Friday, May 4th, 2012
6:30pm-8pm KEYNOTE LECTURE
The Non-West In A Non-Global World
MARK JARZOMBEK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology



Saturday, May 5th, 2012
9:30am-10am Coffee and Breakfast

10am-11:30am
MODERNIST TRANSPLANTATION
Respondent: IJLAL MUZAFFAR, Rhode Island School of Design
Chair: ALEXANDRA QUANTRILL, Columbia University

'Oil Slick': Middle Eastern Economy and Late-Modern Aesthetics
MICHAEL KUBO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Habitat in the Tropical Humid Zone
YETUNDE OLAIYA, Princeton University

City-Nation-World: Space in Paris, the 1920s
ANNA VALLYE, Philadelphia Museum of Art

11:45am-1pm
PEDAGOGY
Respondent: ESRA AKCAN, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chair: DIANA MARTINEZ, Columbia University

From Mobility to Monumentality: Pilgrimage and the Historiography of a Global Architecture
CHRISTIAN A. HEDRICK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Curtain and the Mirror: Reflections on the Reenchantment with Post-War Socialist Modernism
EVANGELOS KOTSIORIS, Princeton University

1pm-2pm Lunch

2pm-3:30pm
VIOLENCE
Respondent: ANDREW HERSCHER, University of Michigan
Chair: GINGER NOLAN, Columbia University

Broken Homes: Destruction, Politics, and Aboriginal Housing in Australia
HELEN GYGER, Columbia University

Debris and Decay: Disappearances in the Colonial Encounter of 1857
ATEYA KHORAKIWALA, Harvard University

Expressions of a Humanitarian-Industrial Complex: Spatial Politics and Architecture Culture at Dadaab
ANOO SIDDIQI, New York University Institute of Fine Arts

3:45pm-5pm
MATERIALITY AND IDEOLOGY
Respondent: MABEL WILSON, Columbia University
Chair: CHRIS COWELL, Columbia University

Restoring Pre-Western America: Contemporary Aesthetics of Mesoamerican Built Heritage
IGOR DEMCHENKO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Re-Orienting Contextualism: Rem Koolhaas in Agadir
AMIN ALSADEN, Harvard University

5pm-5:30pm Wine and Cheese

5:30pm-7pm Closing Panel
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON ARCHITECTURAL PEDAGOGY WITH THE PANEL MODERATORS, CONFEREES, AND AUDIENCE

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