IASTE 2014: Whose Tradition?
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—December 14-17, 2014
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2014
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
REGISTRATION
FOYER
9:00 AM-10:00 AM
OPENING SESSION
PLAZA 1 + 2
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Mark Gillem, IASTE Director, University of Oregon, USA
Rahinah Ibrahim, Local Conference Director, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
ON THE CONFERENCE THEME: WHOSE TRADITION?
Nezar AlSayyad, IASTE President, University of California, Berkeley, USA
10:00 AM-12:00 AM—PLENARY SESSION
WHOSE HISTORY: THE POLITICS OF MEMORY AND TRADITION
PLAZA 1 + 2
Chair: Mark Gillem
University of Oregon, USA
Malaysianization, Malayization, Islamization: The Politics of Tradition in Greater Kuala Lumpur
Tim Bunnell
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Silent Histories of the City
Eleni Bastéa
University of New Mexico, USA
Discussant:
Adnan Morshed
Catholic University of America, USA
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
[On your own]
1:00 PM-2:40 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.1 RETHINKING TRADITION: DYNAMIC RESILIENCE
PLAZA 2
Chair: Heba Ahmed
Cairo University, Egypt
New Theoretical Foundations and Enacting Practices
Robert Mugerauer
University of Washington, USA
The Neoliberal Logic of Preservation: Landscape Heritage and Tradition in Mount Emei and Chengdu Plain, China
Jiawen Hu
University of Washington, USA
Revamping Tradition: Contested Politics of the “Indigenous” in Postcolonial Hong Kong
Shu-Mei Huang
Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
Tradition as an Imposed and Elite Inheritance
Jayde Roberts
University of Tasmania, Australia
B.1 TRADITION OF THE HOUSE
PLAZA 3
Chair: Joseph Aranha
University of Florida, USA
Cairene Homes of Modernity: The Changing Architecture of the Home in Early Twentieth Century Cairo
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
The Crumpling “Dream” House: Post-Independence Public Housing Traditions in Kuwait
Amina Al-Kandari
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Identity of a Conserved Housing Estate: The Case of Tiong Bahru, Singapore
Kien To, Alexandria Zhuo, Wen Chong, and Keng Hua Chong
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Whose Neighborhood? Community Organizing, Identity Politics and Historic Preservation in St. Louis
Susanne Cowan
University of California, Berkeley, USA
C.1 TOURISM AND AUTHENTICITY
PLAZA 4
Chair: Khaled Adham
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Border-Crossing and Placemaking: Negotiating and Reimagining Traditions in the Transcultural City
Jeffrey Hou
University of Washington, USA
Compromised Authenticity: The Preservation of Xijin Ferry in Zhenjiang, China
Kuang-Ting Huang
Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
Crossing (Neo)Liberal Lines: The Japan Pavilion at the Golden Gate International Exposition
Lynne Horiuchi
Independent Scholar, USA
Tradition as Represented in Tourism: Adaptive Reuse of Old Houses as Boutique Hotels in Bangkok
Saithiwa Ramasoot
Kasetsart University, Thailand
2:40 PM-7:00 PM
TOUR OF KUALA LUMPUR
The tour will cover the Kuala Lumpur Commercial Center and Merdeka Square, followed by a walking tour of the famous Masjid Jamek and Chinatown, where the tour ends and buses return to the PARKROYAL Hotel. Alternatively, you can choose to have dinner on your own in Chinatown and return on your own by taxi.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2014
9:00 AM-11:00 AM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.2 DIALECTICS OF TRADITION AND MODERNITY
PLAZA 2
Chair: Vandana Baweja
University of Florida, USA
Reclaiming Tradition in Contemporary Planning and Design Discourse: ‘History’ or ‘Tradition’
Timothy Imeokparia
University of New Mexico, USA
The Capital Complex at Dhaka: Institution? Spectacle? Landscape?
