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ARCHITECTURE | CITY MAKING | POLITICAL ECONOMY

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CONTENTSWELCOME 3

INTRODUCTION 6

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 12

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 16

PROGRAM SCHEDULE 18

SYMPOSIUM PAPERS 22

SUPPORTERS 27

The Fourth International Utzon Symposium

March 7–9 2014 UNSW, Australia and The Sydney Opera House

A collaboration between UNSW Australia, the Jørn Utzon Research Network (JURN) and the Utzon Research Center (URC), the University of Portsmouth, UK and Aalborg University, Denmark, the Fourth International Utzon Symposium will extend previous research on Utzon’s oeuvre and ask the question: ‘What would Utzon do now?’

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WELCOME

Welcome Louise Herron AM

Welcome to the Sydney Opera House and the Fourth International Utzon Symposium.

I am delighted the symposium is being held in Sydney for the first time and that we are able to host within Jorn Utzon’s iconic masterpiece delegates from across Australia and around the world.

The timing could not be better. The Opera House recently celebrated its 40th Anniversary and has now embarked on a decade of renewal to ensure the building continues to inspire future generations of artists, audiences and visitors. For us, there is no more apt questions than: ‘What would Utzon do now?’

I wish you all an inspiring and stimulating exchange of ideas about the legacy of the architect who gave us this magnificent building—and so much more.

Louise Herron AM Chief Executive Officer Sydney Opera House

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4 5We hope that this symposium will contribute to a broad spectrum of academic work as well as enable this work to become evident and useful to a wider audience. The significant urban and architectural issues we face today are by their very nature multi-facetted and multi-dimensional often involving a range of disciplines. Utzon challenged the world in his life by bringing to focus innovation across many disciplines often inspired by a diverse range of cultures. Perhaps the challenge, reflected by this symposium, is of special relevance as we seek to better understand how to undertake the design and delivery of urban infrastructure today to the standards he achieved in his life.

I wish you three days of valuable engagement with your colleagues and also invite you to register for the special dinner event that will conclude the Symposium. We also take this opportunity to recognise all the Symposium’s partners and sponsors for their support and expertise.

Alec Tzannes Dean UNSW Faculty of Built Environment

Welcome Alec Tzannes

Welcome Alec Tzannes

Welcome from UNSW Built Environment, Aalborg University and the University of Portsmouth, to the Fourth International Utzon Symposium titled ‘What would Utzon do now?’ We kindly thank Louise Herron, the CEO of the Sydney Opera House, for the generous support that has enabled this important scholarly event to be held at the Utzon Room within the Sydney Opera House.

We conceived the theme of the symposium partly as a challenge to some established notions about Utzon’s legacy. For many, Utzon’s contribution goes beyond what he did as an architect, even though his achievements in this respect are not yet fully understood and provide scope for continued scholarly work. With our minds still firmly engaged with questions around Utzon’s built legacy, we also contemplated the enormous global challenges facing those whose skills and actions determine the future of our cities. We asked ourselves if Utzon’s intellectual legacy could inspire the development of knowledge in fields as diverse as architecture, city administration, conservation, finance and development, material science, engineering, construction technology and management, urban design and urban planning. Like the ancient Roman god Janus, usually depicted with two faces simultaneously directing his vision to the future and the past, we sought in this symposium to ground Utzon firmly in the present and examine how his legacy may guide the disciplines that deliver our urban futures.

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INTRODUCTIONOn behalf of the Scientific Committee of the Fourth International Utzon Symposium we welcome you to Sydney, Australia. We express our sincere gratitude to the University of New South Wales Faculty of Built Environment, who have provided unstinting collaboration and are generously hosting this event. The chosen location of Sydney is clearly important as the site of Utzon’s most significant yet simultaneously controversial work, the Sydney Opera House. It is somewhat paradoxical to record that a building that has consistently attracted controversy in various forms is now internationally, a symbol of not only a City, but also a Nation. We are delighted that the Symposium will be centred upon Utzon’s iconic work and express our gratitude to the CEO of the Opera House for supporting and facilitating the event. In continuation of the 40th Anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House it is apposite to reflect upon Utzon’s contribution to architecture.

