The intent of ARCHILiFE 010 to thus contribute to issues and questions currently being raised by architectural activity seen as a method of investigation, intervention and knowledge within a globalized context

International Architecture Conference

For three special days planned as a forum for meetings, discussions and debates, ARCHILiFE 010 will be bringing together leading figures from many different backgrounds – people who are all involved in meaningfully re-thinking the issue of architectural praxis and activity for our day and age.

Using a series of public events – dialogues, seminars, lectures – it is the intent of ARCHILiFE 010 to thus contribute to issues and questions currently being raised by architectural activity seen as a method of investigation, intervention and knowledge within a globalized context.

Welcoming the notion of sharing, ARCHILiFE 010 is a conference focusing on exchanges of ideas, issues and analyses. Its aim is to create conditions that will encourage exacting work throughout, including its speculative and theoretical dimension, tallying with the tradition of international encounters that has underpinned the modern and contemporary history of architecture.

Each one of these three days will also focus on a series of issues aimed at encouraging fruitful and dynamic discussion among the distinguished attendees gathered for this occasion.

Friday 23rd april 2010 from 10am to 1pm

Lecture by Stefano BOERI “Politics of Projects: Sardinia and Marseilles“Architect, Boeri Studio, Milan; teaches urban planning at the polytechnique school, Milan; publisher of the magazine AbitareMODERATORS:Gilles DELALEX
Architect, researcher, Paris; co-curator of ARCHILiFE 010, teaches at the Paris-Malaquais School of ArchitectureFabrizio GALLANTI
Architect, Milan; co-curator of ARCHILiFE 010Catherine PERRET
Philosopher; teaches at the Université de Paris X, NanterrePARTICIPANTS:Pier Vittorio AURELI
Architect & urban planner ; teaches at the Architectural Association, London, Columbia University, New York, & Delft University of TechnologyKersten GEERS
Architect, urban planner, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, BrusselsDominique ROUILLARD
Architect, art historian; teaches at the Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture and at the Université de Paris IBrett STEELE
Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

What theoretical and historical research pertains in the field of architecture today?

Friday 23rd April 2010 from 2pm to 5pm

The issue of transmission still lies at the heart of teaching programmes in schools of architecture: what is to be transmitted, how, and based on what priorities? What is more, if architecture can be transmitted, it is first and foremost because it, itself, transmits, But teaching policies and the concepts underpinning them presuppose, on the contrary, a capacity for sustained attention to changes being undergone not only by architectural practices themselves, but also the whole set of parameters that they involve and the development of the field of research studying them. It is to contribute to the intelligibility of the priorities and discussions underpinning today’s teaching programmes in this field that this round table will be followed by a group discussion involving all the participants who have been invited to ARCHILiFE 010.MODERATORS:Catherine DAVID
Curator, director of Documenta XCatherine PERRET
Philosopher; teaches at the Université de Paris X NanterrePARTICIPANTS:Philippe BATAILLE
Director of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes – ENSANFrédéric BONNET
Architect; teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville - ENSAPB and at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio - AAM

Doina PETRESCU
Philosopher, founding member of the AAA - Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, Paris; teaches at Sheffield UniversityBrett STEELE
Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, LondonIn conversation with Pier Vittorio AURELI, Farshid MOUSSAVI, Hilary SAMPLE & Enrique WALKER

Saturday 24th April 2010 from 10am to 1pm

Since the research on the city of Las Vegas embarked upon by Denise SCOTT-BROWN and Robert VENTURI In 1972, knowledge about contemporary architecture has shown an interest in the issue of the “generic city”. The outcome has been a long line of research, questioning the models inherited from modernism. This is why, some of those, architects and theoreticians alike, who are applying descriptive and analytical systems that are connected with contemporary architectural practices will have their say, too.MODERATORS:Gilles DELALEX
Architect, researcher, Paris; co-curator of ARCHILiFE 010, teaches at the Paris-Malaquais School of ArchitectureFabrizio GALLANTI
Architect, Milan; co-curator of ARCHILiFE 010PARTICIPANTS:Marc ARMENGAUD (AWP)
Philosopher; teaches at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Paris-MalaquaisMomoyo KAIJIMA
Architect, BOW WOW workshop, TokyoGeoffrey SHEARCROFT
Architect, AOC, LondonKai VÖCKLER
Urbanist and publicist; founding member of Archis Interventions, BerlinEnrique WALKER
Architect; teaches at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, New YorkInes WEIZMAN
Architect and critic; teaches at the London Metropolitan University, London

