Programa

Open Source Seminar na Casa da Música a partir das 14h30. Evento organizado pela Circo de Ideias Associação Cultural com a participação de Cecil Balmond e outros. Comissário: Gonçalo Antunes Azevedo. The Nexus conference fee includes participation in the Open Source Seminar. +info >>>>

8.30-9.00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Conference Inauguration and Introductions

Session I: From Mediaeval Stonecutting to Projective Geometry
José Calvo Lopez, moderator

9:30-9:40 Session Introduction
9:40-10:05 Marta Salvatore, Prodromes of descriptive geometry in the Traité de stéréotomie by Amédée Francois Frézier
10:05-10:30 Enrique Rabasa, La Gournerie versus Monge
10:30-10:55 Giuseppe Fallacara, Luc Tamboréro, The vault of the Hotel de Ville of Arles
10:55-11:20 Miguel Alonso, Elena Pliego, Alberto Sanjurjo, Graphical tools for an epistemological shift. Contribution of protoaxonometrical drawing to the development of stonecutting treatises
11:20-11:45 Snezana Lawrence, Developable surfaces, their history and application
12:00-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch break

Domingo 13 Junho 2010
Afternoon session

14:00-15:00 Nexus Association Assembly

Session II: Round table: Generative Architecture Codeness
Celestino Soddu, moderator

15:00-17:30 Participants: Marie-Pascale Corcuff, Philip van Loocke, Enrica Colabella,
Gabriel Maldonado, Mounjia Abdeltif

17:30-18:00 Coffee Break

Domingo 13 Junho Keynote speaker
18:00-19:15 Chris Williams (open to the public)

Segunda-feira 14 Junho 2010
Morning session

Session III: Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences
Gonçalo Furtado, moderator

10:00-10:10 Session Introduction
10:10-10:40 Pau Solá-Morales, Information, Architecture, Complexity
10:40-11:20 Lora Dikova, After the Paradigm of Contemporary Physics in Architecture: Spatial Possibilities and Variations
11:20-11:40 Suzanne Strum, The International Architectures of the SSA and Informational Designer Knud Lonberg-Holm
11:40-12:10 Maycon Sedrez, Alice Pereira, Fractal Architecture
12:10-12:30 Discussion
12:30-15:00 Lunch break

Segunda-feira, 14 Junho 2010
Afternoon session

Session IV: Architecture and Mathematics
Kim Williams, moderator

15:00-15:10 Session Introduction
15:10-15:40 Matthew Landrus, The proportional geometry of form, balance, force, and motion in Leonardo da Vinci's work
15:40-16:10 Vasco Zara, From Quantitative to Qualitative 16th/17th Century Architecture: A New Musical Perspective
16:10-16:40 António Nunes Pereira, Renaissance in Goa: Proportion systems in two churches of the 16th century
16:40-17:10 Eliseu Gonçalves, The Octagon on the Houses of Orson Fowler
17:10-17:40 Poster Session
17:40-18:00 Coffee Break

Segunda-feira 14 Junho Keynote speaker
18:00-19:15 Lino Cabezas (open to the public)

Terça-feira, 15 Junho 2010
Morning session

Session V: Architecture and Mathematics
Sylvie Duvernoy, moderator

9:30-9:40 Session Introduction
9:40-10:10 Teresa Marat-Mendes, Mafalda Teixeira de Sampayo, David Rodrigues, Measuring Lisbon Patterns: "Baixa" from 1650 to 2010
10:10-10:40 Jong-Jin Park, Dynamics of urban centre and concepts of symmetry: "Centroid" and "Weighted mean"
10:40-11:10 Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua, Alexander Klein and the Existenzminimum. A 'scientific' approach to the design techniques
11:10-11:40 João Paulo Cabeleira, Inácio Vieira, Optics and Perspective. Instruments towards a sensitive space
11:40-12:10 Juergen Bokowski, Heike Matcha, The Geometric Construction of Morphology
12:10-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch break

Terça-feira, 15 Junho 2010
Afternoon session

Session VI: Shape and Shape Grammars
Lionel March, moderator.

14:00-14:10 Session Introduction
14:10-14:40 Sara Eloy, José Pinto Duarte, Transformation Grammar for Housing Rehabilitation
14:40-15:10 José Nuno Beirao, José Pinto Duarte, Rudi Stouffs, Creating specific grammars from generic grammars: towards flexible urban design
15:10-15:40 Mine Oezkar, Visual schemas: pragmatics of design learning in foundations studios
15:40-16:10 George Stiny, What Rule(s) Should I Use?
16:15-17:00 Poster session
17:00-17:30 Discussion
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break

Terça-feira 15 Junho Keynote speaker
18:00-19:15 Eduardo Souto de Moura (open to the public)

20.00 Conference dinner (closing)

Quarta-feira, 16 Junho 2010