Saturday, April 16, 2005
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
A presentation of selected papers by candidates from international doctoral programs based on dissertation research in areas related to American architecture, landscape, and urbanism, with scholarly commentary and discussion.
10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks
Robin Middleton, Columbia University
Marc Treib, UC Berkley
10:15 - 1:30 Transformations of Professional and Educational Institutions
George B. Johnson, Emory University, "Educating Draftsmen: The Manual Training Movement and American Architectural Education"
Lucia Gabriela Santa Ana Lozada, National Autonomous University of Mexico, "Revolution's Institutionalization: Functionalism in Mexican Architecture, 1930-1940"
Avigail Sachs, UC Berkley, "Bringing "Environmental" to Design: The Founding of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkley"
David Monteyne, University of Minnesota, "Prizewinning Protection: Competitions and Awards for Buildings with Fallout Shelters"
Response: Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University
1:30 - 3:15 Technology, Culture, Architecture
Timothy Hyde, Harvard Graduate School of Design, "Point of View: The Mimetic Regionalism of Jose Luis Sert"
Alexandra Lange, New York University, "The Plowmen's Palace: Shaking Off the Rust at Deere & Company"
John Harwood, Columbia University, "Un-Architecture" Charles Eames and the Computer"
Response: Alan Colquhoun, Princeton University
3:15 - 5:00 Modernist Ideologies and the Urban Future
David Smiley, Princeton University, "Unpacking the Superblock"
Jeannie Kim, Princeton University, "C.A. Doxiadis and the Global Inevitable Future"
Filip Geerts, Delft University of Technology, "Airplane, Airport, City, Territory - or the Question: Where to Land?"
Concluding Discussion: 5:00
Followed by a reception.