2000 conference program

T H E E N D O F T R A D I T I O N

WELCOME FROM THE CONFERENCE DIRECTOR

The theme of our seventh IASTE conference is "The End of Tradition?" As we approach the next millennium, there is a great deal of contentious debate regarding the "end of history", the "end of geography", and the "end of tradition". The emergence of the term "post", as in post-developmentalism, post-modernism and now post-traditionalism, serves as an indicator of our present day discourse. This conference will be concerned with a specific historical moment, one where a seemingly all-consuming late capitalism levels differences and particularities, but where there is at the same time a resurgence of localisms, populisms, and fundamentalisms. It is this paradoxical simultaneity which necessitates our question: The End of Tradition?

In past conferences, IASTE scholars and practitioners have attempted to make sense of this ever-changing intellectual landscape and have grappled with how processes of globalization are irrevocably restructuring space and place. This year, over 160 scholars from a variety of disciplines will address these issues by presenting papers structured around three broad themes: Deterritorialization/Globalization, Tradition as a Call to Arms, and Practice and the New Technologies of Place.

I would like to end this short note by thanking our host in Trani, the Sovrintendenza ai Beni Ambientali, Architettonici, Artistici e Storici della Puglia; our co-organizers, the Polytechnic of Bari and IRIS, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; and our local conference co-directors, Michele Stella and Attilio Petruccioli.

We hope all of those in attendance will find this year's conference intellectually stimulating.

Nezar AlSayyad
Conference Director

REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION DESK

The registration and conference information desk is located on the second level of the castle. The hours are the following:

Thursday, October 12, 2000: 8 am – 5 pm
Friday, October 13, 2000: 8 am – 5 pm
Saturday, October 14, 2000: 8:30 am – 12 pm
Sunday, October 15, 2000: 8:30 am – 12 pm

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
8:00 - 9:00 am	Registration Castello Svevo, second level
9:00 - 9:30 am Opening Session	Welcome Remarks Room A Attilio Petruccioli and Antonio Castorani Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
9:30 - 10:00 am Opening Address	On the Conference Theme -- The End of Tradition Room A Nezar AlSayyad University of California, Berkeley, USA
10:00 - 10:40 am Plenary Address	Room A Chair: Mauro Mezzina Polytechnic of Bari, Italy What does Tradition Mean for Architecture? Francesco Dal Co Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy
10:40 - 10:55 am	Coffee Break
10:55 am - 1:05 pm Paper Sessions	A.1 Territorial Implications for a Placeless Society Room A Chair: Aly Gabr Cairo University, Egypt Superimposed Horizons: Existence at the Intersection of the Real and the Virtual Brian Cavanaugh Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Seoul's Web Site and "Virtual Seoul" Video Game: Toward the End of a Traditional Urban Vision? Marie-Helene Fabre Faustino Laboratoire Theorie des Mutations Urbaines, Paris, France Civilization Without Territory, Territory Without Civilization Anna Menghini Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Patterns of Adaptation: Place, Placelessness, and Beirut's Population, 1975-1990 Sofia Shwayri University of California, Berkeley, USA Traditional Settlements: So Far, No Further? Raid Hanna University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
	B.1 Usurping Traditional Forms: Stabilization or Homogenization? Room B Chair: Paul Oliver Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom The "Ontario" Cottage: the Globalization of a British Form During the Nineteenth Century Lynne DiStefano University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Destabilization and Homogenization of the Culture and Architecture of Southwestern Sumba Island, Indonesia Joanna Mross Texas Tech University, Lubbock, US Past/Present: New Urbanism and the Salvage Paradigm Amy Murphy University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Urban Heritage Protection Practices and Their Homogenizing Effects: The Case of Old Quebec Anne Vallieres Université Laval, Sainte Foy, Canada Variations on Place and Identity: The Production of Kitsch in Turkish Architecture of the Post-1980s Didem Kilickiran University College London, United Kingdom
	C.1 Technology and the Making of Urban Landscapes Room C Chair: Jeffrey Cook Arizona State University, Tempe, USA The House That Breathes: On the Extinction of Sangirese Architectural Tradition Gunawan Tjahjono University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia The Architectural Organism: Tradition and Changes Michele Beccu Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Voids: The Re-Presentation of Culture Li Lian Chee National University of Singapore, Singapore Making Urban Landscape by Disclosing Traditional Buildings: The Case of Tochigi City in Japan Nobuo Mitsuhashi and Nobuyoshi Fujimoto Utsunomiya University, Japan Underground Quarry Tradition: An Alternative to an Antropic Landscape Calogero Montalbano Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
1:05 - 2:40 pm	Break
2:40 - 4:15 pm Plenary Session	Globalization, Deterrorialization and the End of Tradition Room A Chair: Harrison Fraker University of California, Berkeley, USA The Global Domestic: Deterritorializing Globalization Jane M. Jacobs University of Melbourne, Australia Tourism's Exclusionary Practices in Cancun, Cuba, and Southern Florida: Consumption and Protection of Traditional Environments Robert Mugerauer University of Washington, Seattle, USA Discussant Mark Jarzombek Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
4:15 - 6:00 pm	Trani Walking Tour - tours depart in front of Castello Svevo
6:15 - 7:15 pm Special Panel Session	Emerging Technology for Heritage: Examples from Italy Room A Chair: Alonzo C. Addison University of California, Berkeley, USA Panelists: Bernard Frischer University of California, Los Angeles, USA Marco Gaiani Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
7:15 - 7:45 pm	Tour of Castello Svevo - Tours depart from center courtyard
8:00 - 10:00 pm Opening Reception	Castello Svevo Hosted by the Municipality of Trani Opening remarks by Mayor Carlo Avantario

