Program
All times in this program are in Central European Time (CET)
Registered participants will have access to video recordings of all presentations through this website following the conclusion of each day.
Download the program and abstracts here.
Day 1 – Thursday, 5 November
13.00 Welcome
13.30 Panel 1: Environmental Matters
Chair: Carsten Ruhl, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Architectures of Order, GER
Juliana Yat Shun Kei, University of Liverpool, UK:
The Environmental Metaphors between Architecture and Ecology c.1965
Christian Vöhringer, Universität Stuttgart, Germany:
Ahh, Landschaft! Metaphorical uses of landscape in office, work and research environments
14.45 Break
15.00 Panel 2: Organic Urbanisms
Chair: Frederike Lausch, RWTH Aachen/CCSA, GER
Lina Dima, University of Thessaly, Greece:
Organic City. Modern Aspects of the Biological Metaphor in Architecture and Urbanism
Alejandro Campos, TU Delft, Netherlands:
Analogy versus Metaphor. Aldo van Eyck’s poetic images in-between fields
16.15 Break
17.45 Round Table (speakers only)
with an introductory talk by Martino Stierli, MoMA, NYC, USA
Day 2 – Friday, 6 November
12.50 Welcome to the second day
13.00 Panel 3: Metaphor as Method
Chair: Rembert Hüser, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Architectures of Order, GER
Avishek Ray, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India:
The Highway as a Metaphor. COVID Pandemic and the Politics of Mobility
Peng Xue, University of Edinburgh, UK:
From Metaphor to Paradigm: The Apocryphal Stories of the Mustard Seed Garden Reveals Dashilar as Heterotopic Urbanism
14.15 Break
14.30 Panel 4: Knowledge Foundations
Chair: Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Goethe-University Frankfurt/CCSA, GER
Michael Friedman, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany:
Changes of the Architectural Metaphor in Mathematics during the 19th and the 20th century
Michael Faciejew, Princeton University, USA:
The Documentation Center: A Material Genealogy of ‘Information Architecture’
15.45 Break
16.15 Panel 5: Metaphorical Frameworks
Chair: Sarah Borree, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Architectures of Order, GER
Inés Toscano, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany:
Metaphors at the Top! Denise Scott Brown’s Speculative Feminist Analysis of the Sociology of Architecture
Ingrid Quintana-Guerrero, University of Los Andes, Colombia:
Inmundo: Architectural Metaphors from the Edge of the World
Day 3 – Saturday, 7 November
11.50 Welcome to the third day
12.00 Panel 6: Memories of Space
Chair: Szilvia Gellai, University of Vienna, AUT
Nadia Falfoul, University of Kairouan, Tunisia:
Disturbing Scenes: Architecture as Metaphor in Women’s Stories
Juno Hoay-Fern Ooi, University of Malaya, Malaysia:
Architecture as Political Spectre: The Rangoon University Student Union (RUSU) Building
13.15 Break
13.30 Panel 7: Constructive Metaphors
Chair: Marija Marić, Architectures of Order Fellow, GER
Konrad Matyjaszek, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland:
Concrete Abstractions: Production of Working Architectural Metaphors in the Design Practice of Warsaw’s Socialist Realism (1949-1956)
Mokọ́ládé Johnson, University of Lagos, Nigeria:
Yorùbá Metaphor in Contemporary Public Realm Architecture
Devika Prakash, TU München, Germany:
The Metaphorical ‘Co-Construction’ of the Smart City: Studying urban future as envisioned by India’s Smart Cities Mission
15.00 Break
15.30 Closing Remarks
Olga Touloumi, Bard College, USA