LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Peter Eisenman
Palavela: 9:30 a.m.

LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Dominique Perrault
Palavela: 3:00 p.m.

KEYNOTE SPEECH
Nobel Peace Prize 2006 Muhammad Yunus
Presented by Gaetan Siew
Palavela: 4:00 p.m.

T - The imagining technique
In the last few decades, digital technology has increasingly contributed to supporting and representing architecture in its most advanced and visionary forms. Together, an increasing advancement of technologies and new materials has potentially enabled architecture to give shape to any experiment imaginable.
Based on these assumptions, what is the relationship today between creative process, imagination and new technologies? Some of the most advanced and experimental protagonists on the architectural and artistic scene confront each other, asking themselves questions on the delicate relationship between the new technologies and the forms of creativity to build the habitat of the near future.
Moderator Alessandro Cecchi Paone.
Odile Decq, Michele de Lucchi, Marcos Novak, Zhu Pei, Michelangelo Pistoletto
Palavela: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

T - Building for the future
What does it mean to imagine and design spaces for the near future? How can architecture satisfy an increasing and necessary demand and desire for a different and human scale future? What challenges will an increasingly aggressive and irresistible metropolitan growth pose to architecture? What relationship should be established between sustainability, new resources and environmental quality? How are we to shape the spaces and places that are to foster peaceful coexistence and, together, generate a widespread inhabiting quality? These and other questions are answered by some of the most innovative and experimental authors on the international scene, through their works and their way of thinking.
Moderator Mark Anthony Wigley
Mario Cucinella, Yansong Ma, François Roche, Mathias Sauerbruch
Session partner: Italcementi Group
Palavela 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

MS - Transmitting the sustainable cities
A discussion on the prospects of development of contemporary cities through a comparative study of cities and architects which, in different corners of the world and under different conditions, have measured themselves with the subject of sustainable urban transformations.
Moderators Marta Francocci e Nicola Leonardi
Rohit Aggarwala, Fabrizio Barbaso, Daniel Chain, Corrado Clini, Mario Cucinella, Michael Hopkins, George Kunihiro, Carlos Leite, Jaime Lerner, Giovanni Oggioni, Pier Giorgio Turi, Mario Viano
Session partner: Fondazione OAT
Auditorium 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

