The City and Complexity – Life, Design and Commerce in the Built Environment

Graham Cairns Announcement
Location
United Kingdom
Subject Fields
Urban Design and Planning, Urban History / Studies, Architecture and Architectural History, Historic Preservation, Environmental History / Studies

Complexity and the City – Life, Design and Commerce in the Built Environment

 

Dates: 17-19 June 2020

Abstracts: 01 December 2019 

Place: CITY – University of London

http://architecturemps.com/london-2020/

 

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Outline:

Architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Patrik Schumacher embrace the chaos of the Neoliberal city. Others such as Teddy Cruz emphasise housing, community activism and social responsibility. Engineers offer technical solutions to environmental design while landscape and urban designers can focus on place making and resilience simultaenously.

In this complex scenario nothing is isolated. New Urbanism can be analysed using space syntax. The walkable city can be aligned with Transport Orientated Development. Designers can be commissioned as tools of economic regeneration. Housing can be linked to financial crisis. 

This complexity has historical roots. By the early 1970s Jane Jacbos had published The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing complex had been identified as the moment of modernism’s death. From that point on the built environment was never again to be considered in isolation from social, cultural and political issues. In short, it was seen as a complex entity. 

Some fifty years after these historical landmarks, this conference asks how the disciplines of interior design, architecture, landscape and urbanism operate on their own terms but also in relation to other fields such as health, sociology, economics and cultural studies.

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Presentation and Publication Details:

Pre-recorded and skype film presentation are available for delegates unable to attend in person. Pre-recorded presentations will be permanently available on the AMPS YouTube channel.

Publishers include: Routledge Taylor&Francis, Intellect Books, Vernon Press, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Libri Publishing and UCL Press.

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The conference is coordinated by City - University of London and PARADE (Publication and Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments) in collaboration with AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society).

More information:

http://architecturemps.com/london-2020/

Contact Information

Cindee Hogan

Contact Email
info@architecturemps.com