Maryam Gusheh
University of New South Wales, Australi
Vernaculars: Creation of Modern Vernacular Traditions
Alissa de Wit-Paul
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Site Structures: From Evolutionism to Structuralism in the Construction of Architecture
Julian Garcia
Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain
The Reinterpretation of Urban Space and the Modernization Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa
Timothy ‘Seyi Odeyale
University of Lincoln, UK
B.2 TRADITIONS IN HISTORIC SETTINGS
PLAZA 3
Chair: Laurence Keith Loftin
University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Tradition Along the Edge: Land Walls of Istanbul
Funda Butuner
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Did Rupture Occur? Continuity and Change in the Cairene Domestic Environment from 1798 to the 1950s
Mostafa A-Y. Ibraheem
Cairo University, Egypt
Repositioning Chau & Lee Architects in Hong Kong in the Late Colonial Period, 1930s-50s
Prudence Leung-Kwok Lau
Hong Kong Institute of Education, China
Paradox of [Non]existence: Case Study of Pasar Cepit, or Sandwiched Market, in Magetan, East Java
Triatno Yudo Harjoko and Wendi Ivannal Hakim
Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Mapping Mountains: Traditional Neighborhoods in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Monojit Chakma
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
C.2 COLONIALISM AND TRADITION
PLAZA 4
Chair: Cecilia Chu
University of Hong Kong, China
How the Past and Future Influenced the Design of Guam’s Government House
Marvin Brown
URS Corporation, USA
Empire in the City: Memorials of Colonialism in Contemporary Portugal and Mozambique
Tiago Castela
University of Coimbra, Portugal
The Missing “Brazilianness” of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture
Pedro Paulo Palazzo
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Mediating Power in British Colonial Architecture: Post-1931 Cyprus
Nilay Bilsel and Ozgur Dincyurek
Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Decolonizing Patrimony: Institutions, Nationhood and the Construction of Heritage in Bourguiba’s Tunisia
Nancy Demerdash
Princeton University, USA
11:00 AM-11:20 AM
COFFEE BREAK
11:20 AM-1:20 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.3 READING TRADITION
PLAZA 2
Chair: Anne Toxey
University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
Gottfried Semper in Manila
Thomas Mical
University of South Australia, Australia
New Place Anchors: Traditional Environments Re-Created and Reimagined
Leigh Shutter
Griffith University, Australia
Epigraphs: Narrators or Memoirs
Emine Eyüce
Bahcesehir University, Turkey
Tadashi Sekino’s Investigations into Korean Traditional Housing and Architecture, 1904-1924
Yoonchun Jung
McGill University, Canada
The Makassar Culture of Solidarity and Its Influence on the Mariso Waterfront Settlement, Indonesia
Edward Syarif, Endang Titi Sunarti Darjosanjoto, and I Gusti Ngurah Antaryama
Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia
B.3 TRADITION, HISTORY AND MODERNIST STRUGGLES
PLAZA 3
Chair: Anne Marshall
University of Idaho, USA
Muzharul Islam’s Architectural Modernism and Benagli Nationalism
Adnan Morshed
Catholic University of America, USA
The Sleek Torre and the Makeshift Rancho: Political and Urban/Architectural Models in Caracas’s Torre David
Clara Irazábal and Irene Sosa
Columbia University and Brooklyn College, USA
Creolization and Commercial Culture: A Continuing Process in the Georgia and South Carolina Lowcountry
Daves Rossell
Savannah College of Art and Design, USA
Politics of Space: Inconsistent Histories of Two Mausoleums
Shahrzad Shirvani
University of California, Berkeley, USA
C.3 POSTCOLONIALISM AND TRADITION
PLAZA 4
Chair: Mrinalini Rajagopalan
University of Pittsburgh, USA
The Fabrication of Hegemony and Postcolonial Identity at Putrajaya
James Steele
University of Southern California, USA
Building the Capacity to Aspire: Heritagization and Governmentality in Postcolonial Macau
Cecilia Chu
University Of Hong Kong, China
Redefining New (Postcolonial) Jakarta through the Giant Sea Wall Project
Eka Permanasari
