Venues and Keynote Speakers

 

 

Venues:

 

Conference panels

 

RMIT Building 8, level 11, rm 68 (8.11.68)

RMIT Building 8, level 11, rm 61 (8.11.61)

RMIT Building 8, level 10, rm 22 (8.10.22)

 

Keynotes

 

Capitol Theatre

113 Swanston St., Melbourne

 

Storey Hall

344 Swanston St., Melbourne

 

 

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

Reinhold Martin    

Capitol Theatre 18.00 Sunday 26th September, 2004

 

Felicity Scott        

Storey Hall 18.00 Monday 27th September, 2004

 

Peter Corrigan      

Storey Hall 18.00 Tuesday 28th September, 2004

 

Diane Favro          

Capitol Theatre 18.00 Wednesday 29th September, 2004

 

 

 

Reinhold Martin

 

Reinhold Martin is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the MS program in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University, a partner in the firm of Martin / Baxi Architects, and a founding co-editor of the journal Grey Room. He has published widely on the history and theory of postwar modern architecture and is the author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003), and the co-author, with Kadambari Baxi, of Entropia (London: Black Dog, 2001).

 

Sunday 26th September, 18.00 – 20.00, Capitol Theatre, Swanston St., Melbourne.

 

 

Felicity Scott

Felicity Scott is assistant professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine and a founding editor of the journal Grey Room, published quarterly by MIT Press.  Her writing on modern and contemporary architecture has appeared in anthologies including Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors, and Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture as well as in periodicals such as Assemblage, Documents, and the Harvard Design Magazine.  Her most recent essay, "Involuntary Prisoners of Architecture," appeared in October 106 and she has an article forthcoming on Arthur Drexler and the postmodern turn in Perspecta 35.  She is currently working on two book-length projects, the first focusing on the alternate modernism of Bernard Rudofsky and the second addressing relations between technology and politics in postwar architecture, architectural institutions and discourses.

 

Monday 27th September, 18.00 – 20.00, Storey Hall, Swanston St., Melbourne.

 

 

 

Peter Corrigan

Peter Corrigan is a Melbourne based architect in the firm Edmond and Corrigan. He was awarded the 2003 RAIA Gold Medal for Architecture, and is also an internationally renown designer for theatre. His work is monographed in Conrad Hamann's Cities of Hope. He has been a key polemicist in Australian architecture for over thirty years through his built work, teaching, and writing.

Tuesday 28th September, 18.00 – 20.00, Storey Hall, Swanston St., Melbourne.

 

 

 

Diane Favro

Diane Favro is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA.  Her research focuses on Roman urbanism, women in architecture, and the pedagogy of architectural history.  Her publications include The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and articles on ancient urban laws, administration, boundaries, and rituals.  She was co-editor and contributor to Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (University of California Press, 1994) which is being translated into Turkish.  She is Associate Director of the Cultural Virtual Reality Lab which creates real-time digital models of historic environments, including ancient Rome.  Currently, Professor Favro serves as the President of the Society of Architectural Historians.

 

Wednesday 29th September, 18.00 – 20.00, Capitol Theatre, Swanston St., Melbourne.