The SAAHP International Fellows Program (IFP) focuses broadly on issues and practices dealing with the contemporary built environment. The IFP roundtable sessions are aimed at mid-career and senior professionals, who work with a distinguished international faculty and practitioners.
Fellows are drawn from the public and private sector, as well as from academic institutions. The program is purposely multi-disciplinary and intensive, held over a two day period in mid-Summer. On some occasions, the IFP is conducted in conjunction with other institutions, adding great diversity to the offerings.
Programs since 1999 include:
- 1999 Response and Responsibility: Building in The International Realm (co-sponsored with the Boston Society of Architects)
- 2000 Sustaining the Built Heritage: International Preservation and Urban Conservation
- 2000 Distinguished Architects Seminar, featuring Indian Architects Charles Correa and Asian American architects.
- 2001 Sustaining the Built Heritage: International Historic Preservation and Urban Conservation
- 2002 Extreme Architecture: Conservation and Revitalization in the Face of Globalization, War and Terrorism
- 2003 Building the Future: Needs and Directions in Conservation and Heritage Planning
- 2004 Difference in International and Local Urban Conservation and Development
- 2005 Values and Vision: International Scenarios for Urban Conservation and Development
- 2006 Iconic Architecture and Places: Building the New and Revitalizing the Old
Leading participants to date include Charles Correa, Architect, Mumbai; Suha Ozkan, Former Secretary-General, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva; Sherban Cantucuzino, President Emeritus, ICOMOS, London; Tom Payette, Architect, Payette Associates, Boston; Tim Whalen, Director, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles; Nezar AlSayyad, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley; Gianne Conrad, Chief Architect's Office, the General Services Administration, Washington; Donald Insall, Conservation Architect, London; Farokh Afshar, University of Guelph, Ontario; Bonnie Burnham, President, World Monuments Fund; Clifford Pearson, Senior Editor, Architectural Record; Mildred Schmertz, architectural critic, New York; Mozhan Kadhem, Boston Design Collaborative; Anuraag Chowfla, Stein Mani Chowfla Architects, New Delhi.
2008 International Fellows Program: Stewardship of the Built Environment
Culturally and Ecologically Sustainable Urban Conservation & Development
July 11th & 12th, 2008
The 2008 International Fellows Program focuses on the ethical and practical need for the stewardship of our built heritage and environment to ensure sustainable urban conservation and development. The first and last sessions are open to the public.
Architectural and urban conservation and development are two sides of the same coin. Often seen in opposition to each other, they both need to be dealt with simultaneously, especially in current rapidly changing urban and regional contexts. New development needs to protect and revitalize existing and historic built contexts, which requires not only to be sustained and maintained but also to be enhanced.
All around the globe the impact of government agencies to private initiatives can be discerned in large and small scale projects. The players all have their own agendas and affect the way in which development is inscribed in urban space. Today most projects are the result of partnerships and collaboration. Is continual development today tenable and sustainable? Are there limits to growth? What kinds of societies will take shape? By exploring the ideas and projects that shape our habitat, or indeed conserve or change it, we might begin to envision and plan for future development.
The sessions aim to foster an understanding and illustrate, through issue-based presentations and case studies from different societies, principles and directions that such efforts are taking.
The event is convened by Hasan-Uddin Khan, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation at RWU. He will be joined by a notable international panel comprised of representatives from international and national agencies and private practitioners from different disciplines, from those of physical development and urban planning to those of architecture and historic preservation.
Registration Information
Registration Form
IFP 2008 Program + Schedule
Please note that space is limited to the first 40 registrants on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Arrangements can be made for overnight accommodation for the 10th and 11th of July. Please contact 401-254-3605.
AIA members can receive continuing education credits.
The two designated public sessions are open to everyone free of charge.
Hasan-Uddin Khan
Director
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