Buildings Instead of Discourse. Empathy and Modern Architecture in West Africa Adedoyin Teriba
Poetic Local Israeli Brutalism- Architect Ram Karmi’s Sensual Roughness Dana Margalith
The Construction of Chinese National Identity and the Designs of National Museums during the Early Post-war Period in Taiwan Jung-jen Tsai
I. M. Pei’s Museum for Chinese Art, Shanghai, 1946. Modernism, regionalism and the search for an architectural representation of national identity Leah Hsiao
Disseminating the Regional within the Global. Representing Regionalist Ideas and the Global Scale of the Modern Movement in the Hungarian Journal Tér és Forma Ágnes Anna Sebestyén
An Early Critique of International Modernism in the Anatolian Context Ayşen Savaş
Lewis Mumford, Henry-Russell Hitchcock and the Rise of “Bay” Regionalism Jose Parra-Martinez and John Crosse
An American ‘Parthenon’. Walter Gropius’s Athens US Embassy Building between Regionalism, International Style and National Identities Nikos Pegioudis
16:05 – Coffee break
16:20 – Session 3 – Vernacular Roots Chair: Maria Helena Maia
The Search for a Contemporary Finnish Architecture. Adaptations of the vernacular tupa in the oeuvre of Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren, Eliel Saarinen, and Alvar Aalto Christin Nezik
Luis Barragán and the invention of Mexican Regionalism Giulia Mela
Deeply Embedded in Tradition. Interpretations of regional roots for modern Hungarian architecture in the 1960s Mariann Simon, Dániel Laczó
The Roots of Brazilian Modern Architecture Natalia Vikhreva
19:00 – Opening of the exhibition Rogério de Azevedo’s Regionalist Drift
20:00 – Cocktail dinner
October 26
10:00 – Keynote lecture Modern Architecture in the (re)Making of History. Schools and Museums in Greece Cristina Pallini
A diary of a polish architect and film maker from his travels to the west. Modern Italian architecture in the Polish documentaries dating back to the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. Adam Nadolny
The Modern Appropriation of Urban Space Through Mediterranean Medinas Luca Maricchiolo
Nationalism and Rural Modernization. The Spanish Tagus Valley colonization villages in the context of Southern European inner colonization Maria Helena Maia and Alexandra Cardoso
Which Style for Colonial Libya? The Colonial, Modern and Fascist Architecture and the idea of Mediterraneity in the new colonial settlements Vittoria Capresi
16:05 – Coffee break
16:20 – Session 6 – Modernism and rurality Chair: Alexandra Cardoso Italian Modern Architecture Between Rurality and Monumentality. The case study of the Italian New Towns as an experimental territory for the Modern Movement in Italy Emanuela Margione
The Junta de Colonização and the shaping of the Estado Novo’s peasantry: newness and stagnation of the rural society Rita Almeida Carvalho
The settlements design of the Boalhosa’s agricultural colony. A dialectical perspective: between tradition and the construction of modernity Paolo Marcolin
Tradition and modernity in the Portuguese Inner Colonisation: the laboratorial case of Pegões Marta Prista
Agrarian Ideals in American Architecture Schools Fred Esenwein
19:00 – Port wine
October 27
10:00 – Session 7 – Regionalism and Modernity Chair: Marta Prista
Regionalism and the Functional Tradition in Danish Modern Architecture Martin Søberg
Romantic Visions vs. Rejection of Ideal Reconstruction Renata Jadresin Milic and Milica Madanovic
Modern Architecture and Local Tradition in 1950`S Portuguese National Inns (Pousadas de Portugal). Tiago Cardoso de Oliveira