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15 JUNE, FRIDAY:

8:00-9:00
Topic chairs and moderators' breakfast: ITU Faculty Club

8:00-4:00
Registration Desk, Display and Exhibit areas open 1st Floor Lobby/ Room 102

9:00-5:00
Day tours: Meet at Entrance Lobby
First Option: Istanbul's historical peninsula
Second Option: Boat tour of the Bosphorous

1:00-4:00
International Meeting of Associations of Schools of Architecture TBA

2:00-4:30
OTIS Urban Housing International Student Design Competition Room: 109
Finalist Presentations: 2:00-3:30
Jury Deliberations (closed to the public): 3:30-4:30

5:00: Load buses to Çirağan Palace Meet at Entrance Lobby

5:30-7:00
Welcome addresses and Çirağan Palace
OTIS Urban Housing Competition Award Ceremony

7:00-8:30
Opening Reception Çirağan Palace
[Sponsored by OTIS Elevator Company]

16 JUNE, SATURDAY:

8:00-8:30
Coffee and donuts First Floor Lobby
[All coffee breaks are sponsored by Dunkin Donuts-Turkey]

8:30-9:00
Slide show: "City: Istanbul; Architecture: Istanbul" Room: 109
[Prepared by A.Yücel, A.Şentürer and et. al. at the ITU Multi Media Center]

9:00-11:00 -Plenary Session:
Modernity and Metropolitan Culture: Istanbul between East and West Room 109

Moderator: Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University

Modernity, History and Memory: Istanbul 1900/ Istanbul 2000
Zeynep Çelik, NJIT
Global Istanbul and the National Imaginary
Ayşe Öncu, Bogazici University
Recent Architecture in Istanbul: All Factuality is Already Theory
Uğur Tanyeli, Yildiz University

11:00-12:00
Keynote Speaker: Room 109
"About the Masters of Miniature"
Orhan Pamuk, Internationally known Turkish novelist will talk about and read from his last novel, My Name is Red which touches on issues of reality and representation, East-West, art and life, through a story cast in the setting of late 16th century Istanbul.
[Sponsored by TEPE Center for Architectural Culture]

12:00-1:30: Lunch break

1:30-3:30
Paper Session 01: Informatics and Urbanity Room: 109

Moderator: Ellen Dunham-Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology

A New Theory of Public Space
George Baird, GSD, Harvard University
Library as Carnival: Reflections on Rem's New Proposal for Seattle's Public Library
Ayad Rahmani, Washington State University
The Ephemeral Metropolis: Tokyo as an Informational World City
Botond Bognar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Narrow Front Row-Housing Affordable Communities: An Alternative to Urban Sprawl
Avi Friedman, McGill University

1:30-3:30
Paper Session 02: Housing, Place and Identity Room: 106

Moderator: Maristella Casciato, Universita degli Studi di Roma-"Tor Vergata"

Increasing the Capacity of Public Housing to Accommodate Change: Open Building Implementation in Room, Unit and Building Levels
Joseph Francis Wong, City University of Hong Kong
Vernacular Shifts: Observations from a Small City
M. Victoria Liptak, Woodbury University
Planned Housing vs. Traditional Self-Help Housing: Evaluating the Chilean Experience in Low-Income Housing, 1950 to 2000
Alfredo Andia, Florida International University

1:30-3:30
Paper Session 03: History, Memory and National Imaginary Room: 107

Moderator: Lance Jay Brown, City College of CUNY

Negotiating a Memory-Image: The Zeus Altar between Berlin and Bergama
Can Bilsel, The Getty Research Institute
Today We Took in Many Travelers: Hotels of the Prison and the Palace in Contemporary Istanbul
Wendy M.K. Shaw, The Ohio State University
Designing the Western Wall Plaza: National and Architectural Controversies
Alona Nitzan Shiftan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
The Study of the Architecture of Anitkabir within the Framework of Turkish Identity Building
Zehra Tonbul, University of Cambridge

1:30-3:30
Paper Session 04: Non-Western Modern Room: 213

Moderator: Sevinç Yavuz, University of Arkansas

Americanization and Anxiety: Istanbul Hilton Hotel by SOM and S.H. Eldem
Esra Akcan, Columbia University
The Identity of Architecture and the Architecture of Identity
John Hertz, Universidad de Puerto Rico, and José Rogelio Alvarez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Avenue: Transformation of the Urban Landscape of Bangkok, 1861-1941
Pirasri Povatong, University of Michigan
Traditional Contemporary Buildings in Lebanon
Marwan Ghandour, American University of Beirut

