“Sustainable Dialogues” Symposium

Thursday and Friday, June 21-22, 2007At the auditorium of Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC)

6th Floor, The Emporium Shopping Complex, Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok

Following the catastrophic impact of the Tsunami in Southeast Asia and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, an incredible outpouring of international response from architects and environmentalist has resulted in a wide-range of alternative sustainable deign strategies. This event will bring together innovative Southeast Asian and American architects and experts on sustainability, design, and planning to discuss their current work and its relevance for the planning processes currently underway in New Orleans and similar low-lying flood plain areas. What role should sustainable architecture and urban design play in the on-going process of recovery? Given the range of catastrophic events, the symposium will also consider the larger context of environmental changes in ecological patterns, ranging from tsunamis to hurricanes. What impact do these processes have on the reorganization of the natural and man-made landscapes and the role the design community can play in initiating changes? The importance of collective thought and action, drawn from various regions of the globe, mark the emergence of new strategies for imagining the reconstruction of the contemporary city as an alternative and sustainable form of urbanism.

“Sustainable Dialogues” symposium is organized by the U.S. Embassy Bangkok and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, which is the sponsor of the symposium and the tour of “After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground,” in cooperation with Michael Paripol Tangtrongchit, Dean of the School of Architecture and Design of King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). The tour of "After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground" was originally the Architectural Record exhibition for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2006 Architecture Venice Biennale.

All events are free and open to the public. For further information, contact Bangkok CODE at tel. (02) 673 9434-35, website: www.bangkokcode.com

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Symposium ScheduleThursday, June 21

Panel 1: “Learning from Tsunamis and Hurricanes”

Perspectives on common experiences between Southeast Asia and New Orleans communities; lessons learned by the devastation of tsunamis and hurricanes

12.00-12.30 hrs: Registration

12.30-13.00 hrs: Greetings and remarks by - Michael Paripol Tangtrongchit, Dean of School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi- Laura Cansicio, Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer, Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Bangkok- Mr. Sinn Phonghanyudh, President of the Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage

13:00-13:30 hrs: Introduction

13:30-14:00 hrs: Richard CampanellaAssistant Director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University, New Orleans

14:00-14:30 hrs: Budi A. SukadaPresident of Indonesian Institute of Architects

14:30-15:00 hrs: Jayantha PereraPresident of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects

15:00-16:00 hrs: Discussion moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nihal PereraFulbrighter Scholar, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Ball State University

16:00-17:00 hrs: Coffee break

Panel 2: “Sustainable Landscapes/Sustainable Architecture”

Examines the large-scale implications of infrastructure and landscape and its relationship to neighborhoods and individual buildings

16:45-17:00 hrs: Introduction

17:00-17:30 hrs: Dr. Johannes WidodoDepartment of Architecture & Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

17:30-18:00 hrs: Michelle JellisonArchitect, Bozeman, Montana

18:00-18:30 hrs: Mark AndersonPartner, Anderson Anderson Architecture

18:30-19:30 hrs: Discussion moderated by Graeme BristolSchool of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

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 Friday, June 22, 2007

Panel 3: “Re-grounding Communities”

Focuses on alternative ways in which communities are re-established in the short-term and long-term process of reconstruction. When considered by the design community, such processes could become part of a critical “ecological” process for sustaining long-term goals of re-establishing communities

13:00-13:30 hrs: Introduction

13:30-14:00 hrs: Drew LangPrincipal, Lang Architecture

14:00-14:30 hrs: Peter AndersonPartner, Anderson and Anderson Architecture

14:30-15:00 hrs: Pattama RoonrakwitManaging Director, Community Architects for Shelter and Environment Company Limited (CASE)

15:00-16:00 hrs: Discussion moderated by Assoc. Prof. Wallace ChangDepartment of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong

16:00-17:00 hrs: Coffee break

Panel 4: “Planning Alternatives and Sustainable Changes”

If traditional planning has often been limited by large-scale, fixed and ideal plans, how does the current practice of sustainable planning challenge such ideals in attempting to implement sustainable changes?

16:45-17:00 hrs: Introduction

17:00-17:30 hrs: Prof. Nobuaki FuruyaDepartment of Architecture, Waseda University, Tokyo / NASCA

17:30-18:00 hrs: Matthew BermanPrincipal, workshop/apd, Visiting Assistance Professor of Architecture at the Pratt Institute

18:00-18:30 hrs: Tim KobePrincipal, Eight Inc.

