Ornament: Islamic Traditions and Contemporary Practices
Saturday December 1, 2007
10:30am - 6:00pm
Room 103
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
[all welcome - no registration required]
The symposium explores a renewed interest in ornament suggesting a fruitful convergence of long established ornamental traditions of Islamic architecture and the emergent interests of contemporary western practice.
PARTICIPANTS
Aziza Chaouni (Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - University of Toronto / Principal, KuoChaouni Design Collaborative)
Preston Scott Cohen (Graduate School of Design - Harvard University / Preston Scott Cohen, Inc, Cambridge)
Roger Duffy (Partner, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, New York)
Rodolphe el-Khoury (Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - University of Toronto / Partner, Khoury Levit Fong, Toronto)
Jeffrey M. Kipnis (Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture - Ohio State University)
Sanford Kwinter (School of Architecture - Rice University)
Robert Levit (Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - University of Toronto / Partner, Khoury Levit Fong, Toronto)
Andrew Payne (Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - University of Toronto)
Hashim Sarkis (Graduate School of Design - Harvard University / Hashim Sarkis Architecture Landscape Urban Design, Cambridge/Beirut)
Irvin C. Schick (Department of Architecture - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nader Tehrani (Department of Architecture - Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Principal, Office dA, Inc., Boston)
SCHEDULE
10:30 AM > Introduction: Robert Levit
11:00 AM > Keynote Lecture: Hashim Sarkis
12:00 PM > Panel Discussion: Sanford Kwinter, Robert Levit (moderator), Andrew Payne, Hashim Sarkis, Irwin Schick
[lunch break]
2:00 PM > Presentations: Roger Duffy, Nader Tehrani, Sanford Kwinter (respondent)
3:30 PM > Presentations: Aziza Chaouni, Preston Scott Cohen, Jeff Kipnis (respondent)
5:00 PM > Panel Discussion: George Baird, Aziza Chaouni, Preston Scott Cohen, Rodolphe el-Khoury (moderator), Jeff Kipnis, Nader Tehrani
The symposium Ornament: Islamic Traditions and Contemporary Practices is taking place with the generous support of the Aga Kahn Trust for Culture.
photo: Office dA, Inc. photographer: Brandon Clifford