Should architectural criticism be enlightening? Should it help in the creation of a better built environment? Is there a factual basis to it? Does it have a duty to present evidence in the evaluation of a building? Or should it take on what architects say about their designs?

In the context of a flat internet, should architectural criticism be able to define best practices? Does it wield the power over who is in and who is out?

Architectural criticism, like all human endeavors, is at a crucial juncture. While serious architecture struggles for recognition, much so-called architectural criticism is merely a poorly paid, decorative legitimation for hyperbolic practice. Incisive architectural criticism is rare, while the definition of criticism itself has become opaque.

This conference seeks papers that define the purposes and methods of architectural criticism. What should the ethical basis be of architectural criticism? Can it be objective in the context of paid content? Should it outline ideal practices? Or what should it do?

فهرست سخنرانی‌های همایش:

▫️Origins and Approaches| Saturday, 9. October

keynote: Kennneth Frampton

Participants:

Kostas Tsiambaos| A critique of building construction: tactics of "resistance" in Pikionis Akropolis Works.

Caroline Voet| The creative emancipation of critical building analysis.

Kevin Low| The dominant paradigm we call design.

Christophe van Gerrewey| Trth content: SANNA's Rolex Learning Center.

▫️High Culture in Conflict | Sunday, 10. October

keynote: Zheng Shiling

Participants:

Carlos Eduardo Comas & Marcos Leite Almeida| Niemeyer Do(o)med: Remembrance of planes past.

Martin Hartung| The new moMa — Architectural Criticism 1979 — 2019.

Claudia Costa Cabral| On Lina Bo Bardi's Iconography: Three drawings.

Seda Zafer| imported Starchitect in a Local Market.

▫️Criticism and its effects|  Saturday, 16. October

keynote:  Ruth Verde Zein

Participants:

Jasna Galjer| Architectural Criticism in the space for the unexpected,

Konstantinos Petrakos| Aphaeresis ans Urban Policies.

Morten Birk Jorgensen| Verdicts on the Viking Ship Hall.

Carolina Chaves|ARchitectural criticism on Post - WW II Collective Housing: Complicit In an Historical Prejudice?

▫️Explicit Criticism | Sunday, 17. October

keynote:  Philippa Tumubweinee

Participants:

Lynnette Wider| "The lightness parliament in the world": Hans Schwipperts Bundeshaus.

Blazej Ciarkowski| The lost battle for memory: Why does Architectural criticism in Poland remain silent?

Ozlem Erdogdu Erkarslan, Burak Altinisik & Batu kepekcioglu| The new Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture:  Multiperspectival Criticism in Contemporary Turkish Architecture.

- میزبان و برگزارکننده: دانشگاه تگزاس آستین

- زمان: ۹ تا ۱۷ اکتبر ۲۰۲۱| ۱۵ تا ۱۷ مهر ۱۴۰۰

- اطلاعات بیشتر: https://soa.utexas.edu/icac2021