University of Pembangunan Jaya, Indonesia
(Post)colonial Indian Museums: Between Appropriation, Mimicry and Reinvention of Architectural Traditions
Harpreet Mand and Iain Jackson
University of Newcastle, Australia and University of Liverpool, UK
Postcolonial Identity in Urban Indonesia: Jengki Architecture and the Chinese-Indonesian Builders
Rina Priyani
University of California, Berkeley, USA
1:20 PM-2:40 PM
LUNCH BREAK
[On your own]
2:40 PM-4:40 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.4 REPRESENTATIONS OF TRADITION
PLAZA 2
Chair: Chee-Kien Lai
Independent Scholar, Singapore
Modernity, Traditionalism, and the Cinematic Alleyway in Early Egyptian Realist Films
Khaled Adham
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Allure of the Native: Representing Phillipine Vernacular Architecture in International Expositions, 1887-1998
Edson Cabalfin
University of Cincinnati, USA
Uprooting Andalusian Traditional Architecture: Bernard Rudofsky’s Subversive Discourse
Mar Loren
Seville University, Spain
Construction of Tradition(s): Power and Cultural Imaginary in the Delhi Book
Harpreet Mand
University of Newcastle, Australia
Tradition and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture: In Media Res
Sabir Khan
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
B.4 RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS, RELIGIOUS SPACES
PLAZA 3
Chair: Mohammad Gharipour
Morgan State University, USA
Hybrid Architecture, Heretical Religions and the Epistemology of Cultural Traditions
Andrzej Piotrowski
University of Minnesota, USA
Requalifying Public Spaces According to African-Brazilian Religious Traditions
Claudia Castellano Menezes, Cristiane Rose Siqueira Duarte and Ethel Pinheiro Santana
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Making of a “Hindu National Temple”: Tradition and Technology at Swaminarayan Akshardham
Swetha Vijayakumar
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ornament and Crime?: The Zilij Craft Tradition and “Meaning” in Islamic Architecture
Ann Shafer
Brown University, USA
Overt and Conspicuous Identities: Secularism and Religious Heritage as Tools of Identity Narration in Quebec, Canada
Jaime Cudmore
McGill University, Canada
C.4 TRADITIONS OF DIASPORA AND ETHNIC COMMUNITIES
PLAZA 4
Chair: Nelson Graburn
University of California, Berkeley, USA
“Our Orientals”: Immigrant Domesticity in Interwar Detroit
Saima Akhtar
Forum Transregionale Studien, Germany
Breaking News: Narratives of a Composite Building, or an Architecture of impatience, 1964-2014
Eunice Seng
University of Hong Kong, China
Chinatowns in Australia: Power at Stake Versus Urban Responses
Karine Dupre
Griffith University, Australia
Tradition Ungrounded: Performing Chinatowns in the Chinese Diaspora
Sujin Eom
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dynamism of a Multiethnic Settlement: A Comparative Analysis of Georgetown, Malaysia, 1995-2011
Yushi Utaka and Amiruddin Fawzi
University of Hyogo, Japan, and Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
4:40 PM-5:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
5:00 PM-7:00 PM—PLENARY SESSION
ON THE DISCOURSE OF GLOBALIZATION AND TRADITION
PLAZA 1+2
Chair: Mrinalini Rajagopalan
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Shaping Urban Tradition and the Contemporary Lived Space in a Globalizing Context
Ashraf Salama
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
In Whose Tradition? Jakarta Meets the New Governor
Abidin Kusno
University of British Columbia, Canada
Discussant:
Clara Irazábal
Columbia University, USA
7:00 PM-7:30 PM
IASTE AWARDS CEREMONY
PLAZA 1+2
8:30 PM-10:00 PM
OPENING CONFERENCE RECEPTION / DINNER
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2014
9:00 AM-11:00 AM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.5 CONSTRUCTIONS OF TRADITION
PLAZA 2
Chair: Dell Upton
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Officially Re-visioning, Redefining and Rewriting American History: A South-of-the-Border Perspective
Anne Toxey
University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
The Power of Urban Construction: Inventing a Palestinian Tradition in Rawabi?
