A bit late, but anyway. I've been busy organizing a conference (Architectural theory) in Delft which will take place on the 16th and 17th of March (yes, next week).

It promises to be an impressive event, and even if you can't come we've set up a live video stream so all you guys can follow all the lectures and discussion if you'd like.

please check www.projectivelandscape.nl

our speakers are: an Allen (special apperance) Robert Somol Sarah Whiting Michael Speaks Roemer van Toorn Kamiel Klaasse Reinhold Martin Peter Trummer Nikolaus Kuhnert Diane Ghirardo Hans van Dijk Ole W. Fischer Wouter Vanstiphout Willem-Jan Neutelings Naomi Stead Lara Schrijver M. Christine Boyer Arie Graafland K. Michael Hays

in short the conference is about this: The Projective Landscape Stylos Conference wants to research and explore the similarities between a few -at first sight- seemingly diverse developments within the architecture debate taking place in Europe and the United States. These developments appear to offer a fruitful strategy for architecture in the 21st century. Because this specific debate is very scattered, the conference aims to map and clarify these different developments and hopes to come to a clearer formulation of what now is being referred to as projective practice. By which we mean an architecture that is engaged with the reality of the society in which it is embedded, but focuses on its own discipline instead of looking for legitimatization of its practice in just societal criticism or in disciplines outside itself like sociology and philosophy.

cyaround,

best edwin