UIA 2017 SEOUL

Keynote Speech

Keynote speeches and presentations on the key issues of today’s architecture delivered by internationally renowned architects and global leaders
Date: September 4 ~ 6, 2017

September 4 (Mon)	September 5 (Tue)	September 6(Wed)
10:00 ~ 11:00	9:00 ~ 10:00	9:00 ~ 10:00
14:00 ~ 15:00	13:00 ~ 14:00
18:30 – 19:30	18:30 – 19:30	13:00 ~ 14:00

Invited Speakers

TSIEN, Billie & WILLIAMS , Tod

Tod Williams was born in Detroit, MI and received his undergraduate, MFA, and Architecture degrees from Princeton University.
Billie Tsien was born in Ithaca, NY and received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale University and her Master of Architecture degree from UCLA.
They have worked together since 1977 and founded their architectural practice in 1986.
Located in New York, their studio focuses on work for institutions including schools, museums, and not-for-profits—organizations and people who value issues of aspiration and meaning, timelessness and beauty. Over the past three decades they have received more than two dozen awards from the American Institute of Architects, as well as numerous national and international citations. Outside the studio, Tod and Billie are devoted participants in the cultural community and have long-standing associations with many arts organizations. They maintain active academic careers and lecture worldwide. As both educators and practitioners, they are deeply committed to making a better world through architecture.

TSIEN, Billie & WILLIAMS , Tod

Architect, TWBTA

Three

Sep.4(Mon) 14:00-15:00

CHO, Minsuk

Minsuk Cho is an architect and founder of Seoul-based firm Mass Studies.
Cho graduated from Yonsei University and Columbia University, and spent his early career in New York and Rotterdam, and in 1998, co-founded Cho Slade Architecture in New York.

Since returning to Seoul in 2003, he has been committed to the discourse of architecture through socio-cultural and urban research and mostly built works, which have been recognized globally, with representative works including the Pixel House, Missing Matrix, Bundle Matrix: S-Trenue, Ann Demeulemeester Shop, Korea Pavilion: 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and Daum Space.1, Osulloc: Tea Stone/Innisfree, Southcape: Clubhouse, and Dome-ino.

Active beyond his practice, he has co-curated the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, and was the commissioner and co-curator of the Korean Pavilion for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, which was awarded the Gold Lion for Best National Participation.

* Open to public

CHO, Minsuk

Architect, MASS STUDIES
(Open to public)

“BEFORE/AFTER”

Sep.4(Mon) 18:30-19:30

BEFORE/AFTER

Mass Studies has operated as an architectural practice for over a decade in Seoul, responding to a series of distinct geographic, social, and political conditions in constant flux. Consequently, each project has developed from ideas extracted from its own highly specific conditions, each with multiple variables of scale, speed, and economy - small to large, slow to fast, and cheap to expensive - seemingly absent of apparent order. In response to the fluctuating complexity of urban development, and grounded in an obsessive curiosity of the reality in which it operates, Mass Studies has pursued a methodology of “systematic heterogeneity” that simultaneously embraces the general, the obscure, and the unseen as opportunities.
The built and un-built projects of Mass Studies are an on-going cartographic record of ideas over time. Individual projects are less isolated events and more an interconnected assemblage of multiple ideas. With a disciplined method for each architectural pursuit, they include specific combinations of typological, formal, temporal, social, relational, behavioral, and experiential ideas that allow the process of design to take place within dynamic, yet defined, parameters.
To stay abreast of such fluid conditions, the architect must constantly strategize and be responsive to changing contexts. Like the game of Go, each move is both offense and defense, creating a constellation of reactions in an evolutionary process. This requires one to be aware of and utilize everything that came before while projecting what might happen after. Our projects are not concerned with the a priori narrative of an architectural beginning and the physical end of the work. They are rather the conception-to-realization of a building as the in-between performance of a larger recursive process.