3:30-4:00
Coffee break First Floor Lobby

4:00-6:00
Paper Session 05: Identity, Politics of Memory Room: 109

Moderator: Barbara Allen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Washington-
Alexandria Architectural Center

Berlin's "Critical Reconstruction" and the Politics of Memory and Identity
Ralph Stern, Hochschule der Künste Berlin
Architectures of Identity in an Other LA: Postcolonial Resistance in East Los Angeles
Jose Gamez, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Spatial Manifestations in Pluralist Cultures: The Case of the Isleta de San Juan
Heather Crichfield, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Apartheid Space and Identity in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Diane Ghirardo, University of Southern California

4:00-6:00
Paper Session 06: Representing Cities/ Urban Events Room: 106

Moderator: Hashim Sarkis, GSD, Harvard University

Visions of Constantinople/Istanbul from the 19th century guidebooks
Vilma Hastaogloou-Martinidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
On Realism, the Observer and Beirut: Design as Reporting
Michael Stanton, American University of Beirut
Urban Events as Places of Social and Cultural Negotiation
Tali Hatuka, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

4:00-6:00
Paper Session 07: Reading the Landscape Room: 107

Moderator: Hasan Khan, Roger Williams University

Tunis: Ecological Problems and Urban Solutions
Bechir Kenzari, United Arab Emirates University
Agricultural Constructs in the Greater Caribbean Basin: Geography, Culture, and Climate in the Making of Place
Alfonso Perez-Mendez and William Tilson, University of Florida
The Paradoxical Relationship between Ecology and Modern Technology in the "Firtina River Valley"
Aydan Hacaloğlu Ilter, Lawrence Technological University
Landscape and the Dispersed City-region
Marie-Paule MacDonald, University of Waterloo

4:00-6:00
Thematic Panel I: Study Abroad Programs in Turkey Room: 213

Chair/organizer: Alison Snyder, University of Oregon

Introduction - Study Abroad Programs in Turkey: Variations on a Theme
Alison Snyder, University of Oregon

Turgutreis 1974-1997: Anatomy of a Future Unlived
Richard Plunz, Columbia University
Experiencing Regionalism: Turkish Paradigms
William Bechoeffer, University of Maryland
A Cover Version: Approaching Design through the Living Topography of Turkey
Natalija Subotincic, University of Manitoba

4:00-6:00
Special Focus Session: Room: TBA
The Education/ Practice Continuum: International Models

Panelists:
Anthony W. Schuman, ACSA President
Herman Neuckermans, EAAE President (European Association for Architectural Education)
Gary Moore, AASA President (Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia)

6:15: Load buses to Is Bank Towers Meet at Entrance Lobby

7:00-8:00
OTIS Urban Housing Student Competition Panel Discussion: Iş Bank Towers
The Architecture of Housing: Buildings, Cities, Social Relations

Moderator: Anthony Schuman, ACSA President

Panelists/ jurors:
Atilla Yücel, Istanbul Technical University
Jo Noero, Washington University, St.Louis
Adele Santos, University of California, Berkeley
Bill Evans, OTIS Representative

8:00-9:00 Reception/ Buffet Dinner Iş Bank Towers
[Sponsored by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects and IŞ BANK Real Estate Investment Company, Istanbul]

JUNE 17, SUNDAY:

8:00-8:30
Coffee and donuts: First Floor Lobby

8:30-10:30
Paper Session 08: Religion and the Politics of Style Room: 106

Moderator: William J. Glover, University of Michigan

The Islamic Community in the United States: Identity and Architecture
Salim A. Elwazani, Bowling Green State University
The Importance of Everyday Practices of Religious Classification in Indian Architectural History
Ritu Bhatt, University of California, Berkeley
On the Verge of Civic Breakdown, from Public Sphere to Community and Territorial Division: The Case of Sincan
Güven Arif Sargın, Middle East Technical University

8:30-10:30
Paper Session 09: Changing Nature of Architectural Work Room: 213

Moderator: Sabir Khan, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ten Act Circus
Margarita McGrath, University of Utah

Future Work: Will It Be Big Enough?
Wes Janz, AIA, Ball State University
Shifting Geographies? The New International Division of Labour in Architecture
Paolo Tombesi, University of Melbourne
Non-Western Architecture Online
Anne Lawrason Marshall, University of Idaho

