The Site of Discourse

The Site of Discourse

Thinking architecture through publication

Lisbon, 28–30 September 2015

 

Currently, there’s a widespread consensus that architectural magazines have played a fundamental role in consecrating identities and giving rise to new orders of thought on the practice and the representation of architecture. Editing and projecting have thus become so closely linked that it seems reasonable to claim that they share a common ground beyond the contingencies of constructive practice, resting upon a web of both conceptual and professional relationships.

Some authors have been taking periodical publications as important research sources; as well as entities able to reconfigure the theoretical, technical, disciplinary and discursive settings in which they are grounded and the identity of their protagonists.

The international congress The site of discourse will places the architectural magazine in the center of the debate, in order to understand the place that such “printed object” occupies in the definition of the contemporary architectural discourse  — in its conceptual, theoretical, graphic, material dimensions. The aim is to reflect on the culture of architectural periodical press in a geographical and chronologically extended context, crossing perspectives from different disciplinary traditions, taken the following topics as starting points:

 

Existe, actualmente, um generalizado consenso de que as revistas de arquitectura têm ocupado um lugar fundamental na consagração de identidades e na formação de novas ordens de pensamento sobre o exercício e a representação da arquitectura. O acto de editar e o acto de projectar tornaram-se, assim, tão próximos que é razoável admitir que partilham territórios comuns, definidos para lá das contingências da prática construtiva e sustentados por constelações de relações quer conceptuais quer profissionais.

Por esse motivo, estas publicações periódicas têm sido tomadas, por muitos autores, quer como importantes fontes documentais; quer como entidades passíveis de reconfigurar as conjunturas teóricas, técnicas, disciplinares e discursivas em que se enquadram e a identidade dos autores que as delinearam.

O congresso internacional The site of discourse procura colocar a revista de arquitectura no centro do debate e compreender o lugar que este “objecto impresso” ocupa na definição do discurso — conceptual, teórico, gráfico, material — da arquitectura contemporânea. O objectivo é refletir sobre a cultura editorial do periódico de arquitectura num contexto geográfica e cronologicamente alargado, cruzando perspectivas provenientes de diferentes tradições disciplinares que tomem como ponto de partida os tópicos a seguir definidos:

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1, Monday, September 28, 2015

12h00

Registration/Information Desk

 

14h00

Welcome Address

 

14h30

THE SITE OF DISCOURSE

Rute Figueiredo

Paulo Tormenta Pinto

 

OPENING LECTURE

Margarida Acciaiuoli de Brito

 

15h45

Coffee Break

 

16h00

LECTURE

António Pizza

 

17h30

Cocktail

 

 

 

Day 2, Tuesday, September 29, 2015

08h45

SESSION 1

Architectural periodical press: reception and 

dissemination of practices and theories I

SESSION 2

Discourse and Ideology I

10h15

SESSION 3

Autochthonous, tropical and modern: architectural periodicals looking beyond Europe

SESSION 4

Case Studies: theory and practice I

 

11h15

Coffee Break

 

11h45

LECTURE

Manuel Graça Dias

 

12h30

Lunch Break

14h00

 

LECTURE

Jorge Figueira

 

14H45

SESSION 5

Case Studies: theory and practice II

SESSION 6

Discourse and Discipline I

15h45

Coffee Break

 

16h00

LECTURE

Mari Hvattum

 

19h30

Conference Dinner (optional)

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 1 

Architectural periodical press: 

Reception and dissemination of practices and theories / 08h45 Site 1 

Ronny Schüler (Germany) 

ARCHITECTURAL SPANISH REVIEW IN THE 50S 

Maria del Pilar Salazar Lozano (Spain) 

A ARQUITECTURA PORTUGUESA NO “CENTRO” DA DIVULGAÇÃO INTERNACIONAL ENTRE 1960/80: INTEGRAÇÃO NO CONCEITO REGIONALISMO CRÍTICO E DIFUSÃO DO CONCEITO DE ESCOLA DO PORTO 

Cristina Emília Silva (Portugal) 

A DOUBLE AGENT OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE: VIRGIL BIERBAUER AS ARCHITECT AND EDITOR 

Ágnes Anna Sebestyén (Hungary) 

DESIGNING TOGETHER: THE MAGAZINE ARQUITECTURA AND THE SYNTHESIS OF THE ARTS IN PORTUGAL 

Susana Constantino (Portugal) 

