Post-War Civic Ideals and Urban Realities
Mar
19

Post-War Civic Ideals and Urban Realities

SESSION CHAIR: Kyle Normandin

  • Endurance in Concrete: The Borjomi Composers’ House
    Tatia Gvineria

  • Reactivating La Bourse du Travail through Cultural Programming
    Amina Rejeb

  • Administered Integration: the Bruges Biekorf Library (1976-1986)
    Warre Onnockx

  • Negotiating the Past: Postmodern Restoration and Architectural Disputes in Liège
    Valentine Masset

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Conserving LA’s Early Modernism: The Legacy of Wright, Schindler, Neutra, and Gill
Mar
19

Conserving LA’s Early Modernism: The Legacy of Wright, Schindler, Neutra, and Gill

SESSION CHAIR: Chandler McCoy

  • Irving Gill's Concrete Construction in Southern California
    Kate Whitney-Schubb

  • The Schindler House on Kings Road – The Conservation Master Plan
    Jeffrey Caldwell

  • A Place in the Sun – Restoring the Neutra Lovell Health House
    Frank Escher

  • Wright’s Blocks in Los Angeles: Knit and Textile Block Technology
    and Approaches to Repair at the Freeman and Hollyhock Houses

    Ann Harrer, Karla Salahshour, Greg Demos, Abbey Brach Chamberlin, and Eran Hammer

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Shifting Values: Significance in Community Adaptations and Interpretations
Mar
19

Shifting Values: Significance in Community Adaptations and Interpretations

SESSION CHAIR: Elsa Haarstad

  • Lived-In Adaptation: Post-Occupancy and the Inhabitant Authorship
    Antonio Cantero

  • Reuse of Abandoned Industrial Buildings in CZ through Communities
    Lenka Popelová, Klára Ciesarová

  • Community Adaptation and the Spatial Politics of Geneva Camp
    Umme Haque, Humayra Alam

  • Rethinking Riverside Plaza: From Brutalist Utopia to Immigrant Gateway Housing
    Hector Burga

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Translating Modernism: Climate, Material and Cultural Mediation
Mar
19

Translating Modernism: Climate, Material and Cultural Mediation

SESSION CHAIR: Marta Peixoto

  • Universal or Local Decisions? Insights from Iraqi Modernity
    Raghad Ahmed Fadhil

  • Geoffrey Bawa and the Fractal Poetics of Modernism in the Sun
    Kalpanee Jayatilake

  • Between Extraction and Comfort: L'Architecture d’Aujourd’hui and the Colonial Logic
    Piero Medici

  • Preservation and Rebuilding After the Los Angeles Wildfires
    Leo Marmol

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Collaborative Modernism: Postwar Networks Shaping Architecture, Design, and Heritage
Mar
19

Collaborative Modernism: Postwar Networks Shaping Architecture, Design, and Heritage

SESSION CHAIR: Flora Chou

  • Business Collaborations to Advance Modernism in the 1950s
    Michael Bzdak

  • Correa’s Collaborations: Reviewing Modern India’s Built History
    Chinmay Gheware, Tanvi Karia

  • Women's Advisory Committee Rotterdam and Collaborative Modernity
    Carolina Quiroga

  • Partners in Design: The Creative Collaboration of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman
    Laura Ackerman-Shaw

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Intervening and Interventions in Late Modernism
Mar
19

Intervening and Interventions in Late Modernism

SESSION CHAIR: Liz Waytkus

  • Archiving Late Modernism: The Museo di Sant’Agostino in Genoa
    Elena Geria

  • Time’s Ticking: Rethinking Age in Preservation Policy
    Siena Leone-Getten

  • Updating Late 20th Century Modernism Architecture and Community
    Takako Fujimoto, Sumiko Ebara

  • With Heritage So Meh: Landmarking Chicago's "First Mediocre Skyscraper”
    Adam Rubin

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Excavating the Overlooked: Modernisms from the ‘Global South’
Mar
19

Excavating the Overlooked: Modernisms from the ‘Global South’

SESSION CHAIR: Ying Zhou

  • Milton Barragán and “Balcones de Guápulo”: An Unpublished Project
    Verónica Vaca Proaño

  • Clorindo Testa and the Spirit of the Machu Picchu Charter
    Mara Sánchez Llorens

  • Kamalapur Railway Station: Erasing a Tropical Modernist Legacy?
    Fatema Tasmia

  • Aditya Prakash's Tagore Theatre: Illogic of Facade Preservation
    Vikramaditya Prakash

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Latin American and Italian Daring Approaches
Mar
19

Latin American and Italian Daring Approaches

SESSION CHAIR: Louise Noelle Gras

  • Towers in the Sun: Wandenkolk Tinoco in Recife (1974-1982)
    Fernando Diniz Moreira

  • Architecture as Shelter: The Experimentalism of Alejandro Zohn
    Silvia Aloisio

  • The Sun as Cure: Heliotherapeutic Architecture in Italy (1920-60)
    Anna Karla Milani

  • Modern Heritage, Climate, and Development in Eternal Spring City
    Horacio Torrent

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Social Considered: Novel Approaches, New Actors
Mar
19

Social Considered: Novel Approaches, New Actors

SESSION CHAIR: Maristella Casciato

  • Building the Narrative: How Modernists Crafted the LA Lifestyle
    Tami Hausman

  • “The Most Dangerous Architect in America” - Ain's Greene House
    Ravi GuneWardena

  • Architecture As Autobiography: Can Frank Israel's Work Survive?
    Rafael Fontes

  • Wende Museum: Adaptive Reuse and the Future
    Justin Jampol, Joseph Day

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Interactions & Collaborations
Mar
19

Interactions & Collaborations

SESSION CHAIR: Wido Quist

  • Collaborative Intellectual Networks: Alliance Française of Quito
    Nestor Llorca Vega

  • Tropical Networks: The Philippine Mission to Latin America 1947
    Timothy Augustus Ong

  • Eco-Social Reframing of Mass Housing Modernism: Case of Lazdynai
    Marija Drėmaitė, Viltė Janušauskaitė

  • Nová Cvernovka Cultural Center: Reactivating Architecture
    Nina Bartošová

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