‘Comparable in many ways to the protean achievements of le Corbusier, Utzon’s architecture emerges today as paradigmatic at many levels, not least of which is the manner in which, from the beginning of his career, he would challenge the supposed authority of Eurocentric culture.’ (Frampton. K. 2003)

It is self-evident that Utzon’s contribution was considerable, across all scales of architectural endeavour, and across diverse architectural typologies. We sit in a world that is increasingly horizontal and fluid, a world in which information is exchanged virtually and instantaneously, a world in which capital easily migrates and tensions between those that have and those who have not, seemingly increase rather than decrease. Within this zeitgeist is there anything we might learn from Utzon’s oeuvre?

This Symposium has the ambition to critically examine the contemporary relevance of Utzon’s thinking and working methods in relation to present circumstances, conditions and technologies; to consider What would Utzon do now? From the outset, the organising group were determined that rather than merely view Utzon’s contribution from a historic perspective, the Symposium should strive to engage with contemporary and future discourse within

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8 9architecture and cognate fields. In this context the title of the Symposium became self-evident. Sub-themes developed in response to this primary decision each defining areas of contemporary and future challenges, that were either drawn from, or projected Utzon’s oeuvre into our ‘now’ and beyond.

We may argue that Architecture has reached a crisis, in professional authority, praxis and theory. Given our increasingly homogenised world order, it is appropriate to develop conversations around the role of political economy in delivering significant architecture and urban space. The theories and practice of City-Making, within the new world paradigm is under increasing pressure, not only in making place and space of quality, but also in signifying the particularity of City identity in our globalised world. The Sydney Opera House perhaps effectively illustrates the last of our sub-themes; the challenge of conservation of twentieth century heritage, and we may fruitfully speculate upon the contemporary and future role for not only such iconic buildings but also for what we might term ‘architecture of the ordinary’.

The Symposium is led by keynote speakers of international significance, supported by invited speakers, and populated with seventy Paper presentations across a diverse range of subjects. The Symposium will conjoin with the Second Utzon International Workshop to be held subsequently in Tasmania that seeks, in the spirit of Utzon, to synthesise the theoretical and praxis debates into design propositions located within this particular physical, cultural and landscape context.

This event is the latest manifestation of an on-going academic and praxis-based discourse concerning Utzon’s contribution. The First International Utzon Symposium, Nature, Vision and Place organised by the Utzon Research Center, was held at Aalborg University in August 2003, and brought together architects that worked together with Utzon and notable international academics that had written about his work. The success of this initial conference, provided the basis for moving forward with the concrete intention of realising an Utzon designed building in Aalborg as a home for the Utzon Archives and Utzon Research Center. This vision captured not only academic research, but also use as an experimental workshop for new ideas within architecture, design and the arts, public exhibition space and forum for wider discussions. Utzon’s own concept

for the building was inspired by his experience of visiting the famous Ulm Design School in the late 1960´s, where architects, designers, artists and artisans worked closely together within a dynamic workshop environment.

The Utzon Center, designed by Jørn Utzon together with his son Kim, opened to the public in 2008, in time to celebrate Utzon’s 90th year. The first major exhibition focused upon the competition and making of the Sydney Opera House. This original exhibition provided a wider audience with an understanding of the background, sources of inspiration, complexity, tectonic integrity and tribulations of Utzon’s great masterpiece, as well as providing an appropriate backdrop for the Second International Utzon Symposium, again organised by the Utzon Research Center; Poetics of Construction. The second symposium established the ambition of combining both a historic perspective and contemporary relevance of Utzon’s.

2008 also saw the genesis of JURN that was dedicated to expanding academic and praxis discourse around Utzon developed through an international network of academics practitioners and student members. In response to Utzon’s own interest in traveling and seeking inspiration from other cultures, it was appropriate that the Third International Utzon Symposium held in April 2012 should be located in one of the countries that had provided Utzon with significant insights and inspiration. Morocco was chosen given that it had been an important source of inspiration for many modernist architects and contemporaries of Utzon, including Le Corbusier and Jørn Utzon’s good friend Sverre Fehn.

