6th International Meeting “The Architect’s Journeys”.
Architects and Engineers: Journeys in the Polytechnic Culture Networks, Media, and New Destinations Since 1794.

The event is open to the public and registration is required via: bagikb.kit.edu
More Information: https://bg.ikb.kit.edu/1645.php

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PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

10:00
Presentation by Antonio Brucculeri (ENSA Paris-La Villette) and Massimiliano Savorra (Università di Pavia)

10:15
Opening Remaks by Joaquín Medina Warmburg (KIT, Karlsruhe)

10:30
Opening Lecture by Andrea Maglio (Università di Napoli Federico II):
“The German polytechnical tradition and the cultural legacy of architects’ journey to Italy”

11:30
Coffee Break

Session 1: The Polytechnical Turn
Moderator: Inge Hinterwaldner (KIT)

12:00
Peter Bohnert (Universität Vechta), Zwischen Bildung und Technologietransfer: Reisende Wasserbauingenieure und Architekten um 1800

12:25
Chiara Baglione (Politecnico di Milano), Modernity in Motion: Milanese Architects Journeys and Polytechnic Culture between Education and Cosmopolitanism

12:50
Giovanna D'Amia (Politecnico di Milano), I viaggi di studio degli allievi architetti del Politecnico di Milano nei primi decenni del Novecento

13:15
Maria Harnack (Verein Architektur Archive Bern), Die Reise als Bestandteil der theoretisch-praktischen Aus- und Weiterbildung von Bautechnikern am Beispiel des Thuner Architekten Alfred Lanzrein (1879–1933)

13:40
Panel Discussion

14:00
Lunch Break

Session 2: Transfers and Dialogues between Engineering and Architecture
Moderator: tba

15:30
Antonio Burgos Núñez (University of Granada), Lucio del Valle's 1859 travel to England and the spread of iron construction in Spain / El viaje de Lucio del Valle a Inglaterra en 1859 y la difusión de la construcción metálica en España

15:55
Marco Silvestri (KIT Karlsruhe), A Five Month Voyage Through European Polytechnical Culture: Juan Monteverde’s 1892 Tour of Europe and the Reform of Architectural Education in Uruguay

16:20
Akio Sassa (ENSA Strasbourg), Hisanori NUMATA’s unique dam and bridge designs inspired by his journey across the U.S. and the U.K.

16:45
Panel Discussion

18:00
Exhibition Opening: “Baukasten Karlsruhe: 200 Years of Polytechnical Architecture” (KIT)

19:30
Dinner at BAG Library, KIT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Session 3: Modernity, Modernism, Modernization
Moderator: Oliver Sukrow (TU Darmstadt)

10:00
Phoebus Panigyrakis (Athens), Arthur Staal and the Search for Modernism’s Origins

10:25
Francesca Usai (IUAV University of Venice), Alternative Geographies: Atypical forms of mobility in the polytechnic culture of the Swiss exile (1943-1945)

10:50
Thibaud Toussaint (École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette), Circulation and internationalization of technical-scientific knowledge: Marius Duriez's travels between 1949 and 1964

11:15
Panel Discussion

11:45
Coffee Break

Session 4: Evolving Technologies in the Postwar World
Moderator: Alexandra Axtmann (KIT)

12:15
David Mesa-Cedillo (UPC, Barcelona/KIT Karlsruhe), Im Dienste der Serie: Polytechnische Reisen der DDR-Architekten nach Moskau im Zeichen des industriellen Bauens (1957-1959)

12:40
Christian Vöhringer (Universität Regensburg), Collegial Travels to England and Denmark. The Polytechnical Search for New Universities in the 1960s

13:05
Isabel Soto Antúnez (Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées – Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Hybrid Figures and the Celebration of Technical Artifacts in Late 20th-Century French Architecture

13:30
Panel Discussion

14:00
Lunch Break at BAG Library, KIT

15:00
Closing Lecture by Christiane Salge (Technische Universität Darmstadt):
“Institution and Exchange: Architectural Education at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe in a Transnational Context”

16:00
City Tour “Baukasten Karlsruhe”

20:00
Dinner in Karlsruhe Downtown

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8

9:00-19:00
Optional Trip to Baden-Baden: “Architecture, Engineering and Tourism - City Tour”

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Organizing Institution:
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Fakultät für Architektur
Institut für Kunst- und Baugeschichte (IKB)
Englerstr. 7
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany

Contact: bagikb.kit.edu

Scientific Coordination Committee:
Alexandra Axtmann (KIT)
Inge Hinterwaldner (KIT)
Oliver Jehle (KIT)
Joaquín Medina Warmburg (KIT)
Oliver Sukrow (TU Darmstadt)
Organizing Committee at IKB-Professur Bau- und Architekturgeschichte
Joaquín Medina Warmburg
Anette Busse
Federico Garrido
Marco Silvestri
Gudrun Schütz

Scientific Coordination of the International Meetings Cycle:
Antonio Brucculeri, AHTTEP/AUSser, ENSA Paris-La Villette (FR)
Massimiliano Savorra, Università di Pavia (IT)
Scientific Committee of the International Meetings Cycle
Paola Barbera, Università di Catania (IT)
Antonio Brucculeri, AHTTEP/AUSser, ENSA Paris-La Villette (FR)
Juan Calatrava, Universidad de Granada (ES)
Vassilis Colonas, University of Thessaly (GR)
Cristina Cuneo, Politecnico di Torino (IT)
Marie Gaimard, ATE, ENSA de Normandie (FR)
Marilena Kourniati, AHTTEP/AUSser, ENSA Paris-La Villette (FR)
Fabio Mangone, Università di Napoli Federico II (IT)
Caroline Maniaque, ATE, ENSA de Normandie (FR)
Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (D)
Nabila Oulebsir, Université de Poitiers (FR)
Sergio Pace, Politecnico di Torino (IT)
Carlos Plaza, Universidad de Sevilla (ES)
Massimiliano Savorra, Università di Pavia (IT)