Hybrid Spaces: Multi-Functionalism, Performance and Representation in
Modern and Contemporary Architecture

Friday, November 7th, 2014
UniTobler, Raum F 023, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern

09:00 Registration / Coffee and Tea

09:30
Welcome and Introduction:
Bernd Nicolai, Bern


Section 1:
Discourses and Practice on the Correlation between Interior and
Exterior/ Public and Semi-Public Spaces

09:45
Roberto Cavallo, TU Delft
Unstable Spatial Interdependency: Infrastructures and City

10:45
Bernd Nicolai, University of Bern
Prolegomena about Space as Architectural Category in the Modern Age

11:45
Keller Easterling, Yale University
"Floors"

12:45h Lunch


Section 2:
The Viewer and the Viewed: Performative Aspects in Architecture

14:00
Luis E. Carranza, Roger Williams, University, Bristol/RI
The Viewer and the Viewed: Latin American Examples

15:00
Lilia Mironov, University of Bern
Modern Airports as Performative Spaces

16.00 Coffee and Tea

16:30
Marcel Vellinga, Oxford Brookes University
A Comfortable Home: Ethnicity, Nostalgia and Multicultural Housing
Design in the Netherlands


Keynote Lecture
November 7th, 2014
University of Bern, Von Roll Lecture Hall, Room 004, Fabrikstrasse 6,
3012 Bern

18:30
Curtis Fentress, Fentress Architects, Denver, Los Angeles, Shanghai,
London
The Architecture of Flight


Saturday, November 8th 2014
UniTobler, Raum F 023, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern

Section 3:
Ornament and Surface

9:00
Ákos Moravánszky, ETH Zurich
Squares and Counter-Squares:
A Lefebvrean Walk in Budapest

10:00
Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich
The Value of the Surface: Ornament in the Writings of Loos and the
Buildings of Herzog & de Meuron

11:00
Simona Travaglianti, Bern University of the Arts
Going Upside Down, Looking Inside Out

12:00 Lunch

13:30
Peter Krieger, UMA Mexico-City
Structure and Effects of the Neobaroque Façade: A Mexican Showcase

14:40
Stanislaus von Moos, Zurich and Yale University
Venice between "Duck" and "Decorated Shed". Notes on Robert Venturi and
Denise Scott Brown

Final discussion