Utzon travelled to Morocco just after the Second World War, in 1947, where he produced two notable, but unrealised projects for a paper factory and a housing scheme, that were greatly influenced by the cohesive materiality, forms and composition in relation to landscape of the Berber vernacular settlement, that he experienced on his travels through the south Atlas Mountains. The profound experience of this courtyard housing, built in such harmony with its local environment, was also to greatly inform Utzon’s major later works; most notably the Kingo and Fredensborg houses. The Third International Utzon Symposium was a collaboration between JURN, the Utzon Research Center and l’Ecole Nationale d’Architecture (ENA), Morocco’s only publically funded School of Architecture. With these references in mind and with a desire to revisit

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10and discuss the continuing contemporary relevance of these original sources of inspiration, the themes of the Symposium Dwelling, Landscape, Place & Making, were discussed by the guest speakers, Juhani Pallasmaa, Richard Leplastrier and Jan Utzon, together with academics and architects from Australia, Denmark, France, Morocco, Norway, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Amongst the audience of seventy were a diverse international group of 48 architecture students and practitioners, who following the symposium participated in the inaugural Utzon International Workshop, together with the guest speakers, for eight intense, inspiring and challenging days. The event began in Marrakech, then travelled over the Atlas Mountains to Ait Benhaddou, engaging in further discussions and returning to the ENA’s teaching complex in Marrakech, where the participants in groups interpreted through drawings, models and installations their own understandings of the themes. The participants greatly appreciated the direct, hands-on approach to developing an understanding of architecture, through actual personal experience, drawing and physically making models, complimented by informed and inspirational professional discussion on site. Through Utzon’s example, they came to more fully appreciate how much could be gained by studying the original sources and being open to a wide range of cultural experiences; and the Utzon Workshop in Morocco demonstrated, that the paradigm of Utzon’s work and design approach has considerable potential to provide an exceptional catalyst for the education of future generations of architects.

JURN has established five institutional academic partners across the world and is approaching a hundred individual members worldwide. It serves to create links between Utzon scholars internationally, particularly in those countries where Utzon drew inspiration and realised projects that have influenced architects since. The future objectives of JURN are to continue to develop an understanding of Utzon’s paradigm and oeuvre, which will be discussed and disseminated through symposia, workshops, publications and exhibitions. Welcome to Sydney and we look forward to what will be without doubt a credible and multi-dimensional academic and praxis-based discussion that will resonate well beyond the event.

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The Heritage Council of NSW is established under the NSW Heritage Act, 1977 and is an independent advisory body to Government. Membership of the Council is skills-based, with representation from peak heritage bodies such as the National Trust of Australia (NSW).

The council provides advice on heritage matters to the Minister for Heritage in NSW, currently Minister Robyn Parker, Minister for the Environment and Minister for Heritage. It recommends to the Minister places and objects for listing on the State Heritage Register (SHR).

The Heritage Council makes decisions about the care and protection of heritage places and items that have been identified as being significant to the people of NSW.

The Council also delivers the NSW Heritage Grants program to help the community to identify, conserve, interpret and promote the State’s heritage. Funding is available every two years to individuals, community groups and local government who own or manage heritage items of state significance.

The Heritage Council is serviced by the Heritage Division of the Office of

Environment and Heritage, which provides professional advice and administrative support. The Heritage Division also provides advice on heritage issues to the Government, state agencies, local councils and the community on the identification and protection of heritage places and items for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal heritage across NSW.

Heritage is evidence of our history. Conserving our heritage helps us to understand our past, and to contribute to the lives of future generations. It gives us a sense of continuity and identity, and of belonging to the place where we live.

Further details of the Heritage Council of NSW and the Heritage Division of the Office of Environment and Heritage can be found at:

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/cultureandheritage.htm

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Vishaan Chakrabarti, Marc Holliday Associate Professor of Real Estate Development.

Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Marc Holliday Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and the Director of CURE., the Center for Urban Real Estate, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.

