Program

1st Day: SYMPOSIUM – 25th February, 2011

Merlin Theatre, 1052 Budapest, Gerlóczy utca 4. | map

All lectures will be translated to English.

9:00		registration
Session 1		the view of concrete ? in Hungary and all around the world
9:45		introduction	Péter István Varga	Architect, Curator	KÉK
10:00		Why concrete? – Fair-faced concrete in contemporary architecture	Ádám Hatvani	Architect	Sporaarchitecs
10:30		Close to the Bone	Ernst J. Fuchs	Architects	the next ENTERprise ? architects
11:00		Cast space – European Works of Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid	Roland Mayer, Peter M. Bährle	Architects	mayer bährle architekten
11:30		Fair-faced concrete in metro 4	Zoltán Erő	Architect, Chief Architect of Metro Line 4	Palatium Stúdió
12:00		lunch break
Session 2		how concrete? ? design and construction
13:00		Surface and texture ? formwork as architecture	Dezső Viszló	Civil Engineer, Head of Technical Department of the Hungarian Subsidiary	PERI
13:30		Concrete – material and surface	Csaba Pethő	Sales Manager of the Hungarian Subsidiary	MC Bauchemie
14:00		Pas de cinq – energy, materiality, economy, use, and space	Dominik Arioli	Architect	AGPS Architecture
14:30		break
Session 3		concrete in an other way ? the frontiers of concrete
15:00		Cast Landscape	Péter István Balogh PhD	Landscape Architect, Associate Professor	Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Landscape Architecture; s73
15:30		From the “tulip” houses to the Breuer Memorial. Examples of the relation of concrete and public art.	József Mélyi	Art Historian
16:00		Material coherency – from concrete to glass	Áron Losonczi	Architect	Litracon Kft.
16:30		questions

2. day: City Walks – only for conference visitors

The Symposium is the opening event of the Concrete Spring serie.