Fitch Colloquium to Discuss Preservation and Modern Architecture in Latin America
February 21, 2009, 9am-6pm. Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall.
Twin Phenomena:
Preservation and Modern Architecture in Latin America.
Fitch Colloquium, Historic Preservation Program
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University in the City of New York
The 2009 Fitch Colloquium will cast new light on the recent history of preservation in Latin America by focusing on its role in the modernization of Latin America. Up to what point can we conceive of preservation as an essential part of the cultural politics of modern architecture in Latin America? To what degree did modern architecture and preservation work harmoniously or antagonistically in processes of cultural formation or disaggregation? These and other relevant questions will be addressed by a distinguished group of speakers, including scholars and contemporary practitioners, whose work is generating new ideas about historic preservation in Latin America.
The James Marston Fitch Colloquium is the most prestigious academic event sponsored by the Historic Preservation program. It is eponymously titled after the founder of the Columbia Preservation Program, the oldest in the United States. Every year the colloquium engages with a theme of international relevance from the perspective of preservation.
Speakers:
Gustavo Araoz
President, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Louise Noelle
Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Enrique X. de Anda
Architect and Professor, School of Architecture, Universidad Autónoma de México
Hannia Gómez
Founder and Director, Fundación Memoria Urbana, Caracas, Venezuela
Hugo Segawa
Professor, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo
Fabio Grementieri
Director, Historic Preservation Program, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Alfredo Conti
Professor, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Buenos Aires
Stella Maris Casal
Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professor, University of Belgrano, Argentina
Organizer:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation, Columbia University
Sponsored in part by the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation and the Columbia University Institute for Latin American Studies
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SCHEDULE
FITCH COLLOQUIUM 2009
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Columbia University
Saturday February 21st
9:00am-9:30 am
Coffee
9:30am-10:00am
Opening of symposium and official welcome/introductions
10:00-10:40
Gustavo Araoz
President, International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
“The Preservation of Modern Architecture in Latin America”
10:40-11:20
Louise Noelle
Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
“José Villagrán García and Enrique del Moral, Pioneers in the Defense of Heritage”
11:20-12:00
Enrique X. de Anda
Architect and Professor, School of Architecture, Universidad Autónoma de México
“Identity in Mexico: The Modern Movement’s Preservation of Historic Values”
12:00-1:15pm
Lunch in Avery Hall
1:30-2:10
Hannia Gómez
Founder and Director, Fundación Memoria Urbana, Caracas, Venezuela
“Olmsted Brothers and Burle Marx in Caracas: Preserving the Modern Heritage”
2:10-2:50
Hugo Segawa
Professor, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo
“Modern Housing as Heritage”
2:50-3:15
Coffee Break
3:15-4:00
Fabio Grementieri
Director, Historic Preservation Program, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
“The Argentine Avant-Garde´s Dream: The Search of Lost Simplicity and the Recovery of Créole Classicism”
4:00-4:40
Alfredo Conti
Professor, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Buenos Aires
“The Construction of Historic Heritage and its Relationships with Modernisation in Argentina, 1910-1940.”
4:40-5:20
Stella Maris Casal
Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professor, University of Belgrano, Argentina
“Modern Architecture and preservation in Argentina: a 21st century challenge”
5:30
Conclusion of the Symposium