Shira Wilkof
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Futuristic Traditions: Rethinking “Hybrid” Identities on the Northern Side of the Mexican Border
Diana Maldonado
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
The Production of an ‘Arab’ Urban Heritage: Mazara del Vallo’s Casbah
Ilaria Giglioli
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Architecture as a Tool of Editing History: The Case of the King Abdulaziz Historical Center
Sumayah Al Solaiman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
B.5 INDIGENOUS AND VERNACULAR TRADITIONS
PLAZA 3
Chair: James Steele
University of Southern California, USA
Differing Relations to Tradition Amongst Australian Indigenous Homeless People
Paul Memmott
Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, Australia
Delving into the Realms of the Past: The Central Asian Yurt, the Zulu Iqhugwane and the Navajo Hogan
Deborah Whelan
Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Contestations of Traditional Land-Use and Value-Identity Among Indigenous Communities in Hong Kong
Chiu Yin Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Whose Garebeg? The Case of Yogyakarta and Surakarta
Ofita Purwani
University of Edinburgh, UK
C.5 NAVIGATING MULTIPLE CULTURES
PLAZA 4
Chair: Jeffrey Hou
University of Washington, USA
Mimetic Traditions or Strategic Self-Fashioning? From Common Courtesan to Queen Dowager in 19th Century India
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Tea Houses, Red Brick and Pink Cats: Negotiating Japanese Tradition in Taiwan
Mike Robinson
University of Birmingham, UK
Lost in Tradition
Lineu Castello and Iara Regina Castello
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Reasserting Tradition in a Multicultural and Cosmopolitan State Singapore’s Wisma Geylang Serai
Humairah Zainal
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
A Complex Tradition: Reading Japanese Industrial Heritage in Taiwan
ChaoShiang Li
Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, UK
11:00 AM-11:20 AM
COFFEE BREAK
11:20 AM-1:20 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.6 THE RESILIENCE OF TRADITION
PLAZA 2
Chair: Anne-Marie Broudehoux
Université du Québec at Montréal, Canada
Resilient Tradition: Working Spaces and Practices in Sheffield’s “Little Mester’s Yards”
Paul Kapp and Mike Robinson
University of Birmingham, UK
Living with Tradition in the Old City of Damascus
Faedah Totah
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Resilience Found Through the Identity of Place: A Traditional Settlement Pattern in Post-Disaster Haiti
James Miller
University of Oregon, USA
Appropriating Traditions in Contested Space: Place Making by the Elderly in Singapore and Seoul
Keng Hua Chong and Mihye Cho
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
B.6 BUILDING THE VERNACULAR: INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS
PLAZA 3
Chair: Adnan Morshed
Catholic University of America, USA
Whose Traditions Shape the Coeur d’Alene World?
Anne Marshall
University of Idaho, USA
Validity and Authority of Tradition in the Search for Indonesian Architectural Identity
Ryadi Adityayarman
Kansas State University, USA
Rejection and Reuse of Traditional Building Technologies: Aboriginal Thatching Materials
Timothy O’Rourke and Paul Memmott
Aboriginal Environments Research Centre, Australia
Their Voice or Mine? Debating People’s Agency in the Construction of Indigenous Architectural Histories
Gauri Bharat
University of East Anglia, UK
“Living Inuktitut”: From Village to Camp, Modifying the Landscape the Inuit Way
Susane Havelka
McGill University, Canada
C.6 DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION
PLAZA 4
Chair: Shawhin Roudbari
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Transformation of Hmong Agricultural Traditions: Agency, Space and Development
Lynne M. Dearborn
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Towards Sustainable Regeneration in Traditional Quarters: A Networking Place Management Approach
Jie Han
National University of Singapore, Singapore
In What Tradition Should We Build? A Portland Development Problem in Old Town/Chinatown/Japantown
Hajo Neis, Howard Davis, and Gabriel Brown
University of Oregon, Portland, USA
Alexandria Historic City Center: A Sustainable Regeneration After Revolution
Gihan Mosaad and Riham Faragallah
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt
Urban Catalysts: Protagonists of Urban Transformation in Bangkok’s Inner-City Neighborhoods
Sonja Berthold
National University of Singapore, Singapore
1:20 PM-2:40 AM
LUNCH BREAK
[On your own]
2:40 PM-4:40 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.7 THE POLITICS OF TRADITION
PLAZA 2
Chair: Diana Maldonado
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
