Iconophilia: Spectacular Architecture and Design
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| CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism, 3/F Ponte 9 Rua das Lorchas Macau Macau SAR, China
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Iconophilia: Spectacular Architecture and Design The history of architecture and design is often presented as the sequential invention of iconic objects: specific foreground elements that contrast with, and eventually alter, their more generic backgrounds. But if these iconic forms once possessed symbolic or cultural content, today we see a proliferation of extraordinary forms without precise content, or seemingly unstable forms with equally unstable content. Every cultural institution and commercial development now demands its own iconic identity. Architects and designers exult in the opportunities for experimentation afforded by increasingly sophisticated digital design and fabrication technologies. Our cityscapes have become dominated by dazzling images and our daily lives filled with seductive objects. This symposium brings together a group of leading architects and designers from Asia, Europe, and America to discuss the new relationships between foreground and background, figure and field, decoration and abstraction, substance and image, transience and permanence, criticism and production, and the ways in which spectacular architecture and design affects our experience of the world. Date Saturday 30 May 2015, 9:00am–6:00 pm Venue CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism 3/F Ponte 9 Rua das Lorchas Macau SAR Organised by Department of Architecture and Design Faculty of Creative Industries University of Saint Joseph Sponsor Macau Foundation Support CURB Center for Architecture and Urbanism Ponte 9 Creative Platform Architects Association of Macau Schedule 9:00 Doors open 9:30 Introductory remarks Thomas Daniell 10:00–12:00 Session 1: Objects David Clarke (Melco Crown Entertainment, Macau SAR, China) Chris Bosse (LAVA, Sydney, Australia) David Erdman / Clover Lee (davidclovers, Hong Kong SAR, China) Steven Ma (XUBERANCE, Shanghai, China) Moderator: Nuno Soares 12:00–1:30 Lunch break 1:30–3:30 Session 2: Fields Andrew Colling (Galaxy Group, Macau SAR, China) Holger Kehne (Plasma Studio, Beijing, China) Clara Brito (Lines Lab, Macau SAR, China) Tom Wiscombe (Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Los Angeles, USA) Moderator: Filipa Martins 3:30–4:00 Coffee break 4:00–6:00 Session 3: Effects Steve Anderson (Steelman Architecture Asia, Nevada, USA) Tobias Klein (Studio Tobias Klein, Hong Kong SAR, China) Elena Manferdini (Atelier Manferdini, Venice, USA) Carlos Marreiros (MAA, Macau SAR, China) Moderator: Diogo Teixiera 6:00–6:30 Closing discussion All speakers Moderator: Thomas Daniell
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