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This conference will explore the architectural legacy of the 1960s both from the viewpoint of universally felt currents and dominating trends as well as illuminate counter-movements of individual and regional character.

The conference seeks to highlight and analyze a number of vital architectural strands and cases of the years from the late 1950s to the oil crisis of the early 1970s. The architecture of this period went through rapid technological and formal changes. The early 1960s witnessed the global spread of Late Modernism and the continuing presence of the canonized masters who had been instrumental in the shaping of Modernism - International Style - itself. Simultaneously a drift towards anonymity through universally applicable structural and formal systems brought to the scene a new generation looking for an architecture less tied to a. personally expressive vocabulary. The overall picture, however, showed great diversity intensified by movements and individuals exploring alternatives to hegemonizing tendencies influential throughout the Western realm.

The architecture of the 1960s was also closely tied to the triumph of the consumer society, to the impact of information explosion brought by the mass media and to structural changes of societal character. A political aspect was brought by the Cold War and the uses of Modernism as an ideological vehicle. Growing awareness of ecological issues, social injustice and the uneven division of wealth on the global scale led to radicalization reflected also in architecture.

From the rich web of the architecture of the 1960s, displayed by things and thoughts both universal and individual, we want to generate discussion around following key topics:

transformations of Modernity both globally and regionally
the heritage of the Founding Fathers: heroes of Modernism idolized and under attack
the impact of technological change
systems of administration, management and finance: the parameters of architecture in both public and corporate domain
theories and ideologies: the interplay of ideas and the artefact
politics: architecture as domination and as resistance
the realm of the fabricated: integrative factors in architecture and design

Program
F r i d a y Aug 30, 2002
8.00-10.00 Conference registration / opening

10.00-10.30 Introductory keynotes

10.30-11.30 Adrian Forty: The Sixties: Architecture's Best Years?

11.30-12.30 Claes Caldenby : A twofold movement.

Swedish architecture in the 1960s between production adapted building and the "haven of beauty".

12.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-18.30 Stream papers

18.30-19.00 Public debate

20.00- Welcome reception at Alvar Aalto Museum

S a t u r d a y Aug 31, 2002
10.00-11.00 Mart Kalm: Sauna-party in Summer Cottage. Soviet Estonians play the West

11.00-12.00 Beatriz Colomina: Enclosed by Images: the Eames Multi-Screen Architecture

12.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-17.30 Stream papers

(in two parallel sessions)
17.30-18.00 Public debate

20.00- Evening party

S u n d a y Sept 1, 2002
10.00-11.00 Marc Treib: Modernism in the North/California

11.00-12.00 Dennis Doordan: From the Cold War to Postmodernism: Architectural Developments in the 1960s

12.00-13.30 Public debate, ending of the symposium

The concluding panel will include the keynote speakers as well as visiting specialists, such as prof. Vladimir Slapeta (Czhech Republic) and prof. Mark Wigley (USA).

13.30-17.30 Field trip to the surroundings of Jyväskylä

17.30-18.00 Departure for the post-symposium tour (not included in the registration fees) [ more information on post-program page]

The organisers reserve the right to change the programme.

Papers
Avermaete, Tom [Belgium]
Acculturation of the Modern: Mass Tourism, Consumer Culture and the Work of Candilis-Josic-Woods

Bundgaard, Charlotte [Denmark]
Repetition versus Montage: Prefabricated industrialized building of the 1960’s - in the light of the ‘new industrialization’

Ebert, Carola [Germany]
Post-Mortem: Collage City And The Death Of The Architect

Evans, Doug [Australia]
Centre and Periphery: Melbourne regionalism and its global context in the 1950’s and 1960’s

Franklin, Raquel [Mexico]
Transformations of Modernity: The Mexican case

Hipeli, Mia [Finland]
Plans for Helsinki City Center by Alvar Aalto

Jakobs, Kenneth [USA]
This Could Kill That: The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts Exhibition At the New York Museum of Modern Art

Kaji-O’Grady, Sandra [Australia]
Serialism in the architectural experiments of the 1960s

Kohane, Peter [Australia]
The Space of Human Agreement: Louis Kahn and the Room

Koselj, Natasa [Slovenia]
“Architecture of the 60s in Slovenia”

Kurg, Andres [Estonia]
“Power within solitary dreams.” Transformations of the private sphere in Soviet Estonia

Lahti, Juhana [Finland]
Planning and design Formation of Principles in Tapiola Commercial Center by Architect Aarne Ervi

Leslie, Thomas [USA]
Capsule/Gantry: Two New Domestic Archetypes in the Architecture of the 1960s

Maguire, Hugh [Ireland]
Ireland: Torn between traditions

Mikkonen, Tuija [Finland]
Industry and Commerce Shaping Architecture - Local Applications of Viljo Revell’s International Ideas

Milojevic, Michael [New Zealand]
Between Helsinki and Los Angeles: the early work of Carmen and Elin Corneil

Niskanen, Aino [Finland]
A Study of the landscape and urban qualities of Pihlajamäki suburb, Helsinki

Pedret, Annie [USA]
“Representing history or describing historical reality?: the universal and the individual in the 1950s”

Sadler, Simon [England]
Archigram and Technocracy

Tuomi, Timo [Finland]
The Return of the Grid Plan: Town Planning, social sciences and the building industry in the 1960s

Verwijnen, Jan [Finland]
Process versus Product: What about an Architectural History of “Things in the Making”

Vuorinen, Juha [Finland]
The Architecture of Indeterminism - Welfare State and the new university buildings

Contact information
All occasions management
Alvar Aalto Academy
Tiilimäki 20, 00330 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 (0)9 4243 3310
Fax: +358 (0)9 485 119
E-mail: [email protected]
www.alvaraalto.fi

Abstracts & Papers
Mr. Pekka Korvenmaa (PhD, professor)
[email protected]
Tel: +358 (0)9 7563 0261
Mobile: +358 (0)50 5051154
Fax: +358 (0)9 7563 0345
(Questions concerning the content, themes and the topics)

Registration
Ms. Marjo Holma
[email protected]
TEL:+358 (0)14 624 811

(download the pdf-brochure, includes the conference registration form)

For more information:
www.alvaraalto.fi/conferences/universal/