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El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM)
In light of the multiple crises our cities are facing, architecture is now in a position to contribute
positively to salvage and invigorate the urban realm. After a decade of recasting ourselves through Co-chairs
cultural, technological, environmental, and social engagement, we–architects–seek to deploy a Iñaqui Carnicero, Columbia University
newly found adroitness to address the different paradigm shifts that render our cities less just, Ángela García de Paredes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
plural, safe, entertaining, productive, and environmentally proficient. Julio Salcedo-Fernandez, City College of New York
Disruption: “Disruptive” digital economies and their impact of the social economic
schedule-at-a-glance fabric of cities: “Disruptive” economies are transforming our cities. Uber, Amazon,
Airbnb, etc. are changing the social and economic fabric of cities often displacing the
THURSDAY, JUNE 14 disenfranchised. An example of which were the recent citizens’ revolt against Airbnb as
14:00 Inequality: Evaluating Value new tourist protocols are transforming cities and disrupting the essence of a community.
Nascent Material Conscience: In Practice Topic Chairs: Shawn Rickenbacker, City College New York & Martha Thorne, IE University
Disruption: New City Systems Inequality – People and Capital Flows: Historical and emerging people and capital flows are
The Habitus of the Architect contributing to the city as a stage for augmented inequalities. The growing global inequalities as
15:30 Coffee Break generated by real estate speculation and migrations are finding in the city a territory to intensify
16:00 Inequality: Tactics for Transience rather than abate a sense of equality and community. The migration trends have recently
Nascent Material Conscience: In Site intensify beyond the rural to urban migration to include a growing number of refugees of war.
Disruption: Reorganizing the Urban Topic Chairs: Neeraj Bhatia, California College of the Arts & Josep Bohigas, Barcelona Regional
Urbanism Special Focus Session
Public Space: The changing politics and protocols of public space. Public space in the city
18:00 Juan Herreros KEYNOTE
is being continuously contested. The most egregious of these challenges comes from the
recent terrorist attacks on cities across the world. More nuance challenges and opportunities
FRIDAY, JUNE 15 are appropriations of public space and its monuments to legitimate or question power,
09:00 Public Space in Architecture history, memory, gender, cultures and race. Lastly, the public space of the city has become
Nascent Material Conscience: In Construction a regional and global destination for celebration and protest amply augmenting is scope.
Open: Pedagogies Topic Chairs: Frederick Bonet, Obras & Momoyo Kaijima, University of Tsukuba
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Practice of Public Space Environmental Crisis: Comprises management of environment and resources, and the challenges of
consumption and resiliency. We have enumerated multiple flanks of attackson the city and we have yet to
Environmental Crisis: Teaching in Times of Crisis
broached perhaps the most grave ones. As Houston floods, Miami sinks and Beijing chokes, the changes
Open: Cities I
brought about by climate change and resource management are beyond palpable, already catastrophic.
12:30 Lunch (on your own)
Topic Chairs: Jane Hutton, University of Waterloo & Andres Mignucci, Universidad De Puerto Rico
14:30 Terrain Vague and Public Space
Environmental Crisis: Visualizing Flux Nascent material conscience has emerged aiming to empower local resources, addressing
Open: Cities II the economy of means and the need for new identities. The lack of real estate in
Exporting Professors some cases and busting economies in others, have increased the need of repurposing
16:00 Coffee Break what already exists, reinforcing strategies of adaptability, transformation and reuse,
16:30 Public Space: Accessibility to Nature therefore rising awareness of the behaviour and evolution of architecture over time.
Topic Chairs: Sunil Bald, Yale University & Nader Tehrani, The Cooper Union
Environmental Crisis: Aquatic Adaptations
Open Open topic presentations are consistent with the general theme of the conference, New
18:00 Momoyo Kaijima KEYNOTE Instrumentalities. and are grouped according to overarching themes that emerged from the open call.
