Latin American and Italian Daring Approaches
SESSION CHAIR: Louise Noelle Gras Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Modern Heritage, Climate, and Development in Eternal Spring City
Horacio E. Torrent Schneider Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Towers in the Sun: Wandenkolk Tinoco in Recife (1974-1982)
Fernando Diniz Moreira Federal University of Pernambuco
Architecture as Shelter: The Experimentalism of Alejandro Zohn
Silvia Aloisio Iowa State University
The Sun as Cure: Heliotherapeutic Architecture in Italy (1920-60)
Anna Karla Milani Delft University of Technology
Translating Modernism: Climate, Material and Cultural Mediation
SESSION CHAIR: Marta Peixoto Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Universal or Local Decisions? Insights from Iraqi Modernity
Raghad Ahmed Fadhil, Ghada Musa Al Slik – University of Baghdad
Geoffrey Bawa and the Fractal Poetics of Modernism in the Sun
Kalpanee Jayatilake University of Cincinnati
Between Extraction and Comfort: L'Architecture d’Aujourd’hui and the Colonial Logic
Piero Medici Universitè Libre de Bruxelles
Preservation and Rebuilding After the Los Angeles Wildfires
Leo Marmol Marmol Radziner
Conserving LA’s Early Modernism: The Legacy of Wright, Schindler, Neutra, and Gill
SESSION CHAIR: Chandler McCoy, Getty Conservation Institute
Irving Gill’s Concrete Construction in Southern California
Kate Whitney-Schubb University of Pennsylvania
The Schindler House on Kings Road – The Conservation Master Plan
Jeffrey Caldwell WJE
A Place in the Sun – Restoring the Neutra Lovell Health House
Frank Escher, Ravi GuneWardena – Escher GuneWardena Architecture
Wright’s Blocks in Los Angeles: Knit and Textile Block Technology and Approaches to Repair at the Freeman, Bollman, and Hollyhock Houses
Ann Harrer, Karla Salahshour – WJE; Greg Demos Demos Development; Abbey Chamberlin Brach Hollyhock House; Eran Hammer