Schedule
*All sessions held in room 1270 on the 12th floor of the Boston University School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Friday, October 19, 2012
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee, Breakfast
9:30 – 9:40 [Welcoming Remarks] Philosophy and Architecture :: Bryan Norwood :: Harvard University
9:40 – 10:50 Indeterminate Projections: linear perspective as the anti-image of architecture :: Thomas Forget :: University of North Carolina Charlotte (Commentator: Nolan Little, Boston University)
11:00 – 12:10 Aesthetic Judgment of Built Form :: Eva Perez de Vega :: The New School (Commentator: Elizabeth Keslacy, University of Michigan)
12:10 – 1:40 Lunch
1:40 – 2:50 Building-as-image, Building as Action :: Claire Zimmerman :: University of Michigan (Commentator: David Roochnik, Boston University)
3:00 – 4:10 The Iconic Architecture Industry :: Simone Brott :: Queensland University of Technology (Commentator: Elizabeth Robinson, Boston University)
4:30 – 6:30 [Keynote] Has Architecture Lost its Bearing? :: David Kolb, Bates College (Commentator: Allen Speight, Boston University)
6:30 – 8:00 Reception
Saturday, October 20, 2012
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee, Breakfast
9:30 – 10:40 A Tempest in Four Teapots: an Allegory of Architecture’s Aesthetics of Incompleteness:: Elizabeth Keslacy :: University of Michigan (Commentator: José Aragüez, Princeton University)
10:50 – 12:00 Publicness :: Tom Spector :: Oklahoma State University (Commentator: Thomas Forget, University of North Carolina Charlotte)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:40 Architecture’s Becoming: Form and Medium In-Betweenness :: José Aragüez :: Princeton University (Commentator: Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan)
2:45 – 4:15 [Invited talk] Imagination and the Composite: Reflections on Piranesi and Vico :: Erika Naginski :: Harvard University (Commentator: Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University)
4:30 – 6:00 [Roundtable Discussion] On Architecture and its Image :: Moderators: David Kolb, Bates College; Paolo Scrivano, Boston University
This conference is supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and Department of Philosophy.
