Association of Hungarian Architects

III. World Conference of Hungarian Architects
2010.03.01 - Events / Conferences

III. World Conference of Hungarian Architects
“Olympic games – tradition, crisis, solutions?”

          5th of March 2010
                        Budapest, Institute of Italian Culture
                                         (1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor Street 8. Hungary)

Moderator: István Pálffy architect, MTV

                       Registration from 8:00 o’clock

                       09.45      Ernő Kálmán – President of the Association of Hungarian Architects
                                      welcomes the guests

            Tradition

                       10:00    Pál Ritoók - art historian, Hungarian Museum for Architecture –
                                    Architectural traditions of the Carpathian basin
                       10:30    Dr. Frigyes Károlyházy – Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of
                                    Science – Science history context

11:00 coffee break

Crisis

           11:30    Gaetan Siew – Immediately Past President of the UIA, President of the
             UIA Vision and Strategy Work Programme – Survey of the
             global processes about urbanization, wasting, concentration of
             capital, poverty...
12:00    Dr. Zsigmond Nagy – President of the Preparing Committee of
             the Olympic Games in London – Olympic and crisis context:
             current report of the preparing of the Olympic games 2012 London
12:30    Josep Acebillo – Chief Architect of Barcelona – Future of the
             cities: connections between the urban and the rural spaces

13:00 lunch break

Solutions

14:00    Geraint John – President of the UIA Sports and leisure Work
            Programme - Bidding, Preparing and Designing for the Olympic
            Games. The Pro`s and Con`s for small cities.(Experience from Sydney,
            Athens, Beijing and London )
14:30    Prof. Peter P. Schweger – architect - Urban planning in Hamburg after
             a lost Olympic competition – effects of the conceptions
15:30    Péter Janesch – architect, Holcim International Award 2008 – Planning competition for
             the arrangement of the Danube river side in Buda and Pest

Registration and more information: www. meszorg.hu

Lecturers

Pál Ritoók

Pál Ritoók was graduated from ELTE with a degree in History, Polish language and Art History in 1987. Since graduating he has been working in the Hungarian Architecture Museum. He was the author of a couple of articles and books operating on XIX Century and XX Century architecture, including the six-volume Hungarian Architecture series in which he was working as both editor in chief and author. Among others he was one of the curators of the exhibition called, Light and Form –Modern architecture and photo 1927-1950, was shown in Hungary and in five foreign countries as well. Leader of the Hungarian Section of DOCOMOMO.

Dr. Frigyes Károlyházy

Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Science Professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics.

Gaetan Siew

Mauritian and French National.

Qualified in Architecture and Urban Planning at the Unité Pédagogique d’Architecture de Marseille – France, 1979.

Director/partner of Lampotang & Siew Architects Ltd since 1981 in Mauritius. Has worked in Mauritius and internationally (France, India, Madagascar, Mayotte, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tunisia) on projects such as Airports, Hotels, Commercial and Leisure. Keen interest in urban planning and heritage presentation.

Holds several assignments and positions both in Mauritius and internationally. Consultant to national governments.
Immediate Past President of the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA). Lectured widely in several universities in all 5 continents. Special interests on Globalisation issues and borderless topics such as Sustainability and Cultural Diversity
Focus in Leadership and strategic planning, in construction, real estate services.
Has travelled extensively in over 80 countries and visited over 200 cities. Good understanding of geopolitics.
Architect : Special interests on Globalisation issues , Sustainability and Cultural Diversity

Dr. Zsigmond Nagy

Member of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and the European leader of the National Olympic Committee

PE teacher, athlete, professional trainer and lawyer. Honoured with the Gold Cross of the Hungarian Republic. One of the members of the Hungarian delegate in four summer and two winter Olympic Games. Before he was the international and legal director of the Hungarian Olympics Committee. Alternate director of the Competition Committee of the Summer Junior Olympic Games in Debrecen.