MS - Landscape to be
"Creating landscapes" in not strictly architectonic terms, searching for guiding images that can create new landscapes that are sustainable from the social and environmental standpoints. Illustrating experiences and projects for transforming the territory, verifying the effectiveness of landscape scenarios as a medium of communication and of social participation in future choices.
Moderator: Andreas Kipar
Rohit Aggarwala, Claudia Cassatella, Rolf Kϋhn, Claude Raffestin, James Wines (SITE)
Session partners: Creare Paesaggi - Fondazione OAT, Politecnico di Torino, Regione Piemonte, AIAPP, EFLA
Auditorium 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MS - Tools for Governance Moderator Luca Caneparo.
Markus Braach, Franco Corsico, Bill Hillier, Goran Johnson, Jim La Belle, Alex Lehnerer, Lars Marcus, Mike Walsh, Richard Wilson
Session partners: Laboratorio Alta Qualità Politecnico di Torino (Liliana Bazzanella, Giuseppe Roccasalva), Regione Piemonte
Hall Azzurra 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MS - Innovative materials, systems and techniques for a better future
Can innovative materials contribute to shaping a better environment? And how does a material and its knowledgeable use allow to communicate architectural quality? During the last few years we are witnessing an important growth of new materials or of an innovative use of traditional materials in architecture with large and small scale applications. A discussion between various actors originating from production, design and culture of materials attempts to show the prospects for the near future.
Moderator Maurizio Favalli
Paolo Buzzetti, Valerio di Battista, John E. Fernandez, Julien Rousseau, Didier Roux, Jose Luis Vallejo, Wolfgang Feist, Dominique Perrault
Session partner: Saint-Gobain, ISOVER, VIC RIGIPS PLACO, WEBER
Hall 500: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - Young Italian Architects
How can the young architectural scene in Italy satisfy the need to improve the Italian landscape after decades of environmental and urban destruction? Six young Italian architectural studios discuss together the possible strategies, occasions, limitations and problems of the contemporary national scene starting from ongoing works and experiments. An active and problematic dialogue that shifts haphazardly from the North to the South of the peninsula and which, together, tries to propose key words and subjects with the aim to face the near future in an active manner.
Moderator Luca Molinari.
Studio Baukhu, Studio Ghigos, Francesco Librizzi, Studio MARC, Studio SUBURBIA, Studio 2a+p
Hall Gialla: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - From ubiquitous technology to human context
The recent dissemination of information and communication technologies in the everyday environment, also referred to as "Ubiquitous Computing", is expected to influence the design of our environment. This concept refers to new services enabled by wireless communication, the combination of the availability of sensors, identification technologies and the miniaturization of chips in charge of data-processing. In the context of day about "Hope, Future, Technology", this session will address the relation between these technological innovations and human context, needs as well as desires.
Moderator Nicolas Nova.
Adam Greenfield, Jeffrey Huang, Younghee Jung
Hall Berlino 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - Sustainable building, the role of tall buildings
Buildings use about 40% of global energy resources. And buildings designed by architects have the great responsibility of managing the planet's resources. The session focuses on skyscrapers from the standpoints of energy consumption, climate change and social implications.
Moderator Andrea Moro, Ronald Rovers
Ilari Aho, Stefano Cremo, Peter Graham, Nicholas Holt, Roger Frechette, Nils Larsson, Adele Savino, Faridah Shafii, Sung Woo Shin, Anne-Hélène Temenides, Fabio Viero
Session partner: iiSBE, UPONOR
Hall Gialla 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Communicating Innovative in Residential Architecture: case studies in Brazil, China, India, Poland, Great Britain
The president of the jury for the international Living Steel competitions presents the entries in the Sustainable Housing competition. Some of the winners are asked to discuss their ideas for 5 sites - Brazil, China, India, Poland and Great Britain - in which pilot buildings are now under construction. The winners of the third edition of the Living Steel Charrette-style competition will also be announced.
Michiel Cohen, Richard Conner, Stephen Lau, Andrew Ogorzalek-PCKO, Tagit Klimor, Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados, Cartwright Pickard, Laura Rocca
Session partner: Living Steel
Hall Azzurra 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - Growing with art: Architecture and enterprise for the city of the third millennium
What is the future of the demand of transformation of the inhabited environment? How will the synergies between the various and different subjects participating in these processes develop? What is the likely structure of a real unification of territorial visions, plans and actual physical transformations of the environment? What shared values can be adopted as the stronghold for future action?
Moderator: Adolfo Guzzini
Domenico de Masi, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Giuseppe Roma, Piero Sartogo.
Session partner: INARCH Istituto Nazionale di Architettura
Hall 500: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Sustainable cities and the Covenant of Mayors
The "Covenant of Mayors" launched by the European Union to reduce CO2 emissions by more than 20% within 2020. Presentation of strategies toward an action plan.
Moderator: Mauro Mazza
Pedro Ballesteros, Virginia Bombelli, Sergio Chiamparino, Antonio Lumicisi e sindaci di città italiane ed europee invitate
Session partner: European Commission, Ministero dell'Ambiente
Hall 500: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - Expert knowledge: software interoperability
Environmental protection is strongly influenced by project decisions and by how these are taken and managed, and hence, also the development of digital technologies which enable an optimal control of the project in each single phase of the construction process can improve environmental quality. The hope is that a project based on a three-dimensional graphic model of a building constructed using interoperable software technologies allows the architect, engineer and the other professionals involved in the construction process to concentrate their efforts on a project culture oriented toward environmental protection, rather than on managing the complexity of the design process.
Moderators Bernardino Chiaia e Anna Osello
Vittorio Caffi, Svein Haagenruud, Auli Karjalainen
Session partner: Politecnico di Torino
Hall Berlino: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

SS - Vertical Moscow
In the last fifteen years, Moscow has undergone very deep and radical transformations which have affected the city plan to an extent such that it is considered one of the most extraordinary urban laboratories in the world today. The photographic project by Gabriele Basilico and Umberto Zanetti "VERTICAL MOSCOW" documents these metamorphoses of the urban landscape choosing the summits of the seven Stalinist towers as the unique point of view.
Gabriele Basilico, Alessandro De Magistris, Umberto Zanetti
Hall Londra: 5:00 p.m. - 19:00 a.m.

