Events at University of Lugano

The Swiss Cooperation Programme in Architecture: the final public workshop

3rd of September 2012
13:15, University of Berne, Kuppelraum
HG H4, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern

The Swiss Cooperation Programme in Architecture is large-scale research cooperation between the Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana, the Departments of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL), as well as of the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). The programme was funded by the Swiss University Conference and the Board of the Federal Institutes of Technology over the period 2009-2012 and supported five large research projects realized in cooperation between research groups in the participating institutions.

This workshop has the main objective to gather research and decision-makers in Swiss higher education institutions and policy to discuss about the future of the research in architecture, by tacking stock also from the lessons learned in the Cooperation programme. Issue to be discussed include the status of the architectural research, the relationship between architecture and related disciplines (history, technical sciences, etc.), as well as potential funding sources and the attitude of funding agencies towards architectural research.

Programme

13.15 Welcome and opening, Piero Martinoli, president USI and SCPA steering committee

13.30 The SCPA: projects, results and contributions to the development of research in architecture, Luca Ortelli, Director of the Institute of Architecture, EPFL

14.15 Global urban sustainability: the future cities project at the ETH Zurich, Kees Christiaanse, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich

14.45 Keynote speech: Searching for a Theory of Architecture, Harmut Frank, Hafencity Universität Hamburg

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 The future of architectural research in Switzerland: lessons from the SCPA, Christoph Frank, research director of the Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana

16.30 Panel discussion: the future of research in the Swiss schools of architecture, Chair: Luca Ortelli, Director of the Institute of Architecture, EPFL. Participants:

Stephan Bieri, member of the SCPA advisory board
Christoph Frank, research director of the Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana
Harmut Frank, Hafencity Universität Hamburg
Bruno Krucker, Technical University Munich
Sacha Menz, Director of the Department of Architecture, ETHZ

17.30 Closure of the workshop

Registration by e-mail until the 31st of August to the following address: graziella.zannone@usi.ch

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