Registration and hotel booking
Registration and hotel booking
Registration Fees
The registration fees are in NOK (Norwegian kroner) and include 25% VAT. The registration fee covers admission to all scientific sessions, coffee breaks and lunches during the conference unless otherwise stated, and a guided city tour.
The fee for non-members also include membership in the Nordic Association for Architectural Research and subscription to the Nordic Journal of Architectural Research.
Registration Details
Members Nordisk Arkitekturforskning 1250.00
Non-Members 1600.00
PhD Students 625.00
NTNU Employees/PhD students 0.00
Social Events
Lunch 24 April is not included for NTNU Employees/PhD students. If you would like to participate in this lunch, don't forget to book here.
Conference Dinner Apr 24, 2009 20:00, NOK 490.00
NTNU Employees/PhD Students - Lunch 24 April, NOK 300.00
Accommodation
If you want to book a hotel that the university has reserved for the forthcoming conference, there are three different alternatives. The rates are in NOK (Norwegian kroner) per room per night, breakfast included:
Single room w/bath 1175.00
Double room w/bath 1475.00
Single room with bath 960.00
Double room with bath 1100.00
Single room with bath 695.00
Double room with bath 795.00
Please enter dates within the available period in the registration form. If you require accommodation outside this period, please send an e-mail to arkitektur09@videre.ntnu.no after you have completed the booking, and we will try to help based on availability.
The Special Requirements field is for information to the hotel. It is especially important that you inform of arrival after 1800.
PLEASE NOTE: If you share a double room with another participant, only one of you should book the room to avoid a double booking. The name of the participant you are sharing with should be entered in the "Sharing" field.
The hotel costs are to be paid directly to the hotel upon departure. The hotel booking must be guaranteed by credit card. Please fill in the necessary information in the registration form. The card will be charged only in case of no-show without prior notice to either the Registration Secretariat or the hotel. Further information will be given in your confirmation letter.
Cancellation terms
Registrations for the conference are binding.
Cancellations must be received in writing by the Conference Secretariat - e-mail: arkitektur09@videre.ntnu.no
The cancellation fee will be NOK 500 administration charge for cancellations received by 1 April 2009. No refunds for cancellations received after this date.
Substitutes from the same company will be accepted without extra charge.
Invitation and call for papers
Invitation and call for papers
Keynote speakers:
- Wilfried Wang, Architect, Professor, University of Texas / Hoidn Wang Partner (US/D)
- Jan Olav Jensen, Architect, Jensen & Skodvin Architects (N)
- Claes Caldenby, Architect, Professor, Chalmers (S)
- Bård Helland, Architect, Oslo School of Architecture and Design (N)
- Birgit Cold, Architect, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (N)
- Nina Berre, Architect, CEO Norsk Form (N)
Those who wish to participate without paper are asked to fill in the registration form on the conference website before the 1st of April 2009. Full conference program will be announced shortly.
Architectural research and criticism
Architecture is a cultural expression that to a great extent influences both public and private space. Thereby, in an important way, it creates possibilities and limitations to how people can live their lives. A critical discussion of the quality of architecture is vital to enable the creation of surroundings that nurture the best possibilities to unfold and develop.
Even if it already exists a public critique of architecture, this has not by far the scope that is necessary to reach this goal. The professional or academic foundations of architectural critique vary a lot as well. Consequently, one question that rises from the point of view of research in architecture, is whether research may contribute to create criticism with a more solid foundation.
Consequently, the title and the topic of the conference is Architectural Research and Architectural Criticism. We will not deal with architectural criticism as such, but with the relationship between research and criticism, in other words how research may contribute to criticism and what criticism may offer research.
First: how may research contribute to criticism? Architectural research works systematically with the question about what architecture really is. This is, at the same time, a main precondition for criticism. However, architectural research also deals with what criticism is, the different traditions in criticism, different forms or types of criticism, the general validity of criticism, how this is related to the role subjective taste plays in relation to objective rules or collective norms, what kinds of arguments that are valid in criticism, about the relation between the assessments made by laymen and specialists, about aesthetic arguments in opposition to practical, technical, economical or other ones etc.
Criticism can contribute to research, first of all by opening specific architectural works to research as empirical phenomena. This may be particularly relevant when it comes to contemporary architecture which has not yet been object for research. Critique can make architecture recognizable in itself as well as in relation to the surrounding society.
At the same time, critique is normative when it evaluates and expresses judgments of taste. Critique influences heavily on which works of architecture that are important to architectural practice as well as research. The presence of values in critique however, creates a problem of it’s own since research in a certain respect has freedom from values as an ideal.
All in all, the topic of the conference raises a broad spectrum of questions linked to the relation between architectural research and architectural criticism. We invite the participants to the conference to present papers on the relation between them as they emerge from:
1. Their different relation to values: The creation of architecture as well as criticism of the works is to a large extent influenced by values. These are often linked to more comprehensive ideologies. On the other hand, architectural research strives towards freedom from values and criticizes ideologies.
2. The different traditions and types of criticism: There are different traditions in criticism. Anglo-American criticism differs from the continental. However, this attachment to different traditions and how this influences criticism is seldom made explicit and is often difficult to spot.
3. The different societal positions that may be the origin of critique: Criticism may be written by different persons with different social positions and consequently different perspectives and interests. Architects have their own interests, those that pay for architecture may have others and these may differ from that of the entrepreneurs, the users or the general public. In what manner can this influence on criticism?
4. The different phases in the life of a work of architecture: Critique is relevant both in relation to the education of architects, the creation of architecture, the work that results from this, the way the work is received by individuals and society, and also with respect to the deterioration of buildings and their eventual conservation.
5. The different aspects of the work of architecture: Architecture is a field where a lot of different types of knowledge and rationalities meet. Architectural criticism may deal with “firmitas”, “utilitas” and “venustas”, or both constructive strength and sustainability, usefulness and aesthetic value. Each of these aspects put their own demands on and problems to criticism.
Those who wish to present a paper at the conference are asked to register an abstract, maximum 300 words, as a pdf-file before the 15th of March 2009. Shortly after that you will be informed about whether or not the abstract is accepted.
Abstracts and papers ought to be written and presented in English. Deadline for papers is set to April 1st. However, the paper registration system allows the authors to adjust their papers in the Speaker Zone after that date, in concordance with the reviewers' notes and comments.
Deadline for abstracts: 15th of March 2009
Deadline for papers: 1st of April 2009
Abstract registration and Speaker zone login
Conference e-mail: arkitekturkritikk@ab.ntnu.no
Conference url: http://www.ntnu.no/ab/architecturalcriticism
Links & Info: http://www.arkitekturforskning.net
Programme committee:
Eivind Kasa, leader: eivind.kasa@ntnu.no
Bendik Manum: bendik.manum@ntnu.no
Hans Skotte: hans.skotte@ntnu.no
Eli Støa: eli.stoa@ntnu.no
