east-west dialogues Symposium

Tuesday November 13th 2012 by Peter Thomas Lang

E z r a  S t o l l e r PHOTO of Paul Rudolph house.

November 16-17 University of Miami School of Architecture / Wolfsonian-FIU

EAST WEST DIALOGUES:

MODERNISM IN FLORIDA

The Mark Hampton Lecture Series

Organized by the University of Miami School of Architecture

Sponsored by the Deering Foundation

Co-sponsored by The Wolfsonian-Florida International University and DoCoMoMo US/Florida

November 16 & 17, 2012

 

Program:

 

Friday, November 16, 2012

The Wolfsonian-FIU

1001 Washington Avenue

Miami Beach, FL 33139

 

 

7:00 – 9:30 PM

Welcome by Allan Shulman, Conference Chair

Remarks by Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Evening Host Mitchell “Micky” Wolfson: “Mark Hampton: From the Wolf to the Mac”

Keynote presentation by Robert McCarter: “More Than One Way to Be Modern: Variations on the Theme of Modern Architecture in Florida”

Q&A
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Glasgow Hall

University of Miami School of Architecture

Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center

1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

 8:30 AM – Light breakfast buffet

 

9:00 AM – Welcome and Conference Outline

 

9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Session I: EAST-WEST: FLORIDA’S CONTEXT

 

Moderator:

Peter Lang, PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Architecture

Texas A&M University

 

  • The Toolkit for the Florida Modern Architect
    Jake Brillhart, Assistant Professor
    University of Miami School of Architecture

 

  • Materiality, Metaphor and the Sarasota School of Architecture
    Gregory Hall, AIA, LEED AP, Principal Architect
    Hall Architects, PA

 

  • East-West: Pedagogical Influences on Florida Modernism
    Suzanne Martinson, AIA
    Suzanne Martinson Architects, Inc.

 

Mid-morning coffee break

 

  • Cultivating the New: Seeds of a Progressive Architectural Agenda in Broward County, Florida
    Anthony Abbate, AIA, Associate Provost for the Broward Campuses
    Professor, School of Architecture
    Florida Atlantic University

 

  • The Role of Journals
    Randolph C.  Henning
    Architect

 

12:45– 1:45 PM

Boxed lunch in the Irvin Korach Gallery

 

2:00 – 5:00 PM

Session II: EAST-WEST: MIAMI, SARASOTA & BEYOND

 

Moderator:

Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, Associate Professor

Director History, Theory, and Criticism Program

Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture
University of Houston

 

  • A Culture of Architecture: West Coast Constructions
    Christopher Domin, Associate Professor
    Chair, Master of Architecture Program
    University of Arizona

 

  • Spaces in the Sun: Paul Rudolph in Florida and Asia
    Joe King, AIA, Principal
    King Architecture

 

  • Florida Pace Setters and California Case Studies: The Postwar House as Prototype, Prophesy, and Provocateur
    Monica Penick, Assistant Professor
    Design Studies Department
    University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Mid-afternoon coffee break

 

  • Monologue or Dialogue: Alfred Browning Parker Builds for Freeport’s Founders
    Serge Ambrose, Principal
    Ambrose & Sabatino Architecture and Historic Preservation

 

  • International Modernism in a Decolonized World
    David Rifkind, Assistant Professor
    College for Architecture + the Arts
    Florida International University

 

5:30 – 7:00 PM

 

 

Roundtable Dialogue: Legacies of Modernism in Florida

Moderator:

Larry Scarpa

  • Carl Abbott, FAIA
  • Don Singer, FAIA

Light refreshments will be served