 

SESSION 2 

Discourse and Ideology I / 08h45 Site 2

POSITIONING A SOCIALIST-HISTORICIST ARCHITECTURE. THE ARGUMENT CONSTRUED IN THE ARCHIVES D’ARCHITECTURE MODERNE’S EDITORIALS, 1975-1980 

Sebastiaan Loosen (Belgium) 

FRAMING THE EARLY REPUBLICAN PERIOD OF TURKEY: PHOTOGRAPHS ON THE COVERS OF ARKITEKT MAGAZINE 

Çagla Ercanlı (Turkey) 

IDEOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE: SPAIN’S IMAGE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCOPE 

Pablo Arza Garaloces (Spain) 

IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL TRANSFER: “HABINJAN BAMISRAH HAKAROV” 

Ronny Schüler (Germany)

 

SESSION 3 

Autochthonous, tropical and modern: architectural periodicals looking beyond Europe / 10h15 Site 1

THE “TRANSITION” TRANSLATIONS: THE AUSTRALIAN 

LITTLE-MAGAZINE AS AN AGENT OF APPROPRIATION 

Mark Sawyer (Australia) 

BRAZIL BUILDS AND ITS DIFFUSION IN EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICALS 

Maria Beatriz Capello (Brazil) 

DISTANCE, STRANGENESS AND KINDNESS. TRACES OF AN ANALYTICAL ISSUE IN MACAO PRESENCE IN PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEWS 

Rogério Vieira de Almeida (Portugal) 

  

SESSION 4 

Case Studies: Theory and Practice I / 10h15 Site 2

THE IMPORTANCE OF A UNIQUE EDILIZIA MODERNA 87/88 

Andrea Oldani (Italy) 

CONTROSPAZIO VS CONTROPIANO 

Fiorella Vanini (Saudi Arabia) 

FOLDING IN GRAPHIC DESIGN 

Frederike Lausch (Germany) 

 

SESSION 5 

Case Studies: Theory and Practice II / 14h45 Site 1

GIO PONTI, DOMUS AND THE ITALIAN HOUSES 

Giulia Perona (Italy) 

J-A OR THE ELEGANT INVITATION TO DISORDER: FROM JOURNAL TO MAGAZINE 

Vitor Alves (Portugal) 

NOTÍCIAS DA ARQUITECTURA ESTRANGEIRA NA CONSTRUCÇÃO MODERNA (1900-1919): UM OLHAR SOBRE A CONSTRUÇÃO ESCOLAR DA ÉPOCA 

Sofia Fernandes (Portugal) 12 

 

SESSION 6 

Discourse and Discipline I / 14h45 Site 2

PUBLISHING TRANSFORMATIONS: RADICALIZING INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONALIZING RADICALISM. ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN PUBLICATIONS IN CHILE AND THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION. 1968-1973 

Fernando Portal (Chile) 

ENVIRONMENT TERRITORY LANDSCAPE THROUGH WORDS 

Fabiola Gorgeri (Italy) 

AVENUE AND PLAYBOY: TWO LIFESTYLE MAGAZINES DESIGNING AND GENDERING DOMESTICITY IN THE 1960’S 

Florencia Fernandez Cardoso (Belgium) 

 

 

Day 3, Wedneday, September 30, 2015

08h45

SESSION 7

Discourse and Ideology II

SESSION 8

Discourse and Discipline II

10h15

SESSION 9

Architectural periodical press: reception and 

dissemination of practices and theories II

SESSION 10

Social Composition of Architectural Composition

 

11h15

Coffee Break

 

11h45

LECTURE

Steve Parnell

 

12h30

Lunch Break

 

14h00

SESSION 11

Case Studies: Theory and Practice III

SESSION 12

Relations between Architecture, Design and Visual Culture

 

16h15

Coffee Break

 

FINAL LECTURE

Hélène Janniére

16h30

 

 

 

 

SESSION 7 

Discourse and Ideology II / 08h45 Site 1

FASCISM THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINES: THE SPANISH CASE 

Alina Navas (Spain) 

PRODUCING AND REPRODUCING REALITY: A.C. DOCUMENTOS DE ACTIVIDAD CONTEMPORÁNEA AND CUADERNOS DE ARQUITECTURA 

Yara Colón Rodríguez (Puerto Rico) 

