Architecture. Utopia. Realism.
Events Program: Academic Year 2014-2015
Program Editor: Ljiljana Blagojević
Thematic Cycles’ Editors:
Design and Technologies: Đorđe Stojanović and Vladimir Milenković
Laureates and Candidates: Grozdana Šišović
Architecture and Art: Branko Pavić
History and Theory: Dragana Ćorović and Marija Milinković
City and Society: Aleksandra Stupar
Film and Architecture: Vladimir Milenković
This lecture series is a continuation of the AUR Guest Lecture Program 2013/14 that followed the International Scientific Conference: Architecture Utopia Realism (AUR), organized by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, on 3rd and 4th October 2013.
The speakers at the conference were: Fritz Neumeyer, Reinhold Martin, Irina Korobina, Ljiljana Blagojević, Silvia Malcovati, Alessandro de Magistris, Krunoslav Ivanišin, Ivana Wingham, Tijana Vujošević, Aleksandar Kušić, Luka Skansi and Keller Easterling. The conference was accompanied by the exhibition “Ivan Leonidov: Projects”, which was organized and produced in partnership between the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow and the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade.
The thematic issue “Architecture Utopia Realism” of Serbian Architectural Journal (2014, VI-2) was published in 2014. The context and thematic framework of the issue are introduced by the guest editor Ljiljana Blagojević and five full research papers explore different aspects of this subject.
The AUR Guest Lecture Program 2013/14 included eight lectures within the three thematic cycles: Design and Technologies, Laureates and Candidates, City and Society. The lectures were given by: Johan Bettum, Aristide Antonas, Ezio Manzini, Matias Echanove, Tom van Malderen & Chris Briffa, Anne Lacaton, Emil Jurcan, Cristina Diaz Moreno & Efren Garcia [AMID.cero9].
AUR Guest Lecture Program 2014-2015
Design and Technologies
* Tuesday at 19.00h
Edouard Cabay
ESA Associate Professor Studio -Re, EPFL Alice Studio Director
IAAC Faculty Fabrication Class, AA Barcelona Visiting School Director
Laureates and Candidates
Christoph Gantenbein
Architect, co-founder of Christ & Gantenbein, Basel
Assistant Professor at the ETH Zurich
Architecture and Art
Betti Marenko
PhD, Contextual Studies Programme Leader for Product Design
Research Leader for the Programme of Ceramic, Industrial and Product Design
Central Saint Martins
University of the Arts, London
Design and Technologies
Héctor Mendoza & Mara Partida
[MX_SI]
Héctor Mendoza
PhD, architect, co-founder of MX-SI Architectural Studio
Associate Professor at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona
Mara Partida
PhD, architect, co-founder of MX-SI Architectural Studio
Associate Professor at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona
History and Theory
* Thursday at 19.00h
Karin Šerman
PhD, Associate Professor of Architectural Theory
, Head of the Department of History and Theory of Architecture
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture
Architecture and Art
Mike Tonkin & Anna Liu
[Tonkin Liu]
Mike Tonkin
Architect and landscape architect, co-founder of Tonkin Liu Architects, London
Anna Liu
Architect and landscape architect, co-founder of Tonkin Liu Architects, London
City and Society
Selva Gürdoğan & Gregers Tang Thomsen
[Superpool]
Selva Gürdoğan
Architect, co-founder of the Superpool studio, Istanbul
Gregers Tang Thomsen
Architect, co-founder of the Superpool studio, Istanbul
City and Society
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto & Momoyo Kaijima
[Atelier Bow-Wow]
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Architect, co-founder of the Atelier Bow-Wow
Associate Professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology
Momoyo Kaijima
Architect, co-founder of the Atelier Bow-Wow
Associate Professor of the University of Tsukuba
History and Theory
Nathalie Blanc
PhD, urban geographer
Director of Research at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Université Paris 7
Michael U. Hensel *CANCELLED!
PhD, Professor, Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics (RCAT)
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Design and Technologies
Charles Bessard & Nanne de Ru
[Powerhouse Company]
Charles Bessard
Architect, co-founder of Powerhouse Company
Associate Professor at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Nanne de Ru
Architect, co-founder of Powerhouse Company
Director of the Berlage Center for Advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design
City and Society
Jan Lilliendahl Larsen
[Supertanker]
Urbanist, member of the Supertanker group, Copenhagen
History and Theory
Jean-Louis Cohen
PhD, architect, historian, curator
Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture
Institute of Fine Arts / New York University
Film and Architecture
Marco Brizzi
PhD, architecture critic, curator
California State University, Florence
Kent State University, Florence