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
8:30 - 10:45 am Paper Sessions	A.2 "Local" Traditions in the Post-imperial/Colonial City Room A Chair: Mia Fuller University of California, Berkeley, USA Made in Hong Kong, Made in Macau: A Tale of Two Post-colonial Cities David Lung University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Permanence/Impermanence in Creole Style, French West Indies Anne Hublin Ecole d'Architecture, Paris Villemin, France The Colonial Transformation of Seoul: Tradition, Westernization and Space Changmii Bae University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA The End or Rebirth of Spatial Tradition in Taiwan: The Spatial Meaning of Historic Cities in Transition Pai-hwai Wu and Min-Fu Hsu Ming Chuan University and National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, ROC Permanency and Transformation in the Historic Site: the Case of Tiradentes, Brazil Jurema Rugani Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazi
	B.2 Mobile/izing Spatial Scales: the Shifting Politics of Tradition Room B Chair: Michael Landzelius Oxford University, United Kingdom Vernacular Architecture and the Park Removals: Traditionalization as Justification and Resistance Michael Ann Williams Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, USA Traditional Fictions: Narratives of Nature, Culture and Exchange in the Gift Garden Gini Lee Dip University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia A Satellite Dish and a Bamboo Hut? The Politics of Traditional Environments in Indonesia Leena Avonius University of Amsterdam, Netherlands It's All In a Name: The Loss of Expertise and the Recovery of Tradition Peter Schneider University of Colorado, Denver, USA Turning and Breaking a Century: A Search for Socio-Political Continuity Through the Ruptures in Shanghai Political History Vimalin Rujivacharakul University of California, Berkeley, USA
	C.2 Discourses of Tradition and Globalization Room C Chair: Gunawan Tjahjono University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia "Tradition by Itself…" Paul Oliver Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom Vernacular as Invented Tradition Rowan Roenisch De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom The Dialectic Between Tradition and Innovation in Italian Typological Studies Nicola Marzot University of Bologna, Italy Redefining Tradition for Multiple Geographies: Towards Juxtaposed Traditions and the Case of Islam in Istanbul as a Discursive Act Berin Gur Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey The Insidious Revival of Tradition: Invisible Fences Antonella Romagnolo University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
10:45 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:40 am Plenary Session	The End of Tradition: Scholarly Discourses Room A Chair: Nezar AlSayyad University of California, Berkeley, USA The End is Near: Apocalypse and Utopia in Contemporary Thought Katharyne Mitchell University of Washington, Seattle, USA Traditions of the Modern: A Corrupt View Ananya Roy University of California, Berkeley, USA Discussant: Jeffrey Cody Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
12:40 - 2:00 pm	Break
2:00 - 4:10 pm Paper Sessions	A.3 Localizing Global Traditions: Contemporary Scenarios Room A Chair: Jeffrey Cody Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Localizing Global Traditions in Egyptian Architecture: The Issue of Collective Identity Aly Gabr and Khaled Ahmed Kamel Cairo University, Egypt Identity as a Mode of Resistance to Globalization: Perspectives from the United States and Italy Pietro Cali and Christopher Jarrett University of Reggio Calabria and Georgia Institute of Technology, Italy/USA Localizing Global Architectural Traditions: Postmodern Interpretations in Curitiba, Brazil Clara Irazabal University of California, Berkeley, USA Cultural Complexes: Recuperating Tradition for the Global Marketplace Sabir Khan and Mark Cottle Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Villard de Lans: Global Intervention and Local Resurgence Jacqueline Victor and Laurence Keith Loftin III University of Denver and University of Colorado, Denver, USA