Whose Tradition is Right? The Politics of Conservative Activism & the Rights to the City in the U.S
Karen Trapenberg Frick
University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Space of “Self-Contained” in Post-Arab Spring Cities: Power and Social Justice in Cairene Suburbs
Hesham Khairy Issa
Cairo University, Egypt
Making Claims of Kurdishness: An ‘Alternative’ Kurdish Spring
Muna Guvenc
Independent Scholar, Turkey
Shophouse to Superblock: The Chinese Developer and Constructing Race in Postcolonial Jakarta
Matt Wade
University of California, Berkeley
Understanding Land Occupation Changes in Libreville: A Case Study of Sainte Marie Valley
Médard Obiang Ebanega and Jean Aurélien Moukana Libongui
Omar Bongo University, Gabon
B.7 TRADITIONS AND PUBLIC SPACE
PLAZA 3
Chair: Allison Snyder
University of Oregon, USA
Continuing Urban Traditions: A Study of Urban Public Space in Spain and Mexico
Joseph Aranha
Texas Technical University, USA
The Gate Towers of Amman: The Surrender of Public Space to Build a Neoliberal Ruin
Eliana Abu-Hamdi
University of California, Berkeley, USA
A City in Transformation: Cairo’s New Public Realm
Nourhan Elzafarany and Nagwa Sherif
American University in Cairo, Egypt
Baha’is Invisible Public Spaces: Constructive Resilience of a Religious Minority after the Islamic Revolution of Iran
Niknaz Aftahi
University of California, Berkeley, USA
New Public Space Patterns in Cairo: Whose Public Space?
Mennat Elhusseiny and Basil Kamel
Cairo University and American University in Cairo, Egypt
C.7 HOUSE, HOME AND TRADITION
PLAZA 4
Chair: Howard Davis
University of Oregon, USA
Reinterpreting the Tibetan Tradition from Rural Home to Apartment in Eastern Tibet
Maggie Mei Kei Hui
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Cairene House in Naguib Mahfouz’s Textual and Visual Representations of the Cairo Trilogy, 1920-1960
Shaikha Almubaraki
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Reinforcing Persian Neighborhood Communities in New High-Rise Residential Development
Shahab Abbaszadeh and Rahinah Ibrahim
Hakim Sabzevari University, Iran and Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Waiting for the Site to Show Up
Daniel Naegele
Iowa State University, USA
Home Beyond the House: The Meaning of Home for People Living in Vernacular Settlements in Rural China
Wei Zhao
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
4:40 PM-5:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
5:00 PM-7:00 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.8 TRADITION AS POWER
PLAZA 2
Chair: Nathaniel Walker
College of Charleston, USA
Experiencing Government Power on the Streets of Istanbul
Alison Snyder
University of Oregon, USA
Mumbai’s Bandra Bandstand: Experiments in the Production of Public Space
Tanu Sankalia
University of San Francisco, USA
Traditionalizing the Everyday Spaces: A Dualism Paradigm in the Construction of National Identity in Malaysia
Keng Ng
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Building Power: War of Memorials in Contemporary Tehran
Ayda Melika
University of California, Berkeley, USA
On Whose Tradition in the Portuguese Architectural Press: Deconstructing Narratives and Agents
Daniela V. de Freitas Simões
FSCH, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
B.8 TRADITIONS OF PUBLIC SPACE
PLAZA 3
Chair: Mohamad Gamal Abdelmonem
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Occupying Merdeka Park: State Heritage Subjugation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Chee-Kien Lai
Independent Scholar, Singapore
Bangkok’s Outdoor Room: Reading from the Informal Practice of Public Space in Bangkok
Soranart Sinuraibhan
Kasetsart University, Thailand
Performance of Public Spaces in Kuala Lumpur in Terms of the Tropical Climate and Local Traditions
Marek Kozlowski and Norsidah Ujang
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Socio-Spatial Fragmentation and Extraterritoriality in the Olympic City of Exception: Rio de Janeiro, 2014-2016
Anne-Marie Broudehoux
Université du Québec at Montréal, Canada
Spaces of Sport and Tradition in Filipino Culture
Mariatheresa Mortera
American University of Sharjah, UAE
C.8 MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL TRADITIONS
PLAZA 4
Chair: Daves Rossell
Savannah College of Art and Design, USA
Urban Illumination and Local Traditions of Light
Dietrich Neumann, Margaret Maile Petty, and Sandy Isenstadt
Brown University, USA
Belonging and Becoming: Rethinking Innovative Materiality
George Verghese
Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
The Web and the Dislocation of Traditions of Professional Authority in Iran
Shawhin Roudbari
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Nordicity: A Subjective Matter
Edith Dennis-LaRocque
McGill University, Canada
Reclamation of Public Space Authorship: What Does Augmented Reality Have to Offer?