An experienced architect, planner, and developer, Chakrabarti has transformed the Masters of Science in Real Estate Development into a curriculum dedicated to smart growth policies locally, nationally, and globally, with an emphasis on training students to synthetically tackle the three pillars of urban real estate, namely, the financial, the physical,

and the transactional. Simultaneously, Chakrabarti is a Partner at SHoP Architects where he advances large-scale projects worldwide.

One of seven partners committed to proving that intelligent, exciting, evocative design can be done in the context of real world constraints, he adds to SHoP’s already diverse internal knowledge base and highlights the curiosity and creative thinking essential to groundbreaking design and urban development.

Prior to joining Columbia and SHoP, Chakrabarti was an Executive Vice President at the Related Companies where he ran the Moynihan Station project and oversaw planning and design for the firm’s extensive development portfolio including Hudson Yards.

Keynote Speakers Vishaan Chakrabarti

Keynote Speakers Vishaan Chakrabarti

In addition, Chakrabarti was the inaugural Jaquelin T. Robertson Visiting Professor in Architecture for the University of Virginia in 2009.

From 2002 to 2005, Chakrabarti served as the Director of the Manhattan Office for the New York Department of City Planning. While with the City, Chakrabarti successfully gained approvals for major rezonings that have begun to reshape the west side of Midtown Manhattan including the extension of the #7 subway line. In this role Chakrabarti also directed the City’s design response to the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, the expansion of Columbia University into Manhattanville, the makeover of Lincoln Center, the transformation of the High Line, and several other major development proposals in Manhattan. Prior to his work with the City, Chakrabarti was

an Associate Partner and Director of Urban Design at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as well as a transportation planner at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Chakrabarti holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and dual Bachelors’ degrees in Art History and Engineering from Cornell University. He serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and Enterprise Community Partners, is a trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission, and is an emeritus board member of Friends of the High Line. He is also a member of the Young Leaders Forum of the National Council on US-China Relations. Metropolis Magazine named Chakrabarti one of the top 12 “Game Changers” for 2012.

Chakrabarti is a David Rockefeller Fellow and was a Crain’s “40 under 40” in 2000.

KEYNOTESPEAKERS

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Juhani Pallasmaa, Finnish architect, former Professor at Helsinki University of Technology, former Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect SAFA, Hon. FAIA, Int FRIBA, professor, Helsinki, has practised architecture since the early 60s and established Pallasmaa Architects in 1983. In addition to architectural design, he has been active in urban planning, exhibition, product and graphic design.

He has taught and lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Australia and Asia, and published over forty books and numerous essays on the philosophies of architecture and art in over thirty languages. He has held positions as Professor and Dean at the Helsinki University of Technology (1991–97), Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978–83), and Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts (1970–71), Helsinki. He has also held visiting professorships in several universities in the USA. Pallasmaa has received four honorary doctrates and numerous awards.

Pallasmaa’s books include: Understanding Architecture (in collaboration with Robert McCarter), London, 2012; Encounters 2; Architectural Essays, Helsinki, 2012; The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture, London, 2011; The Resonant Line: Biography of Raimo Utriainen, Sculptor, Helsinki, 2011; Conversaciones con Alvar Aalto, ed., Barcelona, 2010; The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, London, 2009; Encounters 1: Architectural Essays, Helsinki, 2005; The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema, Helsinki, 2001; The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, London, 1996 and 2005, and; Animal Architecture, Helsinki, 1995 and 2002.

Keynote Speakers Juhani Pallasmaa

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Liu Jiakun, Founder and Chief Architect of Jiakun Architects.

Liu Jiakun is the Founder and Chief Architect of Jiakun Architects. His projects have been selected into many international exhibitions, including ” Young Chinese Architects’ Work Exhibition” in Germany, “Contemporary Chinese Architecture Exhibition” in France, “NAI China Contemporary Architecture” in the Netherlands, “International Architecture Exhibition” in Russia, and “International Architecture Exhibition” in Venice Biennale.

