THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER AM
 

08:30 - 09:00

Registration opens

09:00 - 10:40

Plenary session:
Trajectories of Conservation: 1932 - 1964
(Session 1: 3 keynote speakers)

Moderator:

Matthew Hardy

09:00 - 09:10

Conference welcome and housekeeping rules

09:15 - 09:35

A. G. K. Menon, India
The Afterlife of the Venice Charter in Postcolonial India

09:40 - 10:00

Paolo Marconi, Italy
Conservation vs Restoration: The Italian Cultural Revolution
 

Message from HRH The Prince of Wales

10:05 - 10:25

Robert Adam, UK
Heritage

10:25 - 10:40

Questions to speakers

10:40 - 11:10

Morning coffee break

11:10 - 13:00

Plenary session:
The Venice Charter: Texts & Meanings
(Session 2 - 4 speakers)

Moderator:

TBA

11:15 - 11:35

Luigi Guerriero, Italy
Il contributo di Piero Gazzola e Roberto Pane alla redazione della Carta di Venezia

11:40 - 12:00

W. Brown Morton III, USA
The Influence of the Venice Charter in the United States

12:05 - 12:25

Pance Velkov, Macedonia
Thinking about the Burra Charter

12:30 - 12:50

Hab Bogusaw Szmygin, Poland
Venice Charter: the universal document or burden of the past?
A Conservator's point of view

12:50 - 13:00

Questions to speakers

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER PM

14:00 - 16:00

Plenary session:
Reflections on the Venice Charter
(Session 3 - 4 speakers)

Moderator:

Michael Mehaffy

14:05 - 14:25

Alan Blum, Canada
The Charter as Genre and Discourse:
Some Reflections on the Venice Charter

14:30 - 14:50

Robert Russel, USA
Authenticity, Abstraction and the Abolition of Time:
Three Preservation Charters in the 20th Century

14:55 - 15:15

Attilio Petruccioli, Italy
Restoration and Design: Two Faces of the Same Medal

15:20 - 15:40

Samir Younés
The Dominance of Modernist Ideology in the Charters of Athens and Venice

15:40 - 16:00

Questions to speakers

16:00 - 16:30

Afternoon tea break

16:30 - 18:30

Plenary session:
Case Studies of the Venice Charter in Use
(Session 10 - 3 speakers)

Moderator:

Robert Adam

16:35 - 16:55

Ethan Anthony, USA
Effects of the American Secretary of the Interior's Standards on Traditional Architecture and What It Can Mean Today

17:00 - 17:20

Ian Lochhead, New Zealand
Applying the New Zealand ICOMOS Charter:
The Case of the Canterbury Museum

17:25 - 17:45

Terje Nypan, Norway
40 Years of Cultural Heritage Policy Development:
Consequences for a professional guideline which needs "to be interpreted over and over again"?

17:50 - 18:10

Steven Bee, UK
Title TBA

18:10 - 18:30

Questions to speakers

19:30- 21:00

Opening reception
(Venue to be advised)

Speakers

Eusebio Leal Spengler, Cuba
Prince Demas Nwoko, Nigeria (TBC)

Dinner on your own

FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER AM

08:30 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 10:40

Philosophies of
Conservation - Session 1
(Session 4 - 3 speakers)

Urban Conservation:
New Approaches - Session 1
(Session 5 - 3 speakers)

Moderator:

TBA

TBA

09:15 - 09:35

Maria Rita Campa, Italy
E.E. Viollet-le-Duc between theory and practice of conservation: The case of the town of Carcassonne

Giulia Annalinda Neglia, Italy
The Old City of Tartous (Syria): Proposals for Urban Restoration

09:40 - 10:00

Gabriele Tagliaventi, Italy
The Eternal Youth of Imitation in Architecture from Viollet-Le-Duc to Maurice Culot

Savita Raje, India
The Essence Of The Built Heritage Through The Concept Of "Total Experience"

