MAIN PROGRAMME on 30 & 31 May



The Architecture Talks Lucerne took place with great success.
Please find some impressions of the conference.
The images   Closing report



The Architecture Talks will take place at the
Lucerne Hall of the KKL Luzern (Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne). Presentations and discussions will be interpreted simultaneously into German and English.

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1st DAY OF THE SYMPOSIUM: FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008

08.00–09.00 Sign-in
09.00 Opening by Frank Joss
Director of the Architecture Talks Lucerne
09.10 Introduction to the theme by presenter Karin Salm
arts correspondent at Swiss radio channel DRS2, Basle
09.20 "Brandscapes: Architecture in the Experience Economy"
Anna Klingmann, Kl!ngmann Architects & Brand Consultants
New York
10.00
"Relational"
EM2N, Mathias Müller + Daniel Niggli
architects, Zurich
10.30 "Brands Build Cities - An Urban Perspective?"
Kerstin Höger
architect and professor at the Institute for Urban Design, ETH Zurich
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 "City Space Building - On the Quest for Identity, Quality, Authenticity"
Frank Joss in dialogue with Tomaso Zanoni, Zanoni Architects, architect and town planner, municipal architect in Zug/CH
from late 2003 to early 2008

11.45 "Parallel Practice"
Sunny Zhanhui Chen, MADA s.p.a.m.
architect, Shanghai

12.30

Lunch break

14.15 "Re:Activators"
Jürgen Mayer H.
architect, Berlin
15.00 "Learning from Almere"
Ria van Dijk, Department for Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, Municipality of Almere
urban designer, Almere/NL
15.45
Break
16.15 "De Citadel - The City within the City"
André Terzibachian, Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
architect, Paris

17.00 – 17.30 Panel discussion



2nd DAY OF THE SYMPOSIUM: SATURDAY, 31 MAY 2008

08.00–09.00 Sign-in
09.00 Opening by Frank Joss
Director of the Architecture Talks Lucerne
09.05 Opening by presenter Karin Salm
arts correspondent at Swiss radio channel DRS2, Basle
09.10 "Formula New Ljubljana"
Bostjan Vuga, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Ljubljana/Slovenia
10.00 "Architecture - Built Brands"
Thomas Muderlak, BMW Group
Launch Manager and Head of international trade shows, Munich
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 "Narrative Spaces"
Bernhard Franken, Franken Architects
architect, Frankfurt

11.45 "Architectural Branding as an Opportunity"
Antonio Citterio, Antonio Citterio and Partners
designer and architect, Milan

12.15 "To Be or Not to Be a Brand - Man's Second Skin?"
Frank Joss in dialogue with Antonio Citterio and
Hanns-Peter Cohn, CEO of Vitra, Weil am Rhein


12.30

Lunch break

14.00 "Prime Tower - One Step closer to Heaven"
Frank Joss in dialogue with Mike Guyer of Gigon/Guyer Architects, Zurich, and Peter Lehmann, Chief Investment Officer of Swiss Prime Site, Olten
14.15 "Lindt Chocolate, McDonald's and Architecture…"
Zena Malek, KAKS LLC
architect, Aley/Lebanon

15.00 "Reason and Emotion"
Fernando Menis, Menis Arquitectos
architect and urbanist, Santa Cruz de Tenerife/ES
15.45 Break
16.15 "Conditions"
Kjetil Thorsen, Snohetta
architect, Oslo
17.00 – 17.30 Panel discussion


Programme as PDF
Biographies short version as PDF
Biographies long version as PDF