Festschrift Symposium in Honor of Danilo Udovički-Selb

The proposed Festschrift in honor of former Associate Professor Danilo Udovički-Selb, a collaboration between the UT Austin School of Architecture (SoA) and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), gathers internationally renowned architectural scholars, colleagues, and friends for a one-day symposium exploring the intersections of architectural scholarship and teaching, and leftist criticism and activism. 

Participants include Mark Jarzombek, Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Vladimir Paperny, Alexander Ortenberg, Alla Vronskaya, and Francesco Passanti.

The proposed Festschrift upholds the task of “critical philosophy” of which Udovički-Selb’s scholarship and teaching—and more broadly, his life—have been exemplary. It asks, as Udovički-Selb has for over the past five decades: How does “a ruthless criticism of everything existing” help to find “new worlds[s]” that are “still freer, more progressive, and more human,” and what is the role of architectural scholarship and teaching in their concrete realization?

SESSION 1 

Main Jury Room, Goldsmith 2.110, 10:30 am-12:20 pm

Alexander Bala (UT Austin)
Introduction 
10:30 am-10:40 am 

Alexander Ortenberg (Cal Poly Pomona)
“Danilo Udovički-Selb: A Gentle Warrior, A Rigorous Rule-Breaker” 
10:40 am-11:10 am

Mark Jarzombek (MIT)
“Working Through Injustice” 
11:10 am-11:40 pm

Joan Ockman (Penn/Yale) 
“‘To challenge everything consolidated on the left…’: Manfredo Tafuri at the Venice School, the Soviet Avant-Garde as a Historical Project, and the Politics of Pedagogy” 
11:40 am-12:10 pm

Q&A 
12:10 pm-12:20 pm

LUNCH/COFFEE BREAK

12:20 pm-1:20 pm

SESSION 2

Main Jury Room, Goldsmith 2.110, 1:20 pm-3:00 pm

 Alexander Bala 
“Toward a Work of Architecture” 
1:20 pm-1:50 pm

Francesco Passanti (UT Austin)
“Vers une architecture, how should we look at it?” 
1:50 pm-2:20 pm

Mary McLeod (Columbia) 
“‘Vers le début de temps nouveaux’: Le Corbusier, Planning, and Regional Syndicalism 
2:20 pm-2:50 pm 

Q&A 
2:50 pm-3:00 pm

BREAK

2:50 pm-3:10 pm

SESSION 3

Main Jury Room, Goldsmith 2.110, 3:10 pm-4:30 pm

Alla Vronskaya (Uni Kassel) 
“Cabinet of Affects” 
3:10 pm-3:40 pm

Vladimir Paperny (UCLA) 
“From the political extremes to architectural encounters” 
3:40 pm-4:10 pm

Vladimir Kulić (Iowa State) 
“The Anti-Geopolitics of the Friendship Park” 
4:10 pm-4:40 pm

Q&A 
4:40 pm-4:50 pm

BREAK

4:40 pm-5:00 pm

CLOSING ADDRESS

Lecture Hall, Goldsmith 3.120, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm

Danilo Udovički-Selb (UT Austin)
Between European “Renascence” and Florentine Renaissance: A Transalpine Scientia at Brunelleschi’s Dome of Santa Maria Del Fiore 
5:00 pm-5:40 pm

Q&A 
5:40 pm-6:00 pm