LEATHERBARROW, David

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chairman of the Graduate Group in Architecture (Ph.D. Program)
at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught architectural design, history, and theory since 1984.
Before going to Penn he taught in England, at Cambridge University and the Polytechnic of Central London.
He has also visited and taught at many universities in the USA and abroad. David Leatherbarrow studied architecture at the University of Kentucky, where he earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree (1976), and he completed research for his Ph.D. in Art at the University of Essex (1983), under Joseph Rykwert’s supervision.
In his scholarly work he has published a number of books, most recently The Project(s) of Modern Architecture (2017), Architecture Oriented Otherwise (2009), Topographical Stories: studies in landscape and architecture (2004), and Surface Architecture (2002), a book written in collaboration with Mohsen Mostafavi that won the Bruno Zevi Prize from the International Congress of Architecture Critics. Forthcoming is a book titled Three Cultural Ecologies (2017), co-authored with Richard Wesley.
Earlier books include Uncommon Ground: architecture, technology and topography, The Roots of Architectural Invention: site, enclosure and materials, and On Weathering: the life of buildings in time, again with Mostafavi, which won the 1995 International Book Award in architectural theory from the American Institute of Architects.
In addition to the books he has published scholarly articles in architectural journals, including AA Files, Architectural Design, Center, Daidalos, Journal of Garden History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Rassegna, Via, and others. His awards include a Visiting Scholars Fellowship at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture and two Fulbright Hays Scholarships, one for study in Great Britain another for research and lecturing in Israel. He has held Guest Professorships in Europe, South America, and Asia.
In the past, his research has focused on various topics in the history and theory of architecture, gardens, and urbanism; more recently his work has concentrated on the impact of contemporary technology on architecture and the city.

LEATHERBARROW, David

Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Design

WHOLE PARTS

Sep.5(Tue) 9:00-10:00

WHOLE PARTS

In an attempt to define a place for architectural order other than comprehensive urban systems or market-driven aesthetics, this talk will advance a thesis concerning whole parts, which is to say internally defined architectural works whose intensity and coherence do not isolate them from the city’s wider frames of reference, artificial and natural. Despite decades of alternately progressive and reactionary claims about dramatic crises in contemporary urban culture, most cities and good urban architecture show a remarkable degree of continuity, no matter whether you consider Shangahi, Stockholm, or Santiago—at least parts of them. Sizes have, indeed, changed. Buildings are taller, infrastructure bigger, and open spaces wider and more heterogeneous—to say nothing about the ever-increasing density and expanse of urban settlements. Yet, in every city’s different localities intelligible topography is still very much in evidence, not despite radical changes (which would argue for repetition of pre-modern scale and typologies), nor thanks to them (in the form of big architecture, megastructures, or large scale engineering and landscape projects), but because coherent architectural works can contribute to both the transformation and continuity of cities. Scale is at issue here, also proportioning, but equally so the productive nature of intelligent and creative architectural projects. Three scales or types will be addressed: tall buildings, open spaces, and infrastructure, in consideration of 20th century works in the city of Philadelphia.

David Leatherbarrow

PERRAULT, Dominique

Architect and urbanist
Born in 1953 • Diploma in architecture (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris) • Higher diploma in town planning at École supérieure des Ponts et Chaussées de Paris • Postgraduate degree in History at EHESS
Founder of Dominique Perrault Architecture in Paris (1981), in Berlin (1992), in Luxembourg (2000), in Madrid (2006) and in Geneva (2013) • Architect, winner of the international competition for the French National Library in Paris (1995), the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Luxembourg (2008) and the New Ewha Womans University Campus Center at Seoul (2008) • Architect of important heritage restorations, including the redevelopement of the Dufour Pavilion at the Château de Versailles (2016), the renovation of La Poste du Louvre in Paris (2018) et the New Longchamp Racecourse in Paris (2017). Member of the Conseil scientifique de l’Atelier International du Grand Paris (since 2012) • Professor of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (since 2013) • Founder of the research platform DPAx (2015) • Elected Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (depuis 2015), Praemium Imperiale laureate for architecture awarded by the Japan Art Association at 2015.
http://www.perraultarchitecture.com/download/IDC_flyer-A4_EN

PERRAULT, Dominique

Architect, Dominique Perrault Architecture Professor,
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

GROUNDSCAPES - OTHER TOPOGRAPHIES

Sep.5(Tue) 13:00-14:00

GROUNDSCAPES - OTHER TOPOGRAPHIES

In this book, the architect Dominique Perrault presents his thoughts on the architecture of the "Groundscape". An idea, a concept, the architect has been exploring and experimenting with for many years in his projects and through his fictions. It is a work on shaping reality, through subterranean architecture, where is not a question of living but of marking and carving out places for urban life in the earth, this epidermis open to the sky.

"Groundscape", a generic concept

Over the course of a number of international competitions and successive projects built regularly punctuating the architect’s chronology since the 1980s, from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to the the Ewha university, the notion of "Groundscape" as a generic concept became increasingly obvious for the architect, who has come to see it as an authentic extension of the field of architectural practice and even more so as a genuine program. An object of his research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the "Groundscape" is a landscape of another nature, a place and a resource that extends and enlarges our world.

