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2010 Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium Schedule

Friday, August 27
Schools, Legacies, Pedagogical Change

James Law Auditorium, Schurman Hall


8:30 a.m. Coffee
9–9:30 a.m. Introduction / Welcome

Kent Kleinman, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University

Dagmar Richter, chair, Department of Architecture, Cornell University

Christian Otto, professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University

9:30–11 a.m. Architectural Design + Cultural Evolution 

Yehre Suh, moderator

 

"Architecture Education Between the Ivory Tower and the Streets"

Joan Ockman

 

"Coming to Know Architecture: Pedagogy and the Emergence of Contemporary Korean Architecture after the 1990s"
Hyungmin Pai

 

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Lunch break

12:30–3 p.m. A Legacy Reexamined 

 Arthur Ovaska, moderator

"Autonomy in Architecture and its Influence on Ungers' Pedagogy at Cornell"
Werner Goehner


William MacDonald

 

"Rome is in Rome No More: Notes on Colin Rowe's Pedagogical Bequest"
Sebastien Marot

3–3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30–5 p.m. Discussion

6 p.m. Rowe x Ungers opening reception in John Hartell Gallery

Saturday, August 28

Techniques and Theories

James Law Auditorium, Schurman Hall


8:30 a.m. Coffee
9–9:15 a.m. Introduction
9:15 a.m.–12 p.m. Design Techniques in the Studio

Kevin Pratt, moderator

 

"Crocheting Algorithms"

Gisela Baurmann

 

"Digital Agencies: Relearning Authorship in an Age of Variable Media"

Mario Carpo

 

"Infecting History: Computational Design and the Search for Historical Index"
Jöerg Gleiter

12–1:30 p.m. Lunch break
1:30–3 p.m. Theories of the Design Studio

Val Warke, moderator

 

"1: Whatever: The Collapse of Scalar Thinking"
Mark Morris


"The Historian's Dilemma: The Past is No Help, the Future No Guide"

Kurt Forster

 

"Re-reading "Theory" in an Untimely Way"

Anthony Vidler

3–3:30 p.m. Coffee
3:30–5 p.m. Discussion
6:30 p.m. Reception
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art