Innovation and Creativity in Everyday Life
SESSION CHAIR: Susan Macdonald
St. Pat’s in Oklahoma City: A Brutalist Marvel Girdled by Angels
Selena Bagnara MilanStavoprojekt and Self-Help Construction in 1950s Czechoslovakia
Klára UllmannováToo Soon: Inflatable Structures, Space, and the 1950s Suburb
Katarzyna BalugThe Conservation of Smithdon School
Jon Wright
Post-War Civic Ideals and Urban Realities
SESSION CHAIR: Kyle Normandin
Endurance in Concrete: The Borjomi Composers’ House
Tatia GvineriaReactivating La Bourse du Travail through Cultural Programming
Amina RejebAdministered Integration: the Bruges Biekorf Library (1976-1986)
Warre OnnockxNegotiating the Past: Postmodern Restoration and Architectural Disputes in Liège
Valentine Masset
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-SchubbThe Schindler House on Kings Road – The Conservation Master Plan
Jeffrey CaldwellA Place in the Sun – Restoring the Neutra Lovell Health House
Frank EscherWright’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
Communities In/and Social Housing
SESSION CHAIR: Jesus Barba
CH20 and Unidad Barrio Sur (1957-2014)
Martin CajadeAdaptive Modernities: Spatial Strategies Transforming Mass Housing
Adriana PablosArchitecture for Women: The Work of Milada Petříková-Pavlíková
Klára BrůhováDesigning, Building, and Adapting: Community Agency in Watapuluwa
Inês Leonor Nunes
Shifting Values: Significance in Community Adaptations and Interpretations
SESSION CHAIR: Elsa Haarstad
Lived-In Adaptation: Post-Occupancy and the Inhabitant Authorship
Antonio CanteroReuse of Abandoned Industrial Buildings in CZ through Communities
Lenka Popelová, Klára CiesarováCommunity Adaptation and the Spatial Politics of Geneva Camp
Umme Haque, Humayra AlamRethinking Riverside Plaza: From Brutalist Utopia to Immigrant Gateway Housing
Hector Burga
Translating Modernism: Climate, Material and Cultural Mediation
SESSION CHAIR: Marta Peixoto
Universal or Local Decisions? Insights from Iraqi Modernity
Raghad Ahmed FadhilGeoffrey Bawa and the Fractal Poetics of Modernism in the Sun
Kalpanee JayatilakeBetween Extraction and Comfort: L'Architecture d’Aujourd’hui and the Colonial Logic
Piero MediciPreservation and Rebuilding After the Los Angeles Wildfires
Leo Marmol
Collaborative Modernism: Postwar Networks Shaping Architecture, Design, and Heritage
SESSION CHAIR: Flora Chou
Business Collaborations to Advance Modernism in the 1950s
Michael BzdakCorrea’s Collaborations: Reviewing Modern India’s Built History
Chinmay Gheware, Tanvi KariaWomen's Advisory Committee Rotterdam and Collaborative Modernity
Carolina QuirogaPartners in Design: The Creative Collaboration of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman
Laura Ackerman-Shaw
Intervening and Interventions in Late Modernism
SESSION CHAIR: Liz Waytkus
Archiving Late Modernism: The Museo di Sant’Agostino in Genoa
Elena GeriaTime’s Ticking: Rethinking Age in Preservation Policy
Siena Leone-GettenUpdating Late 20th Century Modernism Architecture and Community
Takako Fujimoto, Sumiko EbaraWith Heritage So Meh: Landmarking Chicago's "First Mediocre Skyscraper”
Adam Rubin
Excavating the Overlooked: Modernisms from the ‘Global South’
SESSION CHAIR: Ying Zhou
Milton Barragán and “Balcones de Guápulo”: An Unpublished Project
Verónica Vaca ProañoClorindo Testa and the Spirit of the Machu Picchu Charter
Mara Sánchez LlorensKamalapur Railway Station: Erasing a Tropical Modernist Legacy?
Fatema TasmiaAditya Prakash's Tagore Theatre: Illogic of Facade Preservation
Vikramaditya Prakash
Latin American and Italian Daring Approaches
SESSION CHAIR: Louise Noelle Gras
Towers in the Sun: Wandenkolk Tinoco in Recife (1974-1982)
Fernando Diniz MoreiraArchitecture as Shelter: The Experimentalism of Alejandro Zohn
Silvia AloisioThe Sun as Cure: Heliotherapeutic Architecture in Italy (1920-60)
Anna Karla MilaniModern Heritage, Climate, and Development in Eternal Spring City
Horacio Torrent
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 GuneWardenaArchitecture As Autobiography: Can Frank Israel's Work Survive?
Rafael FontesWende Museum: Adaptive Reuse and the Future
Justin Jampol, Joseph Day
Interactions & Collaborations
SESSION CHAIR: Wido Quist
Collaborative Intellectual Networks: Alliance Française of Quito
Nestor Llorca VegaTropical Networks: The Philippine Mission to Latin America 1947
Timothy Augustus OngEco-Social Reframing of Mass Housing Modernism: Case of Lazdynai
Marija Drėmaitė, Viltė JanušauskaitėNová Cvernovka Cultural Center: Reactivating Architecture
Nina Bartošová