Mohammad Ashraf Khan and Lian Loke
University of Sydney, Australia
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014
9:00 AM-11:00 AM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.9 TRADITION IN THE CONTEXT OF CONFLICT
PLAZA 2
Chair: Karen Trapenberg Frick
University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Tradition of the Oppressed: Between the Resilience and Frustration Under the Israeli Occupation
Sahera Bleibleh
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Legitimizing Architecture: The Making of a “Tradition of Participation” in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Sharone Tomer
University of California, Berkeley, USA
US-South Korea Cold War Collaboration in Making a “Traditional” Modern Housing Project, 1953-1957
Dongmin Park
University of California, Berkeley, USA
“They Kill, We Build”: West Bank Settlements and the Transformation of Zionist Housing Ethos
Yael Allweil
IIT, Technion
B.9 TRADITIONS OF DWELLING
PLAZA 3
Chair: Howayda Al-Harithy
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Reconstructing Tradition in Contemporary Courtyard Houses in Egypt
Hisham Gabr, Nagwa Sherif, and Lamiaa Shehata
Cairo University, American University in Cairo, and MSA University, Egypt
Kortejo
Sebnem Yucel
Yasar University, Turkey
Concrete-Block Houses in Tonga
Charmaine Ilaiu Talei
University of Queensland, Australia
The Tradition of Underground Life in the Courtyard Houses of Dezful, Iran, Versus New Urban Development
Arezou Sadoughi and Gholam Hossein Memoarian
University of Florida, USA, and Iran Institute of Science and Technology, Iran
The Development of Modern Terrace Housing in Malaysia: A Critical Analysis
Nangkula Utaberta, Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi and Nik Farah Elina Nik Ramzi
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
C.9 TEMPORALITIES AND TRADITIONS
PLAZA 4
Chair: Hesham Khairy Issa
Cairo University, Egypt
Whose Tradition, Whose Neighborhood, Whose City? The Changing Life of Three London Districts
Howard Davis
University of Oregon, USA
Singapore’s Geylang Serai and the Ramadan Bazaar: Resilient Culture in a Seasonal Space
Rahil Ismail and Brian J. Shaw
National Institute of Education, Singapore
Spontaneous as Contemporary Vernacular? An Analysis of Spatial Norms in Istanbul’s Gecekondu Settlement
Min Tang
ENSAPM, ED VTT, Université Paris-Est, France
Subversive Spatial Practices in the Urban Fringe of São Paulo
Giuseppina Forte
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Phantom Spaces: How Foreign Workers Alter Inner City Spaces on Sundays in Singapore
Edda Ostertag
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
11:00 AM-11:20 AM
COFFEE BREAK
11:20 AM-1:20 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.10 CONTESTED TRADITIONS
PLAZA 2
Chair: Eunice Seng
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gedung Kuning: The Politics of Contested Space in Singapore
Fauzy Ismail and Hidayah Amin
National University of Singapore, Singapore
We Are the Heirs of All the Ages: Appropriation of Global Architectural Traditions in the Quest for Universal Modernity, New York, 1888-1892
Nathaniel Walker
College of Charleston, USA
Whose Tradition: Innovation in the Building Industry
Mark Donofrio
University of Oregon, USA
Who Does the Past Belong To? Urban Preservation Policies in Downtown Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s and 80s
Flavia Brito do Nascimento
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Is Ju’er Hutong Heritage? The Inheritance and Redevelopment of a Traditional Courtyard Housing System
Yun Dai
Newcastle University, UK
B.10 TRADITION AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
PLAZA 3
Chair: Robert Mugerauer
University of Washington, USA
From the New Town to the Ubiquitous Ecocity: A Korean New Urban Type?
