Architectural conference
THE NEXT STEP: PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Cankarjev dom, Klub CD, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, in co-operation with Zavod ARK the Institute for Architecture and Culture, and the Faculty of Architecture University of Ljubljana have organised a full-day international architectural conference, The Next Step: Project Architecture.
The central question of the conference is, whether today, in the time of globalised capitalism, its still possible to practice architecture as a project; that is, as a practice of architectural transformation of reality. We have invited six renowned experts from home and abroad, from the fields of architecture and philosophy, to explore the significance of this question for the moment; to offer an approach to the question: Prof. Kenneth Frampton (Great Britain), Prof. Dr. Luis Fernádez-Galiano (Spain), Prof. Dr. Rado Riha (Slovenia), Dr. Pier Vittorio Aureli (Italy), Doc. Dr. Petra Čeferin (Slovenia) and Dr. William S. Saunders (USA).
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, More and More about Less and Less: Towards a Non-figurative Architectural Language
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ph.D., is an architect. He teaches architecture at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and is a visiting professor at the Architectural Association in London. Together with Martino Tattara, Aureli is the cofounder of DOGMA, a collective carrying out architectural and urban projects and studies on the city. In 2006 they received the first Iakov Chernikov Prize for Young Architects. In his theoretical work Aureli focuses on the relationship between architectural form, political theory, and urban history. He is the author of the book The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism (2008) and is currently working on his next book a study on architectural form from Bramante to Koolhaas entitled The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture.
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Petra Čeferin, Project Architecture
Doc. Petra Čeferin, Ph.D., is an architect and director of Zavod ARK-Institute for Architecture and Culture. She is the author of the exhibition and book Constructing a Legend: The International Exhibitions of Finnish Architecture 19571967 (2003), co-editor (with Cvetka Požar) of the book and lecture series Architectural Epicentres: Inventing Architecture, Intervening in Reality (2008); and the author of several critical articles and essays on architecture. She is a recipient of the Bruno Zevi Prize for critical-historical essays on architecture (2008). She is currently working on her next book that deals with the question of the possibility of architecture as a creative practice in the age of global capitalism.
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Luis Fernández-Galiano
Prof. Luis Fernández-Galiano, Ph.D., is an architect, is Professor at the School of Architecture of Madrids Universidad Politécnica, and editor of the journals AV/Arquitectura Viva. A member of the Royal Academy of Doctors, he has been Cullinan Professor at Rice, Franke Fellow at Yale, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center and a visiting critic at Princeton, Harvard and the Berlage Institute. He served as President of the jury in the 9th Venice and the XV Chile architecture biennials, expert and juror of the Mies Award, and has curated the exhibitions El espacio privado in Madrid and Extreme Eurasia in Tokyo. Among his books are La Quimera Moderna (1989), Fire and Memory (MIT Press, 1991), Spain Builds (with MoMA, 2005) and Atlas, Global Architecture circa 2000 (2007).
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Kenneth Frampton, Architecture in the Age of Globalisation
Prof. Kenneth Frampton is an architect, architectural historian and critic of contemporary and modern architecture. He is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Columbia University in New York, and the author of a number of highly influential critical articles, essays and books on architecture, including: Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980; revised editions 1985,1992 and 2007); Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (1995, 1996); Labour, Work and Architecture: Collected Essays on Architecture and Design (2002); and The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account (2007).
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Rado Riha, Architecture and Philosophy Today
Prof. Rado Riha, Ph.D., is a philosopher, senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Art, and professor at the post-graduate study programme of the University of Nova Gorica. His research topics include ethics, epistemology, contemporary French philosophy, the psychoanalysis of J. Lacan, and the philosophy of I. Kant. He is the author of numerous publications, including: "Seeing the revolution, seeing the subject", Parallax (2003); "Politics as the real of philosophy", in: Laclau: a critical reader (2004); "Kommunismus als Gemeinschaft 'für alle'", in: Indeterminate! Kommunismus: Texte zu Ökonomie, Politik und Kultur (2005) (together with J. Šumič-Riha).
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William S. Saunders, Everything is compromised, yet much is rewarding
William S. Saunders, Ph.D., is Founding Editor of Harvard Design Magazine at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the author of Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller (1990) and editor of several books including Urban Design (with Alex Krieger); Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability (2008); The New Architectural Pragmatism (2007); Judging Architectural Value (2007); Urban Planning Today (2006); Sprawl and Suburbia (2005); and Commodification and Spectacle in Architecture (2005), as well as articles on Rem Koolhaass writing, judgment of architecture, Christopher Alexanders writing, and poetry of the 1960s and 1970s. _______________________________________
APPLICATION AND RESERVATION
Attendance at the conference is free of charge; advance applications available at www.aml.si. Registration conditional on availability. Completed application forms should be sent to: infobio(at)aml.si; or by fax, to: 00386 1 540 03 44. For additional information, please contact the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, infobio(at)aml.si, or 00386 1 540 03 46/48.
The conference will be held in English.
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Arhitekturni muzej Ljubljana, Pot na Fužine 2, Ljubljana, T: 01 540 97 98, 01 540 03 46, F: 01 540 03 44, E: aml@aml.si
