EAHNSECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING BRUSSELS 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2012 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Thomas Coomans, K.U.Leuven Dirk De Meyer, UGent Els De Vos, Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen Rika Devos, UGent Jean-Louis Genard, ULB, Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Janina Gosseye, K.U.Leuven Jorge Correia, University of Minho Hilde Heynen, K.U.Leuven Krista De Jonge, K.U.Leuven Ruth Hommelen, St. Lucas Adrian Forty, UCLondon Bernard Kormoss, Université de Liège Hilde Heynen, K.U.Leuven Judith le Maire, ULB, Mari Hvattum, AHO Oslo Faculté d’architecture La Cambre-Horta Susan Klaiber, independent scholar Piet Lombaerde, Universiteit Antwerpen Dietrich Neumann, Brown University Anne-Françoise Morel, UGent Edoardo Piccoli, Politecnico di Torino Sven Sterken, St. Lucas Belgin Turan, METU Ankara Francis Strauven, UGent David Vanderburgh, UCLouvain Koenraad Van Cleempoel, UHasselt CONTENTS Invited Speakers Towards a Posthuman Architect 13 Beatriz Colomina Teaching on the Peripheries: Charles Polónyi and the Lessons of Marginality 14 Ákos Moravánszky How to Make Buildings Speak. A Matter of Origins 15 Maarten Delbeke Concluding Remarks: Continuities and Departures 16 Mary Mc Leod Sessions The Classical Urban Plan: Monumentality, Continuity and Change 18 session chairs: Daniel M. Millette & Samantha Martin-McAuliffe Albano: Castrum to Town Allan Ceen — Pennsylvania State University, U.S. Memory and Movement: Rome’s Fora as Problem and Solution Amy Russell — Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Italy Cyrene and Apollonia: The Classical Urban Plan as a Measure of Opposites Lynda Mulvin — University College Dublin, Ireland The Memory Remains: Continuity and Change in the Pattern of Symbolic Encounters within the Planning Grid of Pednelissos Ahmet Çinici — Middle East Technical University, Turkey Urbanization in Inland Sicily: Acculturation on the Periphery of the Greek World Spencer Pope — McMaster University, Canada Open session: Layers of Time 20 session chair: Mari Hvattum Representing Process in 16th Century Rome Tim Anstey — Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden Absolutism, Rococo Urbanism and the Public Sphere Erika Naginski & Jason Nguyen — Harvard University, U.S. Rome, seen from Paris, seen from Rome Elena Dellapiana — Politecnico di Torino, Italy Out of Sight, Out of Mind; Representing Dublin City 1740-1801 Finola O’Kane Crimmins — University College Dublin, Ireland Visualizations of Athens. The Case of Kleanthis-Schaubert’s Plan Konstantina Kalfa — National Technical University of Athens, Greece Travel of Men and Models: Interpreting, Collecting and Adapting French Art and Architecture in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries 22 session chairs: Linnéa Rollenhagen Tilly & Linda Hinners “French influence” on the Portuguese U-shaped Noble Dwelling João Vieira Caldas — Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal The “Connoissance” of French Art and Architecture at the Imperial Court around 1700 Friedrich Polleroß — Universität Wien, Austria Joseph Effner’s training at the workshop of Germain Boffrand. The example of interior decoration Martin Pozsgai — Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Switzerland Jean-Baptiste-Michel Vallin de la Mothe (1729-1800) : a “Great French Architect in Russia”? Olga Medvedkova — CNRS & Centre André Chastel, France CONTENTS Regionalism Redivivus. Do We Need a Closer Look? 24 session chairs: Ricardo Agarez & Nelson Mota Grass Roots Modernism: The Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association Sophie Hochhäusl — Cornell University, U.S. National Unity through Regional Diversity: Architecture as Political Reform in Yugoslavia, 1929-1941 Aleksandar Ignjatović — University of Belgrade, Serbia Africanicity and Colonial Architecture: the Response of the Colonial Planning Office (1944-1974) Ana Cristina Fernandes Vaz Milheiro — Lisbon University Institute, Portugal Regionalism and Neorealism in Modern Italian Architecture, 1925-1955 Jonathan Mekinda — University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S. Fale Samoa and Europe’s Extended Boundaries: Performing Place and Identity A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul & Albert L. Refiti — Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Postwar Instrumentalization of the Baroque in Europe and North America 27 session chair: Andrew Leach Baroque in Translation: Giedion’s Digestible History for Modern Architects Denise R. Costanzo — Pennsylvania State University, U.S. Reading Aalto Through Baroque: Dynamic Pluralities, Constituent Facts, and Formal Latencies Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen — Yale University, U.S. Ending the Hegemony of ‘Space’: Steen Eiler Rasmussen and the Relativization of Baroque Aesthetics Anthony Raynsford — San José State