School of Architecture hosts regional conference Nov. 1-2
(Oct. 31, 2002)--The UTSA School of Architecture hosts the "Land Culture Practice" conference 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 1-2 in the Durango Building Southwest Room at the Downtown Campus. The conference, a three-part symposium to explore the inseparable but distinct concepts of land, culture and practice in architecture, is also a meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Southwest region.
Participants include 100 invited students, but the event is open to UTSA faculty and staff for a $35 fee which includes a copy of the proceedings publication to be available next spring. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 1.
The conference consists of three symposia whose issues, questions and ideas will merge into a wider discussion in a colloquium summarizing the discussions. Each symposium will be guided by invited moderators who will address the closing colloquium. The three symposia will involve separate discussions of the three words in the conference title and will consider historical and current perspectives in the attempt to foresee how society will develop.
The "Land" component will define the natural environment necessary to support human habitation, "Culture" will focus on the ways humans become part of the environment and "Practice" will outline the processes and rituals of humans and how they incorporate architecture into a society.
The moderators/keynote speakers are Jonathon Smith, University of Texas at Austin; Howard Patrick Barry, practicing architect, Bethesda, Md.; and Matthew Potteiger, author of "Landscape Narratives."
The conference will include Sunday tours of the city to provide windows on San Antonio's cultural landscape and architectural practice. Conference co-chairs are UTSA assistant professors of architecture Rick Lewis, Vincent Canizaro and Mark Blizard.
"This will be different from most conferences because it is centered on discussion and not presentations. We will include many perspectives, including those of architecture practitioners and academicians, but also of artists and cultural geographers outside the architectural world" said Lewis.
According to Lewis, the conference will focus on broad interpretations of the conclusions reached during the discussions. "We think the format will allow many ideas to come to the surface," he said.
For more information, call (210) 458-4299. Visit the School of Architecture Web site.
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Discussion topics include:
Stream Restoration in Baltimore, Maryland
Tobacco Barns and the Culture of a Landscape
Space of Migration: Crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border
Presenting Origins: A Cultural Center for the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
The Influence of Italian Immigrant Culture in Latin American Landscapes
Surface Living: Urban County Design Articulated
Memory Palaces of the Dakotas
Bavarian Vernacular Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanization on the Northern
Fringes of the Alps
The Confines and Confluences of Architecture/Landscape Places in the Urban
Fabrics
An Account of an Architecture at the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, 1998-Present
Land Landscape Townscape: Residential Development in a Western Canadian City
Mediating Contradictions: Material Responses to Physical and Cultural Landscapes
Seaside for the Rest of Us: Final Report, The Alley Neighborhoods of San Antonio
as Precedent for Local Community Development
Retaining Place: Methodology for Culture-Specific Design
Speed The Plow: Three Undergraduate Studio Projects for a Farm-Park
Land Arts of the American West
40 Flags in the Landscape of Perry, Oklahoma: A Monument of Free Expression
Architecture, Politics, and Cultural Transformation
Defining the Montana Landscape
Landscapes of Culture: The Body in the Land
Pushing the Flat City: An Inquiry into Methods for Representing Exurbia
Language in Landscape: Connecting Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument
to the Capacity for Place-making
Furniture is to House as House is to Garden
Gumbo Practice: A Search for a Relevant Procedural Model
Culture, Terra, and Terror: The Collision of Culture and Environment
The Image
(and Its City)
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