SAHGB’s Annual Architectural History Symposium for PhD Scholars and Early Career Researchers
Using What We Have: Architectural Histories of Fragments, Ruins, Rationed Resources and Obsolete Spaces
SAHGB are pleased to invite you to a hybrid symposium this year.
Attendance can be either on-line (£6) or in person (£12) at the University of Liverpool, School of the Arts. With support from the Liverpool School of Architecture, the symposium will be held on 31st March 2022 from 9:30 – 5:00 pm (GMT) in the recently restored Arts Library.
All places, All periods, All welcome.
For complete details and to register please click here to register
Each year, the SAHGB scholars hold an event to provide a forum for emerging architectural history scholars. Open to everyone, the annual event connects researchers across sectors and around the world.
The call for papers received an excellent and global response, with researchers investigating architectural histories from the twenty-first century to early interventions at the Parthenon. The symposium seeks to raise awareness of traditions of vernacular adaptation and reuse, including cultural responses to ruins, layering of settlements, repurposed architectural fragments, temporary habitations and obsolete building typologies.
Organised into two sessions, the morning session addresses historic traditions and the afternoon examines current theoretical and practical approaches informed by architectural history research. There will be a concluding round table session to draw these themes together where examples from the past can be considered in context with current design solutions.
We are delighted to welcome Professor Ola Uduku, Head of the Liverpool School of Architecture, who will introduce the symposium and our keynote speaker, Dr. Konstantina Georgiadou, who will deliver her presentation ‘Only Temporary! Housing the Lausanne Treaty refugees in Greece.’
Programme of the day
9:45 - 9:50
Welcome, session format, and schedule
9:50 - 10
Prof. Nwola Uduku
Opening remarks
10 - 10:30
Dr Konstantina Georgiadou
Only Temporary! Housing the Lausanne Treaty refugees in Greece.
10:30 - 11
Dr Matthew Steele
My Place or Yours? The Adaptation of St Matthew, Brixton, London (1976 - 1983)
11 - 11:30
Danielle Hewitt
14 Million Tonnes of Debris:
Demolition, Salvage and Re-use in London’s World War II Bombsites, 1940-1945
11:30 - 12
Maria Brewster
Speaking Columns: A Critique on the Parthenon’s (De)(Re)Construction
12 - 12:30
Murray Tremellen
“Open and Manly” or “Discordant Mixture”? Conservation and stylistic propriety at the Palace of Westminster, 1794-1836
12:30 - 1
Sasson Rafailov
Permanence in Matter and Memory
1:00 - 1:55 LUNCH BREAK
1:55 - 2 Introduce afternoon session
2 - 2:30
Nadin Augustiniok
Meaning of Heritage and Reuse in the 19th and 21st centuries. A case study analysis of the Moritzburg in Halle/Saale, Germany
2:30 - 3
Thomais Kordonouri
Upcycling: a bricolage of memory and new meanings - Three façades
3 - 3:30
Dr Madalena Costa Lima
(Re)Thinking the (re)use of endangered buildings in the age of the Enlightenment and its decay: the Portuguese case
3:30 - 4
Lisa Kinch
All [ex]Change: Reusing the Lee Circle Telephone Exchange
4 - 4:30
Irma Delmonte
Indigenous Architecture of the Ecuadorian Amazon
4:30 - 4:50
Round table discussion
4:50 - 5 Concluding remarks
Info
Date: 31 st March 2022
Time: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm, GMT
Where: On-line via Zoom, or In person at the Arts Library, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7ZG
Cost: Online: £6. Bookings close on 29 th March for online attendance.
In person: £12 (hosted at the recently renovated Arts Library and includes lunch and tea and coffee throughout the day). Bookings close on 26 th March for in person attendance. Please advise if you have dietary requirements (vegan, vegetarian, allergies, intolerances, or other dietary requirements) when completing your booking.
Notes: The Arts Library is on the first floor.
If you need support with access, please advise the event organisers when booking and they will arrange to meet you to provide access to the lifts. University of Liverpool asks all attendees (who are not exempt) to comply with University Covid requirements and to wear masks while indoors. Presenters are exempt during their session.