The Architectural Association is pleased to host the 8th AHRA Research Student Symposium. The one–day event will provide a platform for PhD candidates to discuss work in progress. The Symposium’s aim is to promote critical debate among presenters, respondents and the audience. The event will conclude with a lecture by Elia Zenghelis.
PROGRAMME
10.30 Coffee – Registration
10.50 Welcome, Dr Marina Lathouri
11.00–12.30 Session 1
11.00–11.20 Iris Lycourioti, University of Thessaly – N.T.U.A., Greece
Anti-Form: When is space fleeting contigency to see you?
11.20–11.40 Orsalia Dimitriou, Goldsmiths
Public/ Squatted/ Autonomous/ Municipal/ Common Space
11.40–12.00 Amir Djalali, Berlage Institute – T.U. Delft
A Grammar of Common Space
12.00–12.30 Discussion
12.30 Lunch break
1.30–3.00 Session 2
1.30–1.50 Maros Krivy, University of Helsinki
Between planning and non-planning: Use of Culture in transformation of obsolete industrial Space
1.50–2.10 Vilmos Katona, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Regionalism Reloaded
2.10–2.30 Karita Ching-Yeung Kan, Oxford University
Architecture of Show and Control: the spectacular and the vernacular in Chinese cities
2.30–3.00 Discussion
3.00–3.20 Coffee break
3.20–4.50 Session 3
3.20–3.40 Maria S. Guidici, Berlage Institute, The Netherlands
Commonplaces: Rethinking the Architecture of the Street
3.40–4.00 Eva Eylers, AA
The Modern Medical Institution and its Role within the City
4.00–4.20 Ross Adams, London Consortium
‘Validad’ and the Total State: Theological Foundations in the Construction of Liberal Universality
4.20–4.50 Discussion
4.50–5.10 Coffee break
5.10–5.30 Concluding Remarks, Dr Marina Lathouri
5.30–6.30 Keynote Lecture, Elia Zenghelis