An engaged architect, an engaged style

In Groundscapes - Other Topographies, Dominique Perrault takes a firm position. He expresses in writing his commitment to this position, presented in the form of a dialog and exchanges of ideas, which are accompanied by a rich and erudite iconography readers will discover throughout the book. The fruit of a series of interviews with Frédéric Migayrou, in this book he explores a range of questions raised by the "Groundscape" (from fiction as method for creation to issues of ecology, engineering, urban planning and geography) and suggests possible ways of tackling them. Thus the architect traces the contours of a new form of urban living; a universe of possibilities, of highly innovative places that either exist, are waiting to be created, or still to be imagined.

Fiction or experimenting with possibilities

Dominique Perrault imagines and conceives fictions, his "Groundscapes", possible futures for architecture, one of which opens each chapter of the book and proposes a different reality for the built environment. He seeks to reveal the available resources we fail to take into account in our urban reality in order to extend the field of architectural intervention. Most of these fictions have been developed for Paris, the city where the architect lives and the cityscape of his imaginary world. The fiction for the Arc de Triomphe set upon a plaza of glass makes it possible to extend the monument, unveil new spaces, and improve the usability of what already exists. In his fiction for the Avenue Foch, he explores the notion of context in an ensemble that is being transformed, the one of the landscape, or entire territories. Facing the economic, social and cultural mutations underway, this is a political, ethical and ecological reflection the architect wishes to share with us.

SCHUMACHER, Patrik

Patrik Schumacher (b. 1961, Bonn, Germany) is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and has led the practice since Zaha Hadid’s passing. Patrik joined ZHA in 1988. He was the lead architect of ZHA’s first completed project - the Vitra Fire Station (completed 1993) - and together with Hadid, has co-authored almost all the firm’s built works to date. He is registered with the Architect’s Registration Board and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Patrik studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Southbank University in London. He completed his architectural diploma and received his degree from Stuttgart University in 1990 and also studied philosophy at both Bonn and London Universities. In 1999 he received his doctoral degree Dr.Phil. from the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the University of Klagenfurt.
Since 1992, Patrik has been teaching at architectural schools in Britain, continental Europe and the USA. He co-taught a series of post-graduate studios with Zaha Hadid at the University of Illinois, Yale and Columbia, in addition to having been tenured Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture, Innsbruck University. In 1996 Patrik founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association where he continues to teach as co-director. He is lecturing worldwide and recently held the John Portman Chair in Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
In 2008 Patrik coined the phrase Parametricism and his contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is evident in his published works. In 2010 and 2012 he published the two volumes ‘The Autopoiesis of Architecture’ and recently guest-edited Architecture Digest (AD) “Parametricism 2.0 – setting architecture’s agenda for the 21st Century” with a new emphasis on its societal relevance.

* Open to public

SCHUMACHER, Patrik

Principal at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)

"THE LEGACY OF ZAHA HADID - RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE "

Sep.5(Tue) 18:30-19:30

WATTANAVRANGKUL, Kobkarn

Education:
1965 – 1977 Wattana Wittaya Academy, Thailand
1977 – 1979 Triam Udom Suksa, Thailand
1979 – 1981 Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
1981 – 1984 Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA - Bachelor Degree in Architecture
2000 Thai Institute of Directors (“Director Certificate Program”)
2005 Thai Institute of Directors (“The Role of Chairman Program”)
2006 National Defence College (NDC 49)
2007 Capital Market Academy (Leadership Program)
2010 The Executive Creative Economy Training Program (EXCET 1)
2011 Top Executive Program in Commerce and Trade (TEPCoT 4)
2013 Thailand Energy Academy (TEA 2)
2013 Office of the Royal Development Projects Board (RDPB)
2013 Executive Development Program (2)
2014 D.A. in Management (Honorary) Sripatum University

Career
1984-2004 Top Management of Thai Toshiba Group of Companies.
2004-2014 Chairperson of Thai Toshiba Group of Companies & Bangkadi Industrial Park
2014- Minister of Tourism and Sports

Award
2004 1 in 13 The Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World Award
2004 Outstanding Business Woman Award from Thai Chamber of Commerce
2005 Priew Award
2007 Outstanding Business Woman Award from the Prime Minister on the occasion of International Women Day
2007 Thailand Top 100 HR 2007 Award from Human Resources Institute, Thammasat University
2012 Outstanding Woman Award from The National Council of Women of Thailand
2012 The Women Who Make a Difference Awards 2012 from Thailand Tatler Magazine
2012 Outstanding Business Woman 2012 Award from Thai Chamber of Commerce
2013 Right Livelihood Person 2012 Award from Right Livelihood Foundation