8:30-10:30
Paper Session 10: Architectural Exchanges and Encounters Room: 106

Moderator: TBA

"The rum (greek) architects-calfas" of Constantinople between 1869-1945
Savas Tsilenis, General Secretariat for Research and Technology of Greece
Kefallinia: The Imperial Legacy of Britain's Greek Empire
Nicholas N. Patricios, University of Miami
Polynesian Influences in New Zealand Architecture
Mike Austin, UNITEC Institute of Technology

8:30-10:30
Workshop I: Design-Build in the International Setting Room: 109

Organizers/ co-chairs:
Kevin Hinders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chris Taylor, University of Arizona
Participants:
Ken McCown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeff Poss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:30-12:30
Paper Session 11: Identity, Power and Margins Room: 109

Moderator: Keller Easterling, Yale University

Wrestling with Angels: On Berlin
Michael Stanton, American University of Beirut
The City as Index
Richard Scherr, Pratt Institute
In the Shape of the Margin: An Urban Group's Intervention on Peripheral Landscapes
Peter Thomas Lang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Las Vegas: The Return of the Repressed
Attila Lawrence and Janet White, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

10:30-12:30
Paper Session 12: Modern Dwelling Room: 106

Moderator: Kay Bea Jones, The Ohio State University

Suburban Placelessness and Idenity
Gail Peter Borden, North Carolina State University
Mutable Domestic Space: The Choreography of Modern Dwelling
Peter H. Wiederspahn, Northeastern University
Somewhere between East and West: Household Sagas in the Anatolian Village
Alison B. Snyder, University of Oregon

10:30-12:30
Paper Session 13: Processes/ Apparatus of Design Room: 107

Moderator: Ayşe Şentürer, Istanbul Technical University

Language as a Tool for the Democratization of the Design Process in Architecture
Mehmet Bengü Uluengin, University of Texas at Austin
Translations from Memory: Architectural Anecdotes from Three Months of Travel in Japan
Rebecca Dudley, University of Washington
Notes on Travel Writing
Mark Cottle, Georgia Institute of Technology

10:30-12:30
Thematic Panel II:
Reflections on the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Room: 213

Chair/organizer: Nasser Rabbat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture: An Experiment in Architectural Education
Nasser Rabbat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building the Bridges, Defining the Audience: The Nature of the Critical Discourse within the AKP Program at MIT and Harvard
Howeyda Al-Harithy, American University in Beirut
Designing for Islamic Societies: Assumptions, Premises and Challenges
Attilio Petruciolli, Polytechnic of Bari
Translating Islamic Architecture: The Legacy of the AKP
Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University

12:30-2:00: Lunch break

2:00-4:00
Paper Session 14: Technology and Culture Room: 106

Moderator: William L. Porter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Better Living through Circuitry
Craig Griffen, Philadelphia University
An Argument for a Cultural Focus in Architectural Technology Pedagogy
Barbara Allen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Washington-Alexandria Architectural Center
Appropriate Technology: Cycling between High and Low Tech in the Sonoran Desert
Mary C. Hardin, University of Arizona

2:00-4:00
Paper Session 15: Landscape in Culture Room: 107

Moderator: Eran Ben-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

East West Synthesis: An Integration of Global Traditions
Katherine Keane, Washington State University
Symbolism and Iconography in the Art and Architecture of the Canadian Prairie
Anna Wegierska Mutin, Washington State University
Nature and the New Rural Landscape
Paul Armstrong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Between the Building and the Book: Herbaria and the Origin of the Information Landscape
Edward Eigen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:00-4:00
Paper Session 16: Form and Meaning Room: 213

Moderator: Okan Üstünkök, Roger Williams University

The Neo-Platonic Origins of the Dome of the Rock
Don Hanlon, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Under the Shadow of Walls: Place, Meaning and Form in the Islamic Architecture and Urban Structure of Isfahan
Bashir Kazimee, Washington State University
The Aesthetics of Ottoman Architecture in the 21st century
James Patrick McQuillan, University of Cambridge and University College London
Reconciling global trends and regional traditions in contemporary design: abstract geometric structures as a key to cultural identity in architecture
Radoslav Zuk, McGill University

2:00-4:00
Thematic Panel III: Architectural Education in Turkey Room: 109

Chair/organizer: Hülya Yürekli, Istanbul Technical University

Participants:
Zekiye Abalı, Yildiz University
Aydan Balamir, Middle East Technical University
Neslihan Dostoğlu, Uludag University
Yavuz Koşaner, Anadolu University

4:00-4:30
Coffee Break: First Floor Lobby

4:30-6:30
Plenary Session: Room: 109
Modern Architecture, Regionalism and Identity

