Friday Aug 12, 2005
The conference venue is the main auditorium of the Jyväskylä University (designed by Alvar Aalto 1954-55).
09.00-10.00 Conference registration

10.00-10.05 Welcome | Esa Laaksonen
10.05-10.15 Introduction | Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
10.15-11.15 Lecture | Joan Ockman
The Postwar Synthesis of the Arts Discourse: Polemics and Counterpolemics from Groupe Espace to Unitary Urbanism
11.15-12.15 Lecture | Romy Golan
“In Corpore Vili": Italy and the concept of "Synthesis of the Arts"

12.15-14.15 Lunch

14.15-17.00 Paper Session I
Post-war Humanism and the “Synthesis of the Arts”
Moderator: Joan Ockman
· Albert Narath (USA) | “Sigfried Giedion, The Eternal Present, and the Search for a New Monumentality”
·Lucy Creagh (Australia) | “Asger Jorn and the ‘Apollo and Dionysus Debate’ 1946-48”
·Fernanda Fernandes (Brazil) | “Architecture in Brazil in the Second Postwar Period – the Synthesis of the Arts”
·Noit Banai (Israel) | “Rethinking Space, Re-siting the State: The project of Gelsenkirchen”
·Anu Koponen (Finland) | “Wall Painting in the Rhetoric and Practice Le Corbusier ”
14.15-17.00 Paper Session II
Neo-primitivism and the Mythopoetics of Space
Moderator: Juhani Pallasmaa
· Karin Jaschke (Germany) | “Aldo van Eyck: Architecture As/And Art”
· Rafi Segal (Israel) | “On Humanism and Abstraction - the Architecture of Alfred Neumann”
· Cathrine Veikos (USA) | “Lina Bo Bardi: Arquitetura Pobre”
· Smith, Elizabeth (USA) | “On Growth and forms; Biological Metaphors in Recent Art and Architecture”
· Lynnette Widder (USA) | “The ‘Darmstadt Conversation’: on the Reconstruction of Meaning and the Construction of Dwelling”
19.00- Welcome reception at Alvar Aalto Museum

Saturday Aug 13, 2005
The conference venue is the main auditorium of the Jyväskylä University (designed by Alvar Aalto 1954-55).
10.00-11.00 Lecture | Branden Joseph
Plastic Empathy, The Time of Mourning, and Robert Whitman’s Expanded Cinema
11.00-12.00 Lecture | Felicity Scott
Media Ecology

12.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.45 Paper Session III
The Lure of Technology: Media Effects
Moderator: Branden Joseph
· John Harwood (USA) | “THINK’ing the Information Machine: IBM and the Design of Computerized Discurse”
· Frank Weiner (USA) | “Images of Difference: Max Bill and Tomás Maldonado at the Hochschule für Gestaltung at Ulm and the relationship between praxis and poesis”
· Larry Busbea (USA) | “Ambient Object and the Semiotics of Space: The Integration of the Arts in France, c. 1965”
13.30-15.45 Paper Session IV
Counterculture and Anti-Aesthetics
Moderator: Felicity Scott
· Karen Olesen (Denmark) | “Random Aesthetic - a discussion on the works of Alison and Peter Smithson”
· Andres Kurg (Estonia) | “Official architecture, Unofficial Art”
· Vladimir Slapeta (Czech Republic) | “From Functionalism to Stalinism and Back – Architecture in Czechoslovakia 1945-1968”
· Stephen Walker (Britain) | “Accidentally Architecture: the Anarchitecture Group”

15.45-16.00 Break

16:00-18.15 Paper Session V
The Exhibition as Open Work
Moderator: Romy Golan
· Stephen Phillips (USA) | “Autonomic Vision: Frederick Kiesler’s Dream Machinations”
· Ross Jenner (New Zealand) | “Franco Albini, the Art of Suspension”
· Yoshihiro Hotta (Japan) | “Architecture as ‘Parergon’. On the relationship between the Sculpture and the Exhibition Space Designed by Aldo van Eyck”
· Joel Sanders (USA) | “Uncommon Ground: Artists, Architects and the Post-war Art Museum”
16.00-18.15 Paper Session VI
Artists and Architects: Collaborations
Moderators: Caroline Bos and Esa Laaksonen
· Aino Niskanen (Finland) | “Colorful Grids – can facades look like paintings? Architect-Artist collaborations in houses by the Finnish Constructivist”
· Dirk van den Heuvel (Holland) | Magic – The installations of Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi and Alison and Peter Smithson”
· John Ellis (USA) | “Shared Convictions: Isamu Noguchi and Louis I Kahn – The Levy Memorial Playground, Riverside Park, New York City”
· Michael Asgaard Andersen (Denmark) | “Articulated Convergences. Jorn Utzon’s Museum for Asger Jorn”
20.00- Evening party

Sunday Aug 14, 2005
The conference venue is the main auditorium of the Jyväskylä University (designed by Alvar Aalto 1954-55).
10.00-11.00 Lecture | Juhani Pallasmaa
Aesthetic and Existential Space - the Dialectics of Art and Architecture
11.00-12.00 Lecture | Caroline Bos
“Live it / Love it”
12.00-13.00 Closing Panel / Closing of the Conference
13.30-17.30 Field trip to the surroundings of Jyväskylä


[The organisers reserve the right to change the programme.]