International Conference Architecture and Ideology

September 28 - 29, 2012
Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia

Organized by Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade and Board of Ranko Radović Award, Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia

In collaboration with Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Department for Architecture and Town Planning, Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac Foundation

Supported by Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society Republic of Serbia and Serbian Chamber of Engineers

The Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade and the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia (ULUPUDS), wishing to revive and continue the efforts of professor Radović for the Belgrade school of Architecture to organize scientific meetings about history and theory of architecture, is launching an international conference on ARCHITECTURE AND IDEOLOGY.

This conference is the third in a row, after the ARHITECTURE AND HISTORY (1990) and the ARHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY (1991) ones. Both gatherings were complemented by thematic issues of the Journal named De re Aedificatoria as an homage to Alberti.

Thematic Frame of the Conference:

Space and time are inherent parts of our lives (they precede us and outlive us, we are always in them, never on the outside). That is why philosophers have relentlessly tried to find out about their nature, and ideologies have tried to get a key to possessing these two media and control them. Actions in space are the result of complex interest interaction between politicians, investors, city planners and architects, on the one hand, and those who enjoy the results of their actions, on the other. City development means solid construction, therefore mistakes are hard or impossible to amend.

That makes the test of the role of ideology in the fate of a city a good enough reason for exchanging opinions on this topic and for an attempt to critically overview numerous – direct, indirect, hinted and hidden – manifestations of ideology in the 20th century city development.

Conference participants are expected – each from his/her professional angle, with reference to a century worth of experience – to provide their contributions on shedding light on mutual impact of architecture and ideology – with all its positive and negative consequences and contributions – and to bring out hypotheses on the future of that particular, specific and vital relation.

Conference organizers offer four topic segments and give points of reference to simplify the role of participants in multidisciplinary opinion exchange.

1. Ideological context of architecture

• Conceptual issues of ideology;
• 20th century ideologies and their characteristics (historical, philosophical; sociological, political, psychological);
• Emergence, survival and disappearance of the main ideology patterns in society and architecture;
• Duration of ideology systems and a resistance to change;
• Changes in meaning and use of physical structures due to ideological assumptions;
• Ideology matrix influence on general public, value systems, awareness of city environment and its shaping;
• The ideological interpretation and evaluation of the history of architecture;
• The ideological concepts and regulation of the built environment;
• Centralization as ideological stronghold;
• Ranko Radović and his interpretation of the ideological context of architecture.

2. City and power

• Holders of power (political, financial, technological, media) and urban development; subjects (politicians, businessmen, city planners and people in general);
• Ideological interests and goals, and their accomplishment in architecture;
• (Non) participation in shaping a city destiny;
• Pressures on designs, unruly actions in taking the city space (illegal construction of both the inapproachable and the marginalized);
• Ideological causes of demolishing the city fabric;
• Spatial standards and social groups;
• The rights to housing, work and leisure;
• Accessibility of scarce city assets;
• Disposal of the city land and real estate;
• Types of power alienation and how to overcome them.

3. Morphology and ideological patterns

• Doctrines in architecture and their positive/negative impact on a city;
• Criteria of urban forming (urban norms and standards in designing) and tools
(pre-computer and computer approach to planning and designing);
• City planning (interest contradictions, conflicting of aims and means);
• Planners (concept creators or mere executors);
• The idealism or pragmatism of planners’ visions;
• Urban form as a result of conflict/harmony between ideology and architecture;
• Physical structures and public city space through a relation between ideology and architecture;
• City center and its outskirts in the ideological context;
• Typological patterns of housing and public structures deriving from ideology;
• Relations between the new and the inherited, the progressive and the conservative;

4. Designers and ideology

• Figures of the power and city planners and architects;
• The influence of the ideology on the design process;
• The ideology objectification through projects - case studies.

Conference language: English

Conference program: Conference program will be available on a later date.