10:05 - 10:25

Arne Sodal, Norway
New Urbanism applied in villages of Transylvania - a presentation of INTBAU's work in Romania

Mohammadsaeid Izadi & Mahshid Sehizadeh, Iran
Modernism and Conservation in Iran: An analytical review of three major periods of the historic city’s transformation and introducing a new path to city centre regeneration in Iran

10:25 - 10:40

Questions to speakers

Questions to speakers

10:40 - 11:10

Morning coffee break

11:10 - 13:00

Philosophies of
Conservation - Session 2
(Session 8 - 4 speakers)

Urban Conservation:
New Approaches - Session 2
(Session 6 - 4 speakers)

Moderator:

Matthew Hardy

TBA

11:15 - 11:35

Michael Mehaffy, USA
"Pastiche" versus "Revival":
Collective Intelligence in Architecture

John Bliss, USA
Looking at Bath, Maine in Respect to the Venice Charter

11:40 - 12:00

Susan Parham, UK
The Relationship Between Approaches to Conservation and the Idea of Nostalgia: Looking at food-centred spaces within cities

Alsessandra Scarano, Italy
Structures of interpretation of the Identity of Places, for the Conservation and Transformation of Built Space

12:05 - 12:25

Naomi Miller, USA
Preservation's Modernist Pioneer:
James Marston Fitch

Amund Sinding-Larsen, Norway
Lhasa in a 'Venice-Perspective'

12:30 - 12:50

Stephen Frith, Australia
Intangible Memoria:
The authentic copy

Andrea Iacomoni & Chiara Giraldi, Italy
Restoration as Recovery of City Identity

12:50 - 13:00

Questions to speakers

Questions to speakers

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER PM

14:00 - 16:00

Sustainable Management
of Cultural Heritage
(Session 9 - 4 speakers)

Conservation Before 1964: European experiences
(Session 15 - 4 speakers)

Moderator:

TBA

TBA

14:05 - 14:25

Iulian Ciotoiu, Romania
Monuments of Rural Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century in the Context of the Venice Charter

Flavia Marcello, Italy
The "Norme" of 1932 and the EUR:
Conformities and contradictions

14:30 - 14:50

Mariliza Giarleli, Greece
Managing Industrial Heritage:
The enhancement of the French Industrial Company in Lavrion (Greece)

Jean-François Lejeune, USA
Spain in the Years of Autarky (1939-1956): From the towns and plazas of the recontruction to the manifesto of the Alhambra

14:55 - 15:15

Irena Bakule, Latvia
Amendments to the Venice Charter: are they necessary? The case of Riga city

Clara Moura Soares & Maria João Neto, Portugal
The Conclusion Plans of the Baroque Church of Santa Engracia - National Pantheon (Portugal) in 1964 and the Venice Charter Principles

15:20 - 15:40

Julio Cesar Perez, Cuba
Education Havana: Cultural continuity in Havana, a city of magic and poetry with over 400 years of Heritage

Hacer Basarir, UK
Reflections of change at the crossroads of different cultures: a 700 year old building St. Nicholas Cathedral (Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque) - Northern Cyprus

15:40 - 16:00

Questions to speakers

Questions to speakers

16:00 - 16:30

Afternoon tea break

16:30 - 18:30

Conservation in India Today:
Lessons for the World
(Session 13 - 4 papers)

Reconstruct or Replace:
New Ideas for Old
(Session 7 - 4 papers)

Moderator:

TBA

Audun Engh

16:35 - 16:55

Vikas Dilawari, India
Process vs. Product:
Contemporary Case Studies of the Venice Charter in operation in India

Arne Sødal, Norway
A Tale of Reconstruction in Two Cities: Oslo and Berlin (TBC)

17:00 - 17:20

Navin Piplani, India
Interpreting the Venice Charter: Case study of the Taj Mahal and its Environs, India

Rand Carter, USA
Forderverein Bauakademie's ongoing project to reconstruct the Allgemeine Bauschule (Bauakademie), Berlin (TBC)

17:25 - 17:45

Michele Moschini
The Restoration of Hindu Temples and the Venice Charter

Krupali Uplekar, India
Examination of Dresden's Frauenkirche in the light of the Venice Charter

17:50 - 18:10

Jhilmil Kishore, India
Creating a Charter for the Indian Sub-Continent

Tamara Rogic, Netherlands
Re-Use of Historic Buildings: How Minimal is the Minimal Intervention Allowed?

