Architecture and the Political
Fourth International Symposium on Architectural Theory

Program

Day 1: Thursday Nov 10, 2011 @ the Lebanese American University

9:00	Registration
9:30	Welcome Note/ Introduction
10:00	Keynote Speaker
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–12:30	Session 1
12:30–2:00	Lunch Break
2:00–3:30	Session 2
3:30–5:00	Session 3
5:00–5:30	Coffee Break
5:30–7:00	Session 4

Keynote Speech:

David Cunningham
Metropolitics and the ‘Emblematic Significance’ of Architecture

Session 1

Libero Andreotti – Politicizing History: The International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus

Graham Cairns – Imaging the Political Through Architecture

Xavier Costa – Moments and Situations

Session 2

Donald Kunze – Four Concepts of Virtuality to Reconstruct the Civic in Architecture

Lidia Klein – From Postpolitical to Agonistic: Warsaw Urban Space since 1989

Michał Murawski – The Scale of Ideology in Post-Political Warsaw

Session 3

Uta Gelbke – Urban Zero Points - Re-politicizing El Raval

Georgios Karatzas – The making of the historic core of the Greek capital city

Session 4

Adrià Carbonell – Towards a Political Urbanism: Architecture and Democratic Objectives

Zehra Tonbul – Politics of Renovation: Urban Regeneration: The Case of Tarlabaşı, İstanbul

Francesco Marullo – Notes on Generic Architecture

 

Day 2: Friday Nov 11, 2011 @ the Beirut Art Center

12:00–1:30	Lunch
1:30–3:00	Session 5
3:00–4:00	Coffee Break
4:00–6:00	Session 6<
6:00–7:00	Symposium Conclusion/ Round Table Discussion

Session 5

Nadir Lahiji – Is Building the Practice of Dissensus? Architecture Between Aesthetics and Politics

Kimberly Sims – The Subject as Object: Reification and Design in the Age of the Post-Political

Kenton Card – Between Ethical and Police Architects: Interpreting an Ethnography on Ethical Architects with Rancière’s Politics

Session 6

Dorita Hannah – Constructing Barricades: Politics of the Event and ‘Weak Architecture’

Beshir Kenzari – Those who had no part

Koen Van Synghel – Bylex’ Tourist City or Utopia as the Prefiguration of Architecture & Politics

Aurel von Richthofen – Muscat Capital Area - Urbanism at the intersection of politics and space

Registration

Registration will take place during the first day of the symposium. There is no online registration. Registration fees for the symposium will be covered by the hosting institution, the Lebanese American University. Airline and Hotel reservations and fees should be arranged individually by the particpants, at their own expense.

Extra activities

A One-day optional excursion will be organized [Destination: Baalbek or Tyre] on Saturday November 12.

Approximate cost: 75$/person [including Transportation, Admission Fees, and Lunch].