	B.3 Preservation Paradigms in Education and Practice Room B Chair: Dieter Ackerknecht City of Zurich, Switzerland Teaching Architects Tradition William Bechhoefer University of Maryland, College Park, USA The Urban Code and the Re-Foundation of the Normative Instruments Governing Territory Use Paolo Bertozzi and Agnese Ghini University of Parma and DAPT, Italy New Hopi Village: Housing Community for Sustainability Jeffrey Cook Arizona State University, Tempe, USA The Conservation of the Building Typology of Two Traditional Buildings in the Trentino Region Antonio Frattari and Michela Dalpra University of Trento, Italy Al Torjuman Project: Multiculturalism as a New Paradigm Dalila Elkerdany Cairo University, Egypt
	C.3 Learning from Place: The Culture of Building Room C Chair: Manuel Teixeira ISCTE, Lisbon, Portuga Not Quite the End of Tradition: The Building Culture of Lalitpur, Nepal Howard Davis University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Eastern Sicily Historical Resorts: Between Continuity and Transformation Fabio Todesco University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Correlations of Spatial Use and House Forms Across Austronesia Lai Chee-Kien National University of Singapore, Singapore Building Architecture and Design Architecture in Japan Hajo Neis University of Oregon, Portland, USA Historical Architectures, Urban Retraining, and Maintenance of a Patrimony at Risk in Italy Massimo Lo Curzio University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
4:10 - 4:25 pm	Coffee Break
4:25 - 6:35 pm Paper Sessions	A.4 Localizing Global Traditions: Historic Precedents Room A Chair: Marcela Pizzi University of Chile, Santiago, Chile The Remaking of Cairo: Looking at the Nineteenth Century for Inspiration Heba Ahmed University of California, Berkeley, USA The Postcolonial City: Aspects of the Architecture and Urban Design of Dar es Salaam Erik Sigge and Kim Einarsson Goteborg University, Sweden Commerce and Culture: Continuity and Change Nadia Alhasani American University of Sharjah, UAE Maintaining Environmental Identity as an Urban Design Methodology for the Contemporary City: The Example of Civita Castellana Marco Maretto University of Genova, Italy Seventeenth-Century Works of Fortification as a Process of Globalization: The Adaptation to Traditional Urban Structures Margarida Valla Universidade Lusiada, Lisbon, Portugal
	B.4 Architects and Planners as Traditionalists Room B Chair: Weijen Wang University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong The End of Internationalism: The Issue of Translation, from the Recovery of Tradition to Betrayal Marta Alieri University of Genova, Italy A Detached Engagement: Tradition and the Poetics of Émigré Practice Sabir Khan and Mark Cottle Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Sandstone's Unifying Hue: The World Bank Delhi Regional Mission Headquarters Building in Historical Perspective Samia Rab American University of Sharjah, UAE Crafting Tradition: The Laurie Baker Phenomenon Malini Krishnankutty Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, India A Case for Modernity and Tradition Ela Cil University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
	C.4 "Traditional" Knowledge: Learning from Experience Room C Chair: Anne Hublin Ecole d'Architecture, Paris Villemin, France The Lore of the Master Builder: Working with Local Materials and Local Knowledge in Sana'a, Yemen Trevor Marchand School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom Wooden Architecture and Earthquakes in Turkey Stephen Tobriner University of California, Berkeley, USA Tradition and New Technologies in Northern Italian Building Practice Anna Barozzi and Luca Guardigli University of Bologna and University of Parma, Italy A New Role for Traditional Knowledge: the Creation of a Technological Paradigm for Saving Natural Resources Pietro Laureano Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Pax Machina: Tradition and The Challenges of Technological Transfer Hazem Ziada Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14