SS - Transmitting Architecture Through Photography
Photography as a tool for communicating architecture, from decision to interpretation. Great photographers and their views of architecture.
Moderator Roberto Mutti
Gabriele Basilico, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Maria Teresa Cerretelli, Sergio Giusti
Hall Berlino: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - International Call for Papers: Hope
Moderator: Sϋha Ozkan
Angel Fernandez Avidad, Yamada Satoshi, Nilϋfer Tasz, Alberto Cavallero, Lei Yu, Magdalini Eleni Pantazi, Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun, Farzaneh Habibi, Fili Iliopoulou, Meltem Sarul, Setsuko Ouchi, Stylianos Giamarelos, Jonathan Kendall, Hong Leng, Sanaz Eftekharzadeh
Hall Parigi: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - The GTT International Competition of Ideas
Presentation of the Competition of ideas for the design of platform roofs for the entrances to the stations of line 1 of Torino's automatic underground railway. During the presentation of the competition, the book "Architettura delle stazioni" illustrated by Jean-Pierre Vaysse will be presented, the latter being the author together with Bernard Kohn of the architectural map of Torino's automatic underground stations.
Giancarlo Guiati, Tommaso Panero, Ilario Signoretti, Jean-Pierre Vaysse
Session Partner: GTT Gruppo Torinese Trasporti
Hall Parigi: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - Archiprix Italia. Awarding ceremony
Awarding ceremony for the best doctoral thesis selected in the fields of architecture, town-planning and restoration. Italy's first edition of the award, which has existed in Netherlands and in the world for a number of years.
Moderator: Domenico Podestà
Umberto Barbieri, Riccardo Bedrone, Maurizio Calletto, Raffaele Sirica
Session Partner: CNAPPC
Hall Parigi: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Designing and building of conference facilities with simultaneous interpretation
Information and tips on facilities for multilingual conferences with simultaneous interpretation and how interpretation booths can be designed according to ISO Standard 2603 on built-in simultaneous interpretation booths, to make them places where interpreters can do their best work, and conference delegates can enjoy the best in multilingual communication.
Didier Hespel
Session Partners: European Commission, Directorate General for Interpretation, AIIC
Hall Atene: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

