Critical Architecture
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
26-27 November 2004

'Critical Architecture' is the second international conference on architectural research to be organised by Dr Jane Rendell (Director of Architectural Research) and Dr Jonathan Hill (Director of the PhD by Architectural Design) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. This year's conference is held in association with AHRA (Architecture Humanities Research Association) represented for this event by Dr Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh) and Prof Murray Fraser (University of Westminster).

'Critical Architecture' would like to acknowledge and thank the British Academy and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL for their financial support.

Critical Architecture is not a bookable event. It will operate on a first come first served basis. The event will be held in several rooms in the Bartlett/UCL (see timetable), each of which hold different numbers of people. G02 (86), Room 101 (58), The Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1 (346) and the Chemistry Auditorium (325)


DAY 1
Friday 26 November
Rooms G02 & 101
Wates House
22 Gordon Street
London WC!H OQB
[ location map ]

Introduction
9.30am-9.50am Room G02
Dr Jane Rendell and Dr Jonathan Hill
Prof Murray Fraser and Dr Mark Dorrian for AHRA

Criticism, Negation, Action
10.00am-11.30am Session 1, G02
Chair: Dr Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh

Andrew Leach, Ghent University and Wellington Institute of Technology
'Critical Practice and the Plan: Tafuri and l'Architetti e Urbanisti Associati'
[ abstract ]

Dr David Cunningham, University of Westminster
'Architecture As Critical Knowledge'
[ abstract ]

Dr Teresa Stoppani, University of Greenwich
'Unfinished Business: The Historical Project after Manfredo Tafuri'
[ abstract ]

The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture
10.00am-11.30am Session 1, 101
Chair: Prof Murray Fraser, University of Westminster

Prof Elisabeth Tostrup, Oslo School of Architecture
'A Critical Architectural Icon and its Contextual Argumentation'
[ abstract ]

Dr Charles Rice, University of New South Wales
'Putting the Critic Out of Work: Architecture's Adoption of Experience'
[ abstract ]

Dr Jianfei Zhu, University of Melbourne
'The Opening of a Critical Architectural Space in Contemporary China'
[ abstract ]

11.30am-11.45am Break

Architecture-Writing
11.45am-1.15pm Session 1, G02
Chair: Dr Jane Rendell, The Bartlett, UCL

Igea Troiani, HAPPENinc.
'A Critical Architectural Documentary?'
[ abstract ]

Robin Wilson, The Bartlett, UCL
'The Garden of Suzuki: Architectural Photography and Utopic Criticism'
[ abstract ]

Dr Katja Grillner, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
'Writing Architecture Out of Focus'
[ abstract ]

Criticism by Design
11.45am-1.15pm Session 1, 101
Chair: Dr Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett, UCL

Dr Tim Anstey, The KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
'Alberti, Authority and Authorship'
[ abstract ]

Dr Victoria Watson, University of Westminster
'On Drawing, Drawing Forth, Designs and Ideas'
[ abstract ]

Dr Stephen Cairns, University of Edinburgh
'Post-medium Diagrams and the Urban Edge'
[ abstract ]

1.15pm-2.15pm Lunch for presenters and chairs, Room G19

Criticism, Negation, Action
2.30pm-4.00pm Session 2, Room 101
Chair: Dr Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh

Dr Naomi Stead, University of Technology, Sydney
'Criticism in/and/of Crisis: The Australian Context'
[ abstract ]

Dr Maria Theodorou, Head of Architecture Network, Athens
'Critical Activism: the Athens' Experiment'
[ abstract ]

Daniel Barber, Yale University, School of Architecture
'Militant Architecture: Towards an Architectural Culture of the Environment'
[ abstract ]

Criticism by Design
2.30pm-4.00pm Session 2, G02
Chair: Dr Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett, UCL

Igor Marjanovic, Iowa State University
'Cheerful Chats: Alvin Boyarsky's Vision of Critical Architecture'
[ abstract ]

Dr Penelope Haralambidou, The Bartlett, UCL
'The Fall: The Allegorical Architectural Project as a Critical Method'
[ abstract ]

Katarina Bonnevier, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
'Out of the Salon'
[ abstract ]

4.00am-4.15am Break

The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture
4.15pm-5.45pm Session 2, Room G02
Chair: Prof Murray Fraser, University of Westminster

Gini Lee, University of South Australia
'Degrees of Containment: Mobile Architectures and Altered Contexts'
[ abstract ]


Ana Betancour, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
'The Responsive City: a City of Direct Action and Civil Disobedience'
[ abstract ]


Dr Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Ganit Mayslits Kassif, Ehud Kassif, Technion & Mayslits Kassif Architects
'Neuland: Disenchanted Utopia(s) in Tel Aviv'
[ abstract ]

Architecture-Writing
4.15pm-5.45pm Session 2, 101
Chair: Dr Jane Rendell, The Bartlett, UCL

Dr Rolf Hughes, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
'Writing Hybrids: Creative and Critical Writing in/as Design'
[ abstract ]

Laura Ruggeri, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
'Abstract Tours. The Poetics of Urban Inscription: Abstract Dérives as Rhetorical Strategy'
[ abstract]

Paul Shepheard, freelance writer and lecturer, London
'Critical Action and Active Criticism'
[ abstract ]

Keynote Lecture: Prof Hal Foster, University of Princeton
6.30pm Lecture Theatre 1, Cruciform Building, UCL
Introduction: Prof Adrian Forty, The Bartlett, UCL
[ location map ]

8.00pm Dinner Invited Speakers


DAY 2
Saturday 27 November
Chemistry Auditorium, UCL
20 Gordon Street
(next door to the Bartlett)
[ location map ]

Introduction
9.00am-9.30am
Dr Jane Rendell and Dr Jonathan Hill
Prof Murray Fraser/Dr Mark Dorrian for AHRA

Criticism, Negation and Action
9.30am-11.30am
Chair: Dr Mark Dorrian, University of Edinburgh
Prof Andrew Benjamin, University of Sydney
Dr Hilde Heynen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Prof Eyal Weizman, Academy of Arts Vienna

11.30am-11.45am Break

Architecture-Writing
11.45am-1.15pm
Chair: Dr Jane Rendell, The Bartlett, UCL
Prof Howard Caygill, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Patrick Keiller, Royal College of Art, London
Dr Sharon Kivland, Reader in Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University.

1.15pm-2.15pm Lunch For presenters and chairs, G02

Criticism by Design
2.30pm-4.00pm
Chair: Dr Jonathan Hill, The Bartlett, UCL
Prof Philippe Rahm, Architect, Décosterd and Rahm,
ECAL University of Art and Design of Lausanne
Prof Ben Nicholson, IIT, Chicago

4.00pm-4.15pm Break

The Cultural Context of Critical Architecture
4.15pm-6.15pm
Chair: Prof Murray Fraser, University of Westminster
Prof Kim Dovey, University of Melbourne
Steve McAdam, Architect, Fluid, London.
Prof Sarah Wigglesworth, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects &
University of Sheffield

Final Discussion
6.15- 6.45pm
Responses/Questions from the floor

6.45pm Drinks for presenters and chairs, G02