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Tuesday
29 October

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Headquarters, Conference Area, Room 2 

09.00h - 09.30h  Welcome & Registration


09.30h - 10.15h  Opening 

‘The Architecture of Need’ in Arquitectura Aqui
          Arquitectura Aqui team, UÉvora & Iscte-IUL

10.15h - 10.30h  Coffee Break (Main Auditorium Bar, floor 0)


10.30h - 12.30h  Session 1 – The Urban Presence of Need

‘The Presence of Places for Education and Play in Stockholm, from the 1950s to 2019’
          Matilde Kautsky, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
‘Mass Housing and Collective-Use Facilities in 20th-Century Turin: An Urban History of Stratification’
          Filippo De Pieri, Politecnico di Torino
          Aurora Riviezzo, Politecnico di Tor
ino
‘Recollecting the Architecture of Distribution. Maurice Cauwe and L’Urbanisme Commerciale in Belgium, 1960-1985’
          Tom Broes, Ghent University
          Michiel Dehaene, Ghent University

‘Building Communities Over Time: The Case of Collectivities and Churches of Two Neighbourhoods in Lisbon’
          Maria Amélia Cabrita, Iscte-IUL
           Teresa Marat-Mendes, Iscte-IUL

12.30h - 14.00h  Lunch (Calouste Gulbenkian Staff Restaurant, floor 3)

14.00h - 16.00h  Session 2 – Programmes for Need

‘An Architecture for Health in Spain: The Buildings of the Health Facilities Plan in Palencia and Zamora from the 1950s to the present day’
          Alba Zarza Arriba, Iscte-IUL
‘Contested Comforts: Nordic-Designed University Buildings in East Africa’
          Maryia Rusak, ETH Zurich
‘When in Need, Band Together: Postmodern Housing of Small Cooperatives in Wroclaw in the 1980s and 1990s’
          Adam Pacholak, University of Wrocław
‘The Benefits of a Build-to-Rent Model as Opposed to a Build-to-Sell Model: The Example of Évora’
          Sónia Alves, ICS-ULisboa

16.00h - 16.15h  Coffee Break (Main Auditorium Bar, floor 0)

16.15h - 18.00h  Session 3 – Bureaucracies of Need

‘An Institutional Solution to the Needs of the State and its Citizens. Architectural Production of Austrian Ministry of Public Works in the Lands of Bohemian Crown before World War I’
          Jan Galeta, Czech Academy of Sciences
‘Building Corporative Empires: A Trans-Imperial Genealogy of Recreational and Social Centres across Portugal, Angola and Belgian Congo, 1930s-1960s’
          Beatriz Serrazina, Iscte-IUL
‘The Socialist-Era Council Building of Harghita County in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania’
          Dániel Vass, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

18.00h - 18.15h Break


18.15h - 19.15h Keynote Address

Anganwadis: A Spatio-Political History of Woman and Child Welfare Centres in India’
          Tania Sengupta, UCLondon / The Bartlett School of Architecture

Wednesday
30 October

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Headquarters, Conference Area, Room 2 

09.00h - 09.30h  Welcome 


09.30h - 10.30h  Keynote Address 

'Building Stories: On Ficto-historicism in the Architectural Humanities'
          Janina Gosseye, TU Delft

10.30h - 10.45h Coffee Break (Main Auditorium Bar, floor 0)


10.45h - 12.30h Session 4 – Answering Need Over Time

‘“To Build a School”: L’Association pour l’Environnement Pédagogique and the Experimental School of L’Établette in Brittany, France, 1960s-1980s’ 
          Johanna Sluiter, University of Bern 
‘Building Schools, Equipping Territories. An Urbanization-Oriented Perspective on the Italian Educational Infrastructure in the XXth Century’ 
          Cristina Renzoni, Politecnico di Milano 
‘Density and Community-Building. Collective-Use Facilities Under Transformation in the Housing Complex Autobahnüberbauung Schlangenbader Straße in Berlin, Germany (1982-2024)’ 
          Karlis Ratnieks, Estonian Academy of Arts 

12.30h - 14.00h  Lunch (Calouste Gulbenkian Staff Restaurant, floor 3)

14.00h - 16.00h Session 5 – Building Types for Need

‘Kruisgebouwen: Nurses and Community Care Centres in the Netherlands, 1940-1960’ 
          Jess Chang, TU Delft 

          Amy Thomas, TU Delft
‘The Architecture of Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Centres by Cândido Palma de Melo: Beja, Coimbra, and Faro, 1970-2000’ 
          Francisco Alves, Universidade de Coimbra 
‘Collective-Use Care Facilities for Older People in Spain: From Asylum-like to Person-Centred Models in the Region of Aragon’

          Irene González-Fernández, University of Zaragoza 

          Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno, University of Zaragoza 

‘Architecture for the Ages: Building Community Through Social Infrastructure. The Case of Mexilhoeira Grande in the Last Quarter of the 20th Century’

          Leandro Arez, Iscte-IUL 

 

16.00h - 16.15h  Coffee Break (Main Auditorium Bar, floor 0)

16.15h - 18.00h Session 6 – Subjects of Need

‘Stonemasons Cooperative of Porto / SCPOPP – Collective Uses of the Iconic Architectural Settlement in Portugal (1937-2024)’ 
          Inês Moreira, ESAP 

          Kadu Tomita, ESAP 
‘Collective Life, Collective Memory. Children’s Institutions in Twentieth Century Switzerland’ 
          Maria Kouvari, ETH Zurich 
‘The Call of Architects to Beja in the 1960s: an Approach to the Municipal Market by Alberto Cruz’ 

          Joana Nunes, Universidade de Évora / Iscte-IUL 

          Francisco Freitas, Iscte-IUL 

 

18.00h - 18.15h Break


18.15h - 19.00h Closing

Thursday
31 October

Évora Study Tour

09.00h - 10.30h   Lisbon - Évora (by coach)


10.30h - 12.15h   Tour of Malagueira Housing Scheme (Arch. Siza Vieira, 1977-…)                                     and other public-funded housing ensembles, Évora 

12.30h - 14.00h   Lunch (location TBC)


14.00h - 15.30h   Collective-use buildings in and around the centre, Évora 

15.30h - 17.00h   University campus buildings (Arch. Manuel Taínha and Vítor                                           Figueiredo, 1960s-1990s) and Valverde chapel (16th-C), Mitra                                         (Évora) 

17.00h - 18.30h   Évora- Lisbon (by coach)

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