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Reconstructing the World. Regions and their Diversities An e‐forum hosted at TU Vienna Institute of Architecture and Design June 15th, 2021, 5:30 pm (CET) This e‐forum takes place at a time of unprecedented crises. Faced with the challenges posed by the ongoing destruction of ecology, resources, culture, communities, and health, architects find themselves under pressure to envision what must be done, and to adopt critically (that is without bias or compliance) new design, technical, legal, and moral responsibilities. In this context, a key conundrum is that of the future relation between Regionalism with Globalization: is it one of conflict or of cooperation, should the world become ‘flat’ eliminating the diversity of regions or should it enhance by design ‘peaks and valleys’ of regional identity. In this case, should regions be left autonomous, freewheeling or should they be coevolving in planned cooperation? These questions are explored in Lefaivre and Tzonis major new, greatly expanded edition of their Routledge book Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization, a publication we highlight in this e‐forum. The event invites ideas, plans, and visions bringing together major architects and planners addressing this issue in the world today. In alphabetical order: Nondita Correa‐Mehrotra, RMA Architects, Mumbai + Boston Anna Heringer, Studio Anna Heringer, Laufen Liane Lefaivre, die Angewandte, Vienna Toshiko Mori, Harvard GSD, Boston David Porter, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Jurgen Roseman, TU Delft, Delft Alexander Tzonis, TU Delft, Delft Host: Christian Kühn, TU Vienna Program Tuesday, June 15th, 5:30 pm ‐ 8:30 pm (CET) ZOOM link: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/99536038211 The program will start with introductory statements of 10 min followed by short dialogues with the host. The panel discussion will be open for questions from the audience after 08:00 pm. 17:30 Welcome Christian Kühn 17:30 Alexander Tzonis 17:45 Liane Lefaivre 18:00 Toshiko Mori 18:15 Nondita Correa‐ Mehrotra 18:30 Anna Heringer 18:45 David Porter 19:00 Jürgen Rosemann 19:15 – 20:30 Panel Discussion CVs (in alphabetical order) Nondita Correa‐Mehrotra Nondita Correa Mehrotra has over three decades of experience as an architect, working primarily in India, and more recently in the US. She has been involved in the design of many major architectural projects, including acting as Project Architect for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building at MIT, the Ismaili Centre in Toronto, as well as numerous other projects built in India. Nondita brings her design expertise and vast knowledge of building practices to her role as the Principal of RMA Architects’ Boston office. She has incorporated an active academic life into her career as well, teaching architectural design studios at the University of Michigan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and seminar courses at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2017 she took over as Director of the Charles Correa Foundation, which is involved in research, publications and the facilitation of projects focused on the improvement of the built habitat, and debates around architecture and urbanism in India. She has served on the Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the Lafarge Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction. Website: https://rmaarchitects.com Anna Heringer For Anna Heringer architecture is a tool to improve lives. She has been actively involved in development cooperation in Bangladesh since 1997. Her diploma work, the METI School got realized in 2005 with Eike Roswag and won the Aga Khan Award in 2007. Her studio has realized projects in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Anna is lecturing worldwide at conferences, including TED and has been visiting professor at various universities such as Harvard, ETH Zurich. She received numerous honors: the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, the OBEL Award, the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s GSD and a RIBA International Fellowship. Her work was widely published and exhibited in the MoMA New York, the V&A Museum and at the Venice Biennale among other places. Website: www.anna‐heringer.com Liane Lefaivre Liane Lefaivre is o‐Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Cambridge, MA., The M.I.T. Press: 1997) won: The Association of American Publishers Award for Best New Scholarly/Professional Book of 1997 and American association of Architects Annual Award for Best Book for 1997. Her latest book is Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner (London, Lund Humphries, 2017). She curated the exhibition Aldo van Eyck, The Playgrounds and the City (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2002) and Santiago Calatrava, Like a Bird (Kunsthistorisches Museum in collaboration with the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, the first exhibition to bring the two museums together, Spring 2003). Among several books Lefaivre and Tzonis coauthored: Architecture in Europe since 1960 (New York Times, Book of the Year, 1995, and the American Association of Architects Annual Award for best book in criticism, 1995.) They also co‐ authored Times of Creative Destruction: Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20TH, (Routledge 2017) and Emergence of Modern Architecture (Routledge 2004, 2nd ed. revised and expanded, 2021) Christian Kühn Christian Kühn is professor and Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at TU Wien. His research areas cover history and theory of architecture with a focus on educational buildings. His publications include two books in the “Bauwelt Fundamente” series: “Das Wahre, das Schöne und das Richtige. Adolf Loos und das Haus Müller in Prag“, 1989, and „Stilverzicht. Typologie und CAAD als Werkzeuge einer Autonomen Architektur”, 1997. He is architectural critic for Die Presse, ARCH+, Baumeister and “MERKUR – Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken”, and Co‐Author of the “Austrian Report on Building Culture” 2006, 2011 and 2017. He was curator of the Exhibition “Flying Classrooms”, that toured Austria 2009 – 2011, and Commissioner and Curator (together with Harald Trapp) for the Austrian Contribution to the Venice Biennale 2014, “PLENUM – Places of Power”. Since 2000, he is Chairman of the Austrian Architectural Foundation and since 2015 Chairman of the Board for Building Culture in the Austrian Federal Chancellery. In September 2020, together with Peter Lorenz and Harald Trapp he curated Re:Forum Trieste, an international symposium on Architecture and Urban Design Post‐Corona. Website: www.gbl.tuwien.ac.at/christian‐kuehn Architectural Criticism: https://www.nextroom.at/actor.php?id=4793 Toshiko Mori Toshiko Mori, FAIA is the founding principal of Toshiko Mori Architect PLLC, and the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she served as chair of the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2008. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mori’s recent awards and honors include the Louis Auchincloss Prize from the Museum of the City of New York in 2020; the Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society Gold Medal in 2016; and the AIA / ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education in 2019. Nikkei Business listed Mori as one of 50 Japanese People Changing the World, and Newsweek Japan listed her as one of 100 Japanese People the World Respects. Her project “Fass School and Teachers’ Residence” was recently awarded the AIA 2021 Award for Architecture. Last year, she published two new monographs, one with a+u magazine for their February 2020 issue and another with ArchiTangle titled “Toshiko Mori Architect: Observations.” Website: tmarch.com Firm Instagram: @toshiko.mori.architect Toshiko’s Instagram: @toshiko.mori David Porter David is emeritus professor at the Glasgow School of Art, having been head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture from 2000‐2011. He became an architect working for Neave Brown on pioneering high‐density low‐rise urban housing at the London Borough of Camden then, between 1986‐92 he became Brown’s partner. Their major project, high‐density housing on the Zwollsestraat in the Hague, was beset by conflicting ideals and they resigned in 1992 – this will be the subject of his presentation. Subsequently, Neave Brown was awarded the RIBA’s Royal Gold medal in 2017 for his contribution to the architecture of housing and David is currently editing a collection of Brown’s writing on architecture and the city with the title of “Building Part of the City”. The theme of the book is the belief that continuity is the essential characteristic of housing. From 2011‐18 David was professor of architecture @ Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing running an international studio on the theme of ‘the poetics of inhabitation’, between Beijing and the University of Westminster in London, where David is now a visiting professor. He was president of the Architectural Association between 2015‐8. Jurgen Rosemann Jürgen Rosemann is emeritus professor and former dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). After his retirement from Delft, he served for almost 10 years as visiting professor and director of the Urban Planning master program at National University of Singapore. Besides, he was chairman of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and guest professor under more at ETH Zürich, Tsinghua University and
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