1:1 seductions
Symposium, March 2004
An initiative for the Year of for the Built Environment
Brisbane, 26 March 2004
Initiated by Professor Steffen Lehmann, Queensland University of Technology. A collaboration between the School of Design and Built Environment and the School of Construction Management and Property at QUT.
seduction
• the act or an instance of seducing.
• condition of being seduced.
• a means of seducing; an enticement.
seduce:
1. to lead astray; entice away from duty or rectitude.
2. to lead or draw away, as from faith or allegiance.
3. to win over; entice .
The Macquarie Dictionary (1981) Published by Macquarie University.
Today, more than ever, making architecture is an interdisciplinary adventure without clear boundaries. There is a certain hedonism on the journey between concept and action, dreams and pragmatism, design and engineering.
To explore this journey, a symposia will be held in Brisbane to bring together emerging innovative European architects to share ideas with students and practitioners. We will examine the relationship between the architect and the engineer, and investigate the impact of technological innovation on architecture, for example, its affect on façade and the question of flexibility. Technical progress and social change have traditionally ranked among the main challenges to architecture. Do we simply tolerate these changes in our living and working conditions or do we make active attempts to influence them? How does technical innovation influence the architect's design decisions today?
The symposium will explore the strong influence engineering has had on architectural form and detailing, particularly in modulating natural light, solar heat gain and air movement. New technologies affect the way spaces are designed, how construction documents are produced, and even methods of building fabrication. Le Corbusier presented the engineer as a leading example and figure to the architectural profession. Walter Gropius radically introduced new ideas of prefabrication and modularity in the building industry. And in the fifties, engineers like Richard Buckminster Fuller and Konrad Wachsmann revolutionised the way architects thought about construction.
Current discussions between architects and structural engineers involved in innovative buildings and projects require changing roles in terms of agreements, disagreements and resolutions. While the roles played by architects and engineers certainly vary from scheme to scheme, and while it is impossible to generalise about the architect/engineer relationship, old stereotypes will be challenged and new forms of partnering explored to reveal the complexity of creative relationships. The symposium will explore the uniqueness of the scope of topics that are brought together within the field of architecture, and the contradictions inherent in the relationship of architecture, as an art, to the forms of life that it serves
The Symposium will take place at:
'source 22'
22 Constance Street
Fortitude Valley Qld 4006
Brisbane, 26 March 2004, 9:00am to 7:00pm
Attendance is free for students and open to all. Registration fee for participants from the profession is AUD$30.00. Please register with the organisers by email: s.jeavons@qut.edu.au
The 1:1 seductions symposium is endorsed by the RAIA, and is an initiative of the 'Year of the Built Environment 2004'.
Sponsors:
QUT, s_Lab, THIESS, MIRVAC, source 22, bvn, ARUP, SIAL, RAIA
Schedule:
Friday 26 March 2004
Presentations (each 45min.to 1h)
9.00am Opening of the Symposium and introductory remarks by Professor Steffen Lehmann, QUT Architecture
9.20am Ian Ainsworth, ARUP Engineers Brisbane
10.05am Questions and Discussion
10.20pm Franz Sumnitsch, BKK-3 Architekten, Vienna
11.20pm Questions and Discussion
11.35pm Professor Mark Burry, SIAL at RMIT, Melbourne
12.20pm Questions and Discussion
12.30pm Lunch Break (not provided by the organiser)
1.15pm Markus Allmann, Allman-Sattler-Wappner, Munich
2.15pm Questions and Discussion
2.30pm Shane Thompson, Bligh Voller Nield Brisbane
3.15pm Questions and Discussion
3.30pm Kerstin Thompson, Kerstin Thompson Architects, Melbourne
4.20pm Questions and Discussion
4:30pm Tea Break
4:45pm Georg Gewers, Gewers-Kuehn-Kuehn Architekten, Berlin
5.45pm Questions and Discussion
5.55pm Peter Sheehy, Engineer at THIESS Brisbane
6.55pm Questions and Discussion
Summary:
7.05pm Summary by Dr Stephen Kajewski, QUT Construction Management
View the work of the participating architects and engineers on the web:
Allmann-Sattler-Wappner Architekten, Munich
Speaker:Markus Allmann, born 1959
www.allmannsattlerwappner.de
bkk-3 Architects, Vienna
Speaker: Franz Sumnitsch, born 1962
www.bkk-3.com
Gewers-Kuehn-Kuehn Architects, Berlin
Speaker: Georg Gewers, born 1962
www.gkk-architekten.de
Kerstin Thompson Architects, Melbourne
Speaker: Kerstin Thompson, born 1965
SIAL Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT, Melbourne
Speaker: Professor Mark Burry, born 1957
www.sial.rmit.edu.au
THIESS Pty Ltd., Brisbane
Speaker: Peter Sheehy, Engineer and Building Manager
www.thiess.com.au
ARUP Australia
Speaker: Ian Ainsworth.
www.arup.com
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane
Speaker: Dr Stephen Kajewski, School of Construction Management and Property
Speaker and Symposium organiser: Professor Steffen Lehmann, School of Design and Built Environment
www.bee.qut.edu.au