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Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry):

M. Jadric:
"Architecture in Parallel Universes";
Keynote Lecture: Gastvortrag, Aalto University, Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki, Finland (invited); 02-2015.



English abstract:
The challenge is to overcome "not simply a multipolarity of power but a world of increasingly contradictory realities," Henry Kissinger.

Honestly, no one knows how the architecture of the future and the city of the future should looke like -- chaos, order or a mixture of both that came about through the mutual dependence on the two extremes. All three categories exist in parallel in the world we live in. Instead of a single world order, different civilizations are developing their own versions of it, entirely self-centered.

Architecture in different cultures reflects a few very different contexts: (West) Europe in contrast to (East) China, (South) America to (North) America, their geopolitical dimensions and local cultures are visible even on a building scale.

Examples from China, Brasil, Europe i USA show how architecture as part of a larger cultural community matters. None of these examples is transferable elsewhere but still they are all part of our reality:
City of Science, City of God, City of Merchants and Smart-City are metaphoric names for four real cities that stand for these contradictory realities.

German abstract:
The challenge is to overcome "not simply a multipolarity of power but a world of increasingly contradictory realities," Henry Kissinger.

Honestly, no one knows how the architecture of the future and the city of the future should looke like -- chaos, order or a mixture of both that came about through the mutual dependence on the two extremes. All three categories exist in parallel in the world we live in. Instead of a single world order, different civilizations are developing their own versions of it, entirely self-centered.

Architecture in different cultures reflects a few very different contexts: (West) Europe in contrast to (East) China, (South) America to (North) America, their geopolitical dimensions and local cultures are visible even on a building scale.

Examples from China, Brasil, Europe i USA show how architecture as part of a larger cultural community matters. None of these examples is transferable elsewhere but still they are all part of our reality:
City of Science, City of God, City of Merchants and Smart-City are metaphoric names for four real cities that stand for these contradictory realities.


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