18:30-19:30 hrs: Discussion moderated by Kamonsin ChathurattapholSchool of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

Closing remarks

19:30-20:30 hrs: Closing Reception

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Panelists and Moderators

Mark Anderson, partner in Anderson Anderson Architecture, San Francisco and Seattle, received an Honor Award for the entry “Camel Back Shot Gun Sponge Garden” in the "High Density on the High Ground" competition sponsored by McGraw-Hill Companies' Architectural Record magazine and the Tulane University School of Architecture. Anderson received his M. Arch. from Harvard University. He has designed and built numerous buildings and public art installation projects in the United States and Japan. He has taught urban design studios concerned with new construction technology focused on cities in the Asia-Pacific region; lecture and laboratory courses on construction materials and processes; and seminars courses relating to entrepreneurial opportunities in new technology and product prototyping concerning environmental and urban issues in Asian cities. His design work has received numerous awards and has been included in exhibitions in the U.S. and Japan and has appeared in books and journals in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.

Peter Anderson, partner in Anderson Anderson Architecture, San Francisco and Seattle, received an Honor Award for the entry “Camel Back Shot Gun Sponge Garden” in the "High Density on the High Ground" competition sponsored by McGraw-Hill Companies' Architectural Record magazine and the Tulane University School of Architecture. Anderson received his M. Arch. from Harvard University. He has worked in the construction industry in the U.S., France, Italy and Japan, and has a particular interest in international trade, construction technology and communication technology. His design work has been exhibited in many exhibitions, received numerous honors and awards and has appeared in many books and journals in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Matthew Berman is principal of workshop/apd, a New York-based design firm. In 2006, Berman and his fellow workshop/apd principal Andrew Kotchen won the Global Green USA Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans, sponsored by Brad Pitt and Global Green USA. Their winning entry, "GreeN.O.LA," broke ground in May 2007 in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the Ninth Ward. In addition to writing for journals such as Architecture and The Architect's Newspaper, Berman was the co-editor of INDEX Architecture with Bernard Tschumi, and served as Associate Editor of ANY magazine with Cynthia Davidson. Berman is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Pratt Institute, and lectured this summer at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Green Brooklyn Conference, and will address Neocon 2007 in Chicago. Berman is a member of the Planning Board of Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he is deeply involved in helping the seaside resort town take on long-term green development plans.

Graeme Bristol, after a number of years in Vancouver working as a contractor, architect and community organizer, he spent three years in Papua New Guinea working for their national government designing schools in some of the more remote areas of the planet. In 1998 he took a teaching position at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in Thailand where he pursued the opportunity to develop his research on the relationship of architecture to basic needs and human rights. He continues to work on these issues through community workshop studios in vulnerable communities Bangkok and more recently in tsunami recovery projects in Thailand both with his students and with UN-Habitat. Through founding the Centre for Architecture and Human Rights he is developing a rights-based approach to architecture through research, advocacy and alternative professional education. He is currently writing a book on human rights law affecting development.

Richard Campanella is a geographer and Assistant Director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane University. In addition to his work in the mapping sciences with the Center, his research concentrates on the historical geography of the New Orleans region. His books

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include "Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm," winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities' 2006 Book of the Year Award, and "Time and Place in New Orleans," the 2002 New Orleans-Gulf South Book of the Year. He has published papers in the Journal of Architectural Education, “Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing," "Technology in Society," and upcoming in the Journal of American History.

Wallace Chang, RIBA, HKIA, AIA (Asso.), SMArch (MIT), BArch (HKU) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard-Yenching visiting scholar, visiting Professor in Foshan Studio 2004 and Gaoming Studio 2005, MIT, Academic Advisor of CK Design School, Shantou University, Director of Arch Design Architects, Director of 1a Space. Both a theorist and practitioner in public art, architecture and urban design, Wallace has an extensive interest in urban conservation, sustainable planning and vernacular architecture particularly in the planning and vernacular architecture particularly in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), southern China region. He has relized a wide range of award-winning designs covering from public toilet, youth hostel, kindergarten and student activities centre to conservation strategy and district planning. Along with his architectural actualization, Wallace has also internationally published articles on urban researches of Hong Kong, Macau, Zhongshan, and Suzhou. Also, he has initiated a new movement of participatory charrettes on sustainable planning and urban conservation in the PRD including Zhongshan (1999), Tai O-Hong Kong (2000) and Guangzhou (2002).