Past Positions

Social Activity (Business)
President of Thai-Japanese Association
Vice Chairman of Thai Chamber of Commerce
Board, KBANK
President of Self Sufficient Economy Committee, Thai Chamber of Commerce
Vice President of Energy Committee, Thai Chamber of Commerce
President of Ethic Club, Thai Chamber of Commerce
Committee, Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand
Committee,The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking
Committee, Business and Professional Woman’s Associations of Thailand, Bangkok
Committee, The Federation of Business and Professional Woman’s Associations of Thailand

Social Activity (Education)
Board of Trustees, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT)
Board of Director, College of Management Mahidol University (CMMU)
Chairman of the Governors Board, Harrow International School, Thailand

Social Activity (Other)
Head of Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World Committee, Thailand
Committee Member, Foundation for a Clean and Transparent Thailand (FACT)
Member of the Council of Trustees and Board of the Director, Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation (TDRI)
The Sub-Committee on Population and Plan, The National Economic and Social Development Board
Director, Vichaiyuth Hospital
Director, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Foundation
Director, Special Olympic of Thailand
Director, Books for Children Foundation
Board, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Director, Utokapat Foundation under Royal Patronage of H.M. The King

Other
Committee of the Sufficient Economy Judgement, Office of The Royal Development Projects Board
Working Committee, Art for All in Prisons
Honorary Advisor Committee, K-SME Venture Capital 2007
Evaluation Committee Panel, Baipo Pho Business Awards by SASIN since 2007
Judging Committee Member, “Bangkok Business Challenge” SASIN 2014

WATTANAVRANGKUL, Kobkarn

Minister of Tourism and Sports, Thailand

Sep.6(Wed) 9:00-10:00

ABOU, Moussa

Researcher in Architecture of Earth (ground) and local Materials-Inventor

- Architect by training and holder of a basic school-leaving qualification Deepened (Fathomed) in earth (ground) obtained on May 11th 1990 at School of Architecture of Grenoble France.

- Holder of Certificate of Search (research) within the Laboratory (Architecture of earth (ground), Feed (Delivered on July 1st 1991 at School of Architecture of Grenoble France.)

- Individual member (limb in 2012) of The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB).

Holder of three patents in the field of the construction of building hard without coffering nor clamp without mortar of pose:

In 1994 two patents (n° 10230 and n° 10231) freed by the African Organization of the Intellectual Propriety. In 2011 The third patent (n° 15802) freed by the African Organization of the Intellectual Propriety.
Whose Head Office is in Yaoundé Cameroon.

I AND PARTICIPATION IN DIVERSE MEETIG Two patents (n° 10230 and n° 1DISTINCTIONS 0231) freed in 1994:
a) From 08 till December 1997 : Participation in the 1st African lounge (show) of the Technological Invention of Dakar Senegal obtaining of the Price (Prize ) and the International Cup (Cutting ) of IFIA Federation International Association of Inventors’ Geneva Switzerland (Swiss)
b) From 17 till 18 December 1997 Participation in the first competition (help) one of creative creativities of Niamey: obtaining of the First Prize of the President of the Republic and the Golden medal INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PRICE WIPO for the Best Innovation
c) From 02 till 07 July 1998 participation in the 4th lounge (Show) of invention and innovation of Casablanca Morocco. Obtaining of the Cup of the Urban Community of Big Casablanca offered by Minister for Housing “Golden medal with Mention Distinction of Grand Prix HASSAN II. And a Golden medal offered by EAST-WEST-EURO –INTELLECT, a Bulgarian institution.
d) From 25 till 29 July participation in the invention and innovation of Casablanca Morocco. Obtaining of “Golden medal INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PRICE WIPO Developing country and of the Diploma and Golden Medal with Mention Distinction of Grand Prix HASSAN II.

II DISTINCTIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN DIVERSE MEETIG The third patent (n° 15802) freed In 2011
a) GRAND PRIX IAEA 2013 European Association of the Inventors; Diploma and Golden medal of the International fair of the Inventions of Geneva from 10 till 14 April 2013
b) A prize-winner forum Africa 100 innovation for a sustainable development and a prize-winner of 21 pioneers having presented their technological innovations in Paris in December, 2013.

ABOU, Moussa

Researcher in Architecture of Earth (ground) and local Materials-Inventor

“LOCAL MATERIALS AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY”

Sep.6(Wed) 13:00-14:00

*Invited Speakers will be updated continuously.