Crucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning The Modern City 2nd March Part 1

Crucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning The Modern City 2nd March Part 1

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Here are the recordings from the Crucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning The Modern City, event from 2nd and 9th March 2021. Thank you to all of our excellent speakers, and for the interesting questions and discussions.

PROGRAMME: Session 1: Crucibles, 15:00-16:30 (UTC) Building the Modern City: Expressions of Identity, Change and Power, Moderated by Iain Jackson

This panel will explore state-sponsored programmes, planned cities and masterplans in cities such as Lagos, Tehran and Baghdad. It will examine architecture as expressions of nationalism and nationalist political agendas as well as its relationship to big business, corporations and mercantile ventures.

Speakers:

• Talinn Grigor (University of California, Davis)
  • Building a (Cosmopolitan) Modern Iran
• Ola Uduku (Manchester School of Architecture)
  • Lagos International Metropolis: A city’s adventure in tropical architecture as an expression of dynamic modernism and growth in the mid 20th century
• Lukasz Stanek (University of Manchester)
  • Rupture, Transition and Continuity in Baghdad’s Master Plans: From Minoprio to Miastoprojekt

Session 2: Vectors, 17:00-18:30 (UTC) Connecting the Modern City: Networks, Alliances and Knowledge Production; Moderated by Clara Kim

This panel will explore the practice of modern architecture through colonial-postcolonial networks and geopolitical alliances. It will explore cities in Mozambique within the context of other Lusophone countries, post-Partition East & West Pakistan, as well as the dissemination of knowledge and technical expertise through pedagogy.

Speakers:

• Ana Tostões (University of Lisbon)
  • Correspondences, Transfers and Memory: Maputo’s “Age of Concrete”
• Farhan Karim (University of Kansas)
  • Archaeology of the Future: Constantinos Doxiaidis in East and West Pakistan
• Patrick Zamarian (University of Liverpool)
  • Global Perspectives and Private Concerns: The AA’s Department of Tropical Architecture

TUESDAY 9 MARCH Session 3: Catalysts, 15:00-16:30

• Fragments of the Modern City: Memories, Echoes and Whispers Moderated by Osei Bonsu

This panel will explore the collaborations, connections and entanglements that developed between art and architecture during a dynamic period of building in Morocco, India and Iraq. It will examine the legacy and afterlives of these projects through the investigation of under-recognised figures and narratives in art and architecture.

Speakers:

• Lahbib el Moumni & Imad Dahmani (founders of MAMMA, Mémoire des Architectes Modernes Marocain)
  • Initiatives toward saving modern heritage of Morocco
• Ram Rahman (Photographer/Curator)
  • Building Modern Delhi, The Nehruvian Post-Independence Renaissance
• Amin Alsaden (Independent Scholar)
  • Syntheses Across Disciplines: Rifat Chadirji and Art-Architecture Liaisons in Modern Baghdad

This event was organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and Liverpool School of Architecture.