VIDEOCAST - International Conference: New Approaches and Paradigms in the Study of Greek Architecture

VIDEOCAST - International Conference: New Approaches and Paradigms in the Study of Greek Architecture

International Conference, "New Approaches and Paradigms in the Study of Greek Architecture."

Organized by Prof. Philip Sapirstein, Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Nebraska, and Dr. David Scahill, ASCSA

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Day 1: Thursday, November 3rd

Introductions: James Wright, Director, ASCSA, Phil Sapirstein and David Scahill

 
 

Opening Keynote Lecture: Mark Wilson Jones (University of Bath) New Approaches and Old Paradigms for Interpreting Greek Architecture

 

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Session I: Design and Technical Considerations

Session Chair: Georg Herdt (Oxford)

 

Jeanne Capelle (École Normale Supérieure, IRAA, Lyon 2) Ancient Blueprints in Light of Recent Discoveries: The Theater at Miletus

 

Matthias Grawehr (University of Zurich) Looking at the Unfinished: Roughed-out Ornamentation in Greek Architecture

 

Vasileia Manidaki (Acropolis Restoration Service, YSMA) New Evidence for the Construction Phases of the Parthenon Peristyle: Anomalies on the Southwest Corner

 

Wilhelm Osthues (DAI, Berlin), Frank Prietz (Beuth Hochschule für Technik) Changing Concepts of Stability in Monumental Greek Architecture: Ancient Practice and Modern Analysis

 

Arnd Hennemeyer (ETH Zurich) The Polychromy of Greek Architecture: Two Centuries of Research

 

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Day 2: Friday, November 4th

Session II: New Documentation and Analysis
Session Chair: Jari Pakkanen (Finnish Institute, Royal Holloway)

 

Nils Hellner (DAI, Athens) Early Temples Built of Wood and Stone: New Finds from Kalapodi (Phokis)

 

Nancy Klein (Texas A&M University) The Small Limestone Buildings on the Acropolis of Athens

 

Yannos Kourayos (Cycladic Ephorate of Antiquities), Goulielmos Orestides, Dimitris Egglezos, Eua-Eleni Toumpakari (Directorate for the Restoration of Ancient Monuments),Vasilis Papavasileiou, Kornilia Daifa (Ministry of Culture) Ο ναός και το εστιατόριο του ιερού στο Δεσποτικό: αρχαιολογία, αρχιτεκτονική, αναστήλωση (The Temple and Hestiatorion of the Sanctuary on Despotiko: Archaeology, Architecture, and Restoration)

 

Brian McConnell (Florida Atlantic University) Greek Techniques of Construction and Representation in the Sikel Heartland

 

Alexandra Tanner (University of Zurich) Three Hellenistic ‘Naiskoi’ in the Theater Area at Aigeira: Architecture in an Urban Context

 
 

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Session III: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
Session Chair: Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos (University of Athens)

 

Silke Müth (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen) More than War: Symbolic Functions of Greek Fortifications

 

Andras Patay-Horvath (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Greek Temple Building from an Economic Perspective

 

Spencer Pope (McMaster University), Peter Schultz (NDSU), David Scahill (ASCSA) The Management and Location of Public Treasures in the Parthenon in the Fifth Century BC: Storage Space in Greek Temples

 

Christian Fron, Verene Stappmann (University of Stuttgart) Comparing Greek ‘Bouleuteria’ and Roman ‘Curiae’: Parallels and Differences in the Acoustic Reconstruction and Simulation of Greek Boule Meetings and Roman Senate Sessions

 

Elisavet P. Sioumpara (Acropolis Restoration Service, YSMA) Recycling the Past, Second-hand Architecture or Waste Management? Reuse of Building Materials on the Athenian Acropolis

 

Sarah Rous (Rice University) Upcycling as a New Methodological Approach to Reuse in Greek Architecture

 

Evening Keynote Lecture: Manolis Korres (NTUA, YSMA) A Building Complex Adjacent to the Tower of the Winds: A Propylon, Stoa, and Arcade with Three Arches

 
 
 

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Day 3: Saturday, November 5th

 

Session IV: Social Dimensions of the Built Environment
Session Chair: Lena Lambrinou (Acropolis Restoration Service, YSMA)

 

Kyle Jazwa (Monmouth College) Building Change: Domestic Architecture and Identity during the Bronze Age to Iron Age Transition

 

Christina Williamson (University of Groningen) Turning the World Outside In: Local Panhellenic Festivals and the Architecture of Enclosure as Place-Makers in the Hellenistic Period

 

Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Birmingham) Interdisciplinary Methodological Approaches to the Study of Classical Urbanism between the Fields of Archaeology and Architecture

 

Mary Hollinshead (University of Rhode Island) Contexts for Greek Architecture: Places and People

 

Jessica Paga (William & Mary) Causal Efficacy and Architectural Agency: How Buildings Communicate

 
 

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Session V: Architectural Recording and Digital Presentation
Session Chairs: Philip Sapirstein (UNL), David Scahill (ASCSA)

 

Matt Buell (Concordia University), John McEnroe (Hamilton College), Jorge Andreas Botero (Universitat de Barcelona), Rafal Bieńkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) Recent Architectural Studies at Gournia in East Crete, 2011-2015

 

Clemente Marconi (IFA), Massimo Limoncelli (University of Lecce), David Scahill New Architectural Work on the Acropolis of Selinunte, Sicily: Towards a 3D Platform for Cultural Heritage

 
 

Miriam Clinton (Rhodes College) House of the Rhyta at Pseira: 3D Crowdsourcing in an Online Virtual Environment

 

Dorothea Roos (Karlsruhe IT), Peter Baumeister (DAI, Berlin) OLYMPIA 4D: New Work on the South Stoa in the Zeus Sanctuary of Olympia. ‘Archäologische Bauforschung’ and Development of a Parametric Digital Model

 
 

Closing Keynote Lecture: Bonna Wescoat (Emory University) Choices, Iterations, and Virtual Representation in the Fragmentary World of Ancient Greek Architecture

 
 

Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks
M. Wilson Jones, M. Korres, B. Wescoat, P. Sapirstein, D. Scahill

*** Please note that the video of  "Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks" will be published at December 13th