Saturday 24th April 2010 from 2pm to 5pm

As a place dedicated to the praxis and activity of contemporary art, it was quite logical that the LiFE should invite to this international conference different artists, architects and theoreticians capable of shedding light on certain relations, past and present alike, which these two domains have long enjoyed. For this occasion, what will be involved will be a public dialogue with these artists and architects which will help to explain the logical systems and priorities on which their interest in art and architecture is based, be it in its modernist moment or in relation to issues which they share with and/or are addressing to architects and artists of today.MODERATORS:Catherine DAVID
Curator, director of Documenta XCorinne DISERENS
Curator, publisherCatherine PERRET
Philosopher; teaches at the Université de Paris X NanterreChristophe WAVELET
Artistic director, LiFEPARTICIPANTS:Vito ACCONCI
Artist, writer, architectCorinne DISERENS
Curator, publisherDominique GONZALEZ-FOERSTER
ArtistDidier FIUZA FAUSTINO
Artist, architectPhilippe RAHM
Architect; teaches at the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine-Arts in CopenhaguenOscar TUAZON
Artist

Sunday 25th April 2010 from 10am to 1pm

Involved here is a vision of architecture as a praxis which, throughout its history, has forever been confronted by the need to challenge and reformulate its status, its stakes and the boundaries of its activities. In associating historians and practitioners, the intent of this first ARCHILiFE 010 session is thus to examine what can be analyzed for our present, in relation to this status and these activities.

This meeting will be conducted in two stages. The first will help to set forth one or two exemplary cases which, from the participants’ viewpoint, illustrate a relevant reformulation of this question with regard to the current state of play in architectural practices. The second will enable the moderators invited for this occasion to embark upon a dialogue with participants and thus develop their ideas in discussion. The choice of participants will proceed here as elsewhere by way of a logic that encourages a heterogeneous set of stances and practices, attesting to the scope that characterizes this area today.MODERATORS:Catherine PERRET
Philosopher; teaches at the Université de Paris X, NanterreCyrille POY
Architectural critic, Paris; chief editor of L’Architecture d’aujourd’huiPARTICIPANTS:Farshid MOUSSAVI
Architect; teaches at the Harvard University, lives in London & Madrid & works in the United StatesFrançois ROCHE
Architect, co-founder with Stéphanie Lavaux of R&Sie (n), architectural practices, Paris & President of the laboratory of research, New Territories, Paris; guest research professor at Columbia-gsapp University, New York & at Usc, Los Angeles & at Angewandte University, ViennaHilary SAMPLE
Architect, MOS; teaches at Yale University School of ArchitectureEyal WEIZMAN
Architect

Sunday 25th April 2010 from 2pm to 5pm

Architecture seen as an area of knowledge, and as a logical system that raises questions, today involves methods of formulation and incorporation which go handin- hand with, bolster, analyze and criticize architectural practices in the contemporary world. Exhibitions and publications (paper and digital) thus form a parallel narrative to that of activities, and intervene like discursive constructs running parallel with the material nature of architectural praxes and projects, thus encouraging dynamic dialogue between specialists and professionals while at the same time broadening their reception to a much wider public, the better to discuss the issue of an architectural policy for our day and age. However, at a time when the ascendancy enjoyed by communicational strategies is no longer letting architecture off the hook, any more than any other field of activity, what will be involved here is shedding light, based on certain exemplary projects and positions, on methods helping to contribute towards the dissemination of architecture, encouraging processes of democratic inclusion and knowledge production.Lecture by Rem KOOLHAAS [to be confirmed]Architect, urban planner, OMA agency – Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam. In conversation with Catherine DAVID & Hans-Ulrich OBRISTPARTICIPANTS:Sébastien MARTINEZ BARAT
Co-founding member of Face B magazinePedro GADANHO
Architect, curator, writerEmiliano GANDOLFI
Architect, curator, criticJoseph GRIMA
Director at Storefront for Art and Architecture until 2010, New York; New chief editor of DomusSébastien MAROT
Architectural critic, researcher, teacherMartí PERAN
Architectural critic, curator; teaches at Barcelona UniversityWhy and with what tools is architecture being conceived, communicated and disseminated today? And with a view to what public challenges?MODERATORS:Gilles DELALEX
Architect, researcher, Paris; co-curator of ARCHILiFE 010, teaches at the Paris-Malaquais School of ArchitectureFabrizio GALLANTI
Architect, Milan; co-curator of ARCHILiFE 010Catherine PERRET
Philosopher; teaches at the Université de Paris X Nanterre