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Caribbean Modernist Architecture Symposium
February 28–March 2, 2008

Friday, February 29, 2008: Symposium Day One

Official opening ceremony
Honorable Bruce Golding, Prime Minister, Jamaica
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Keynote address
Introduction of Keynote speaker
Pat Ramsey, Director, Center for the Arts
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Mrs. Epsy Campbell-Barr, human rights activist, professor, and economist, Costa Rica
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(In Spanish with limited translation)

PANEL SESSION ONE

Moderator—Barry Bergdoll,
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Belmont Freeman, architect, New York
“Housing the Revolution:  Cuba 1959–1969”
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Marcus Barinas,
architect and Professor, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña, Dominican Republic
“The End of the Quiet City:  The Parques Miradores and a New Perceptual Paradigm for Santo Domingo”
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Miguel Rodriguez, architect and Dean of the Polytechnic School of Architecture,
Puerto Rico
“Soldiers and Tourists: The Subjective Selves of Puerto Rico’s Modern Architecture”
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Note: end of the speech not recorded

PANEL SESSION TWO

Moderator-David Harrison, Principal Lecturer, Caribbean School of Architecture, University of Technology, Jamaica
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Jean Doucet, engineer and author, Martinique
”Several Sights of Modernist Architectural Production in Guadeloupe and Martinique”
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Ronny Lobo, organic architect, Netherlands Antilles
“Modernist Architecture in the Dutch Caribbean”
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Silvia Arango,
Professor, National University of Colombia, Colombia
“Modernist Architecture in Colombia”
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(Spanish)

Respondent
Gustavo Luis Moré, architect and editor of Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana, Dominican Republic
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Keynote address

Enrique Norten, Primary Architect, TEN Arquitectos, Mexico and New York
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Saturday, March 01, 2008: Symposium Day 2

PANEL SESSION THREE

Moderator—Jorge Otero Pailos, Columbia University, New York
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Carlos Brillembourg, architect, Caracas and New York
“Caracas: Towards a New City, 19361958”
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David Gouverneur, architect and visiting lecturer, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
“Venezuela: Modernist Architecture Contextualized”
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Bruno Stagno, architect, Costa Rica
“Tropical Modern”
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Louise Noelle, Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
“La Modernidad Arquitectónica en el Caribe Mexican”
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PANEL SESSION FOUR

Moderator—Margaret Jarrett, Programme Director, M. Arch, Caribbean School of Architecture, University of Technology, Jamaica
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Jackson Burnside, architect, Bahamas
“The Houses of Ray Nathaniels”
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L. Mark Taylor, Head, Caribbean School of Architecture, University of Technology, Jamaica
“Concrete Expressions: A Sketch of the Birth and Development of a Modernist Architecture in Jamaica with Special Reference to the Capital City, Kingston”
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Mervyn Awon,
architect, Barbados
“Modernist Architecture in Barbados”
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Mark Raymond, architect, Trinidad and Tobago
“Critical Practice”
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Keynote address
Dr. Ken Yeang, architect, Malaysia and United Kingdom
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Respondent
Jean François Lejeune, University of Miami, Florida
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