SS - UIA for the future
In preparation of the General Assembly Declaration on Sustainability and Cultural Diversity from all five regions. It will also give the general direction of UIA's action plan on these focus topics for the 2008 - 2011 period. There will be also considered the problems of human rights and ethics in the exercising the fair practice in the profession of architect.
Gaetan Siew, Nina Nedelykov, Dragan Stojanovski, Gabriel Durand-Hollis, Kun-Chang Yi, Patrice Genet, Goldon Holden, Mario do Rosario, Ronald Poon, Ronny Lobo, Carlos Hernandez Pezzi.
Hall Berlino: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Round Table and Award and Ceremony of ARES Competition
During this session the Hellenic, National Section will present the most imortant of its activities during the period 2005 - 2008 concerning the matters of environment preservation and solidarity of architects. It is also organised a round table discussion on ARES Competition among members of the jury, UIA officials and awarded architects. The session will be closed with the award ceremony of ARES Competition.
Gaetan Siew, Lisa Siola, Vassilis Sgoutas, Nikos Fintikakis, Dora Galani, Margarita Karavassili, Kiriakos Pipinis, Stathis Tsegos, Yannis Alvanos, Louis Cox, Wolf Tochtermann, Giancarlo Ius, Jordi Farrando
Session partner: UIA Hellenic Section - National Section
Hall Londra: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - UIA WP Ares Session - Events, Activities and future hope
During this session the UIA WP ARES Session, will present the most important of its activities and events during the period 2005 - 2008 concerning the promotion and the implementation of the Renewable Energy Sources in Architecture. It will be presented the results of the Conference held with the participation of UIA-ARES WP. Very distinctive speakers will present their contribution to the realisation of the Work Program goals. There will be also presented the first results of the research program Sunrise and Advent in which UIA-ARES WP is participating.
Nikos Fintikakis, Jean-Marie Charpentier, Ye Qing, Owen Lewis, Laszlo Szecker, Alexandros Tombazis, Silvia Caneva, Elias Messinas, Llewllyn van Wyk
Session partner: UIAWP Ares Session
Hall Londra: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - Planning and managing waterside tourism
Tourism is a commercial and social activity conducted mainly around historical, natural and cultural sites. It is important to precisely assess the touristic possibilities and capacities of each tourism receptor.
A fundamental condition for the development of long-term tourist activity is the drawing up and implementation of strategic plans for managing tourism.
Education and information regarding native habitats are preventive measures, and the inclusion of architects and urban planners in tourism plans is indispensable.
Ioanna Mitsou, Ruben Pesci, Amirne Turki, Josep Maria Llop Torne, Michel Barmaki, Marta Moretti
Session partner: UIAWP Architecture and Tourism
Hall Londra: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Solar power and it applications in West Africa
An experiment in permanent architecture in sub-Saharan Africa. An attempt to industrialize production of construction materials: ceramics and glass for the realization of the Institute of Hydro-engineering and Eco-engineering in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Francis Sossah, Denis Eudeline, Abdelaziz Facil.
Session partner: Conseille Du CNOA
Hall Madrid: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

SS - Global vs Local Streams of Sustainability in Region IV
The primary objective of building environmental assessment and labelling systems has been to stimulate market demand for buildings with improved environmental performance. The intent of this session is to review the past successes of assessment methods in creating positive change in different cultural contexts, and to explore their emerging roles as public and political concern for environmental and local issues increases.
Moderator Kazuo Iwamura
Nirmal Kishnari, Massimo Guerini, Anna Heringer, Guido Pettinelli
Session partner: UIAWP Architecture for a Sustainable Future Region IV
Hall Madrid: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - Transmit updated architecture
The general forecast is that Hi tech industries and services will become one of the primary sources of employement worldwide. This forecast requires the creation of a new environment, which will naturally modify patterns of behaviour. Buildings in which Science and hi tec activities can be carried out optimally are a necessity. The purpose of this WP is to study the impact of these developements on urban patterns and to promote the exchange of knowledge and practical experience in providing,designing and building Science and hi tech facilities.
Richard Rittelman, Dieter Groemling, Gabor Becker, Francisco Vizeu Pinheiro, Moshe Zarhy. Joao Mexia
Session partner: UIAWP Architecture for Science And Hi-Tech
Hall Madrid: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - Universal & Inclusive Design: Towards an Architecture for All
This special session will explore the renaissance of an idea, of which perhaps Vitruvius, Palladio, Wagner and Aalto were the greatest exponents: that nothing should be conceived or built without thinking of how it will be used. Today this idea must be reborn in order to move towards greater social sustainability in architecture. We must find ways to avoid the excessive monumentality and inaccessible cities and buildings of the past which have led to the isolation and social exclusion of elderly people, those with poor health, disabilities or limited resources. The session will conclude with the presentation of the Mondo Architecture for All Award and awards for "The most friendly and accessible public projects from Region ll".
Moderator: Joseph Kwan
Fabrizio Astrua, Fionnuala Rogerson, Louis-Pierre Grosbois, Vassilis Sgoutas, Tullio Regge, Luis Enrique Lopez Cardiel, Tiziana Nasi, Louise Cox
Session partner UIAWP Architecture for All
Hall Madrid: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Green Building Africa This session will explore the current state of Green Building" in Africa, including current legislation and regulation; identify impediments to the implementation of sustainable building and construction activities in Africa; explore strategies to create an enabling environment for SBCA in Africa; and explore the creation of quality construction jobs arising from the introduction and implementation of green technologies into Africa. Session partner UIAWP Sustainability Region V Built Environment
Relatori invitati: Edmundo Werner, Llewelyn van Wyk
Hall Copenhagen: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - Architecture for a Sustainable Future
As sustainable architecture is an essential contribution towards a successful and equitable regional development, the objective of this WP is to develop a regional network of practitioners and specialists, professionals and academics, to develop documents and seminars to mpromote sustainability through architectural design and low impact built environments. The challenge is to identify actions, support demo-projects and procude documents for professional and academic organisations on: general criteria, regional responses, desing strategies and specific guidelines.
Mauricio Rivero Borrell, Daniel Ricci, Silvia Schiller.
Session partner:UIAWP Architecture for a Sustainable Future
Hall Copenhagen: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - UIA WP Spiritual Places - Open meeting for members present at the Torino Congress.
The meeting for the members active in the works of the Program from Poland, France, Hungary, welcoming new candidates (Bulgaria) and guests (Italy), devoted for the plans for the future activities, presenting the profile of the Program and the scope of its works for the new candidates who might appear in the course of the venue.
Ewa Kurylowicz, Jerzy Uscinowicz, Michel Leger, Csanady Gabor, Radosveta Kirowa.
Session partner: UIAWP Spiritual Places
Hall Copenhagen: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - UIA CPD Program meeting, Member Sections with existing CPD System
Presentation of the new features of the CPD Program approved by the JOC. Existing CPD Systems participation and incorporation into the CPD Program. Compatibility with the actual structure of the quality cpd material registry. Discussion on possible mutual recognition agreements among registered quality Systems. Discussion of the economic contribution of registered Systems to the CPD Program.
Carlos Hernández Pezzi, Fabián Llisterri, Rafael Pellicer
Session Partner: UIA CPD Program
Hall Dublino: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - NOVAROAD
NOVAROAD is a book and a project for an intermodal living bridge for the Novara territory which looks towards
TEN systems Europe
Moderator Cesare M. Casati
Costanza Pera, Mario Virano, Paola Vallaro, Mariella Enoc
Session Partner: Comune Novara
Hall Atene: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

