I would like to attend to the meetings
Meetings:
13, 14 et 15 october 2004
Centre de conférences, Orléans
Open to the public
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Introduction
ArchiLab 2004 “The Naked City” is more a presentation of issues, themes and programs to be worked on in the near future than a mere presentation of projects. The exhibition is built out of clusters of presentations by architects that revolve around those themes that will be discussed and deepened out in the symposium. Over the last decades, the context in which architecture operates has drastically changed. Globalization, individualization, a radically increased mobility and new technologies in the fields of communication and production produce new tasks and opportunities for architects to work with. In a similar way the first generation of Modernists of the early twentieth century started to investigate the metropolis, architects investigate the contemporary city today and try to come up with new methods and strategies for its organization and design. Each panel will be introduced and moderated by a leading architectural critic or theorician. Critics: Bart Lootsma, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Sanford Kwinter, Bruno Latour (to be confirmed), Lars Lerup, Antonino Saggio, Roemer van Toorn
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Wednesday 13 October
The Changing Context
9.45 a.m.: Meetings opening
10 a.m.-12.30 p.m.: “The Naked City”
Bart Lootsma (NL)
Architecture becomes a place in the city. However, what we used to call the “city” has changed into vast urban fields that are subject to an unprecedented dynamics. The radically increased mobility of individuals and whole populations produces new relationships between parts of the city, cities among each other and between the individuals that inhabit them. This panel brings together a group of architects that has started to investigate the city again and focuses on methods of urban research.
Wilfried Hou Je Bek (NL), Boris Sieverts (D), Nick West (GB), MUST
(NL), Diego Barajas (COL), Raumtaktik (D)
2.30-4 p.m.: Heterotopias
Roemer van Toorn (NL)
In the contemporary city a multitude of different groups and organizations exist next to each other. On the one hand this leads to the incredible richness of what Roemer van Toorn calls The Society of the And but it also leads also to social tensions and segregation. How do architecture and urbanism deal with these phenomena?
Belcher & Slaughter {PHAT} (USA), ON/Stalker – Osservatorio
Nomade (I), Teddy Cruz (USA), Eyal Weizman & Anselm Franke (IL), Wim
Cuyvers/Marc de Blieck (F/B), Bas Princen (NL)
4-6 p.m.: New Technologies
Bart Lootsma (NL)
Architecture has always reflected upon and reacted to the rise of new technologies. Over the last ten years or so, architecture has been mainly concerned with new methods of design and production based on the latest in computer technology. However, computer technology has also produced new forms of communication and organization. Biotechnology has changed the way we see nature. It suddenly appears as something that can be designed. At the same time, almost without us realizing it, biotechnology changes the landscape on a global scale. This panel discusses the risks and opportunities that are hidden in these new technologies.
MVRDV (NL), Stealth Group (NL), EZCT (F), Zbigniew Oksiuta (PL/D), Petra Gemeinboeck (A), Knowbotic Research (CH)
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Thursday 14 October
New Strategies
10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Urbanism
Lars Lerup (NL)
Even in our highly individualized society there are collective risks to deal with and opportunities and desires to realize. At the same time the public realm is desintegrating and losing its traditional power. The new dymanics of the city asks for new methods of organization and control. What will be the role of urbanism in the near future and how will it be embedded in a new public realm?
Michael Bell (USA), Chora/Raoul Bunschoten (NL/GB), Stefano Boeri
(I), Philipp Oswalt (D), Andrew Sturm (USA), BAR (D)
2-4 p.m.: The Power of Form
Philippe Morel (F)
New techniques for computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing enabled the development of a new formal vocabulary. Pioneers in this field are highly praised within the professional field of architecture. However, within the dynamics of the contemporary city discussed before: what are the power and performance of this new formal vocabulary?
Evan Douglis (USA), Périphériques (F), Weichlbauer/Ortis
(A), Xefirotarch/Hernan Diaz Alonso (USA)
4-6 p.m.: Critical teaching
After organizing exhibitions of work by students, and schools of architecture in France and abroad, accompanied by publications, at the FRAC Centre in 2001 and 2002, as part of associated events, ArchiLab is for the first time inviting representatives from schools of architecture for these three days of meetings, so as to encourage exchanges between these schools and ArchiLab, between an emerging generation of architects and their teachers.
Coordination: Béatrice Simonot, representative from the Paris-Val de Seine School of Architecture.
Steering committee: Philippe Bataille, director of the Nantes School of Architecture; Marnix Bonnike, deputy director in charge of development, Lille School of Architecture; Hugues Fontenas, teacher, Paris- Val de Seine School of Architecture; Christian Girard, architect and teacher, Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture; Elodie Nourrigat, architect and teacher, Montpellier School of Architecture; Richard Scoffier, architect and teacher, in charge of communications, Versailles School of Architecture; Laurence Cassegrain, assistant director, Sub-Department of Teaching and Architectural and Urban Research at the Department of Architecture and Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Communications.
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Friday 15 October
10 am: summary of discussions
11 am: lecture by Andrea Branzi