The European Forum for Architectural Policies (EFAP) is an informal network of experts in the field of architectural policies in Europe. This concerns:
- Representatives of authorities (for example ministries or public services),
- Cultural institutions (architecture museums, research institutes and comparable establishments),
- Professional organisations of architects in the widest sense of the word,
- Each of these three categories being referred to hereinafter as ‘pillar’.
The Forum originates from an expert meeting on architectural policies in 1997 in Rotterdam, under the Netherlands EU Presidency. The European Forum for Architectural Policies was set up as a network organization in Paris in 2000 under the French EU Presidency. In that constitutive meeting a Resolution was formulated, the ‘Resolution on architectural quality in urban and rural environments in Europe’. This resolution was adopted by the European Council of Ministers on 12 February 2001.
Since then the European Forum for Architectural Policies usually meets twice per year in the country which at that moment exercises the presidency of the European Union. On the occasion of the meetings of the EFAP a meeting of the ‘Steering committee’ is held as well, which discusses the situation within the forum, exchanges information concerning the current developments and discusses the schedule of the meetings to come as well as particular activities.
Deadline for registration is 28 September 2007.
Draft Program
11 October 2007
09:30 Welcome reception
10:00 Opening Session
- Guilherme Pinto | Mayor of Matosinhos
- Francisco Nunes Correia | Minister of Environmen Spatial Planning and Regional Development
- Representative from the Commissioner for Regional Policy
- Manuel Vicente | President of the Architects Association
10:45 Rob Docter | European Union: Ten years of architectural policies | Director of the Berlage Institute, Netherlands
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Eduardo Souto de Moura | Conference
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Architecture, Territory and Landscape
- Facilitator | Pedro Brandão
- Nuno Portas | Urban disperse
- Maria José Curado | Landscape
Commentators
- Inés Sánchez de Madariaga | Deputy Director of Architecture and Housing Policy, Spain
- Ulrich Hatzfeld | Director of the Department for Urban Development | Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, Germany
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Debate
16:15 Conclusions
16:45 Vitor Campos | European Union: intergovernmental cooperation on the field of urban and territorial development | General Director for Spatial and Urban Development
17:30 Closing
19:00 Reception
12 October 2007
10:00 Opening Session
- Isabel Pires de Lima | Minister for Culture
- Carlos Lage | President of the North Regional Coordination and Development Commission
- Odile Quintin | Director General of DG Education and Culture, European Commission
10:30 Architecture, Cultural Industry and Development
- Facilitator | Paulo Pereira
- Jean Gautier | Conference | Deputy Director of the Department for Architecture and
- Heritage, in charge of architecture, France
- Fernando Rocha | Presentation of the House of Architecture | Town councillor of
Matosinhos
11:30 Coffee break
Commentators
- João Fernandes | Director of the Modern Art Museum, Serralves Foundation
- Fred Manson | Executive Director of CABE, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, England
12:10 Debate
12:30 Conclusions
- Elísio Summavielle | Architecture and Heritage on the European Union | President of the
- GESPAR, Architectural and Archaeological Heritage Management Institute
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Architectural and Landscape Policies
- Facilitator | Paulo Marques
- Metka Černelč | Conference | General Director of Spatial Planning, Slovenia
- Niek Hazendonk | Conference | Government Landscape Advisor, Netherlands
Commentators
- Helena Roseta | Architects Order
- Ricardo Magalhães | Head of the Agency for the Alto Douro Wine Region
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Debate and conclusions
16:45 Closing session
- Manuel Vicente | President of the Architects Association
- João Ferrão | Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Towns
- Guilherme Pinto | Mayor of Matosinhos
17:30 EFAP a.i.s.b.l General Assembly
18:30 Closing
20:00 Dinner
13 October 2007
10:00 Excursions