WS - Innovative materials for sustainable architecture: Italcementi Group's imprint at the World Congress of Architecture
Italcementi will introduce i.nova, the Italcementi Group platform for innovation, research and community building which is a real innovation repository available to architects and designers. Thanks to photovoltaic panels powered by solar energy and to innovative building materials it will be possible to produce electric power and save on utility bills, thus reducing building and maintenance costs for households.
Enrico Borgarello, Mario Cucinella
Session Partner: Italcementi Group
Room Parigi: 17,00-19,00

Architecture video reviews of italian and international movies and short-films
Hall Varsavia: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Gold Medals Awards Ceremony and prize-giving ceremony Infopoint and Totem Competitions, OSN Concert
The program includes a welcome cocktail followed by the Gold Medals Awards Ceremony and, at the end, a concert offered by "RAI National Symphony Orchestra":
Music from
Iannis Xenakis ("Shaar", for the big arc orchestra)
Edgar Varèse ("Offrandes", for soprano and room orchestra),
Iannis Xenakis ("Metastaseis", first world absolute execution of the original version)
Edgar Varèse ("Amériques", for the big orchestra)
Arturo Tamayo director, Carole Louis soprano
Auditorium Arturo Toscanini: 7:00 p.m.

Activities of UIA Commissions and Workgroups
UIA Region 1 UIA Region 2, ACE-CAE, UMAR, Workshop
UIA Hellenic Section, Round table and award ceremony
UIAWP ARES, Presentation Renewable Energy source and bioclimatic architecture
UIAWP Tourism , Presentation - L'amenagement du tourisme au front de l'eau
Conseille du CNOA, Le solaire calorifique et ses technologies
UIAWP Architecture for Science and Hi tech Facilities, Presentation
UIAWP Sustainability Region V Built Environment Unit (construction), Presentation
UIAWP Architecture for a sustainable Future, Presentation