Kamonsin Chathurattaphol received his M. Arch from Columbia University (GSAPP) in 1998. After working in architectural offices in Los Angeles and New York, he returned to Bangkok in 2003 and set up his practice micromod in 2004. He is currently working on the Mangrove Study Center in Bangkhuntian, Bangkok. Construction is expected to begin later this year. Kamonsin has also been teaching in the department of architecture of King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi and Chulalongkorn University.

Nobuaki Furuya obtained his B.Arch & M.Arch from Waseda University. He became an Assistant Professor at Waseda University in 1983, Lecturer at Kinki University in 1986. He also studied in Studio Mario BOTTA in Switzerland by Japanese Government Oversea Study Program for Artists in 1986-87. In 1994, He became an Associate Professor at Waseda University and established Studio NASCA in Tokyo. He received Yoshioka Award for “House at Kogajo” in 1990, and JIA Award for best young architect for “Poem & Marchen Gallery: in 1999, During 1999-2004, He received AIJ Annual Architectural Design Commendations for “Yanase Takashi Memorial Museum”, “Aizu Yaichi Memorial Museum, Waseda University”, “ZIG House/ZAG House”, and “Kondo Hospital”. He won the First Prize for “Nakasato Town Hall competition” in 2000, and “Chino cultural Complex competition” in 2001.

Michelle Jellison received an Honor Award for the New Orleans Prototype House Competition sponsored by McGraw-Hill Companies' Architectural Record magazine and the Tulane University School of Architecture. Jellison received a B. Arch. from Montana State University and a year following her Honor Award for the “New Orleans Prototype House Competition,” she received her M. Arch. from Montana State University, 2007. Her master’s thesis project was voted "best thesis" by the faculty.

Tim Kobe, principal, Eight Inc., received the top award for the professional competition "High Density on the High Ground." sponsored by McGraw-Hill Companies' Architectural Record magazine and Tulane University School of Architecture, a competition intended to serve as a catalyst to reassess, re-envision and redesign New Orleans' housing needs following the devastation brought by hurricane Katrina. The Eight Inc. team has particular interest and passion in the rebuilding of the city following Hurricane Katrina given that five team members are former residents of New Orleans and alumni of the Tulane University School of Architecture. Founded in 1989, Eight Inc. is a cross-disciplinary design consultancy specializing in architecture, interiors,

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exhibitions and product design, with offices in New York, San Francisco and Honolulu. With international design awards and clients that include Apple, Coach and Nokia, Eight Inc. is recognized internationally as an innovator in architecture and design.

Drew Lang is the principal of the New York-based Lang Architecture LLC, which was selected as a finalist in the Global Green USA Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans, co-sponsored by Brad Pitt and Global Green USA. Lang was educated at Middlebury College and Yale University, and is licensed as an architect in New York and Louisiana. Following Katrina, Drew initiated a community based development project in the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans. The work is guided by principles of sustainability, inclusiveness, and community leadership and will serve as a model for efforts throughout the city. Current projects in New York and New Orleans include a new motel building, private lofts, apartment renovations, and house additions, building lobbies, commercial office spaces, and neighborhood development.

Jayantha Perera is the President of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. He had his undergraduate and post graduate education in Architecture at the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. During his university years he was awarded the Best Post graduate student award and also held the post of President of the Architecture students Association. On completion of his academic carrier he was elected as a corporate member of the SLIA and the RIBA. His professional carrier has been manly in the private sector in Sri Lanka with short stints of work overseas in Nigeria and Oman. He has been an academic for a short period of time at the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka and in the University of Maiduguri Nigeria. Over 2 decades of his practice has been with one of the Major Architectural Practices in Sri Lanka Design Consortium Ltd. During which period he was responsible for the winning of the SLIA design award for the “Deer Park resort” Giritale Sri Lanka which subsequently received the prestigious Green Globe award. Jayantha Perera has been closely associated with the activities of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects for over 2 decades. He has held the posts of council member, Hony treasurer, Chairman Professional affairs board, Chairman Board of Management, Chairman Board of Architectural Education, Vice President, Senior vice president. He also held the position of the Chairman of the ARCASIA committee on Architectural Education. He represents the SLIA in several Government organizations some of which are Board member Institute of construction training and development, Committee member University grants commission on Architecture and Engineering Education. During the post Tsunami period he served as the chairman of the AFSTV (Architects fund to Shelter Tsunami Victims) a fund raised by the SLIA to build houses for Tsunami Victims in Sri Lanka.

