The 3rd International Meeting on the Research of Modern Architecture, organised by the Alvar Aalto Academy, examines the points of contact, the influences and effects, the interactions and affiliations, the correlations and cross-fertilisations, the bonds and links between thinking, designing, and building.
Chaired by Kari Jormakka, the meeting takes place in August, 2008, in Helsinki and Jyväskylä, Finland, bringing together practicing architects and architectural pedagogues, philosophers and art historians, sociologists and cultural theorists.
The workshops of the meeting are following:
- Workshop 1 | Translations from concepts to buildings
- Workshop 2 | Space for thought
- Workshop 3 | Understanding architecture
- Workshop 4 | Thought experiments in Muuratsalo
- Workshop 5 | Architectural expertise
- Workshop 6 | Architecture and popular taste
Call for Papers
Conference proceedings will be refereed and published.
*Abstracts of 250 words are due 4 February by email to the address academy@alvaraalto.fi
Paper Format Guidelines will be sent upon request and upon receipt of abstract. (Referee advice will be progressively circulated.)
* Notification of acceptance by 25 February. Drafts due 28 April.
* Final deadline for completed and accepted papers (of 4000 words maximum) are due 2 June by email to the address academy@alvaraalto.fi
Publications:
* Accepted papers will be published in a pre-conference publication.
* Keynote speaker presentations and selected papers will be published and distributed after the conference.
www.alvaraalto.fi/conferences/2008/
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