Moderator: Diane Ghirardo, University of Southern California

Between Modernization and Preservation: The Changing Identity of Vernacular in the Architecture of Italian Colonial Libya
Brian McLaren, AKP Fellow, Harvard University
The Second National Architecture Movement and the Question of Identity
Afife Batur, Istanbul Technical University
Singular Points: Considering the Life and Work of Joseph Allen Stein, 1912-
Stephen White, Roger Williams University
Nation Building: An American Embassy in Baghdad
Sandy Isenstadt, University of Kentucky

JUNE 18, MONDAY

8:00-8:30:
Coffee and donuts: First Floor Lobby

8:30-10:30
Paper Session 17: Interiors/ Bodies in Space Room: 213

Moderator: Aydan Balamir, Middle East Technical University

Latent Locale: Architectural Identity in a Vertical Region
Heinrich Schnoedt and Esra Shain, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
The Social and the Formal: Framing the Indian Interior
Mark Cottle and Sabir Khan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Looking Out: Screen, Veils, and [non]Facades in the formulation of Feminine Identity in the Traditional Indian Haveli
Jaideep Chatterjee, University of Cincinnati
Ritual of Orientation: Gestures of Ritual Worship and the Space of the Mosque
Eymen Homsi, The Ohio State University

8:30-10:30
Paper Session 18: Studying the City/ Studying Abroad Room: 106

Moderator: David E. Glasser, University of Arkansas

Paris: Critical Figurations of the Metropolis
Michael Gamble, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Meaning of Being, Abroad: In Praise of Foreign Studies in Architecture and Urbanism
Robin Fran Abrams, AIA, ASLA, Texas A&M University, and Simon Atkinson, RIBA, University of Texas at Austin
Dissecting the City: The Video Camera as Architectural Scalpel
Dietmar E. Froelich and Celeste M. Williams, University of Houston
Tel Aviv Narratives
Iris Aravot, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

8:30-10:30
Paper Session 19: 1999 Earthquake in Turkey Room: 107

Moderator: Yıldız Sey, Istanbul Technical University

Multi-hazard mitigation during post disaster reconstruction following an earthquake
Filiz Özel, Arizona State University
Temporary Housing in Response to the 1999 Earthquakes in Northwestern Turkey
Cassidy Johnson, McGill University

8:30-10:30
Workshop II: Trading Places: East/West Perspectives Room: 109
on Global Spatial Practices

Organizers/co-chairs:
Jose Gamez, Architecture, University of Nevada
Hande Birakalan, English and Folklore, Yeditepe University
Participants:
Leyla Çapan, English, Yeditepe University
Robert Gonzales, Architecture, UCB
Kate Hausbeck, Sociology, UNLV
Andrew Chin, Architecture, FSU

10:30-12:30
Paper session 20: Architects and Identity Room: 106

Moderator: Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Navigating the self: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy's exploration of American architecture
Hilde Heynen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Oceanic Rituals: Mario Sironi and the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution
Libero Andreotti, Georgia Institute of Technology
Reflections on Identity and the Margins of Practice: the case of Walter Betancourt
John Loomis, California College of Arts and Crafts

10:30-12:30
Paper session 21: Cultural perspectives Room: 107

Moderator: June Williamson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Beyond the Blob: The Impacts of "Cyber" and "Real" Hybrid Spaces in Architectural Production
Alfredo Andia, Florida International University
Beyond the Edge
James V. Strueber and Brian Klinkhammer, Tuskegee University
Man: The Magic Square
Eugenia Victoria Ellis, Drexel University
Design Pedagogy Contained: A Case of the Kit of Parts Approach in Beginning Design Training
Gu Daqing and Vito Bertin, Chinese University of Hong Kong

10:30-12:30
Paper session 22: Past in Present/ Present in Past Room: 213

Moderator: Zeynep Ahunbay, Istanbul Technical University

Private Landscapes, Public Environments: Personal Memory and the Experience of Built Space
Paula J. Behrens, AIA, Community College of Philadelphia
Nostalgia and Change: Residual Urban Space in the Alleys of the Art Deco Historic District, Miami Beach, Florida
Marilys R. Nepomechie, AIA, Florida International University
Balkan War, Ottoman Traditions, and an American Design Studio
Jeffrey M. Chusid, University of Texas at Austin
The Encounter of the Modernity Project with the Historical Context
Zuhal Ulusoy and Asuman Erendil, Bilkent University