Josep Acebillo

Architect

Professor Architecture Academy, Università della Svizzera italiana (Mendrisio, Switzerland)

CEO Barcelona Regional (Metropolitan Agency)

Principal of AUS & Director of BcnSUS

Josep Acebillo has received worldwide recognition for his positioning in the international architecture scene. Currently, he assesses cities in their urban transformation endeavours and gives conferences all over the world as the principal of AUS (Architecture Urban Systems), an independent professional studio in Switzerland, and the CEO of Barcelona Regional which he founded in 1994 as a Metropolitan Agency for the strategic development of urban project and infrastructures of Barcelona, and from where he just launched BcnSUS (Barcelona Strategic Urban Systems), a consortium of leaders in Barcelona to undertake projects abroad.

He is at the forefront of the urban transformation of Barcelona since 1981 in different capacities. Among them, he was Technical Director of Barcelona’s 92 Olympic Holding and as such responsible for all infrastructures including the creation of new ring roads and underground galleries of the city, and once the games were over, he became Commissioner of Infrastructures and then in 1999 Chief Architect of the City of Barcelona undertaking a major overall renewal project, the “Triangle de Llevant”, to boost the redevelopment of the city to its North East with the construction of the Forum grounds, the Sagrera Intermodal Station and the 22@ district.

Under his urban leadership, the city of Barcelona has won many awards including the Prince of Wales Price in Urban Design by Harvard University (1990), the Premio Especial de Urbanismo de la Unión Europea (1998) and the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture by the RIBA (1999).

All along he has been active in Education and Research, teaching at Harvard and Yale among others, and now is a professor at the Mendrisio Architecture School from the University of Lugano being the Dean of the Faculty for consecutive mandates and the director of the Institute for the Contemporary Urban Project.

Prof. Geraint John

Dip Arch (UCL), RIBA, FRSA, CISRM

Professor Geraint John is the Honorary Life President of the International Union of Architects (UIA) Programme for Sport and Leisure. He is a Member of the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and a member of many relevant committees and organisations in the UK.

He is a Senior Advisor to Populous, the major Architectural Practice whose work includes the Sydney Olympic Stadium, the new Wembley Stadium, the O2 Arena and the Emirates Stadium in London, and many other international projects. Currently, the practice is designing the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, and is involved with the Masterplanning and Overlay work for London 2012. The Office is working on the Sochi Winter Olympic Facilities.

Prof. Peter P. Schweger

Architect BDA, Senior Partner

Date and place of birth:

08.02.1935 in Mediasch/Romania

Nationality:

Austrian

Education

1972 - 1995

Professor for Architectural Theory and

Design University of Hanover, Germany

1969 - 1971

Lectureship Technical University of Hanover,

Germany

1968 - 1969

Lectureship College of Fine Arts, Hanover,

Germany

1966

Architect

1953 - 1959

Architecture studies at the Technical University

of Budapest and Zurich

Professional experience

2008

Managing Director with Schweger Associated

Architects GmbH

1998

Managing Director with ASP Schweger Assoziierte

1959 - 1960

Architecture Office in Zurich

Selection of Projects

2007 - 2013

Dubai Pearl, Dubai

2006 - 2009

Ministry for Family, Pensioners, Women and Young

People, Berlin

2006 - 2007

Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin

2003 - 2006

BMW Headquarters, Munich

The most important task, which is above all individual aspects of the development of the port city, has to be the creation of a differentiated urban fabric and the search for urbanistic design possibilities which will promote that.

Everyone concerned with city planning and urban expansion, must not just consider the opportunities which often result from unique locations, but also be aware of the difficulties that arise from urban sprawl of such dimension, in order to let develop areas in a real urban and social context.

Today, there are usually only constricted perceptions of the city – where all it would need is go about the implementation of accordant visions.

Urban planning nowadays mostly means ‘planning by realizing projects’. The city has ceased to be socially and physically a single entity - which is why there can be no more strategy for unification. Die politischen und Verwaltungsstrukturen der Stadt reflektieren jedoch einen Zustand, der längst nicht mehr existiert. The political and administrative structures of the city, however, reflect a condition that long ago no longer exists.

Sándor Pálfy

Architectural planning, from 1990 he is operating on urban planning built on city-characteristics research. He takes part in the working out of character-method and the heritage protection methods based on areas. Since 1996 he searched the architectural values and since 2005 the connections between architecture and town planning. Since 2000 half part lecturer and from 2005 full time lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Since 2006 Head of department of Town Planning at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Péter Janesch

architect, Recipient of the International Holcim Award 2008

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Last modifications date: 2010.03.04

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