Building - Designing - Thinking - International Alvar Aalto Meeting in Finland

[i]3rd International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture[/i] August 30-31, 2008 Jyväskylä, Finland In the introduction to his essay on architecture, Abbé Laugier claims that ”in those arts which are not purely mechanical it is not sufficient to know how to work; it is above all important to learn to think.” But how should one then think about architecture, or rather, think in architecture? Is there a specific architectural way of thinking, as opposed to, say, an art historical way of looking at a building? Can design be a form of thinking? Or does it all boil down to subjective taste? The 3rd International Meeting on the Research of Modern Architecture, organised by the Alvar Aalto Academy, examines the points of contact, the influences and effects, the interactions and affiliations, the correlations and cross-fertilisations, the bonds and links between thinking, designing, and building. The workshops of the meeting are following: Workshop 1 | Translations from concepts to buildings Provisional Workshop 2 | Space for thought Workshop 3 | Understanding architecture Workshop 4 | Thought experiments in Muuratsalo Workshop 5 | Architectural expertise Workshop 6 | Architecture and popular taste Conference proceedings will be refereed and published. •[b]Abstracts of 250 words are due 4 February by email [/b]to the address academy@alvaraalto.fi. Paper Format Guidelines will be sent upon request and upon receipt of abstract.(Referee advice will be progressively circulated.) •[b]Notification of acceptance by 25 February. Drafts due 28 April[/b]. •Final deadline for completed and accepted papers (of 4000 words maximum) are due 2 June by email to the address [url=mailto:academy@alvaraalto.fi]academy@alvaraalto.fi[/url] Publications: •Accepted papers will be published in a pre-conference publication. •Keynote speaker presentations and selected papers will be published and distributed after the conference. Dates to Remember: 4 February 2008 Deadline for Abstracts 25 February 2008 Notification Acceptance Abstract. Invitation to Full Paper Submission 28 April 2008 Deadline for Draft Papers 2 June 2008 Deadline for Final Papers 30-31 August 2008 International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture