PRACTICAL AESTHETICS: TECTONICS YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW  ｜ 'ARCHITECTURE: PRACTICAL AESTHETICS' SERIAL FORUM (I)

'ARCHITECTURE: PRACTICAL AESTHETICS' SERIAL FORUM (I)

PRACTICAL AESTHETICS: TECTONICS YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW

School of Architecture, Southeast University

School of Architecture, China Academy of Art

CHAIR

David Leatherbarrow

WANG Shu

DATE

2018.12.01—2018.12.03

December 1st 2018 - December 3rd 2018

VENUE

Lecture Hall, Li Dong 2nd Floor, SEU, Nanjing

Lecture Hall, Building 14, CAA, Hangzhou

PREMISE

Contemporary understandings of tectonics need to be expanded. Ironically, such an expansion may result from a return to the subject’s beginnings. Practical Aesthetics was the field in which Gottfried Semper situated tectonics. Of course he had “aesthetic” issues in mind, beauty, perceptual meaning, and representation, but also several dimensions of architecture’s “practicality,” its constructed reality, its suitability to contemporary culture, and its topographical specificity. This conference seeks to extend current understanding of tectonics by questioning common wisdom and demonstrating how the narrow preoccupation with structure, construction, and materials can—indeed must—embrace cultural concerns of purpose, location, and beauty.

 TOPICS

The papers and discussions of the conference will address three key topics:

1. Beauty:a practical aesthetics must make arguments and proposals for elegant and refined solutions, construction detailing and material finishing may serve both utilitarian and aesthetic ends

2. Location: every work that’s built is built some-where, tectonics properly understood is always place-bound, climates and atmospheres extend tectonic understanding into topography

3. Purpose: decisions about suitability, in view of cultural patterns, are part of the rationality of tectonic solutions

SCHEDULE

December 1st   Lecture Hall, Li Dong 2nd Floor, SEU, Nanjing 

12月3日  杭州 中国美术学院建筑艺术学院14号楼报告厅

December 3rd  Lecture Hall, Building 14, CAA, Hangzhou 

David Leatherbarrow

Professor and Foreign Dean of Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School at Southeast University, Professor of School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania

WANG Shu

Dean of School of architecture at The China Academy of Art, Pritzker Laureate 2012

Peter Johan Celsing

Principle of Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor AB, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, International Fellow of the RIBA

Adam Sharr

Professor and Head of School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Research Quarterly, Principal of Adam Sharr Architects

GE Ming

Professor and Associate Dean of Architecture School at Southeast University

Mari Hvattum

Professor at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Dietmar Eberle

Professor and Former dean of the ETH Zurich, Founding Partner of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten

WANG Junyang

Professor of School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University

Marina Tabassum

Principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, Academic Director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements

SHI Yonggao

Professor and Assistant Foreign Dean of Architecture School at Southeast University

ZHU Jingxiang

Professor of School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

ZHUANG Shen

Co-founder and Principal Architect of Atelier Archmixing, Guest Professor at College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University

Peta Carlin

Artist, Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, P. R. China