The Architecture of Time

Program of Events

When:

November 14 and 15, 2024

Where:

Furness Building/Fisher Fine Arts Library, top floor (“old Kahn studio”)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA

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DAY 1 – Morning Session
Master of Ceremonies: David Leatherbarrow (DL)

8.00am: coffee and pastries

8.30am: Convene: DL
Welcome by Dean Fritz Steiner and/or Chair Rosanna Hu
Event Announcements (when, where, how, who?) DL
Background of Event: DL, MB, SP, JH
Rules of Engagement: MB

9.00am: Presentation by Jonathan Hale (JH), “Architecture and Temporality: the time-of-the-object / the time-of-the-subject” [ABSTRACT]
10.00am: Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

10.20am Presentation by Sophia Psarra (SP), “Time-‘plots’: temporally unfolding and spatially unifying” [ABSTRACT]
11:20am Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

11.40am Responses by Special Visitors to morning session
12.00pm Responses by general audience to morning session

12.15pm–1.30pm Lunch Break (at large)

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DAY 1 – Afternoon Session
Master of Ceremonies: Sophia Psarra (SP)

1.40pm Reconvene: SP
Event Announcements (when, where, how, who?) DL
Remarks re Morning Session and Rules of Engagement; SP

2.00pm Presentation by David Leatherbarrow (DL), “Architecture in the Meantime” [ABSTRACT]
3.00pm Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

3.20pm short break (w/refreshments)

3.40pm Presentation by Michael Benedikt (MB), “Bringing Time to Space: Isovists, Time-to-Contact Arrays, and Consciousness” [ABSTRACT]
4.40pm: Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

5.00pm Responses by Special Visitors to afternoon session
5.20pm Responses by general audience to afternoon session

6.00pm Workshop Closes for the Day
Event Announcements (SP or DL)

7.00pm Dinner for Conveners, Presenters, Discussants, and Special Visitors
(location TBA)

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DAY 2 – Morning Session
Furness Building “Old Kahn Studio”, University of Pennsylvania
Master of Ceremonies: Jonathan Hale (JH)

8.00am: coffee and pastries

8.20am: Convene: Jonathan Hale (JH)
Event Announcements (DL)
Remarks about Workshop so far (JH, DL, SP, MB)
Program of the Day: who, why, topics (JH)
Rules of Engagement reminder (MB)

8.40am Presentation by Simone Chung, “Teahouse Temporal Device: Tactility and Time in the Tai-an” [ABSTRACT]
9.20 Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

9.40am Presentation by Christian Frost, “Sacred and Civic Time in the late Medieval Period” [ABSTRACT]
10.20 Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

10:40am Presentation by Izabela Wieczorek, “Against Time…” [ABSTRACT]
11.20 Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

11.40 Responses by Special Visitors to morning session
12.00. Responses by general audience to morning session

12.15pm–1.45pm Lunch Break (at large)

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DAY 2 – Afternoon Session
Master of Ceremonies Michael Benedikt (MB)

1.45pm Reconvene: MB
Announcements (org when, where, how, who?) DL
Remarks about Morning Session and Rules; MB

2.00pm Presentation by Frans Sturkenboom, “Templum, Tempus, Tempestas: the architecture of time” [ABSTRACT]
2.40 Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

3.00pm Presentation by Michael Flaherty, “What Prisons Reveal: The Relationship Between Time and Architecture” [ABSTRACT]
3.40 Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

4.00pm Presentation by Katerina Michalopoulou & Antonis Touloumis, “Towards Designing Temporal Experience in Architecture” [ABSTRACT]
4.40 Q&A by Conveners, Presenters, and Discussants

5pm Responses by Special Visitors to afternoon session
5.20pm Responses by general audience to afternoon session

6.00pm All-participant discussion of both days: “lessons,” future research, collaboration

6.30pm or 7.00pm Closing Remarks by Conveners DL, MB, SP, JH
Architecture of Time Workshop formally closes

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