8:30 - 10:40 am Paper Sessions	A.5 Discourses of Place/Deterritorialization Room A Chair: Samia Rab American University of Sharjah, UAE Dresden's Kulturmeile and the Heterology of Bauen Mark Jarzombek Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Representing Culture: Resisting Globalization through the Transformation of Tradition Lisa Findley California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA Local and Traditional Environments as a Part of Today's Region Eeva Aarrevaara Helsinki University of Technology, Finland The End of Tradition/The Re-Invention of Tradition: Storytelling and Building in a Changing World Leonardo Castriota Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil The Conception of Space Among the San: Space and Society in the Kalahari DesertGiovanni Fontana Antonelli UNESCO, Windhoek, Namibia
	B.5 Invented Nations/Invented Traditions: Identity and Space Room B Chair: Derek Japha University of Cape Town, South Africa Manufacturing Architectural Identity Howayda Al-Harithy American University of Beirut, Lebanon Remembering through Space: A Communal Hall in Postcolonial Hong Kong Sidney Chin Hung Cheung Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Contemplation on Built Heritage in Ireland: Between Destruction and Preservation Rumiko Handa University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA State Image and Space in Post-war Cairo: The Case of Tahrir Square from 1940-1970 Hesham Khairy Abdelfattah Cairo University, Egypt A Gift for the Enemy: Pre-Islamic Concepts, Forms and Icons on the Javanese Mosque Hendrajaya Isnaeni University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
	C.5 Tourism, Commodification and the Construction of Tradition Room C Chair: John Webster University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia Tourism and the Regional Construction of an Albertian Tradition Magdalena Saura Technic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain More Irish than the Irish: The Commodification of Ethnic Identity Kymberly Helbig University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Searching for Meaning: The Use of Industrial Tradition to Define Meaning in an Age of Global Tourism and Placelessness Christine Landorf University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Sheep Station Settlements in Patagonia at the Turn of the Century: The Construction of Tradition and Revitalization Through Tourism Marcela Pizzi and Maria Paz Valenzuela University of Chile, Santiago, Chile The Smallest Village in the World: Montafon, Austria Gabriela Muri University of Zurich, Switzerland
10:40 - 10:55 am	Coffee Break
10:55 - 1:05 pm Paper Sessions	A.6 Marketing, Consumption, and the Traditions of Place Room A Chair: David Lung University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Marketing Tradition: Post-Traditional Places and Meta-Urbanism Lineu Castello Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil The Re-creation of Historic Sites Between Fantasy and Reality: What Las Vegas Learned Basil Kamel Cairo University, Egypt The Consuming Strategies of Yangpyong: Megalopolitan Seoul and Its Influence on Surrounding Cities Bong-hee Jeon and Won-Joon Choi Seoul National University, Korea The Struggle for Urban Space: Self-Identity in the Shadows of Globalization Amer Moustafa American University of Sharjah, UAE New Planning Versus Traditional Planning: Croatian Experience Nenad Lipovac University of Zagreb, Croatia
	B.6 Invented Nations/Invented Traditions: Architectural Discourses Room B Chair: Greig Crysler University of California, Berkeley, USA Tradition as a Means to the End of Tradition: Italian Fascist New Towns in the 1930s Mia Fuller University of California, Berkeley, USA Reinventing Singapore's Chinatown Heng Chye Kiang and Quah Cheng Ee National University of Singapore, Singapore The Turkification of Istanbul in the 1950s Ipek Akpina University College London, United Kingdom Portuguese Traditional Urbanism, the Synthesis of Vernacular and Intellectual Models Manuel Teixeira ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal Searching for a National Architecture: The Architectural Discourse in Early Republican Turkey T. Elvan Ergut Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