Nihal Perera is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University. This year he is Fulbright Scholar at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has studied at University of Sri Lanka, University College, London, MIT, and has a PhD from State University of New York. His publications include, Decolonizing Ceylon: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Space in Sri Lanka (OUP, 1999) and “Contesting Visions: Hybridity, Liminality, and Authorship of the Chandigarh Plan” (2004). He has developed a unique field-study semester in south Asia (www.CapAsia.net). After the 2004 tsunami, CapAsia participants helped rebuilding a village in Sri Lanka and, with the University of Moratuwa, the 2008 group will develop a disaster response plan for southwest Sri Lanka.

Patama Roonrakwit is an architect, lecturer and community activist. She was graduated from Silpakorn University in 1991, followed by a master degree in Development Practices from School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University in 1996. She has been involved with a lot of community development projects. In 2005, she participated in designing houses for tsunami affected at Bang Muang, Pangnga. Besides practicing she also teaches at various universities around the country. Now she currently a global tutor for the Centre for Development and Emergency Planning, Department of Architecture, School of Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has been guest lecturer both in Thailand and at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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Budi A. Sukada is an architect, lecturer and researcher. He was graduated from University of Indonesia in 1978, followed by a post-graduate degree in History & Theory of Architecture from the Architectural Association, London in 1983. Besides practicing he also teaches at University ofIndonesia and University of Tarumanagara, both in Jakarta, and delivering guest-lectures at several universities in the country as well as taking the invited assignment as a studio master in an international studio programme at National University of Singapore. During Tsunami disaster in Nangroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province he coordinated a group of Indonesian architects for a community development programme in Banda Aceh, representing Indonesian part in a joint program of architectural supervision with Holcim & GTZ organizations, coordinating Indonesian architects in a joint project of building regulations for NAD province with the Ministry of Public Works and participating in a workshop on Tsunami disaster in Thailand under the auspices of Arcasia. During recent earthquake disaster in Jogjakarta, Central Java, he represented Indonesian architects in a joint re-building programme for the victims with Bank Muamalat Mandiri. He has been a member of Board of Consultative for Architecture and Board of Architectural Heritage at the Municipal Government of Jakarta since 1992 and assigned as a special supervisor for the Design Guidelines for preserved areas of Kebayoran Baru & Menteng at the Capital City of Jakarta. He has done some works as well as supervisions on building renovation at the preserved areas, a team leader in several preservation projects while some of his design includes the new campus of University of Indonesia atDepok and a recent proposal for a commercial complex at Halim Perdanakusumah area in South Jakarta. He has been a member of Scientific Steering Committee for the recent UIA Congress in Istanbul and at present he is assigned as a member of a group to collect a comprehensive data on schools of architecture in Moslem countries under the coordination of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture while taking the seat of President of Institute of Indonesian Architects.

Johannes Widodo holds a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture and in Asia Research Institute’s Asian Cities research cluster, both at the National University of Singapore. His area of specialization includes architecture, urban history and morphology of Southeast Asian cities, Asian modernity, and Heritage conservation. He is a founder and executive of mAAN (modern Asian Architecture Network), a founder and core member of iNTA (International Network of Tropical Architecture), Registered Architect (Indonesia) and professional member of Institute of Architects of Indonesia (IAI), jury of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation, voting member of ICOMOS International Training Committee (CIF) and executive member of ICOMOS National Committee for Indonesia, affiliate member of UNESCO-ICCROM Asian Academy for Heritage Management, executive editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture (Singapore) and ASEAN Journal on Hospitality and Tourism (Indonesia), scientific committee member of iFoU (International Forum on Urbanism), and member of several heritage societies and networks in the region. Dr. Widodo received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo, Japan (1996), Master of Architectural Engineering degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1998), and his professional degree in Architectural Engineering (Ir.) from Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung, Indonesia (1984).

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