THE ARBITERS OF MODERNITY: THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW AND CULTURAL CHANGE 

Erdem Erten (Turkey) 

 

SESSION 8 

Discourse and Discipline II / 08h45 Site 3

BETWEEN AUTONOMY AND HETERONOMY: THE CASE STUDY OF CASABELLA 

Marco Voltini (Italy) 

WITHOUT MODEL: PERIODICALS DEBATE AND PORTUGUESE EARLY DEMOCRATIC CITY 

Rui Seco (Portugal) 

CONSTRUCTING THE ARCHITECT THROUGH DISCOURSE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL 

PERIODICALS IN THE NETHERLANDS 

Sergio M. Figueiredo (The Netherlands) 

 

SESSION 9 

Architectural periodical press: 

reception and dissemination of practices and theories II / 10h15 Site 1

THE MULTIFAMILY HOUSING IN ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINES IN THE 1ST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. 

READINGS FROM “A ARQUITECTURA PORTUGUESA” 

Gisela Lameira (Portugal) 

THE ITALIAN ARCHITECTURAL DEBATE AND THE ROLE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL REVUES: THE CASES OF 

“CASABELLA” AND “DOMUS” 

Giuseppina Lonero (Italy) 

FRENCH THEORY IN THE UNITED STATES’ ARCHITECTURAL ACADEMIC PERIODICALS DURING SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES: INFLUENCE, LEGITIMACY, MANIPULATION. 

THE ROLE OF OPPOSITIONS AND ASSEMBLAGE 

Andrea Cancilini (Italy) 

 

SESSION 10 

Social Composition of Architectural Criticism / 10h15 Site 3

PRAXIS FACING THEORY AS METHODOLOGY FOR BUILDING: BRUNO TAUT’S CRUCIAL WRITINGS 

FOR A NEW APPROACH TP ARCHITECTURE 

Paola Ardizzola (Turkey) 

BRUNO ZEVI AND L’ARCHITETTURA, CRONACHE E STORIA: A COUNTER-MAGAZINE AGAINST POST-MODERNISM 

Luca Guido (Italy) 

FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY. SUPPORTING IDEAS OF KEVIN ROCHE AND JOHN DINKELOO’S ARCHITECTURE 

THROUGHOUT ARCHITECTURE PERIODICALS 

Laura Sánchez Carrasco (Spain) 

COMMON GROUND: TWO ESSAYS AND ONE CONTROVERSY 

Maria Helena Maia (Portugal) 

 

SESSION 11 

Case Studies: Theory and Practice III / 14h00 Site 1

ZAP! HELP!... MELP! COMIX, ARQUITECTURA, LITTLE MAGAZINES E IMPRENSA RADICAL NO PANORAMA 

ARQUITECTÓNICO DOS ANOS 60 

Carlos Machado e Moura (Portugal) 

ON 9H: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INSTITUTIONAL ARTEFACTS AND DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS 

Sally Farrah (Australia) 

‘LITTLE’ ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINES AND CONTEMPORARY EDITORIAL DEVICES. SOME CASE STUDIES 

Carlo Menon (United Kingdom) 

‘WE’RE BUILDING A BETTER LIFE - THE U.S.A. AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GERMANY AND GERMAN ARCHITECTURAL JOURNALS 

Michael Kraus (United Kingdom) 

 

SESSION 12 

Relations between Architecture, Design and Visual Culture / 14h00 Site 3

THEORIZING THE ARCHITECTURE OF RETREAT: DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF RETREAT SPACE AND SUBJECTS IN ARCHITECTURE AND LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 

Jacqueline Naismith (New Zealand) 

STANDARDS OF TASTE: THE COMMUNICATION AIMS OF DOMUS MAGAZINE 

Angelo Maggi (Italy) 

PRÁTICAS LATERAIS: ENCONTROS ENTRE A BANDA DESENHADA, A ARQUITECTURA E O ENSINO NAS DÉCADAS DE 1960 e 1980 

Leonor Matos Silva (Portugal) 

PUBLICIDADE REVISTA 1946-1988: UMA LEITURA DAS CONDIÇÕES DE CONSUMO DE ARQUITECTURA 

A PARTIR DO OPTIMISMO DA DIVULGAÇÃO PUBLICITÁRIA 

João Almeida e Silva (Portugal)