalizing Modern U.S. Embassies as Hubs for Culture and Diplomacy
Mar
20

Revitalizing Modern U.S. Embassies as Hubs for Culture and Diplomacy

SESSION CHAIR: Jorge Otero Pailos

Speakers include:

  • Jorge Salcedo, Office of Cultural Heritage OBO, Department of State

  • Katie Gerner AIA, Associate Principal, Annum Architects

  • Jorge Otero-Pailos, Artist, Architect, Professor and Director of Historic Preservation at Columbia University GSAPP

  • Svein Lund, Architect, Founding Partner & Chairman, Lundhagem Arkitekter

  • Jonas Norsted, Partner/Architect, Atelier Oslo Arkitekter

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Twentieth-Century Infrastructure: Legacies, Challenges, and Adaptations
Mar
20

Twentieth-Century Infrastructure: Legacies, Challenges, and Adaptations

SESSION CHAIR: Elsa Haarstad

  • LAX: First Modern Airport, Last Relic of the Jet Age
    Juan Villafane

  • Highways to Walkways: Urban Mobility and Regeneration Challenges in Chicago
    Zixuan Zheng

  • A Planning Paradox: Canberra, Australia's National Capital
    Rachel Jackson

  • Retrofitting Modernism: Industrial Building Afterlives and Data Infrastructure in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
    Xinwen Zhang

  • Los Angeles in Pieces: Episodes in the Morphological Evolution of the Los Angeles Basin
    Duke Dunham

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Late 20th Century Heritage: Preserving the Impermanence of Innovation
Mar
20

Late 20th Century Heritage: Preserving the Impermanence of Innovation

SESSION CHAIR: Kyle Normandin

  • Evolving Late 20th-Century Heritage: Making the Case for Graffiti
    Rosa Lowinger

  • From Megastructure to Prosumer: A BIPV-Based Retrofit Strategy
    Alexander Eberl

  • Tripoli Fairgrounds in Lebanon: Embracing Modernism Today
    Maya Hmeidan, Pamela Jerome, Paul Gaudette

  • Balancing Seismic Safety and Architectural Integrity
    Phillip White

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Local Tradition in Climate Responsive Design
Mar
20

Local Tradition in Climate Responsive Design

SESSION CHAIR: Kuukuwa Manful

  • Kinshasa’s Tropical Modernism: Climate, Identity, and Legacy
    Manlio Michieletto

  • Tropical Concrete Markets: S.I.D.E.C.'s Repeatable Construction
    Genta Kokubu

  • Kuwait’s Rethinking Climate-Resilient of Brutalist Architecture
    Zainab Murtadhawi, Rabab Kazem

  • The Multiple Lives of the Sunflower Swimming Pools
    Laurent Duport

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Creativity and Collaboration Interior Design
Mar
20

Creativity and Collaboration Interior Design

SESSION CHAIR: Horacio Torent

  • Colour, Creativity, and Conservation: Sydney Opera House's Interiors
    Laura Matarese

  • Non-Contradictory Complexity
    Marta Peixoto, Ana Tostões Otilia Muras, and Héctor Giraldi

  • Uruguayan Architectural Coupling
    Soledad Cebey

  • Quiet Collaborations: Work of Stained Glass Artist Jane Marquis
    Katie Horak

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Modern Design for Solar Control and Comfort: Successes, Failures, and Adaptations
Mar
20

Modern Design for Solar Control and Comfort: Successes, Failures, and Adaptations

SESSION CHAIR: Chandler McCoy

  • Casting Shadows: Brise-Soleils in Henry Klumb's Architecture
    José Lorenzo-Torres

  • Climate-Responsive and Resilient Marcel Breuer’s Pre-Cast Façades
    Miguel Calvo Salve

  • Environmental Management in Le Corbusier’s Museum in Chandigarh
    Ana Paula Arato Gonçalves

  • Innovative Energy Conservation of The Gregory Bateson Building
    Alice Valania

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Interior Spaces of Collective Imagination: Modernism, Identity, and Adaptation
Mar
20

Interior Spaces of Collective Imagination: Modernism, Identity, and Adaptation

SESSION CHAIR: Zsuzsanna Böröcz

  • Palace of Serbia: Collaborative Framework of Yugoslav Modernism
    Milena Kordić

  • The Wicked Problem of Modernist Stained-Glass Church Windows
    Eva Storgaard

  • The Role of Shop Interiors for the Spirit of a Fashion Brand
    Bárbara Coutinho

  • CITY ERASED: The Zoë Dusanne Salon
    Elisa Renouard

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Architecture, Memory, and the Politics of Preservation in the Post-War World
Mar
20

Architecture, Memory, and the Politics of Preservation in the Post-War World

SESSION CHAIR: Javier Ors Ausín

  • The Sudan National Museum: Interwoven Histories of Architecture, Heritage and Politics
    Mai Abusalih

  • Modernists after Modernism: Interior Architects in Türkiye
    Deniz Hasirci, Zeynep Tuna Ultav, Deniz Avci, and Melis Örnekoğlu-Selçuk

  • Preserving Post-War Adaptive Housing, the Mémé by Atelier Kroll (1970-1976)
    Emma Simonin

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