Architecture and Wars: Forms of Destruction and Construction in War Zones

DAY 1
Friday, 2 June 2017

8–8:30am
Welcome

8:30-9am
Prelude
Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

9–9:30am
Opening Remarks: Architecture and Wars
Samia Henni, ETH Zurich

9:30-10:30am
Urbanism and War: Zoöpolitics and the Architecture of Bare Life
Lieven De Cauter, Leuven University

Break

10:45am-12:45pm
PLANNING

Calculating the Apocalypse: The Unexpected Career of the Swiss Nuclear Bunker
Silvia Berger, University of Zurich

Reconstructing Nahr el Bared and the Urbanism of Palestinian Camps
Ismail Cheikh Hassan, Beirut

Discussants: Laurent Stalder, ETH Zurich; Bess Laaring, ETH Zurich

Lunch

1:30 -3:30pm
ETHEREAL

Radio-Activities: The Architecture of the Broadcasting Apparatus in Cold War Berlin
Alfredo Thiermann, ETH Zurich
Media as Conflict Zone

Susan Schuppli, Goldsmiths, London University

Discussants: Doreen Mende, HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design, Harun Farocki Institut; Mark Zahran, ETH Zurich

Break

3:45-5:45pm
OPERATIONAL

Double-truth Strategies in Colombian Dictatorship
Maria del Pilar Sanchez-Beltran, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

The Rocks Remain: Landscapes of Conflict from the Falklands War
Tony Pollard, Glasgow University

Discussants: Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich; Tamim Hokan, ETH Zurich

Break

6–7:30pm
COUNTERINSURGENCY

Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/ Architecture of Counter-Insurgency
Felicity Scott, Columbia University

Roundtable with Lieven De Cauter, Tony Pollard, Susan Schuppli, and Felicity Scott moderated by Samia Henni

DAY 2
Saturday, 3 June 2017

9–11am
BORDERLINES

The War Relocation Project: Japanese-Americans and War’s Re-Territorialization of the Civilian Sphere, United States (1941-1945)

Helene H Nguyen, Princeton University
Perilous Meetings at the Truce Village: Transformations of the Joint Security Area in the Korean Demilitarized Zone since the Korean War (1950-1953)

Hyun-Tae Jung, Lehigh University
Discussants: Stanislaus von Moos, University of Zurich; Akagawa Ayami, ETH Zurich

Break

11:15am–1:15pm
URBICIDE

From Spectacle to Norm: The Incarceration of Pakistani Cities in Times of Perpetual Violence
Ayesha Sarfraz, Director, Architect at MAS Architects; Arsalan Rafique, Creative Director, Architect at Caramel Tech, Lahore

“Click and Kill:” The Architecture of Drone Warfare
Eva Schreiner, Columbia University

Discussants: Andri Gerber, ETH Zurich, ZHAW School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering; Edvardas Bukota, ETH Zurich

Lunch

2–4pm
SURVIVAL

Dialectics of War: Cinema as an Infrastructure in the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau (1963–1974)
Carolina Rito, Nottingham Contemporary; Nova University of Lisbon

Urban Transformations: Modalities of Survival in Besieged Sarajevo
Asja Mandic, University of Sarajevo

Discussants: Alla Vronskaya, ETH Zurich; Alison Brunn, Iowa State University, ETH Zurich

Break

4:15–6:15pm
SECURITY

Supporting War in a Distant Land: Long Binh and the U.S. Army in Vietnam
Marcel Berni, Military Academy, ETH Zurich

Outposts of Security? Dutch Military Architecture
Rick Krosenbrink, TU Delft, Netherlands Defence Academy

Discussants: Karl R. Kegler, Munich University of Applied Sciences; Lisa Maillard, ETH Zurich

Break

6:30–6:45pm
Concluding Remarks
Samia Henni, ETH Zurich

Apéro

The conference is convened by Dr. Samia Henni and generously supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Chair for the History of Art and Architecture Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, the Chair for the Theory of Architecture Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, and the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich.

The conference is open to the public, free of charge, and registration is not required.

Contact: samia.hennigta.arch.ethz.ch