SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT, Oct.29th

Organization: Constructed Environment

Conference Title: SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT
Location: University Center, Chicago, USA

Time: 29-30 October 2011

Overview:
The Constructed Environment Conference is a place to explore the forms and functions of the constructed environment during a time of dramatic and at times disruptive change. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the past character and future shape of the built environment. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism. In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference traverses a broad sweep to generate a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: architecture, anthropology, business, design, economics, education, engineering, environmental design, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, sociology, town and regional planning, and transportation.

This year’s conference features the following plenary speakers:
* Robert Bruegmann, Professor Emeritus, Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
* Erik M. Hemingway, hemingway+a/studio and School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Slought Foundation and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
* Ryan E. Smith, Director, Integrated Technology in Architecture Center (ITAC) and College of Architecture and Planning, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

For more information about these speakers, please visit the conference website:
http://ConstructedEnvironment.com/Conference-2011/Plenary-Speakers/.