The numerous honors and awards he has received include the Honor Prize of the 7th ARCASIA, Chinese Architecture & Art Prize 2003, Architectural Record Magazine China Awards, Far East Award in Architecture, and Architectural Design Award from Architectural Society of China. His design works have been widely published in the magazines and books such as A+U, AV, Area, Domus, AR, GA, MADE IN CHINA, etc. He has also lectured at various international institutions such as MIT, Royal Academy of Arts, Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and many universities in China.

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEEChair

▶▶ Mr. Roger Tyrrell Principal Lecturer, University of Portsmouth School of Architecture. UK Co-Director Jørn Utzon Research Network Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Aalborg, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology Architect

Members

▶▶ Mr. Adrian Carter Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, University of Aalborg, Denmark Co-Director Jørn Utzon Research Network (JURN)Director: Utzon Research Center, Aalborg. Denmark Visiting Research Fellow: University of Portsmouth (UK) School of Architecture. UK

▶▶ Professor Lorraine Farrelly Professor of Architecture and Design and Director of Research, University of Portsmouth (UK) School of Architecture Jørn Utzon Research Network (JURN) Steering Group Member

Scientific Committee

▶▶ Professor Poul Henning Kirkegaard Department of Civil Engineering, Division for Structures, Materials and Geotechnics, The University of Aalborg, Denmark

▶▶ Professor Bruce Judd Director, Australian School of Architecture and Design. Built Environment. University of New South Wales. Australia

▶▶ Dr. Fabiano Lemes De Oliveira Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth (UK) School of Architecture. UK

▶▶ Ms. Belinda Mitchell Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth. UK

▶▶ Professor Alec Tzannes Dean, Built Environment. University of New South Wales. Australia Director: Tzannes Associates, Sydney, Australia

▶▶ Ms. Anne Warr PhD candidate, Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia Architect, Author and Critic

▶▶ Professor Xing Ruan Director, Architecture Discipline, Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia Translator for Keynote address by Liu Jiakun

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PROGRAMSCHEDULE

Program Schedule Friday 7 March

Friday 7 March

Date/Time Detail Location

8:15am Registration Utzon Room

8:45am – 9:00am Opening of Symposiumby Dean, Professor Alec Tzannes, UNSW Built Environment and Louise Herron AM, CEO, Sydney Opera House

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9:00am - 10:15am Keynote: Vishaan CharkrabatiTHE TECTONICS OF 21st CENTURY URBANISM

10:15am – 10:30am Morning Tea Utzon Room

10:30am – 11:45pm Session 1PRACTICE3 presentations

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11:45am – 1:20pm Session 2PRACTICE4 presentations

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1:20pm – 2:20pm Lunch at Opera Kitchen Lower Concourse, Sydney Opera House

2:20pm – 3:30pm Industry SessionKenneth WoolleyAdjunct Professor, The University of SydneyNot All Problems Have Solutions. A Little History

Richard LeplastrierArchitectSome things that need to be said

Contributions will also be made byJoseph Skrzynski AOChairman of SBS Board of DirectorsFormer Chairman of Sydney Opera House Trust

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3:30pm – 3:40pm Afternoon Tea Utzon Room

Program Schedule Friday 7 March Saturday 8 March

3:40pm – 5:15pm Session 3ARCHITECTURAL THEORY4 presentations

Utzon Room

5:15pm – 6:30pm Session 4ARCHITECTURAL THEORY3 presentations

Utzon Room

Saturday 8 March

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8:30am – 9:30am Session 1CONSERVATION3 presentations

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9:30am – 11:00am Industry Session 1CONSERVATIONMaterials TechnologySession co-ordinated by the Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter, Heritage CommitteeSpeakers include:Donald EllsmoreUniversity of Melbourne, APT Convenor, Australasia ChapterThe Challenge of Conserving ModernTrevor WatersDirector, WaterstoneSydney Opera House Analysis and Cleaning of the ConcreteDavid BurdonNSW Government Architect’s OfficeThe development of glass curtain walls at the NSW Government Architect’s Office 1955-1965Peter MyersArchitectTHEN and NOW or Can We Complete Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House?Tim WomackSenior Associate, ArupChifley Square, Sydney: Replication of Porcelain Enamelled Façade Cladding?Anne WatsonArchitect and PhD candidate, Sydney University‘Those Mad, Big Windows’: The Dilemma of the Northern Glass Walls

