Building - Designing - Thinking

August 30-31, 2008
Jyväskylä, Finland

CALL FOR PAPERS

In the introduction to his essay on architecture, Abbé Laugier claims that
in those arts which are not purely mechanical it is not sufficient to know
how to work; it is above all important to learn to think. But how should
one then think about architecture, or rather, think in architecture? Is
there a specific architectural way of thinking, as opposed to, say, an art
historical way of looking at a building? Can design be a form of thinking?
Or does it all boil down to subjective taste?

The 3rd International Meeting on the Research of Modern Architecture,
organised by the Alvar Aalto Academy, examines the points of contact, the
influences and effects, the interactions and affiliations, the correlations
and cross-fertilisations, the bonds and links between thinking, designing,
and building.

Chaired by Kari Jormakka, the meeting takes place in August, 2008, in
Helsinki and Jyväskylä, Finland, bringing together practicing architects and
architectural pedagogues, philosophers and art historians, sociologists and
cultural theorists. In addition to presentations by distinguished invited
speakers, as

Farshid Moussavi, Foreign Office Architects, London, England / Harvard
University, Cambridge MA, USA
Bernard Cache, Objectile, Paris, France
Jane Rendell, Bartlett, London, England
Leslie Kavanaugh, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Kimmo Lapintie, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Gareth Griffiths, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Contributions are sought for five paper workshops (see website)

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Conference proceedings will be refereed and published.

-Abstracts of 250 words are due 4 February by email to the address
academyalvaraalto.fi. Paper Format Guidelines will be sent upon request and
upon receipt of abstract. (Referee advice will be progressively circulated.)

-Notification of acceptance by 25 February. Drafts due 28 April.

-Final deadline for completed and accepted papers (of 4000 words maximum)
are due 2 June by email to the address academyalvaraalto.fi.

Publications:

-Accepted papers will be published in a pre-conference publication.

-Keynote speaker presentations and selected papers will be published and
distributed after the conference.

Dates to Remember:

4 February 2008 Deadline for Abstracts
25 February 2008 Notification Acceptance Abstract. Invitation to Full Paper
Submission
28 April 2008 Deadline for Draft Papers
2 June 2008 Deadline for Final Papers
30-31 August 2008 International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture

www.alvaraalto.fi/conferences/2008/