Reception Topic Chairs: Lesley Lokko, University of Johannesburg & Juan Roldan, American University of Sharjah
thursday June 14th
13:00-18:00 REGISTRATION 14:00-15:30 DISRUPTION: NEW CITY SYSTEMS
ZONA DE APOYO AULAS DE Moderators: Shawn Rickenbacker, City College of New York &
FORMACIÓN 4 David Goodman, IE University
14:00 – 15:30 INEQUALITY: TACTICS FOR TRANSIENCE Transformation of Tourist Cities and Small Businesss Development
AULAS DE Moderators: Neeraj Bhatia, California College of the Arts &
FORMACIÓN 2
at World Heritage Sites
Josep Bohigas, Barcelona Regional
Sedef Doganer, University of Texas at San Antonio
Opportunistic Landscape: Land Speculation William Dupont, University of Texas at San Antonio
and Cross Border Filtering Segregation
Marcel Sanchez-Prieto, Woodbury University Testing the Urban Stack: Sidewalk Lab
and Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront
Transient Spaces: Building Community in Crisis Contexts T. F. Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Loukia Tsafoulia, City College of New York
Severino Alfonso, Barnard College & Columbia College Demonized Tech Companies as Allies: The Case of Riyadh and the
Spaces for the Displaced Impact of Technological Platforms in Public and Private Spheres
Aaron Paul Brakke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Beatriz Villanueva, bRijUNi architects
Francisco J. Casas, bRijUNi architects
Spectrometry: Rethinking Serge Chermayeff’s Spectrum Diagrams in the Marta Rodriguez, University of Houston
Context of Wicked Problems
Dulmini Perera, The University of Hong Kong New Data-driven Analysis and Policies to Regulate Commerce and
Tourism: The Examples of Barcelona and Madrid
Transient Spaces: Building Community in Crisis Contexts Mar Santamaria-Varas, 300.000 Km/s
Loukia Tsafoulia, City College of New York
Pablo Martinez-Diez, 300.000 Km/s
14:00-15:30 NASCENT MATERIAL CONSCIENCE: IN PRACTICE 14:00-15:30 THE HABITUS OF THE ARCHITECT
AULAS DE FOR- Moderators: Sunil Bald, Yale University & AULAS DE FOR- Moderator: Ilaria Valente, Politecnico di Milano
MACIÓN 3 Nader Tehrani, The Cooper Union MACIÓN 5
Towards the Emergence of a New Material Ethic: The Work of Eladio The focus of the EAAE-sponsored session at the ACSA/COAM International
Dieste and Vilanova Artigas Conference will be on the changing role, position and habitus of the
Julian Palacio, The Cooper Union architect. We would like to embed this theme within the overarching topic
of the conference “new instrumentality” - and the role of architectural
The Potent Material of Buildings: Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC- Pompéia education. The invited speakers/panelists will take a clearly articulated
(1977-1986) stance towards this topic, each presenting a short but strong statement,
Cathrine Veikos, California College of the Arts followed by discussion - first among the panelists, then opening to the
audience.
Yielding Actions
Angel Martinez Garcia-Posada, Universidad de Sevilla Oya Atalay Franck, Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Manuel Blanco, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
AFTERL/VES Ivan Cabrera, Universitat Politècnica de València
Nikole Bouchard, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Federico de Isidro, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Johan de Walsche, University of Antwerpen
THURSDAY JUNE 14TH
earn
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
Continuing Education Credit ZONA DE APOYO
We’ve gone digital!
Positioning Urban Neighborhoods for Prosperity How the Knowledge Economy is Transforming the City from the Inside
Mo Zell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mar Santamaria-Varas, 300.000 Km/s
Over, Under, In-between: Worker Housing Within Pablo Martinez-Diez, 300.000 Km/s
an Industrial Ecology
Jason F. Carlow, American University of Sharjah No-stop Shopping City: Supermarkets and the Logistics
of the Quotidian
Urban Density as Definition, as Image, and as Political Medium Nerea Feliz, University of Texas at Austin
Cem Kayatekin, IE University
Productive Housing: Spatial Structuring and Social Division
Built Inequalities in Rural America: The Leisure Colonization in Urban Centers
of the Southern Appalachians
Daniel Esguevillas, Universidad Camilo José Cela
David Franco, Clemson University
Luz Carruthers, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spatializing Debt: A Visual Auditing
Marcelo López-Dinardi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Being Wholly Digital: An Architecture of Parts
Mollie Claypool, University College London
Public Domesticity
Tsz Yan Ng, University of Michigan
16:00-17:30 URBANISM SPECIAL FOCUS SESSION
Wes McGee, University of Michigan AULAS DE FOR- Moderator: Francisco J. Rodriguez-Suarez, Universidad De Puerto Rico
MACIÓN 5
Symbiotic Urbanism: Looking Beyond Sustainability Urban design is not simply a larger scale of architectural work, but a different
Ting Chin, New York City College of Technology attitude towards the responsibilities a designer has beyond each project’s
property lines. This session will discuss the relationship between architecture
Reassembly pedagogy and urbanism in various international systems and programs and
Adam Fure, University of Michigan the desirability for its inclusion within the NAAB criteria of accreditation.
Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Panelists:
Meredith L. Miller, University of Michigan Lars Lerup, Rice University
Thom Moran, University of Michigan Peter Siöström, Lund University
Branko Kolarevic, University of Calgary
Resiliency: It Goes Beyond the Hair
Marisa Isabel Oliver, American University of Sharjah
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friday June 15th
18:00-19:00 OPENING KEYNOTE: JUAN HERREROS 08:30-18:00 REGISTRATION
AUDITORIO ZONA DE APOYO
Introductions: Iñaqui Carnicero, Columbia University
Wily Surfaces
Lily Chi, Cornell University
PhD Architect, Chair Professor of Architectural Design at Madrid School of
Architecture and Full Professor at the GSAPP of Columbia University in New
York. He has previously taught at Princeton University between 2004 and 2007, 09:00-10:30 NASCENT MATERIAL CONSCIENCE:
at the Architectural Association between 1998 and 2000 as a ‘Diploma Unit AULAS DE FOR- IN CONSTRUCTION
MACIÓN 3
Master’, at the EPF in Lausanne from 1999 to 2000 as ‘Professeur Invité’ and Moderators: Sunil Bald, Yale University &
at the IIT in Chicago as ‘Morgenstern Visiting Chair in Architecture’ in 2006. He Nader Tehrani, The Cooper Union
has been appointed juror in numerous national and international competitions,
biennials and international awards, editorial advisor of specialized media and Limb: Rethinking Heavy Timber Joinery Through Analysis
member of several expert committees on academic, sustainability and technology of Tree Crotches
programs such as the Material Science Congress at the University of Columbia. Kasey Vliet, University of Michigan
Juan Herreros has taught hundreds of conferences, courses, seminars and Steven Y. Mankouche, University of Michigan
research workshops worldwide. In 2013 he published ‘Dialogue Architecture’, Peter von Buelow, University of Michigan
which covers the homonymous installation designed for the Venice Biennale in
2012. In 2008, the book ‘Vivienda y Espacio Doméstico del Siglo XXI’ (21st An Interdisciplinary Approach to Architectural Design
century housing and domestic space) came out, featuring his interventions at of Building Envelopes by Reuse of Automotive Metal
the homonymous seminar delivered at La Casa Encendida; as well as ‘Implicit for Material and Energy Savings
Performance’, on experimental applications of concrete. In 2004, the books Ahmed K. Ali, Texas A&M University
‘Isla Ciudad’ (Actar) and ‘Palacios de Diversión’ (Fun Palaces – Exit LMI). In Patricia Kio, Texas A&M University
2000, ‘Caducidad, Educación y Energía’ (Expiry, Education and Energy) on
the PotteriesThinkbelt project by Cedric Price (Fundación COAM Madrid). ‘In Small Room / Big Window
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collaboration with I. Ábalos, he had previously published ‘Tower and Office’ edited Jesus Vassallo, Rice University
by the prestigious MIT Press, ‘Natural-Artificial’ (LMI), ‘Tecnica y Arquitectura
en la Ciudad Contemporánea’ (Technique and Architecture in the Contemporary Material Conscience as a Multivalent Instrument
City – Nerea) and ‘Le Corbusier-Rascacielos’ (Le Corbusier-Skyscrapers). He
of Empowerment, Aspiration, and Identity for
currently develops a critical edition on the works of Cedric Price, along with an
a New University Library in Malawi, Africa
investigation entitled ‘Prácticas emergentes en Arquitectura’ (Emergent Practices
Kevin Jones, Virginia Tech
in Architecture) based on the idea of recycling the figure of the architect and his
design techniques, bearing the name of the Research Group which he leads at
the Polytechnic University of Madrid. In 1984 he founded Ábalos&Herreros; in Ladakh Dental Clinic: The Local-Imported Modulars:
1999, the LMI (Liga Multimedia Internacional); in 2006, Herreros Arquitectos Negotiating Contradictory Material Practices in Remote Cities
and in 2014, estudio Herreros. Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell University
Leslie Lok, Cornell University
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Physical and Digital Simulation in Material Practice Public Street Invading, Forbidding or Instructing:
David Costanza, Rice University A Case Study of the University Avenue in Shanghai, China