11:00am – 11:15am Morning Tea Utzon Room

11:15am – 12:30pm Keynote: Juhani PallasmaaTHE EPIC DIMENSION: THE LESSONS OF LOUIS KAHN AND JORN UTZON

Utzon Room

12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch at Opera Kitchen Lower Concourse, Sydney Opera House

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Emeritus Professor Brit AndresenThe University of Queensland

1:50pm – 3:05pm Session 2TECTONIC3 presentations

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3:05pm – 4:20pm Session 3TECTONIC3 presentations

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4:20pm – 4:30pm Afternoon Tea Utzon Room

4:30pm – 5:45pm Session 4TECTONIC2 presentations

LANDSCAPE1 presentation

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5:45pm – 6:30pm Session 5PERFORMANCE 2 presentations

SUSTAINABILITY1 presentation

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Sunday 9 March

Date/Time Detail Location

9:00am – 10:15am Keynote: Liu JiakunHERE AND NOW

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10:15am - 11:30am Session 1TRANSCULTURAL3 presentations

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11:30am – 11:45pm Morning Tea Utzon Room

11:45pm – 1:15pm Session 2TRANSCULTURAL3 presentations

Utzon Room

1:15pm – 2:15pm Lunch at Opera Kitchen Lower Concourse, Sydney Opera House

Program Schedule Saturday 8 March

Sunday 9 March

Program Schedule Sunday 9 March

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2:15pm – 3:30pm Session 3PLACE AND IDENTITY2 presentations

URBANISM1 presentation

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3:30pm – 3:40pm Afternoon Tea

3:40pm – 4:55pm Session 4URBANISM3 presentations

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5.00pm – 5.15pm Industry SessionRichard HoughPrincipal, Arup, SydneyWhat Would Utzon do Now with Wood

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5:15pm – 6:00pm Panel Discussion Utzon Room

6:15pm – 7:30pm Film: Autopsy on a Dream1968 film directed by John Weiley about Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s masterpiece, the Sydney Opera House

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8:00pm Symposium Dinner O Bar and DiningLevel 47, Australia Square/264 George St, Sydney

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Theme: Practice

▶▶ Improved cost performance through more effective management of uncertainty Sidney Newton, University of New South Wales, Australia

▶▶ Interpretation of Utzon design principles for the integration of technology and services Dan Mackenzie, Steensen Varming, Australia

▶▶ An icon recreated: Integration of BIM into design and management of architectural building services Roland Towning and Christopher Lock, Steensen Varming, Australia

▶▶ Understanding Utzon’s works through 360 degree photography John E. Kroll, Architect and photographer, Denmark

▶▶ Visions of an interactive Utzon archive: Tangible, visual and interactive experiences of Utzon works Liselott Stenfeldt, Aarhus University, Denmark and Kaj Grønbæk, Alexandra Institute, Denmark

▶▶ An empirical typology of cost overrun in infrastructure projects by using cluster analysis Fahad Saud A. Allahaim, PhD Candidate, and Li Liu, The University of Sydney, Australia

SYMPOSIUM PAPERS

Symposium Papers

▶▶ Building a universal design legacy: What might Utzon do differently? Catherine Bridge, University of New South Wales, Australia Greg Killeen, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia and Satoshi Kose, Shizuoka University, Japan

Theme: Architectural Theory

▶▶ Utzon’s beautiful ideas: An antidote to the Australian ugliness? Adrian Carter, Aalborg University, Denmark

▶▶ The Utzon paradigm: A humane, transcultural, tectonic and innovative approach within contemporary architecture Adrian Carter, Aalborg University, Denmark and Roger Tyrrell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

▶▶ Design process and suitability: Utzon’s courtyard houses Johan Nielsen, Campus Sint-Lucas (Luca), Belgium

