Reconciling Modernism
Mar
18

Reconciling Modernism

SESSION CHAIR: Jesus Barba

  • Houses of Culture and Their Preservation in the Common Interest
    Henrieta Moravčíková

  • Tourist Modernism on the Montenegrin Coast: Vision and Identity
    Gordana Rovčanin Premović

  • Microcosm of Pašilaičia IV: Future of Curved Forms and Gardens
    Aušra Černauskienė, Indrė Ruseckaitė

  • Reassessing Brno’s White House: Form, Ideology, and Conservation
    Eva Truncová

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Cultural Engagement: Practices and Ideas
Mar
18

Cultural Engagement: Practices and Ideas

SESSION CHAIR: Maristella Casciato

  • Modernism in the Public Eye: Mass Media and Preservation
    Emily Pugh

  • Walls That Speak: Graphic Space and Cultural Resistance
    Grace Ong Yan

  • STEM Meets Modernism: Youth Engage Chicago’s Complex Built Legacy
    Junko Taguchi, Michael Dixon

  • Beyond the Bubble: Recognition and Conflict in Modern Heritage
    Andrea Canziani

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Houses, Housing, and Modernity
Mar
18

Houses, Housing, and Modernity

SESSION CHAIR: Lidwine Spoormans

  • Dwelling in Modernity: Gómez Carreño and Community Adaptation
    Anna Braghini

  • Self-Built Modern Heritage: The Case of La Fragua Neighborhood
    Ingrid Quintana-Guerrero, Massimo Leserri

  • Modern Dwelling. The Manufactured Housing Communities of Sarasota
    Morris Hylton III, Kristīne Ziediņa

  • Brexit by the Sea: Modernist Holiday Camps and Self-Determination
    Sarah Aziz

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Preserving Monumental Outdoor Art: Challenges, Context, and Conservation
Mar
18

Preserving Monumental Outdoor Art: Challenges, Context, and Conservation

SESSION CHAIR: Meredith Bzdak

  • An Experimental Playground in the Peruvian Desert: PREVI, 1966
    Aldo Solano Rojas

  • Preserving Millard Sheets Mosaics: A Southern California Legacy
    Christina Varvi

  • Orphaned Sculptures, André Volten and Modernist Architecture
    Michel Melenhorst

  • Modern Placemakers: Conserving Painted Outdoor Sculpture
    Ellen Moody

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Post-Colonial Modernism
Mar
18

Post-Colonial Modernism

SESSION CHAIR: Ana Tostoes

  • Nusantaran Modernism: Postmodern and Regionalist Turns in Singapore Mosques (1983–1994)
    Hadi Osni

  • The Evolving Narrative of Tropical Modernist Heritage Emblems
    Korkor Otu-Danquah

  • Reclaiming Modernism: African Narratives of Adaptations
    Ntetleng Mosidi

  • Mundanist Architecture: Vietnam’s Vernacular Modernism
    Alexandra van der Essen

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Fix It in Post: Reenvisioning Postmodern Architecture
Mar
18

Fix It in Post: Reenvisioning Postmodern Architecture

SESSION CHAIR: Hannah Simonson

  • The Big Ugly. Rethinking Postmodern Architecture in Vienna
    Michael Rainer

  • The Fragile Legacy of Postmodern Architecture in Estonia
    Laura Ingerpuu

  • Back to the Drawing Board: Reviving Narratives from EuroDisney
    Maxime Coq, Claudine Houbart

  • Truth and Meaning: Rethinking the Postmodern Legacy
    Bryan Clark Green, Anthony Cohn

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Modernism Under Pressure: Preservation and Environmental Challenges
Mar
18

Modernism Under Pressure: Preservation and Environmental Challenges

SESSION CHAIR: Marta Peixoto

  • The Thai White Elephant: Ken Woolley’s Extraordinary Ex-Australian Embassy
    Christine Storry

  • Gund Hall: Environmental and Historic Conservation of Modernism
    George Gard

  • Preserving Gio Ponti’s Heritage: Energy Efficiency Approaches
    Sara Di Resta, Verdiana Peron

  • Monumental Modernism: Material Challenges with Age and Climate
    Gina Crevello, Kyle Normandin

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Technology Collaboration 1
Mar
18

Technology Collaboration 1

SESSION CHAIR: Horacio Torrent

  • Tall Buildings with Tensile Structures: The Case of “El Pilar”
    Juan Fontana

  • Operation Chaville: a French State-Industry-Architecture Alliance
    Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Mathias Schopfer

  • Architect–Horticulturist Collaborations in Independent India
    Chaitra Sharad

  • Architecture, Engineering and Design: The Florentine Olivetti
    Giuseppe Galbiati

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Mass Housing Adaptations and Appropriations
Mar
18

Mass Housing Adaptations and Appropriations

SESSION CHAIR: Miles Glendinning

  • Saving Cité Pierre Semard: Community Action and Renovation Challenges
    Hanna Skapska

  • Reclaiming Housing: Postmodern Tendencies in Beira’s Architecture by Bernadino Ramalhete (1960-1974)
    Ines Rodrigues

  • Dynamics in the Late-Modern House
    Lidwine Spoormans

  • Sharak-E Ekbātān: Le Corbusier's Legacy, and Local Adaptations
    Fatemeh Mollazadeh, Mohammad Rahimidizaji

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Advocating for ‘-isms’: Late-Modernism, Postmodernism, and Brutalism
Mar
18

Advocating for ‘-isms’: Late-Modernism, Postmodernism, and Brutalism

SESSION CHAIRS: Liz Waytkus and Todd Grover

This panel brings together leading experts to explore these questions: What is MoMo today? Should we advocate for these later stylistic movements? What new scholarship informs our understanding of them? And how are other organizations addressing the preservation challenges of late 20th-century design?

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