TRADITONS AND MODERNITY

International Conference on Contemporary Architecture in Southeast Asia and beyond

Time:
December 9 - 11 1996

Deadline for Title and Abstract:
October 15 1996

Conference Theme:
Traditions and modernity, east and west, local identity and global intergration, regionalism and internationalism: these dichotomies have been discussed for decades, but they have never been so urgently relevant as they are today in the fastes growing region of the world. In Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific regional, rapidly expanding modernisation comples both practitioners and theoriests to resond to these issues which affect all areas of research, teching, design practice and decision making related to the built environment.

Topics:

• Traditional architecture and urbanism in Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Pacific and related regions.
  
• Social, cultural and theoretical aspects of traditional architecture and urbanism in the regions
• Conservation of built forms of historical value.
• Contextual planning and design in relation to traditional forms and activities
• Current cultural and theoretical issues in architecture and urbanism
• Current design stragies in architecture
• Current planning strategies and policies in urbanism
• Practical aspects of architectural and planning today.

Dept. of Architecture
Mercu Buana Univ.
Jakarta, Indonesia

Dept. of Architecture
Univ. of Tasmania
Australia

E-mail: iaijakarta@hotmail.com