	C.6 Tourism, Consumption, and Tradition Room C Chair: Mike Austin UNITEC Institute of Architecture, Auckland, New Zealand Preservation Versus Profit: Recent Development in Village Tourism in China Puay-Peng Ho Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Tradition for the "Other": On Vernacular Architecture and Tourism in Yongding County, China Duanfang Lu University of California, Berkeley, USA Kalekoy: A Mediterranean Village Frozen in Time for Global Touristic Consumption Gaye Culcuoglu and Emine Incirlioglu Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Modernity of Tradition and the Tradition of Modernity: Legacies of the Spanish Village and the German Pavilion at Barcelona Donald Watts Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA Uzbekistan: In the Shadow of Tradition Manu Sobti Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
1:05 - 2:30 pm	Break
1:05 - 2:30 pm	Meeting of IASTE Advisory Board Members Castello Svevo
2:30 - 4:15 pm Paper Sessions	A.7 Mutations of Language and the Making of Place Room A Chair: Frank Sun Center for Architectural Research and Education, Hong Kong Words and Buildings Rosemary Latter Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom From the "Chinese Town" to the "Medina": The Transformation of the Hui Muslim District in Xi'an Jean-Paul Loubes Ecole d'Architecture, Bordeaux, France Intracultural Negotiations in the Nepalese Traditional Landscape: Cast(e)ing Off the Chains that Bind William Duncanson University of California, Berkeley, USA Mao's China: the Option of Beauty, the Absence of History, the End of Tradition Jeffrey Hartnett University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
	B.7 Reconstruction and the Politics of Space Room B Chair: Morna Livingston Philadelphia University, USA Rebuilding Bosnia: An International Project for the City of Mostar Judith Bing Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Importing Architecture: The Case of Beirut Elie George Haddad and Charles Meyer Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon Israelizing Jerusalem: The Contribution of the Postwar Architectural Discipline Alona Nitzan-Shiftan Technion, Haifa, USA Tabula Rasa as Tradition: Rebuilding Manchester Again Eamonn Canniffe University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
	C.7 Reconfiguring the Dwelling Room C Chair: Mui Ho University of California, Berkeley, USA Rethinking Tradition: Another Look at the Essential Characteristics and Meanings of the Traditional Thai House Piyalada Devakula Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Home Cooking, Nostalgia, and the Purchase of Tradition Jean Duruz University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Lean Silver Boxes and Living Traditions: The Changing Identity of the Australian Kitchen Jane Lawrence and Rachel Hurst University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia The Digital Hall: Technology and the Tradition of the Single-Family House June Williamson Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
4:15 - 4:30 pm	Coffee Break
4:30 - 6:40 pm Paper Sessions	A.8 Sites and Agents of Globalization Room A Chair: Donald Watts Kansas State University, Lawrence, USA The Architectures of Globalization: Places, Practices and Pedagogies Greig Crysler University of California, Berkeley, USA Cosmetic Heritage: The Fabrication of Pedestrian Shopping Streets in South China, 1993-2000 Jeffrey Cody and Wallace Chang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Familiarity on the Frontlines: Accommodating U.S. Military Bases Abroad Mark L. Gillem University of California, Berkeley, USA Main Streets and Shopping Centers: Between Local Traditions and Placeless Sites of Consumption Gianpiero Moretti McGill University, Montreal, Canada The Shifting Presence of the Turkish Village: Are They (Still) Important? Alison Snyder University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
	B.8 The Rhetoric of Tradition: the Co-option of Participation Room B Chair: Basil Kamel Cairo University, Egypt