Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
European Architectural History Network (EAHN)

International Conference, Zurich

June 26, 2008 - June 29, 2008

Transfer and Metamorphosis
Architectural Modernity between Europe and the Americas 1870 - 1970

All lectures and sessions take place at ETH Zürich Main Campus,
Rämistrasse 101, Zurich
Rooms HG F3 / HG D1.1 / HG D1.2 / HG D3.2

Presentations will be given in English

Registration is required via website or on location
www.transferandmetamorphosis.org <http://www.transferandmetamorphosis.org>

An open meeting of the European Architectural History Network will take
place Friday, June 27, 4:45 pm, HG D3.2.

Programm:

Thursday, June 26, 2008

6:30 pm, Keynote
Marcel Meili, eth Zürich, Switzerland
The Hidden Dimension: The Americanization of Work, 1970­2008

Friday, June 27, 2008

9:30am ­ 10:15am, Keynote
Carol McMichael Reese, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Thomas F. Reese, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Shaping Metropolitan Modernity: Latin America Between Europe and the United
States, 1870­1970

10:30am ­ 1:00pm
Session No1

Session Chair

Werner Oechslin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Respondent
Nancy Stieber, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

Sonja Hildebrand, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Curjel & Moser Architects, Henry Hobson Richardson's Modern Romanesque and
the Development of "Natural" Modernism

Mary Pepchinski, Hochschule für Technik und Wissenschaft, Dresden, Germany
European Models, American Inventions, National Responses: The Feminine
Pavilion, 1876­1938

Katherine Wheeler, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
Influences and Exchanges in Architectural Education Between Britain and
America c. 1870­1915

Monika Holzer-Kernbichler, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
"America" in Vienna: The Presence of Ideas in Viennese Architectural
Discussions around 1900

Ian Morley, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Exporting-Importing Modernity: The United States, Britain, and
the City Beautiful

Response and discussion

10:30am ­ 1:00pm
Session No 2

Session Chair
Rob Dettingmeijer, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Respondent
Carol McMichael Reese and Thomas F. Reese, Tulane University, New Orleans,
USA

Anat Fallbel, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Gregori Warchavchik and Wladomiro Acosta: Two "in the multiplicity of a
diaspora of an exile with no return"

André Tavares, Porto, Portugal
The Colorful Traps of Theory

Viviana d'Auria, KU Leuven, Belgium
De-constructing Caracas: Exploring Cultures of Modernization During the
Post-Petroleum Boom [1945-1958]

Helen Gyger, Columbia University, New York, USA
The Reeducation of a Professional: John F. C. Turner and the Development of
Self-Help Housing in Peru

Joana Mello de Carvalho e Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Contributions of Foreign Architects to the Metropolitanization of the City
of São Paulo between 1930 and 1960
Response and discussion

2:30pm ­ 4:20pm
Session No3

Session Chair
Mardges Bacon, Northeastern University, Boston, usa
Respondent
Stanislaus von Moos, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio,
Switzerland

Kent Kleinman, Parsons, The New School, New York, USA
Why Muschenheim?

Anke Köth, TU Dresden, Germany
Cloistered Atmosphere and the Cathedral of Learning: American Collegiate
Architecture During the 1920s and 1930s

Katrin Eberhard, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
American Comfort in European Homes: Technological Transfer and the
Architecture of Habitation 1900­1920

Hilde Heynen, ku Leuven, Belgium
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and Germany: Architectural Debates in the 1950s and 1960s
Response and discussion

2:30pm ­ 4:20pm
Session No4

Session Chair
Wolf Tegethoff, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
Respondent
David Van Zanten, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Keith Eggener, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Juan O'Gorman Versus the International Style

Raquel Franklin, Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico d.f., Mexico
"Call it Swedish or German...": Introducing the Modern Movement to Mexico

José Angel Medina Murua, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Europe as Seen From Latin America: The Spanish Case

Bernd Kreuzer, Universität Linz, Austria
Fritz Malcher and Karl Brunner: Two Austrian Architects of the Interwar Time
between Europe and America
Response and discussion

4:45pm
European Architectural History Network, eahn
Public meeting to discuss current and future activities

6:00pm
Reception

Saturday, June 28, 2008

9:30am ­ 10:15am, Keynote
Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Panoptic Narration: Cinema and Surveillant Space

10:30am ­ 1:00pm
Session No5

Session Chair
Jakob Tanner, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Respondent
Philip Ursprung, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

Hans-Georg Lippert, TU Dresden, Germany
Doublethink: Stalinism and its Handling of the International Style

Martino Stierli, Universität Basel, Switzerland
The American Academy in Rome: Condenser of Ideas?

Andri Gerber, Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
Crossing Paths: The "Eastern Intellectual" [Peter Eisenman] vs. the
"California Joy Boy" [Christopher Alexander]

Kate Holliday, University of Texas at Arlington, usa
The Architect as Politician: Ralph Walker and the International Union of
Architects

Carmen Popescu, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
Western Discourse Behind the Iron Curtain: Reframing Socialist Architecture

Response and discussion

10:30am ­ 1:00pm
Session No6

Session Chair
Laurent Stalder, eth Zürich, Switzerland
Respondent
Joan Ockman, Columbia University, New York, USA

Michael Mönninger, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany
Suburbia in War and Peace: From US Wartime Town Planning to Post-1945 West
German Reconstruction

Paolo Scrivano, Boston University, Boston, USA
Receptions and Rejections of American Modernism in Postwar Italian
Architecture

Carola Ebert, Universität Kassel, Germany
The Liberation of Living ­ Part Two: The Influence of the Californian Case
Study House Program on the West-German Modernist Bungalow

Meredith L. Clausen, University of Washington, Seattle, usa
Post-War Paris, the Importation of the American High-Rise, and the Tour
Montparnasse

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,Israel
Frontier Jerusalem: The Holy Land as a Testing Ground for Urban Design

Response and discussion

1:30pm­6:30pm
Field Trips, Zurich and Basel

Sunday, June 29, 2008

07:30am ­ 7:00pm
Field Trip, La Chaux-de-Fonds
For information and registration, please visit the conference website
For further information, please visit www.transferandmetamorphosis.org

Conference Committee
Dietrich Neumann, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown
University, Providence, and Yale University, New Haven, USA
Andreas Tönnesmann, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture,
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Reto Geiser, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH
Zürich, Switzerland