Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
European Architectural History Network (EAHN)

International Conference, Zurich

June 26, 2008 - June 29, 2008

Transfer and Metamorphosis

Architectural Modernity between Europe and the Americas 1870 - 1970

All lectures and sessions take place at ETH Zürich Main Campus, Rämistrasse 101, Zurich Rooms HG F3 / HG D1.1 / HG D1.2 / HG D3.2

Presentations will be given in English

Registration is required via website or on location
www.transferandmetamorphosis.org

An open meeting of the European Architectural History Network will take place Friday, June 27, 4:45 pm, HG D3.2.

Programm:

Thursday, June 26, 2008

6:30 pm, Keynote
Marcel Meili, eth  Zürich, Switzerland: The Hidden Dimension: The Americanization of Work, 1970–2008

Friday, June 27, 2008

9:30am – 10:15am, Keynote: Carol McMichael Reese, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Thomas F. Reese, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA: Shaping Metropolitan Modernity: Latin America Between Europe and the United States, 1870–1970

10:30am – 1:00pm Session No1

Session Chair: Werner Oechslin, ETH  Zürich, Switzerland
Respondent: Nancy Stieber, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

• Sonja Hildebrand, ETH Zürich, Switzerland: Curjel & Moser Architects, Henry Hobson Richardson's Modern Romanesque and the Development of "Natural" Modernism
• Mary Pepchinski, Hochschule für Technik und Wissenschaft, Dresden, Germany: European Models, American Inventions, National Responses: The Feminine Pavilion, 1876–1938
• Katherine Wheeler, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA: Influences and Exchanges in Architectural Education Between Britain and America c. 1870–1915
• Monika Holzer-Kernbichler, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria: "America" in Vienna: The Presence of Ideas in Viennese Architectural Discussions around 1900
• Ian Morley, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China: Exporting-Importing Modernity: The United States, Britain, and the City Beautiful

Response and discussion

10:30am – 1:00pm Session No 2

Session Chair: Rob Dettingmeijer, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Respondent: Carol McMichael Reese and Thomas F. Reese, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA

• Anat Fallbel, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil: Gregori Warchavchik and Wladomiro Acosta: Two "in the multiplicity of a diaspora of an exile with no return"
• André Tavares, Porto, Portugal: The Colorful Traps of Theory
• Viviana d'Auria, KU Leuven, Belgium: De-constructing Caracas: Exploring Cultures of Modernization During the Post-Petroleum Boom [1945-1958]
• Helen Gyger, Columbia University, New York, USA: The Reeducation of a Professional: John F. C. Turner and the Development of Self-Help Housing in Peru
• Joana Mello de Carvalho e Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil: Contributions of Foreign Architects to the Metropolitanization of the City of São Paulo between 1930 and 1960Response and discussion

2:30pm – 4:20pm Session No3

Session Chair: Mardges Bacon, Northeastern University, Boston, usa
Respondent: Stanislaus von Moos, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland

• Kent Kleinman, Parsons, The New School, New York, USA: Why Muschenheim?
• Anke Köth, TU Dresden, Germany: Cloistered Atmosphere and the Cathedral of Learning: American Collegiate Architecture During the 1920s and 1930s
• Katrin Eberhard, ETH Zürich, Switzerland: American Comfort in European Homes: Technological Transfer and the Architecture of Habitation 1900–1920
• Hilde Heynen, ku Leuven, Belgium: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and Germany: Architectural Debates in the 1950s and 1960s

Response and discussion

2:30pm – 4:20pm: Session No4

Session Chair: Wolf Tegethoff, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
Respondent: David Van Zanten, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

• Keith Eggener, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA: Juan O'Gorman Versus the International Style
• Raquel Franklin, Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico d.f., Mexico: "Call it Swedish or German...": Introducing the Modern Movement to Mexico
• José Angel Medina Murua, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain: Europe as Seen From Latin America: The Spanish Case
• Bernd Kreuzer, Universität Linz, Austria: Fritz Malcher and Karl Brunner: Two Austrian Architects of the Interwar Time between Europe and America

Response and discussion

4:45pm: European Architectural History Network, eahn Public meeting to discuss current and future activities

6:00pm: Reception

Saturday, June 28, 2008

9:30am – 10:15am, Keynote
Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton University, Princeton, USA: Panoptic Narration: Cinema and Surveillant Space

10:30am – 1:00pm Session No5

Session Chair: Jakob Tanner, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Respondent: Philip Ursprung, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

• Hans-Georg Lippert, TU Dresden, Germany: Doublethink: Stalinism and its Handling of the International Style
• Martino Stierli, Universität Basel, Switzerland: The American Academy in Rome: Condenser of Ideas?
• Andri Gerber, Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France: Crossing Paths: The "Eastern Intellectual" [Peter Eisenman] vs. the "California Joy Boy" [Christopher Alexander]
• Kate Holliday, University of Texas at Arlington, USA: The Architect as Politician: Ralph Walker and the International Union of Architects
• Carmen Popescu, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania: Western Discourse Behind the Iron Curtain: Reframing Socialist Architecture

Response and discussion

10:30am – 1:00pm Session No6

Session Chair: Laurent Stalder, eth Zürich, Switzerland
Respondent: Joan Ockman, Columbia University, New York, USA

• Michael Mönninger, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany: Suburbia in War and Peace: From US Wartime Town Planning to Post-1945 West German Reconstruction
• Paolo Scrivano, Boston University, Boston, USA: Receptions and Rejections of American Modernism in Postwar Italian Architecture
• Carola Ebert, Universität Kassel, Germany: The Liberation of Living – Part Two: The Influence of the Californian Case Study House Program on the West-German Modernist Bungalow
• Meredith L. Clausen, University of Washington, Seattle, USA: Post-War Paris, the Importation of the American High-Rise, and the Tour Montparnasse
• Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,Israel: Frontier Jerusalem: The Holy Land as a Testing Ground for Urban Design

Response and discussion

1:30pm–6:30pm Field Trips, Zurich and Basel

Sunday, June 29, 2008

07:30am – 7:00pm Field Trip, La Chaux-de-Fonds
For information and registration, please visit the conference website
For further information, please visit www.transferandmetamorphosis.org

Conference Committee

• Dietrich Neumann, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, and Yale University, New Haven, USA
• Andreas Tönnesmann, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture,ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Reto Geiser, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland