Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium: Shaping Architects = Shap

Cornell University Department of Architecture presents the Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium 2010 SHAPING ARCHITECTS = SHAPING ARCHITECTURE This year’s Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium will re-examine concepts central to the teaching of architectural design. The symposium draws on the experiences and insights of a core group of challenging educators and will address a matrix of critical issues: teaching arrangements and ideologies of foundational programs in architecture, techniques and theory as determining factors in the design processes, and the effect of architectural discourses on larger social constructs. A significant part of the conference will be dedicated to discussions among speakers, faculty, and students, and is intended to amplify and interrogate the presentations. The conference is coordinated and led by Dagmar Richer, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Christian Otto, Professor of Architectural History. For details and participant abstracts, visit aap.cornell.edu/arch/events. Conference proceedings will be published in book form. Video and audio podcasts of lectures and discussions will be posted on aap.cornell.edu/multimedia/ptms.cfm; look for these in early fall. The conference coincides with the exhibition Rowe X Ungers: Untold Collaborations on the City during the 60s and 70s at Cornell, on view at John Hartell Gallery, located in Sibley Dome on the Cornell campus. This exhibition will explore the common purpose of these seminal thinkers in promoting a theory of architecture based on new methodologies and modes of thought. The exhibition runs from August 25 to September 3. DATES: August 27–28, 2010 TIME: 9 a.m.– 5 p.m. LOCATION: James Law Auditorium, Schurman Hall WEBSITE: aap.cornell.edu/arch/events PARTICIPATING SPEAKERS: Mario Carpo Gisela Baurmann Kurt Forster Joerg Gleiter Werner Goehner William MacDonald Mark Morris Sebastien Marot Joan Ockman Hyungmin Pai Anthony Vidler This series is funded through a gift to Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning from Ruth and Leonard B. Thomas of Auburn, NY, in memory of their son, Preston.