Thursday, June 17, 2021
3 pm
(CEST)
Welcome and Introduction
Anke Ortlepp & Katharina Schembs
3:30-5:30 pm
Panel I – Actors & Institutions
- “CINVA, the Interamerican Housing and Planning Center”
Marc Healey (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
- “Two Methods for Technical Assistance. The Activity of the Ford Foundation in Chile and Argentina. 1960-1973“
Alejandra Monti (Universidad Nacional de Rosario)
- “8,66: On Alfred Gellhorn's Concept of Buenos Aires as an Architectural System”
Joaquín Medina Warmburg (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
- “State Planning and Architecture in Post-revolutionary Cuba”
Manuel Cuadra (Universität Kassel/ Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima)
6-7:30 pm
Keynote Lectures
- “An Americas Story: Hemispheric Perspectives on Postwar Urban Renewal”
Lizabeth Cohen (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.)
- “Conjectures on an Absence. Classic Latin American planning, seen in the Mirror of Cuba”
Adrián Gorelik (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires)
Friday, June 18, 2021
3-4:30 pm
Panel II – Urban Transformations
- “Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax”
Ted Rutland (Concordia University, Montreal)
- “The Rise and Fall of the Public Bathroom in the United States”
Bryant Simon (Temple University, Philadelphia)
- “Barcelona made in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro: Investigating the Relational Production of Urban Policies”
Guillermo Jajamovich (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Gabriel Silvestre (University of Sheffield)
5-6 pm
Panel III – Architectural Styles
- “Optically Constructed Space and Artistic City Building: Notes on Werner Hegemann´s Understanding of the Grid Plan of the Cities in the Americas”
Lucio Piccoli (Freie Universität, Berlin)
- “The New Brutalism in Great Britain, the United States, and Brazil“
Anke Ortlepp (Universität zu Köln)
Saturday, June 19, 2021
3-4:30 pm
Panel IV – Mutual Perceptions & Exchange
- “UNESCO Transatlantic Affairs: Repositioning Latin American Architecture, 1966-1981“
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
- “Large Dams and Urban Planning in Latin America’s Cold War”
Frederik Schulze (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)
- “From European and US-American Models to Third World Cities: Urban Planning in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s“
Katharina Schembs (Universität zu Köln)
5-6 pm
Panel V – Informal Urbanism & Segregation
- “Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America”
Felipe Hernández (University of Cambridge)
- “The Evolution of Self-Help Housing in Latin America: Revisiting and Reactivating the Ideas of John F. C. Turner in Peru“
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona)
6:15 pm
Final Discussion/ Roundtable
Chairs: Anke Ortlepp and Katharina Schembs
For the zoom-link and further information, please contact:
Anke Ortlepp (anke.ortlepp@uni-koeln.de)
Katharina Schembs (katharina.schembs@uni-koeln.de)