▶▶ Semiotics as a guide for architectural formation M. Salim Ferwati, Qatar University, Qatar

▶▶ The Jorn Utzon architectural paradigm and the emerging world design experience Caitlin de Berigny Wall, University of Sydney, Australia, and Majdi Faleh, PhD Candidate, the University of Western Australia, Australia

▶▶ Of cabinet-making, wrestling, and coincidence: Speculations upon a theory of critical non-theory in architecture and possibly beyond Roger Tyrrell, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

▶▶ Would Utzon Really Want to be Modern? Musings arising from Utzon’s own houses Xing Ruan, University of New South Wales, Australia

Theme: Conservation, Urban Conservation and Conservation of Contemporary Heritage

▶▶ Excavating Utzon Lise Juel, Royal Academy of Architecture Copenhagen, Denmark

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Sheridan Burke, ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Twentieth Century Heritage, GML Heritage, Sydney

▶▶ The city of the future: Containing the past Anne Warr, University of New South Wales, Australia

Theme: Tectonics

▶▶ Setting the record straight Gerard Reinmuth, University of Technology, Sydney

▶▶ Optimizing fabric concrete casting techniques through digital simulation and fabrication Jon Krähling Engholt Andersen, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

▶▶ Form and performance: Daylight as a generator of design in Jorn Utzon’s Can Lis Martin Schwartz, Lawrence Technological University, United States

▶▶ Utzon and the sun path as an organizing element of life in a house Miguel Angel Rupérez Escribano, Universidad Politécnica De Madrid, Spain

▶▶ A hybrid grid shell structure produced of digitally manufactured plywood and concrete components Dave Pigram, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and Ole Egholm Pedersen and Niels Martin Larsen, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

▶▶ Concrete ambitions for Sydney Paola Favaro, University of New South Wales, Australia

▶▶ Roots of performance: Aided design in Jørn Utzon’s design principles Dario Parigi, Aalborg University, Denmark

▶▶ A different kind of industrial design: The natural point of arrival of Utzon’s innovation strategies Paolo Tombesi, University of Melbourne, Australia

Theme: Landscape

▶▶ Varying winds, varying waves: Nature and/or landscape in Utzon and Aalto John Roberts, University of Newcastle, Australia

Theme: Performance Design

▶▶ Layers of Meaning: Extracting theatricality from Utzon’s Sydney Opera House Simon Dwyer, PhD Candidate, CQ University, Australia

▶▶ The Sydney Opera House as ‘influent’: A case study in yield of cultural capital from community initiative Bob Perry, Scott Carver, Australia

Theme: Sustainability

▶▶ The Sydney Opera House: A sustainability rating test case? Paul Osmond, University of New South Wales, Australia

Theme: Transcultural Influence

▶▶ Utzon and Moneo: A critical conversation Catherine Lassen, University of New South Wales, Australia

▶▶ Utzon’s influence in contemporary Spanish architecture Jaime J. Ferrer Fores, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain

▶▶ Travels as a form of study Line Nørskov Eriksen, PhD Candidate, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

▶▶ Following Utzon’s footsteps in Hawaii: From the north shore of Oahu to the Bagsværd church in Denmark Marja Sarvimäki, University Of Hawaii, United States

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Mengbi Li, PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales, Australia

▶▶ Transcultural analogies and metaphors: Utzon’s other China Glenn Harper, PTW Architects, Australia

Theme: Place and Identity

▶▶ Engagement with place: Utzon’s approach to sustainability and the sense of place Jan Fugl, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

▶▶ Respecting the ‘place-scape’ of Utzon’s opera house: Have we even tried? Joan Domicelj, Australia

Theme: Urbanism

▶▶ Urban design and sustainability on Sydney’s western front Cleveland Rose, Cleveland Rose Design, Australia

▶▶ The changing face of our cities: A spotlight on Sydney James Rosenwax, AECOM Australia

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▶▶ The Emerging City Workscape: Propositions for Sydney Andrew Laing and Sue Wittenoom, AECOM Australia

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