Architectural conference
THE NEXT STEP: PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 10.00 – 19.00
Cankarjev dom, Klub CD, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, in co-operation with Zavod ARK – the Institute for Architecture and Culture, and the Faculty of Architecture have organized a full-day international architectural conference, The Next Step: Project Architecture.
The central question of the conference is, whether today, in the time of globalised capitalism, it’s still possible to practice architecture as a practice of architectural transformation of reality. We have invited six renowned experts from home and abroad, from the fields of architecture and philosophy, to offer an approach to the question: Prof. Kenneth Frampton, Great Britain (Columbia University, New York), Prof. Dr. Luis Fernádez-Galiano, Spain (School of Architecture, Madrid University, editor of AV/Arquitectura Viva, Madrid), Prof. Dr. Rado Riha, Slovenia (Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art, Ljubljana), Dr. Pier Vittorio Aureli, Italy (Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, visiting professor at the Architectural Association, London), Doc. Dr. Petra Čeferin, Slovenia (Zavod ARK, visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana) and Dr. William Saunders, USA (Harvard University, editor of Harvard Design Magazine, Boston).
Read more at:
http://www.aml.si/fr/current-events/aktualno-1/dogodki-strani/architectural-conference.html
An interesting group of people, no doubt. But is the subject matter relevant to the majority of the profession? Most Architects in the UK (where I am) and worldwide build locally, very few of us build internationally.
Where globalisation does affect us in the construction industry, with different materials and products available from all over the world. Also the global labour supply, with skilled craftsmen from one country working in another. And of course the eternal wandering Architect, taking our design skills to which ever country has a construction boom.