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Seventh Viennese Architecture Congress
The Future of Cities - Learning from Asia

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium
Congress: 12 November 1999 - 14 November 1999

Friday, November 12, 1999
Saturday, November 13, 1999
Sunday, November 14, 1999



Friday, November 12, 1999

3:00 p.m.
Opening
Dietmar Steiner, Director Architekturzentrum Wien

3:30 p.m.
Ramesh Kumar Biswas
Architect and cultural critic, Vienna (A)
"Out of Context: Emerging Urban Cultures”

5:00 p.m.
Heinz Nissel
Professor for Geography at the University of Vienna (A)
"Gateway of India - Bombay / Mumbai."

6:30 p.m.
Rahul Mehrotra
Architect, Urban Design Research Institute, Bombay (Ind)
"Bombay - One Space, Two Worlds"

7:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
"Learning from Asia?”



Saturday, November 13, 1999

2:00 p.m.
Sujata Patel
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pune (Ind)
"Bombay / Mumbai: From Cosmopolitanism to Chauvinism”

3:30 p.m.
Ackbar Abbas
Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at Hong Kong University (Hk)
"Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong”

5:00 p.m.
Gary Chang
Architect, EDGE Ltd., Hong Kong (Hk)
"Hong Kong: The Liquid City”

7:30 p.m.
Ken Yeang
Architect, Kuala Lumpur (ML)
"Ecological Design of Large Buildings”



Sunday, November 14, 1999

2:00 p.m.
Sepp Linhart
Head of the department of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna (A)
"Consume, leasure and workin Tokyo”

3:30 p.m.
Botond Bognar
Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)
"An Architecture of “Creative Chaos” – Tokyo and Japanese Urbanism since the 1980s"

5:00 p.m.
Sandra Buckley
Professor for Japanese Studies at the State University of New York, Albany (USA)
"Urban Movements and Cultural Bayous: Becoming Communities on the Japanese Cityscape”

7:30 p.m.
Roemer van Toorn
Head of the programme "History and Theory” at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam (NL)
"Time in Transit. A Traveloque through the Society of The And”



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