Next week will take place in Paris a pretty big event about architecture: Metaphors in/on architecture is a three days long (26 – 27 – 28 NOVEMBER 2009) symposium about architecture and urbanism theory and practice. It have been organised by Andri GERBER at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture who managed to invite more than twenty speakers from many backgrounds and country of origin like Ingeborg Rocker, Georges Teyssot, or Marcelyn Gow .
The main topics are :
-METAPHORS AS INSTRUMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE
-METAPHORS IN PROJECTS
-METAPHORS IN DISCOURSE
Following youl find the precise program:
Thursday 26.11.2009, Ecole Spéciale d’architecture de Paris
Metaphors as instruments of knowledge
Amphi Cinéma
13:00 – 13:30 Registration
13:30 – 14:30 Welcome by Odile Decq, Dean Ecole Spéciale d’architecture de Paris
Introduction, Andri Gerber, Ecole Spéciale d’architecture de Paris
14:30 – 15:00 Richard Coyne (The University of Edinburgh)
Calibrating Metaphors and Tuning Places
15:00 – 15:30 Holger Schurk (Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Winterthur)
Diagram, Plan, Metaphor
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Benedikte Zitouni (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Causality in urbanism : a new take on development or vital processes
16:30 – 17:00 Didier Fiuza Faustino (Bureau des Mesarchitectures, Paris)
“Only fiction can change the world”
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17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break
Amphi D
17:30 – 18:30 Round table
Chair: Andri Gerber, Chris Younés
Friday 27.11.2009, Ecole Spéciale d’architecture de Paris
Metaphors in projects
Amphi Cinéma
09:30 – 10:00 Résumé, Andri Gerber
10:00 – 10:30 Gernot Böhme (Darmstadt)
Metaphors in architecture – a metaphor?
10:30 – 11:00 Johannes Binotto (Universität Zürich)
My Home Is My Symptom. On the advantages of a disadvantaged architecture.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Bernardo Secchi (Università Iauv di Venezia)
A new urban question
12:00 – 12:30 Stephan Günzel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Universität Potsdam)
Video Games Spaces as Architectural Metaphors
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 François Roche (R&sie((N)) Paris)
Pour que la verité soit vertigineuse, elle doit choisir… d’avoir infiniment tort
14:30 – 15:00 Marcelyn Gow (S-E-R-V-O / KTH-ABE Stockholm)
Soft Monstrosities
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
Presentation in French:
15:30 – 16:00 Chris Younés (Ecole d’Architecture de Paris la Villette, Ecole Spéciale d’architecture de Paris)
Ambiguïtés métaphoriques
16:00 – 16:30 Philippe Boudon (École d’Architecture de Paris la Villette)
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
Amphi D
17:00 – 18:00 Round table (French/English)
Chair : Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson
18:00 Reception
Saturday 28.11.2009, Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art
Metaphors in discourse
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome, by Andreas Beyer, Director Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art
Résumé, Andri Gerber
10:30 – 11:00 Matteo Burioni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Terminology, theory of metaphors and theory of language, from Alberti to Vignola
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30 Susanne Hauser (Universität der Künste Berlin)
Skin: a sensitive shell, an interface
12:30 – 13:00 Caroline Van Eck, (Universiteit Leiden)
The metaphor of the living building
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 Elisabeth Bronfen, (Universität Zürich)
Remains of War: Battlefields, Ruins, and the Trick of Commemoration
15:00 – 15:30 Georges Teyssot (Université Laval, Québec, QC, Ca.)
Crystal, Dust, Grass. Metaphors for an Entropic Landscape
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Ingeborg Rocker (Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)
Similarity and Dissimilars: Metaphors Informing Architecture
16:30 – 17:00 Jelle Feringa (TU Delft)
The Promotion of the Architectural Model
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 18:30 Round table
Chair : Andri Gerber, Andreas Beyer, Johannes Binotto
Contact registration : Amina Chady / achady@esa-paris.fr / T : 00 33 1 40 47 40 24 / F : 0033 1 43 22 81 16
École spéciale d’architecture 254 boulevard Raspail 75014 PARIS T: 01 40 47 40 47
http://www.esa-paris.fr info@esa-paris.fr M° Raspail lignes 4 et 6 RER Denfert-Rochereau ligne B