18:10 - 18:30

Questions to speakers

Questions to speakers

Dinner on your own

SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER AM

08:30 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 10:40

Plenary session: Reconstruction: the crucial problem of Anastylosis in the Venice Charter
(Session 11 - 4 speakers)

Moderator:

Claudio d'Amato

09:05 - 09:25

Francesco Defilippis, Italy
The restoration of cut-stone architecture in the theory and practice of the Compagnonnage du Devoir: Case study of the reconstruction of the tympanum of the Church of St Gervais and St Protais in Paris

09:30 - 09:50

Daniela Catalano, Italy
The Replica in the Recovery of Stone Architectures: Technical art and tradition in relationship to the contemporary production process

09:55 - 10:15

Michele Montemurro, Italy
Restoration Theory and practice of the Compagnons du Devoir: The fabric integrations in Rodez Cathedral

10:20 - 10:40

Gianluca Caramia & Christian Nitti, Italy
Un progetto di anastilosi: il tempio di Roma e Augusto a Leptis Magna

10:40 - 10:50

Questions to speakers

10:50 - 11:20

Morning coffee break

11:20 - 13:10

Plenary session: Traditional Architecture & Urbanism
in Conservation Areas - Session 1
(Session 12 - 4 speakers)

Moderator:

Michael Mehaffy

11:25 - 11:45

Richard Sammons and Steven Semes, USA
Looking at Contemporary Preservation Theory and Practice in the light of developments in the field in the past 40 years

11:50 - 12:10

Mohammed Shabander, Iraq
Iraqi Marshlands Development Plan

12:15 - 12:35

Nicholas Patricios, Greece
The Re-Emergence of traditional Architecture in Kefalinia and Ithaki

12:40 - 13:00

Giovanni Fatta, Italy
Traditional Architecture in the Re-qualification of Palermo Historical Centre

13:00 - 13:10

Questions to speakers

13:10 - 14:10

Lunch

SATURDAY 4 NOVEMBER PM

14:10 - 16:00

Plenary Session: Traditional Architecture and Urbanism in Conservation Areas - Session 2
(Session 14 - 4 papers)

Moderator:

TBA

14:15 - 14:35

John Smylie, Northern Ireland
Building in a Conservation Area: The Northern Ireland experience

14:40 - 15:00

Anne Fairfax, USA
Charleston South Carolina, a Case Study

15:05 - 15:25

Ettore Mazzola, Italy
Monuments and Environment are not Separable

15:30 - 15:50

Giuseppe Amoruso, Italy
A code to rebuild the lost city

15:50 - 16:00

Questions to speakers

16:00 - 16:30

Afternoon tea break

16:30 - 18:30

Plenary session: Proposals for a New Charter of Venice
Including editing "en charrette"
(Session 16)

Moderator:

Matthew Hardy

Panel:

Robert Adam, UK
Paolo Marconi, Italy
Claudio d’Amato, Italy
Richard Sammons, USA
Steven Semes, USA
AGK Menon, India
 

18:30- 19:30

Closing drinks

21:00 - 23:30

Conference Dinner
(Not included in conference fee)   (Venue to be advised)

After dinner speaker

Francis Stonor, UK (TBC)
The CIA and Modernism in the Cultural Cold War (Title TBC)

SUNDAY 5 NOVEMBER AM

10:00 - 12:00

Tour
(Subject to confirmation and change)

10:00 - 12:00

Teatro la Fenice
(recently reconstructed after total destruction by fire)
 

12:00 noon

Conference ends