In the main auditorium of the University of Jyväskylä (designed by Alvar Aalto 1954-55)
DIRECT and INTERACTIVE TRANSMISSION on WIDESCREEN from Finland to the
Nordic house in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Read more: www.nordice.is
Kari Jormakka, Chair of the Meeting and day one
CHAIR Leslie Kavanaugh
Gevork Hartoonian (Australia): Tectonics: testing the limits of autonomy
Sean Keller (USA): Mathematical Beauty: Algorithmic Architecture and Kantian Aesthetics
Amy Catania Kulper (USA): Ask the Expert: The Primacy of Technique in the Quantification of Disciplinary Knowledge
Astrid Piber (The Netherlands): Serial Obsession in the production of architecture and architectural knowledge
CHAIR Pier Vittorio Aureli
Salvador Jara-Guerrero/Catherine Ettinger (Mexico): Ontology of the Mexican and the Making of Contemporary Mexican architecture
Gareth Griffiths (Finland): The antinomy of estrangement – Finnish architecture and identity thinking
Sonja Hnilica (Germany): On the relevance of gender studies in architecture
Roberto Segre (Brazil): Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa in Brasilia: Genealogy of the Congress Palace
discussion
studia generalia
Reception and the Gallery Exhibition opening at the Alvar Aalto Museum,
Alvar Aallon katu 7 (designed in 1971–73)
Evening party at the Jyväskylä Workers' Club, Väinönkatu 7, (designed in 1924–26)
In the main auditorium of the University of Jyväskylä
DIRECT and INTERACTIVE TRANSMISSION on WIDESCREEN from Finland to the
Nordic house in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Read more: www.nordice.is
Esa Laaksonen, Chair of day two
CHAIR Kimmo Lapintie
Scott Budzynski (Germany): The Modern City as Memory Structure
Norma B. Goethe (Argentina): The importance of seeing for understanding: thought experiment or geometrization of thought?
Stephen Loo (Australia): The end of a metaphor and the collapse of the thinking subject
Kathryn Strand (England): Thinking Bland
CHAIR Jane Rendell
Tim Gough (England): Architecture not conceptual but Ideational
Bernhard Langer (Switzerland): Speechless Thinking. The role of image and memory in contemporary architectural thinking.
Antony Moulis (Australia): From functionalist to humanist line: on circulation diagramming and the work of Alvar Aalto
Angelika Schnell (Austria): Architecture for Museums – Aldo Rossi’s Approach to a Scientific Theory of Architecture
Mariann Simon (Hungary): Thinking Atmosphere
discussion
CHAIR Esa Laaksonen
Joris Jakob Fach (Germany/Belgium): The Making of Muuratsalo’s Masterpiece
Jaime J. Ferrer Forés (Spain): Utzon in Muuratsalo
Jennifer M. Gamble (Australia): Realising Aalto: The Play of Muuratsalo
Eymen Homsi (Hong Kong): The sky-blue tiles of Muuratsalo
John Roberts (Australia): Shelter and outlook at Muuratsalo: using landscape to consider Aalto’s Experimental House
discussion
studia generalia
The organisers reserve the right to alter the programme.
