SESSIONS
Friday, March 20
Session 7 | 9–10:45am
SESSION CHAIR: Wessel de Jonge
From Health to Climate: Czech Modernist Avant Garde and the Sun
Alexander KuricFarouk El Gohary: Shaping Gulf Modernism via Liverpool
Marco SosaSunny Side of Soviet Modernism: Post-Stalin Architecture in Baku
Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson"Sun Acceptance"/Adaptation-Restoring the Roofs at Taliesin West
Rebecca Barron
SESSION CHAIR: Andrea Canziani
A School Designed by Students in Uruguay in the Late 20th Century
Alfredo Peláez IglesiasLate Modern Schools: Ecuadorian Architecture's Hybrid Modernism
Veronica Rosero AñazcoThe Final Facade: International Style at Robert College
Zeki Furkan SarilicanA Social History of America’s Concrete College Campuses
Emma Connolly
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
SESSION CHAIR: Elsa Haarstad
LAX: First Modern Airport, Last Relic of the Jet Age
Juan VillafaneHighways to Walkways: Urban Mobility and Regeneration Challenges in Chicago
Zixuan ZhengA Planning Paradox: Canberra, Australia's National Capital
Rachel JacksonRetrofitting Modernism: Industrial Building Afterlives and Data Infrastructure in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
Xinwen ZhangLos Angeles in Pieces: Episodes in the Morphological Evolution of the Los Angeles Basin
Duke Dunham
Session 8 | 11am–12:45pm
SESSION CHAIR: Kyle Normandin
Evolving Late 20th-Century Heritage: Making the Case for Graffiti
Rosa LowingerFrom Megastructure to Prosumer: A BIPV-Based Retrofit Strategy
Alexander EberlTripoli Fairgrounds in Lebanon: Embracing Modernism Today
Maya Hmeidan, Pamela Jerome, Paul GaudetteBalancing Seismic Safety and Architectural Integrity
Phillip White
SESSION CHAIR: Kuukuwa Manful
Kinshasa’s Tropical Modernism: Climate, Identity, and Legacy
Manlio MichielettoTropical Concrete Markets: S.I.D.E.C.'s Repeatable Construction
Genta KokubuKuwait’s Rethinking Climate-Resilient of Brutalist Architecture
Zainab Murtadhawi, Rabab KazemThe Multiple Lives of the Sunflower Swimming Pools
Laurent Duport
SESSION CHAIR: Horacio Torent
Colour, Creativity, and Conservation: Sydney Opera House's Interiors
Laura MatareseNon-Contradictory Complexity
Marta Peixoto, Ana Tostões Otilia Muras, and Héctor GiraldiUruguayan Architectural Coupling
Soledad CebeyQuiet Collaborations: Work of Stained Glass Artist Jane Marquis
Katie Horak
Session 9 | 1:45–3:30pm
SESSION CHAIR: Chandler McCoy
Casting Shadows: Brise-Soleils in Henry Klumb's Architecture
José Lorenzo-TorresClimate-Responsive and Resilient Marcel Breuer’s Pre-Cast Façades
Miguel Calvo SalveEnvironmental Management in Le Corbusier’s Museum in Chandigarh
Ana Paula Arato GonçalvesInnovative Energy Conservation of The Gregory Bateson Building
Alice Valania
SESSION CHAIR: Zsuzsanna Böröcz
Palace of Serbia: Collaborative Framework of Yugoslav Modernism
Milena KordićThe Wicked Problem of Modernist Stained-Glass Church Windows
Eva StorgaardThe Role of Shop Interiors for the Spirit of a Fashion Brand
Bárbara CoutinhoCITY ERASED: The Zoë Dusanne Salon
Elisa Renouard
SESSION CHAIR: Javier Ors Ausín
The Sudan National Museum: Interwoven Histories of Architecture, Heritage and Politics
Mai AbusalihModernists after Modernism: Interior Architects in Türkiye
Deniz Hasirci, Zeynep Tuna Ultav, Deniz Avci, and Melis Örnekoğlu-SelçukPreserving Post-War Adaptive Housing, the Mémé by Atelier Kroll (1970-1976)
Emma Simonin
SESSION CHAIR: Debora Barros
Iron in the Tropics: Standard Eiffel Markets in French Indochina
Adrien BoyetteFlat or Slanted Roof: Identity in Modern Tropical Architecture
Arief B. SetiawanTunisian Modernist Architecture Challenged by the Climate
Salma Gharbi