Understanding and Designing Place – Seminar on Architecture and Philosophy in Tampere on April 3

April 3, 2017 at 11–18
Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture
Rakennustalo Building, lecture hall RO 107

 

Understanding and Designing Place
Seminar on Architecture and Philosophy

PROGRAMME

11:15–11:20 Welcome and Opening
Olli-Paavo Koponen, Professor, TUT School of Architecture

11:20–11:40 Making the Place a Home: On Means and Goals of Architectural Design
Pekka Passinmäki, University Lecturer, PhD, architect, TUT School of Architecture

11:40–12:10 Writing Place − Narrative Methods for Topo-analysis
Klaske Havik, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, Visiting Professor, TUT School of Architecture

12:10–13.30 Lunch Break

13:30–14.30 Placing the Mind − Place and Existential Meaning in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, Professor Emeritus, author, Helsinki

14.30–15.30 Emerging Place in Contemporary Architecture: The Problem of Context in a Cosmopolitan World
Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Professor, McGill University, Montreal

15:30–15:45 Break

15:45–16.45 Place, Truth, and Commitment
Jeff Malpas, Professor, University of Tasmania

16.45 Panel discussion among keynote speakers
Moderated by Klaske Havik

17.15 Close and drinks

registration by March 30 here
additional information here or pekka.passinmaki(at)tut.fi