From Vernacular to Classical:

The Perpetual Modernity of Palladio

International Conference 10-12 June 2011

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Exhibitions:

“Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” (RIBA)

“New Palladians: Modernity & Sustainability in 21st Century Architecture”

University of Notre Dame, School of Architecture and Snite Museum

South Bend, Indiana

Palladio, Villa Rotunda, Vicenza (1566-1569)  ©Scala, Florence, 2006, ARTstor

“As architects we recognize a colleague, a guild master who, in spite of more than four hundred and fifty years’ distance, we yearn to see as one of us.”

N.J. Habraken, Jonathan Teicher,

“Palladio’s Children: Essays on Everyday Environments”

Framing the venue of two important exhibitions: “Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” and the “New Palladians”, the University of Notre Dame will host a conference addressing synergies and dialectics between vernacular and classical architecture and discuss their relevance in a broader Palladian tradition in the 21st Century. It will bring together scholars, practitioners, educators and students from a variety of different disciplines related to the built environment to explore, illustrate and discuss Palladio as an inspiring master, a vital foundation, and a new platform, for an evolutionary process of tradition and Classicism that intelligently integrates the vernacular and classical.

The Conference will address a complex range of ideas, works and proposals which encompass, consolidate and emulate the Palladian paradigm and/or

explore sustainable architectural and urban design endeavors of the 21st Century articulated by various threads in New Classicism, New Urbanism and recent “New Palladian” arguments and designs.

PROGRAM

Friday June 10th: 110 Bond Hall, University of Notre Dame

4.00pm-5.00pm: Registration

Plenary Session:

5.00pm-5.15pm: Welcome Address by Dean Michael Lykoudis

5.30pm-6.00pm: Keynote Address by Robert Adam

6.00pm-7.30pm: Opening of “New Palladian” Exhibition followed by Reception

6.00pm-6.30pm: Gallery Talk by Alireza Sagharchi

Saturday Morning June 11th: Bond Hall, University of Notre Dame

8.00am-9.00am: Registration and Coffee

Plenary Session: Auditorium, Bond Hall

9.00am-9.45am: Keynote Address by Leon Krier

9.45am-10.15am: Jorge Hernandez

10.15-am-10.30am: Break & Refreshments

Concurrent Sessions

10.30am-12.00pm: A) History & Theory, B) Palladio & The Urban

Realm, C) Palladio’s Legacy

Saturday Afternoon June 11th:

Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame

1.30am-3.30pm: O’Shaunassy Gallery

“Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” Exhibition Tour

Welcome by Charles R. Loving, Director of Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame

Gallery Talk by RIBA Palladio and his Legacy Curators Dr. Irena Murray and Prof. Charles Hind

Plenary Session: Anenberg Auditorium:

3.30pm-4.00pm: Keynote Address by David Watkin

4.00pm-5.30pm: Lectures

5.30pm-6.30pm: Panel Discussion

Sunday Morning June 12th: Bond Hall, University of Notre Dame

8.00am-9.00am: Registration and Coffee

Plenary Session: Auditorium Bond Hall

9.00am-9.45am: Keynote Address by Witold Rybczynski

9.45am-10.00am: Coffee Break

10.00am-12.00pm: Lectures

12.00pm-12.15pm: Break & Refreshments

12.15am-12.45pm: Panel Discussion

12.45pm-1.00pm: Conclusion by Dean Michael Lykoudis

END OF CONFERENCE

Please go to the Conference website to register online:

https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=2422&SINGLESTORE=true

for more information call or email Karen Voss at the University of Notre Dame

tel: 574-631-6137/ fax: 574-631-8486/ karen.voss@nd.edu

Timber Bridge in Bassano

The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books (Giacomo Leoni, London 1715)

(Courtesy of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame’s Architecture Library)