"WITTGENSTEIN, ART AND ARCHITECTURE"

Wittgenstein, Art and Architecture is a colloquium sponsored by the Institut de Recherche en Histoire de l'Architecture (IRHA), in association with the CCA, bringing together twenty-two specialist speakers from Austria, France, the Netherlands, the United-States, Israël, and Canada. Its aim is to present recent research on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), in relation to art and architecture. Wittgenstein's ideas on aesthetics and culture, his intimate link to the practice of the arts, architecture, and music, as well as his approach to the problems of limits and definitions, will be examined. The colloquium will also feature the house that the philosopher built for his sister in Vienna (between 1926 and 1928), a prime example in the history of architecture and the history of philosophy.

Thanks to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, to the Canadian Centre for Architecture, to the Institut de Recherche en Histoire de l'Architecture, MONOPOLI Gallery, The Austrian Embassy in Ottawa, to Françoise and Pierre Stonborough, to the Peirce-Wittgenstein Research Group, the School of Design, the Department of Philosophy, The Faculty of Human Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts of UQAM.

"ARCHITECTURAL PERIODICALS IN THE 1960s AND 70s"

This colloquium will examine the influence of journals and magazines on debates about contemporary architecture within Europe, the Americas, and beyond in the 1960s and 1970s. IRHA hopes that the papers will present a wide variety of materials and methodologies with particular reference to the material production, intellectual contribution, and critical reception of architectural periodicals.

Proceedings published as: Revues d'architecture dans les années 1960 et 1970 = Architectural Periodicals in the 1960's and 70's. Montréal: Institut de recherche en histoire de l'architecture, 2008.

"THE LIMITS OF PLACE IN ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE"

The aim of this public Colloquium is to bring together a group of scholars and practitioners who have been involved in a rigorous questioning of contemporary issues pertaining to architecture, in particular the understanding of 'place.' Although the word 'place' is used often in common speech, the concept, with its long history and capacity for profound signification, is rather elusive. Simultaneously alluring and challenging, it contributes in a meaningful way to the processes of making and understanding architecture. Given the porous boundaries encircling the discipline and profession, six different voices from within architecture as well as from related areas of inquiry that inform architecture and share its concerns, have been invited to Montreal to present and discuss their views on the subject on 22 and 23 March 2002.

The presentations by Edward Casey and Marco Frascari have been published as essays in CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, 5 (2007).

"PETER COLLINS ET L'HISTOIRE CRITQUE DE L'ARCHITECTURE MODERNE /
PETER COLLINS AND THE CRITICAL HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE"

Speakers: Annmarie Adams, Martin Bressani, Daniel Guibert, Tanis Hinchcliffe, Réjean Legault, Louis Martin, Joan Ockman, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Joseph Rykwert

Proceedings published as: Latek, Irena, ed. Peter Collins et l'histoire de l'architecture moderne = Peter Collins and the Critical History of Modern Architecture.. Montréal: Institut de recherche en histoire de l'architecture, 2002.

"ESPACE PUBLIC ET PRIVÉ
LA POLITIQUE, L'ÉCONOMIE, LE DESIGN ET LA PRÉSENCE HUMAINE"

Speakers: Edmung Fowler, Bernard Lassus, Cedric Price, Dimitri Roussopoulos, Kim Storey, Georges Teyssot

"THE EMBLEM AND ARCHITECTURE"

Speakers: Marcia Allentuck, Claudie Balavoine, Michael Bath, Lórant Bencze, Kunibert Bering, Hans Böker, David Booth, Charles Burroughs, Liana Cheney, Peter M. Daly, Elaine Evans Dee, Carol A. Flores, Kurt W. Forster, Eric Garberson, Chantal Hardy, Wolfgang Harms, Konrad Hoffman, Lubomir Konecny, Judi Loach, Andea MacElwee, Robert Malançon, John Manning, Sabine Mödersheim, Michael Walter Mücke, Irena Murray, Dietmar Peil, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Annemarie Sawkins, Nancy Stieber, Marc Van Vaeck, Egon Verheyen, Alan Young

Proceedings published as: Böker, Hans and Daly ,Peter eds. The Emblem and Architecture: Studies in Applied Emblematics from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries.. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999.

"ARCHITECTURE, ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY"

Speakers: Ricardo Castro, Melvin Charney, Lily Chi, Alain Findelli, Reesa Greenberg, Jean-Pierre Hardenne, Richard Henriquez, Dan Hoffman, Arthur Kroker, Maurice Lagueux, Johanne Lamoureux, Luc Laporte, Irena Latek, Hélène Lipstadt, Philippe Madec, Detlef Mertin, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Robert Prost, Peter Rose, Jacques Rousseau, Margaret Somerville, Lukas Sosoe, Robert-Jan van Pelt, Dalibor Vesely

Proceedings published as: Pérez-Gómez, Alberto and Pelletier, Louise, eds. Architecture, Ethics and Technology. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.