POSTMODERN PROCEDURES
Princeton University School of Architecture
December 4th and 5th / Betts Auditorium
Conference organized by Sylvia Lavin
The purpose of the conference is twofold: first, to produce new knowledge about specific aspects of architectural production under postmodernism and second, to invite these procedures to take on new meaning by putting them in conversation with emerging architectural concerns. The conference will focus on key points of contact between the postmodern and the contemporary with particular emphasis on methods of documentation and analysis, technical and narrative drawing, forms of architectural instruction and participatory design. Because these procedures are being both strategically and accidentally reappropriated, a better understanding of their immediate history is a necessary component of their reinvention.
4:30 p.m. / Introductions
Mario Gandelsonas, FAIA, Interim Dean, Princeton University School of Architecture
Sylvia Lavin, Visiting Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture; Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
5:00-7:00 pm / Documenting
Denise Scott Brown, RIBA, Int. FRIBA, Venturi Scott Brown, Philadelphia
Andrew Atwood, First Office, Los Angeles; and Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Kersten Geers, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Brussels
9:00-11:00am / Deforming
James Wines, SITE, New York
Amale Andraos, Dean, Columbia University GSAPP; WorkAC, New York
Mark Lee, Johnston Marklee, Los Angeles
11:00am-12:30pm / Instructing/Constructing
Lucien Kroll, Kroll Atelier, Brussels
Diana Agrest, FAIA, Professor, Irwin S.Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union; Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects, New York
Erin Besler, Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Besler & Sons, LA
1:30-3:30pm / Inking
Andrew Holmes, Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, School of Architecture
Jimenez Lai, Bureau Spectacular; Lecturer at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
3:30-6:00pm / Processing/Collecting
Chad Floyd, FAIA, Centerbrook Architects and Planners, Centerbrook CT
Andrew Kovacs, Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Michael Meredith, MOS New York, Assistant Professor, Princeton
