Contextualism Collage City and Beyond GUD Seminar 2
This is the second seminar of the GUD platform Contextualism Collage City and Beyond seminar. This session studies the global migration of Rowe’s contextual and collage ideas and concerns, especially in Latin America and Asia.
United States
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88379943898?pwd=bFBHUl-FUUU8yOElLNU5qUEZHZWZvQT09
It seems an appropriate time to revisit Contextualism and Collage City within the framework of GUDesign network, and the new tools of representation available in the contemporary meta-city of information.
The initial Contextualism, Collage City and Beyond seminar will investigate Colin Rowe’s mid-twentieth century role in appropriating Sitte’s 1890’s reaction to Von Forster’s 1860 imperial design for the Vienna Ringstrasse. Rowe’s critical appropriation paved the way for later iterations and code shifts that greatly expanded into a more fragmented, inclusive Collage City. It took Rowe several iterations to develop this concept with Fred Koetter and with his Roma Interrotta team. Hopefully, this and future seminars will explore strength and weaknesses of the mutations of Rowe’s classical impulse as it, in its turn, evolved with urban design into the 21st century.
The global migration of Rowe’s contextual and collage ideas and concerns especially in Latin America and Asia.
Date:
October, 26th, 2pm CET, 8am NY, 8pm CHN
Program:
Welcome Address: Prof. Marichela Sepe, GUDesign Coordinator
Chair: Prof. David Grahame Shane, Columbia University NY
Discussant: Prof. Ali Madanipour, Newcastle University UK
Speakers:
Prof. Ming Tong of South Eastern University, his two translations of Colin Rowe’s Collage City into Chinese were important events in the dissemination of Rowe’s ideas in Asia. Professor Ming Tong will talk about the translations and their impact on his own work and generation, as well as later generations.
PhD Candidate Sylvie Nguyen will describe her study of Vietnam’s rur - urban development patterns in the Mekong Delta, under the direction of Prof. Paola Vigano at EPFL, and her recent exhibition in ‘Redesigning Deltas,’ at TU Delft. Here the context becomes an active design component in an expanded Socio-techno-ecological field, composed of a palimpsest.
PhD Candidate Melissa Barrientos will talk about rapidly growing cities in Chile and potential similarities from previous growth processes in the region. An urban morphology approach in combination with complexity science methods is proposed as an innovative strategy to address the phenomenon. Melissa will present this way of reading different urban fabrics in their structure using contemporary morphometrics.
Prof. David Gouveneur from the landscape program of the University of Pennsylvania will describe the influence of contextualism in Latin America, using international examples as well as his studio work applying contextual techniques to the informal growth patterns and planning of self-built favelas and rancheros.
Prof. Ali Madanipour from Newcastle University, UK will summarize questions from the presentations, opening a discussion.
