Friday, 2 March, 2007

SANCTIONING MODERNISM will be a one-day working symposium on modernism and identity in post-World War II architecture. A combination of doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, and emerging or more established scholars, will convene for three moderated panel discussions, arranged by topic and working from papers circulated in advance. Dennis Doordan will present the keynote address, concluding the day's work and reflecting on themes pertinent to all participants.

The three working sessions, addressing the appropriation of modernism in political, religious, and domestic contexts, will take place at the UT School of Architecture, Goldsmith Lecture Hall, Goldsmith 3.120:

Modernism and the State
9:30 - 11:30 am

moderated by Danilo Udovički-Selb

• Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham University)
  "Les Dalles: French Modernism and the Architecture of Public Space"
• Juliana Maxim (University of San Diego)
  "Bucharest: The City Transfigured"
• Vladimir Kulić (University of Texas at Austin)
  "Inconvenient Histories: Architecture and the State in
  Socialist Yugoslavia and Problems of Historiography"
• Michelangelo Sabatino (University of Houston)
  "Revisiting Temporal Boundaries: Italian Modernism as a Case Study"

lunch break
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Making Religion Modern
1:00 - 3:00 pm

moderated by Francesco Passanti

• Robert Proctor (Glasgow School of Art)
  "Uncertainty and the Modern Church: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral"
• Nora Laos (University of Houston)
  "Sanctioning Modernism in Texas Chapels"
• Timothy Parker (University of Texas at Austin)
  "'Humanly Sublime Tensions': Luigi Moretti's Chiesa del Concilio"
• Richard Kieckhefer (Northwestern University)
  "Modernism and the Concept of Reform: Liturgy and Liturgical Architecture"

coffee break
3:30 - 3:30 pm

At Home with Modernism
3:30 - 5:00 pm

moderated by Christopher Long

• Monica Penick (University of Texas at Austin)
  "'Modern But Not Too Modern': Postwar Housing and the New American Style"
• Sandy Isenstadt (Yale University)
  "Modernism and the Postwar House: The Circulation of Character"
• Gwendolyn Wright (Columbia University)
  "Autonomy and Community in Residential Design"

The Keynote Address will begin at 5:30 pm, at the Harry Ransom Center, in the Charles Nelson Prothro Theater:

Dennis Doordan

Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Art History and Design
Professor, School of Architecture
University of Notre Dame

The symposium will be accompanied by an exhibition of complimentary architectural materials, drawn from the collections of the Alexander Architectural Archives. The exhibition will open on 2 March, and will remain on view in the Architecture Library Reading Room, in Cass Gilbert's Battle Hall through April 2007.

For more information, please contact: gsah@uts.cc.utexas.edu