10:30-12:30
Paper Session 23: Design and Studio Pedagogy Room: 109

Moderator: Kevin Hinders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Alchemist's Tort: a series of doubtful investigations
Kendra Schank Smith and Robert Hermanson, AIA, University of Utah
On a Quest through the Labyrinth - A Palimpsest of Sources: Traces, Fragments, Borders, Zones
Celeste M. Williams and Dietmar E. Froelich, University of Houston
Weighing up the Competition: international design competitions in the studio curriculum
Charles Walker and Srdja Hrisafovic, University of Auckland
Hybrid Sketching
Kendra Schank Smith and Albert C. Smith, University of Utah

12:30-2:00: Lunch Break

2:00-4:00
Paper Session 24: European Architecture, Urban Space, Identity Room: 109

Moderator: George Baird, Harvard University

Modernization and Tradition in Interwar Italian Architecture
David Rifkind, Columbia University
The Question of Identity in the Contemporary City: Spaces of Tactical Resistance
Dieter De Clercq, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Poche Parisienne: The Interior Urbanity of Nineteenth Century Paris
Sudipto Ghosh, University of Cincinnati
North-South: Rationalism and Tradition in the New Towns of the Reconstruction in Spain
1939-1958
Jean-François Lejeune, University of Miami

2:00-4:00
Paper Session 25: Form and Place Room: 106

Moderator: Thomas Barrie, Lawrence Technological University

Faith in Infinity: a past & future in architectural decoration
Philip Beesley, University of Waterloo and Neil Forrest, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Rethinking Ottoman Architecture
Henry Matthews, Washington State University
The Enunciative Presence of the Vernacular: An example from Istanbul
Ayşegül Baykan, Koc University
Architectural Chorography
Marc Glaudemans, Eindhoven University of Technology

2:00-4:00
Paper Session 26: Local/ Global Room: 107

Moderator: David Reibe, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Sustaining Multi-Cultural Landscapes in Dubai, UAE: A tale of two districts
Yasser Elsheshtawy, United Arab Emirates University
The City of Contrasts/Contradiction: An Examination of the Contemporary Metamorphosis in Istanbul, a Socio-Cultural and Spatial Perspective
Inci Deniz Ilgın, Marmara University
Other spaces of Istanbul: A city that moves beyond the limits of global-local duality
Berin Gür, Middle East Technical University

2:00-4:00
Paper Session 27: Writing the Non-West Room: 213

Moderator: Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoğlu, Bilkent University

Filarete's 'Journey to the East'
Kenneth Hayes, University of Toronto
Middle East Architecture In Search for a New Identity: Re-Evaluating its Impact on European Architecture and Design
Khosrow Bozorgi, University of Oklahoma
The Invisible 'East': Fletcher and the Unseen Ho-o-den
Paul Walker, University of Melbourne
Architecture, Orientalism and the Aryan Thesis
Stephen Cairns, University of Melbourne

4:00-4:30
Coffee Break First Floor Lobby

4:30-6:30
Closing Talks Room 109

Moderator/ discussant: Haluk Pamir, Middle East Technical University

A view on Turkish Architecture in recent decades: Is Architecture Becoming an Intellectual Hobby?
Mine Inceoğlu, Istanbul Technical University

Cultural Tectonics
Romi Khosla, Architect, India; International Consultant to the UN
[Sponsored by the Aga Khan Architectural Awards, Geneva]

7:00 Load Buses to ENKA Renaissance Restaurant

7:30-9:30
Closing Dinner: ENKA Renaissance Restaurant
[Sponsored by ENKA Construction and Industry Inc., Turkey]

JUNE 19, TUESDAY

9:00-4:00
Thematic/ guided city tours Meeting Location TBA
[Organized by FEST Travel. Tour guides in parentheses]

1. Byzantine Istanbul (Metin Ahunbay, Istanbul Technical University)
2. Sinan's mosques (Jale Erzen, Middle East Technical University)
3. Art Nouveau (Afife Batur, Istanbul Technical University)
4. Modernism in Republican Turkey (Hülya Yürekli, Istanbul Technical University)
5. New Residential developments (Arzu Erdem, Istanbul Technical University)
6. Legacy of Sedad Hakkı Eldem (Sibel Bozdoğan) and Koc University Campus (Jim Wilkinson)

JUNE 20, WEDNESDAY

Post-Conference tours begin
[Tours organized by FEST Travel, Istanbul]
I. Cappadocia (three days)
II. Western Anatolia (two days)
III. Cappadocia and Western Anatolia combined (five days)