Events

Mundaneum XIII 2019: Pan Americas

The Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York and the Costa Rican Foundation for Design, Art and Architecture (Fund_ARQ) are delighted to announce Mundaneum XIII 2019: Pan Americas, an intensive series of talks and conversations exploring points of both intersection and conflict in design and planning in the erstwhile "New World." Over a day and a half, a group of Pan American architects, designers and activists will present their work not to seek "common ground," but to reveal the complex interactions and inflections of the manifold architectures and environments of the Americas and to spark lively and ongoing conversation, cooperation and debate about their intertwined histories and futures.

Schedule:

Thursday, April 4

• 5:30 - Welcome - Denise Hoffman Brandt
• 6:00 - Mundaneum - Alvaro Rojas, Guillermo Honles
• 6:20 - Lecture - Monica Bertolino (Introduction by Fabian Llonch)

Friday, April 5

I. On Modernism and the Future

• 9:00 - Presentation 1 - Pedro Rivera | Brazil
• 9:20 - Presentation 2 - Hans Ibelings | Canada
• 9:40 - Presentation 3 - Alvaro Rojas | Costa Rica
• 10:00 - Conversation - Moderated by Beth Broome

10:30 - Coffee Break

II. On Pan Americas

• 11:00 - Presentation 4 - Mauricio Quiros | Costa Rica, Canada
• 11:20 - Presentation 5 - Monica Bertolino | Argentina
• 11:40 - Presentation 6 - Stephen Forneris | Ecuador, USA
• 12:00 - Conversation - Moderated by Michael Sorkin

12:30 - Lunch

III. On Building Future Urban Systems out of Current Conflict

• 2:00 - Presentation 6 - Orlando Garcia | Colombia
• 2:20 - Presentation 7 - Dana Viquez | Costa Rica
• 2:40 - Presentation 8 - Inés Guzmán | Guatemala
• 3:00 - Presentation 9 - James Wines | USA
• 3:20 - Conversation - Moderated by Clifford Pearson

3:50 - Coffee Break

IV. On Navigating the Geopolitics of Design

• 4:20 - Presentation 10 - Ana Maria Duran | Ecuador
• 4:40 - Presentation 11 - Fredy Massad | Argentina, Spain
• 5:00 - Presentation 12 -María Villalobos | Venezuela/USA
• 5:20 - Conversation - Moderated by Denise Hoffman Brandt