The Living Memory of Cities

International Conference

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This international two-day conference brings together some the main authors, architects and scholars on the “living memory” that are cities and on the lasting nature of our intervention at the urban scale.

Simultaneous Interpreting available in all sessions


SPEAKERS

Alexandra Stara is Associate Professor and Reader in the History and Theory of Architecture at Kingston University London.

Alberto Pérez-Gómez is Saidye Rosner-Bronfmann Chair in Architectural History and Theory at McGill University.

Álvaro Siza Vieira is a Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate.

Christian Frost is Professor and Head of Architecture at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design in London.

Dagmar Motycka Weston is Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh.

Daniel Libeskind is the founder with Nina Libeskind of Studio Daniel Libeskind, with offices in New York and Zurich.

David Leatherbarrow is Professor and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture and the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Eric Parry, of the Royal Academy, is a British architect with offices in London and Singapore.

Gabriele Bryant is a German architectural historian with a PhD by the University of Cambridge.

Helena Roseta is a Portuguese architect and politician, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty (Portugal) and the 'Pro Merito' Medal of the Council of Europe.

Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira are the recipients of the AICA Award 2015, founders of SAMI-Arquitectos and Professors at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa.

João Luís Carrilho da Graça, recipient of the RIBA International Fellowship, is a Portuguese architect with offices in Lisbon.

João Mendes Ribeiro is a Portuguese architect and professor at the University of Coimbra.

José Manuel Fernandes is Professor of History of Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon.

José Neves is a university professor and founder of José Simões Neves, Gabinete de Arquitectura, lda., with offices in Lisbon.

Mohsen Mostafavi is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design and Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University.

Nicholas Temple is Professor of Architecture and Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability of the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield.

Nuno Mateus and José Mateus are the founders of ARX Portugal, with offices in Lisbon.

Patrick Lynch, PhD, is founder of Lynch Architects and an Honorary Professor at The University of Liverpool School of Architecture.

Ricardo Carvalho is the founder of Ricardo Carvalho Architects & Associates with offices in Lisbon.

Rut Blees Luxemburg is a visual artist, Reader in Urban Aesthetics and Senior Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art.

Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, recipients of the RIAI Gold Medal and the Royal Gold Medal, are Irish architects with offices in Dublin, Cork and London.

Stephen Witherford is with Christopher Watson and William Mann, the founding director of Witherford Watson Mann with offices in London.

Vivien Lovell is the founder of Modus Operandi Art Consultants with offices in London.

Werner Oechslin, Professor at the ETH Zurich (Emeritus), is founder of the Werner Oechslin Library Foundation.

William Mann is with Stephen Witherford and Christopher Watson, the founding director of Witherford Watson Mann with offices in London.

 

CHAIRS

Ana Vaz Milheiro is Assistant Professor (with Habilitation) at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon and architectural critic of the newspaper Público.

António Guerreiro is the editor of Electra magazine and writes for the newspaper Público.

Jorge Figueira is an architect and holds a PhD by the University of Coimbra, where he also teaches History and Theory of Architecture. He writes for the newspaper Público.


Programme

Auditorium 2

10:00  Opening session

 

10:30  Coffee break

 

The Depths of the City
Chair: David Leatherbarrow

11:00   Continuity and Succession in ‘Renovatio Urbis’
Nicholas Temple

11:30   ‘Urbanitas’
Werner Oechslin

12:00   Lisboa
João Luís Carrilho da Graça

12:30  Q&A Panel

 

13:00  Lunch

 

Parallel sessions

Auditorium 2

Memory and the Continuity of Place
Chair: Ricardo Carvalho

14:00   The Lesson of the Vine: a public art work in Leiwen
Rut Blees Luxemburg

14: 30   Memória e Lugar
Inês Vieira da Silva e Miguel Vieira

15:00   Memória e Continuidade: entre as bad new things e as good old ones
José Neves

15:30  Q&A Panel

 

Room 1

Architecture, Tradition and History
Chair: Jorge Figueira

14:00   Architecture, Festival, and Tradition in Contemporary Florence
Christian Frost

14:30   Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas: A cidade dentro da cidade
João Mendes Ribeiro

15:00   City and Room – The ancients and their ‘pitiful cellular psychology’
Stephen Witherford

15:30  Q&A Panel

 

16:00  Coffee break

 

Auditorium 2

The Art of Urban Memory
Chair: Christian Frost

16:30   Kinetics of the Street
Eric Parry

17:00   Art and memory in the public spaces of the city
Vivien Lovell

17:30   Pontes no Porto
Álvaro Siza Vieira

18:00  Q&A Panel


The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation reserves the right to collect and keep records of images, sounds and voice during the conference ‘The Living Memories of Cities’, for the diffusion and collective preservation of the memory of its cultural and artistic activity. For further information, please contact us at [email protected].

Auditorium 2

Participating in the City
Chair:  António Guerreiro

10:00   Form and identity in the living city
O’Donnell + Tuomey

10:30   Whole Parts: urban architecture, in and out of scale
David Leatherbarrow

 

11:00   Coffee break

 

11:30   The Architectural Façade as Part of the Scenographic Setting for Civic Life
Dagmar Motycka Weston

12:00   Architecture as Urban Space: The Imperative of Participation
Alberto Pérez-Gómez

12:30   Q&A Panel

 

13:00   Coffee break

 

Parallel sessions

Auditorium 2

Architecture and the Renovation of the City
Chair:  David Leatherbarrow

14:00   The city as reenactment
Alexandra Stara

14:30   Tudo é a Matéria Prima
Ricardo Carvalho

15:00   Civic Ground in The City of Westminster
Patrick Lynch

15:30   Q&A Panel

 

Room 1

Time and Contemporary Practice
Chair: Ana Vaz Milheiro

14:00   Untimely Buildings
William Mann

14:30   The Matter of Time: On the Alchemy of History in Modern Architecture
Gabriele Bryant

15:00   O Diálogo dos Tempos
Nuno Mateus and José Mateus

15:30   Q&A Panel

 

16:00   Coffee break

 

Auditorium 2

Building the Public Realm
Chair: Eric Parry

16:30   Collective Memory
Mohsen Mostafavi

17:00   A cidade desigual
Helena Roseta

17:30   Nova Oeiras Neighbourhood Unit, a modern urban settlement of 1950-60s Portugal
José Manuel Fernandes

18:00   Building Memory
Daniel Libeskind

18:30   Q&A Panel & Conclusion of the proceedings


The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation reserves the right to collect and keep records of images, sounds and voice during the conference ‘The Living Memories of Cities’, for the diffusion and collective preservation of the memory of its cultural and artistic activity. For further information, please contact us at [email protected].

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