LIVING CITIES: VISION AND METHOD


OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture,
located at:
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario

Thursday January 20, 2011 – Main Lecture Room

9:45 am Opening Remarks
10:00 am Roger Bayley – Canadian Centre for Sustainable Innovation (CCSI), Tianjin Eco-city, China | The Vancouver Olympic Village Experience: Engaging innovation and leading edge design

Andre Sorensen – University of Toronto / Cities Centre | Embedded Rigidities And Moments Of Change: Space, institutions, and the evolutionary potentials in urban form
12:00 pm Lunch Break
1:00 pm Kevin Stelzer – B+H Architects | Large Building Energy Systems — Relationships To District Energy Management: Cogeneration, Energy Storage and Demand / Load Coupling

Azam Khan – Autodesk Research | Scale And Scalability
3:30 pm Alexander Rieck – Laboratory for Visionary Architecture / Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Munich | I've Seen The Future And It Works: Architecture between research and the challenge of the future

Marc Simmons – Front Inc. / Princeton University | Values : Priorities : Synthesis : Compromise
5:30 pm Dinner Break
7:00 pm Ian Keough – Burro Happold LA | Software Tools For Engineering And Design Exploration

Mitchell Joachim – New York University / Terreform 1 + Terrefuge | Planetary Cities: Ecology & Design for Tomorrow

Friday January 21, 2011

9:00 am -
12:00 pm		 Main Lecture Room

Research Panel:

Moderated by Douglas Macleod - Associate Dean of Science,
Technology and Health, Okanagan College

Roger Bayley - Canadian Centre for Sustainable Innovation (CCSI), Tianjin Eco-city, China.

Joe Carter - Beijing Institute for Architectural Design (via
videoconference)

Byeong Joon Kang - Inje University, Busan South Korea

Luigi LaRocca – Kuwabary Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
10:00 am -
12:00 pm		 Workshops: Wardroom, 2026, Loft Gallery, E-Classroom
Workshop A: Alexander Rieck
Workshop B: Michell Joachim
Workshop C: Marc Simmons
12:00 pm Lunch break
1:30 pm -
3:30 pm		 Workshops: Wardroom, 2026, Loft Gallery, E-Classroom
Workshop D: Alexander Rieck
Workshop E: Mitchell Joachim
Workshop F: Roger Bayley

EVENT REGISTRATION
All events including Thursday's presentations and Friday's workshops are free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Workshop sessions will involve each presenter expanding themes as shown in the presentation outlines shown. These seminars are an opportunity to pursue active discussion amongst the participants. While specific registration is not required, an RSVP for specific workshops is welcome, and can be sent to the conference coordinator at laurenbarhydt@gmail.com.