University, U.S. Exploring the Edge of Orthodoxy: The Baroque as Read by Paolo Portoghesi Silvia Micheli — Politecnico di Milano, Italy The “Recurrence” of the Baroque in Architecture: Norberg-Schulz´s Phenomenological Approach to Constancy and Change Gro Lauvland — Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway Open session: Housing, the State and Society since World War II 30 session chair: Adrian Forty The Polykatoikia in Post-war Athens: Diffusion of a Status Symbol Olga Moatsou — École Polytechnique Féderal de Lausanne, Switzerland J.B. Bakema’s ‘t Hool, Eindhoven: Building the Middle-Class Dream in Collective Suburbia Pierijn van de Putt — TU Delft, The Netherlands Ricardo Bofill and the Architecture of Urban Speculation Anne Kockelkorn — ETH Zurich, Switzerland M. Christine Boyer —Princeton University, U.S. The Double Face of Soviet Era “Politics of Architecture” Ines Weizman — London Metropolitan University, U.K. Siege Views and the Representation of Cities in Early Modern Europe 32 session chair: Pieter Martens Triumphs, Treatises, or True Records? Siege Views from the War of Siena, 1553-55 Simon Pepper — University of Liverpool, U.K. The Genius Militant and Siege Views in the Kingdom of Naples Massimo Visone — University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Italy Accuracy and convention in four tapestries representing the taking of two Moroccan cities by Afonso V of Portugal (c.1475) Inês Meira Araújo, José Varandas, Luís Urbano Afonso — University of Lisbon, Portugal The siege of Ypres (1383) engraved by Guillaume du Tielt: a 17th-century view on 14th-century urban space Bram Vannieuwenhuyze — Leuven University, Belgium Siege and battle scenes in historical images of Romanian towns Anda-Lucia Spânu — Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu, Romania CONTENTS Communicating Architecture: Working with Documents in Construction 35 session chairs: Tilo Amhoff & Merlijn Hurx The Use and Development of Builder’s Specifications and Building Contracts in the Planning Process in the Low Countries before 1650 Gabri van Tussenbroek — City of Amsterdam/Utrecht University, The Netherlands Texts in an Oral World: The Case of Building Contracts in Early Eighteenth-Century Montreal Pierre-Édouard Latouche — Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Building Specifications as a Source for the Study of Standardisation and Professionalization of Architecture in Rural Villages: The Example of Nineteenth-Century West-Flanders Jeroen Cornilly — KU Leuven, Belgium Elisabeth Benjamin’s ‘Book of Words’: East Wall and the Rise of Proprietary Specification in the 1930s Katie Lloyd Thomas — Newcastle University, U.K. Architecture and Territoriality in Medieval Europe 37 session chair: Max Grossman Crossing Borders around 800: Charlemagne’s Palatine Chapel at Aachen Lex Bosman — Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Territory of the Friary Caroline Bruzelius & Anne M. Cogan — Duke University, U.S. Romanesque Architecture in Northwest Italy: Deconstructing the “Local Schools” Silvia Beltramo — Politecnico di Torino, Italy Building the Territory: The Architectural Strategy of a Late Medieval Castilian Family Elena Paulino Montero — Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Connecting Territories: Strategy, Politics and Symbolic Meaning of Byzantine Bridges Galina Fingarova — University of Vienna, Austria Open session: Memory, Identity, and Community in Architecture and Urbanism 39 session chair: Susan Klaiber Municipium Augustum Veiens: Continuity and Change Alessandro Maria Jaia & Elisa Cella — Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy The Urban Grid Plan in Downtown Naples and the Aragonese Dynasty. A Case of Early Modern Greek Revival? Paolo Sanvito — Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany Early Orthogonal Settlements in the Western Mediterranean and the Culture-History Paradigm Zeynep Aktüre — Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey Between Heaven and Earth: Cistercian Nunneries as Dynastic Memorials in the Low Countries Thomas Coomans - K.U.Leuven, Belgium Unifying the Community: The Evolution of Centralized Space in Hungarian Church Architecture 1900-2010 Zorán Vukoszávlyev — Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary “Development” from the Periphery. Architectural Knowledge Exchange Beyond US/ Soviet Bipolarity, 1950s-1980s 41 session chairs: Rachel Kallus & Łukasz Stanek The Intriguing and Forgotten Exchanges between Yugoslav Architects and Kenzo Tange’s Office in the Master Plan for the Reconstruction of Skopje Mirjana Lozanovska — Deakin University Peripheral Hubs and Alternative Modernizations: Planning for Tourism in Postcolonial Cyprus Petros Phokaides & Panayiota Pyla — National Technical University of Athens, Greece & University of Cyprus Fast- Track Modernity: Israel’s Construction Aid on Sierra Leone’s Eve of Independence Ayala Levin — Columbia University, U.S. School Construction