Dates: 17-19 June 2020
Location: CITY University of London, UK
Website: ArchitectureMPS London 2020
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 1 December 2019
Themes: Urban planning, architecture, landscape design, interiors - health, sociology, economics and cultural studies.
In this complex scenario nothing is isolated. New Urbanism can be analysed using space syntax. The walkable city can be aligned with Transport Orientated Development. Designers can be commissioned as tools of economic regeneration. Housing can be linked to financial crisis.
This complexity has historical roots. By the early 1970s Jane Jacobs had published The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing complex had been identified as the moment of modernism’s death. From that point on, the built environment was never again to be considered in isolation from social, cultural and political issues. In short, it was seen as a complex entity.
Some fifty years after these historical landmarks, this conference asks how the disciplines of interior design, architecture, landscape and urbanism operate on their own terms but also in relation to other fields such as health, sociology, economics and cultural studies.
Location: CITY University of London, UK
Website: ArchitectureMPS London 2020
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 1 December 2019
Outline
Architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Patrik Schumacher embrace the chaos of the Neoliberal city. Others such as Teddy Cruz emphasise housing, community activism and social responsibility. Engineers offer technical solutions to environmental design while landscape and urban designers can focus on place making and resilience simultaneously.In this complex scenario nothing is isolated. New Urbanism can be analysed using space syntax. The walkable city can be aligned with Transport Orientated Development. Designers can be commissioned as tools of economic regeneration. Housing can be linked to financial crisis.
This complexity has historical roots. By the early 1970s Jane Jacobs had published The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the demolition of the Pruitt Igoe housing complex had been identified as the moment of modernism’s death. From that point on, the built environment was never again to be considered in isolation from social, cultural and political issues. In short, it was seen as a complex entity.
Some fifty years after these historical landmarks, this conference asks how the disciplines of interior design, architecture, landscape and urbanism operate on their own terms but also in relation to other fields such as health, sociology, economics and cultural studies.
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