Bolun Wang, Tongji University
Identity Crisis: The Agency of Instagram in Schools of Architecture
Benjamin J. Smith, Tulane University Tactical Public Spaces: Between Illegal Actions
and Well-Meant Place-Making
Spatial Writing: A New Mode of Architectural Representation David Franco, Clemson University
Seher Erdogan Ford, Temple University
Co-drawing: Forms of Spatial Communication as Formats
for Collective Dialogue
Remote Control: The Natural Language of Architecture
Antje K. Steinmuller, California College of the Arts
Frank Richard Jacobus, University of Arkansas
Christopher Falliers, California College of the Arts
Marc Anthony Manack, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
earn
Design as Play: Sea-Level Rise Planning Board Game
FRIDAY JUNE 15TH
credit
[TI_module] for the Puerto Rico Housing Crisis after Hurricane María
Eugenio Ramirez, Universidad De Puerto Rico
Submit your continuing education at Farzana Gandhi, New York Institute of Technology
www.acsa-arch.org/18MadridCES Matt Krajewski, New York Institute of Technology
Yazmin Crespo Claudio, Universidad del Turabo
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN) 14:30 - 16:00 OPEN: CITIES II
AULAS DE FOR- Moderators: Lesley Lokko, University of Johannesburg &
MACIÓN 4 Juan Roldan, American University of Sharjah
14:30 - 16:00 PUBLIC SPACE: TERRAIN VAGUE AND PUBLIC SPACE
AULAS DE FOR- Moderators: Frédéric Bonnet, Obras &
MACIÓN 2 Dubai Before Dubai: The Pietiläs and the City Coastline
Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow
Rubén García Rubio, Al Ghurair University
Tiziano Aglieri Rinella, American University in the Emirates
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia Capital City Loving & Hating Modern Urbanism:
A Cultural Counterpoint
On the Liminal Fertility between the Sacred and the Profane
Beatriz Villanueva, bRijUNi architects
in the Sin City of Neon Lights
Francisco J. Casas, bRijUNi architects
Alberto de Salvatierra, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Samantha Solano, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
One Site, Many Public Spaces: Considering Hannah Arendt’s Idea
of Public Realm in Manshiya (Tel Aviv)
Instrumentality of the Labor: Architectural Labor
Tulay Atak, Pratt Institute
and Resistance in 19th Century India
Bhaswar Mallick, University of Cincinnati
An Intersectional Analysis of Urban Public Interiors
Karin Tehve, Pratt Institute
Emancipating Urban Elements from Alexander Doxiadis’ Grid in Riyadh
Sukhee Yun, Prince Sultan University
Detroit Living Amid Ruins
Ines Martin, University of Virginia
Architectural Ghosts : Storytelling & the Urban Imaginary
Luis Pancorbo, University of Virginia
Zoe Lynne Cope, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Two Chamizal Parks
FRIDAY JUNE 15TH
The Politics of Repair in a Post Colonial Context: A Minor Case Study Thick Roofs: Technological Containment and Symbolic Form
Cathi Ho Schar, University of Hawaii at Manoa Michelle Chang, Rice University
Daniel S. Friedman, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Framing Shulman
Copacabana Non-public Gerard Smulevich, Woodbury University
Eduardo Aquino, University of Manitoba
Architecture, Sustainability, Infrastructure, Interventions
Economic Impact Generated by the Public Open Space: Kenneth Schwartz, Tulane University
Case Study of Klyde Warren Park
Koichiro Aitani, Texas A&M University In Vitro City: A Laboratory Without Experiments
Loukia Tsafoulia, City College of New York
Shohei Yoshinaga, Texas A&M University
Severino Alfonso, Barnard College & Columbia College
Public Domesticity: The Beach as a Model
Boundary Problems: Reclaiming Thought Space in the Attention
Silvia Colmenares, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Economy
Emily Baker, University of Arkansas
Paradox of Public Space: Chapter 91 and the Clean Water Act
FRIDAY JUNE 15TH
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CO-CHAIRS
Iñaqui Carnicero, Columbia University
Ángela García de Paredes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Julio Salcedo-Fernandez, City College of New York
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