Important Dates:

15th April, 2012:
Deadline for abstracts submission

30th April, 2012:
Notification of acceptance

15th July, 2012
Deadline for full paper submission

28th- 29th September, 2012:
Conference

Scientific committee:

Vladimir Mako, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia, conference chair
Mirjana Roter Blagojević, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia, conference coordinator
Marta Vukotić Lazar, chair of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia, conference coordinator
Eva Vaništa Lazarević, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Petar Arsić, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Vladimir Lojanica, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandra Stupar, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandar Ignjatović, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Živojin Bata Karapešić, member of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia
Darko Reba, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, member of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia
Aleksandar Kadijević, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, Serbia
Sreten Vujović, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, Serbia
Nikola Samardžić, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, Serbia
Lidija Merenik, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dubravka Stojanović, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, Serbia
Miško Šuvaković, Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
Igor Marić, Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Mila Pucar, Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia, Belgrade, member of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia
Radivoje Dinulović, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Serbia
Dijana Milašinović Marić, Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Dragan Živković, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Liane Lefaivre, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria
Alexander Tzonis, Delft University of Technology, Holland
Rudolf Klein, Ybl Miklos Faculty of Architecture, Saint Steven University, Budapest, Hungary
Eric Weaver, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Marjatta Hietala, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland
Mervi Kaarninen, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland
Irina Korobina, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
Krzysztof Domaradzki, Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw Polytechnic, Poland
Tanja Damljanovic Conley, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA
Darko Radović, International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism-IKI, Yokohama, Japan
Aleksandar Mirković, Arkansas Tech University, USA
Ines Tolić, IUAV, Venice, Italy
Ivo Goldstein, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Fehim Hadžimuhamedović, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Amra Hadžimuhamedović, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Elsa Turkušić, Faculty of Architecture, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Organizing committee

Konstantin Petrović, Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia, conferance secretary
Gordana Ćosić, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Zoran Djukanović, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Marko Nikolić, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Verica Medjo, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Ristić, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Milena Vukmirović, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Ivica Nikolić, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dragan Vesković, Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade, Serbia
Spasoje Krunić, member of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia
Marija Lalošević, member of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia
Branka Gugolj, member of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia
Vladimir Lovrić, member of the Board of Ranko Radović Award, Serbia
Haris Dajč, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dubravka Djukanović, Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Serbia
Gorana Vučinić Golubović, Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Vukmirović, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria

Abstract submission:

Please provide full contact details of authors with your abstract (author’s name and surname, institution, address, e-mail).

Abstract should be max 300 words and must be in English.

An abstracts should include: the notification of selected conference topic segment, the title of the paper, text that explains the idea, purpose and content of the paper, and max 6 keywords (sent in MS Word document, format A4, font Times New Roman, 11, single line spacing, all margins 3 cm).

Abstract should be e-mailed to the email address arch.ideol2012@gmail.com

Application form PDF/DOC

Conference proceedings:

All received abstracts and papers will be reviewed by one international and one national reviewer.

Accepted abstracts will be published on the website Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade www.arh.bg.ac.rs

All papers accepted for publication at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings (on DVD) and will be available to delegates at the Conference.
In addition, some papers will be published in the 3rd volume of the Journal De re Aedificatoria, by the Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade.

Full paper should be max eight pages of text (about 14 400 characters without spacing).

Further information on preparing papers for conference proceedings will be available hire www.arh.bg.ac.rs due time.

Contacts:

Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade www.arh.bg.ac.rs

Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia www.ulupuds.org.rs

For further information on abstracts and papers, please contact Marko Nikolić: arch.ideol2012@gmail.com

For general information please contact the conference secretary:
Konstantin Petrović, admin@ulupuds.org.rs

Registration: Registration form PDF/DOC

Registration fees:

Registration fees for the participants with accepted papers is € 150.
For other participants the fee is € 200, and € 150 for early registration by 30th June, 2012.
For the PhD students the fee is € 50.

The registration fee includes admission to the sessions, conference material, one copy of the Conference Proceedings (a DVD containing abstracts and papers), as well as the admission for the Gala Dinner and the refreshments during the conference.

Information about fee payment will be available hire: www.arh.bg.ac.rs due time.

Accommodation

For information on accommodation and travelling to Belgrade, etc., please contact:

Tourist Organization of Belgrade www.tob.rs; and www.booking.com