[Discussion] RETHINKING ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIOGRAPHY

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Middle East Technical University (METU) Graduate Program in=20
Architectural History
RETHINKING ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIOGRAPHY- international conference

March 18-19, 2004 METU Cultural and Convention Center, Ankara-TURKEY

March 18, Thursday

9:00-9:20            Inaugural Address
Haluk PAMIR (METU Faculty of Architecture- Dean)
Suna G=DCVEN (METU Graduate Program in Architectural History- Head)

            SESSION 1 - Chair: Inci ASLANOGLU
9:20-9:50            T=FClay ARTAN (Sabanci University, Turkey)
"Ottoman Architectural History vs. History of Ottoman Architecture: What=20
Difference?"
9:50-10:20          G=FCls=FCm BAYDAR (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Historiographical Burdens of the Non-West: The Ottoman-Turkish Case
10:20-10:50        Sibel BOZDOGAN (Harvard University, USA)
Reframing the Ottoman Heritage: Historiography and Ideology in Early=20
Republican Turkey
10:50-11:20        Elvan ALTAN ERGUT (METU, Turkey)
Presenting Ankara: Canonical Visions of Early Republican Architecture in=20
Turkey
11:20-11:45            Discussion

11:45-13:00            Lunch Break

SESSION 2 - Chair: Haluk PAMIR
13:00-13:30            Christian F. OTTO (Cornell University, USA)
            Program and Programs
13:30-14:00            Dana ARNOLD (Southampton University, UK)
            Biography and Architectural History
14:00-14:30            Sevil ENGINSOY EKINCI (METU, Turkey)
On the Question of Document in Architectural Historiography: Reading=20
Filarete's Treatise on Architecture for/in Piero de' Medici's Study
14:30-14:50            Discussion

14:50-15:10            Coffee Break

SESSION 3 - Chair: Jale ERZEN
15:10-15:40            Nancy STIEBER (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Architectural History? Or Cultural History of the Built Environment?
15:40-16:10            Edward DIMENDBERG (University of Michigan, USA)
            The Kinetic Icon: Reyner Banham and the Invention of Mobile=20
Los Angeles
16:10-16:40            Belgin TURAN =D6ZKAYA (METU, Turkey)
            Visuality and Architectural History
16:40-17:00            Discussion

17:00                Reception

March 19, Friday

SESSION 4 - Chair: Selahattin =D6N=DCR
9:00-9:30            Diane FAVRO (UCLA, USA)
            The Digital Disciplinary Divide: Reactions to Historical=20
Virtual Reality Models
9:30-10:00          Fikret YEG=DCL (University of California at Santa=20
Barbara, USA)
            Hercules at the Roundabout: Multidisciplinary Choice in=20
History of Architecture
10:00-10:30        Jane RENDELL (University College London, UK)
            Architectural History as Praxis: Site-Specific Writing
10:30-10:50            Discussion

10:50-11:10            Coffee Break

CLOSING PANEL
11:10-11:40            Ilhan TEKELI (METU, Turkey)
            Turkish Architectural Historiography as a Defense Strategy=20
of Local Market
11:40-12:10            Suna G=DCVEN (METU, Turkey)
Concurrent Visions: The Anchor and the Sail
12:10-12:45            Discussion

12:45-14:00            Lunch Break

14:00                Ankara Tour

 Organizing Committee
Belgin Turan =D6zkaya, Bilge Imamoglu, =C7agla Caner, Elvan Altan Ergut,=20
Sevil Enginsoy Ekinci,  Suna G=FCven

Advisory Committee
Ali Uzay Peker, Inci Aslanoglu, Jale Erzen, Lale =D6zgenel, Namik Erkal

Sponsors
METU, T=DCBITAK, T=DCBA, FIBROBETON

Inquiries:
E-mail: tomris@arch.metu.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (312) 210 2218
Fax: +90 (312) 210 1249