Sofia Shwayri
Seoul National University, South Korea
The Creation of Comfort and Climate Responsive Design: The Environmental Design Treatise
Vandana Baweja
University of Florida, USA
Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Residential Buildings of Singapore
Sascha Roesler
Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore
Adaptation and Spatial Resilience of Amphibious Settlements in the Flood Plain of Thailand
Poon Khwansuwan
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Land Access in Libreville at the Time of “Emergence”: Between Tradition and Modernity
Jean Aurélien Moukana Libongui and Médard Obiang Ebanega
Omar Bongo University, Gabon
C.10 PRESERVATION AND REVIVAL OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
PLAZA 4
Chair: Lynne M. Dearborn
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Authenticity Innovation and the Volunteer: The Janus Face of Heritage-Beyond-the-State
Chris Landorf
University of Queensland, Australia
Preservation and Reconstruction of Inner-City Villages: A Case of Guangzhou City, China
Nobuo Mitsuhashi
Utsunomiya University, Japan
Whose Civilization Do We Celebrate? Representation in the National Museum for Egyptian Civilizations
Karim Kesseiba
Cairo University, Egypt
Retracing Places of Memory: Liberating an Architecture of Remembrance for Cambodia
Nicole Reckziegel
McGill University, Canada
Collective Housing in the Historic Center: Between “Traditional” Spaces and “Modern” Spatial Practices
Wiem Zerouati and Tahar Bellal
Saad Dahleb University, Algeria
1:20 PM-2:40 PM
LUNCH BREAK
[On your own]
2:40 PM-4:40 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.11 WHO OWNS TRADITION?
PLAZA 2
Chair: Pat Seeumpornroj
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Imperialism, Anthropology, Nostalgia: Borrowed Traditions
Nelson Graburn
University of California, Berkeley, USA
New Gourna: Conservation and Community
Erica Avrami, Gina Haney, and Jeff Allen
World Monuments Fund, USA
Whose Heritage? Challenges of Contemporary Urban Conservation in Isfahan, Iran
Mohammad Gharipour
Morgan State University, USA
Whose Tradition in Arcachon, France?
Laurence Keith Loftin and Jacqueline Victor
University of Colorado, Denver, USA
The Mobile Tradition and Revival of Dastangoi in India
Shraddha Navalli
University of California, Berkeley, USA
B.11 TRADITION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
PLAZA 3
Chair: Susanne Cowan
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Yangon’s Green: Evolving Meaning and Message in a Tropical City’s Urban Parks
Ivan Valin
University of Hong Kong, China
Emerald Urbanity: Whose Tradition?
Diane Valerie Wildsmith
University of Indonesia Faculty of Engineering, Indonesia
Hidden Farm: A Study in the Agricultural Composition of the Chinese Classical Garden
Hongjun Zhou
Tongji University, China
The Role of Ecotourism in the Sustainable Development of Qinkou Village, Yunnan, China, 2001-2013
Yung Gao, Adrian Pitts, and Jing Gao
University of Huddersfield, UK
C.11 REVIVAL OF TRADITIONAL ENVIRONEMENTS
PLAZA 4
Chair: Hisham Gabr
Cairo University, Egypt
Entangled Modernities: Southeast Asian Colonial Urbanism
Julie Nicholas
University of South Australia, Australia
Mapping the Past: The Construction of a Preservation Tradition in Brazil
Leonardo Castriota
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Hanoi’s Everyday Spaces: “Imagined” Tradition through Paintings of/in the Streets
Dinh Phuong
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
The Sicilian Latifundium in the XIX Century:Behind the Large Farming Masserie
Manfredi Saeli and Tiziana Campisi
University of Palermo, Italy
Reconstructing the Potala Palace: The Qing Emperor & the Dalai Lama in the Temple of Portaraka Doctrine
Xu Yang
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
4:40 PM-5:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
5:00 PM-7:00 PM—CONCLUDING PLENARY SESSION
PLAZA 1 + 2
Chair:
Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Commentators:
Dietrich Neumann
Brown University, USA
Mike Robinson
University of Birmingham, UK
Guests:
Eleni Bastéa
Unviersity of New Mexico, USA
Tim Bunnell
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Abidin Kusno
University of British Columbia, Canada
Ashraf Salama
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
CLOSING RECEPTION