Official welcome from the City:
Mario Viano (Assessore Urbanistica Città di Torino), Antonio Saitta (President Provincia di Torino), Mercedes Bresso (President Regione Piemonte)

Opening of the Congress:
Sandro Bondi (Minister for Heritage and Cultural Activities), Gaetan Siew (UIA President), Raffaele Sirica (CNAPPC President)

Presentation of the Congress:
Riccardo Bedrone (Congress President)

General Report:
Leopoldo Freyrie (General Reporter)

Palavela: 10:00 a.m.


LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Kengo Kuma
Palavela: 3:30 p.m.

T - The language of contemporary architecture
What role does the language of architecture play in the complex relationship between constructed environment and society? Over the last few decades, the language and the forms of architecture have often been identified strictly with the person who created them, as a sort of factory brand which could be exported throughout the world without any clear connection to the place in which such works were created. But can we consider the language of architecture as an instrument of dialogue open and available to the reality it has to confront? The conversation will tackle the capacity of contemporary architecture to listen and to give shape to man's desires by transforming them into advanced forms of habitat.
Moderator Marco de Michelis.
Aaron Betsky, Massimiliano Fuksas, Kengo Kuma, Hani Rashid
Palavela: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

T - Creativity and profession
How can we establish an innovative and socially useful relationship between individual creativity and professional culture? One of the great challenges facing architecture has always been that of giving technical and feasible shape to the designers' ideas and visions. Today, architecture is increasingly more often called upon to produce visions to give back an identity to places undergoing deep transformations or to meet the new needs that an increasingly more complex metropolitan society expresses on a daily basis. This session aims to take a look at the role and the social and political destiny of creativity with relation to an increasingly sophisticated and restrictive professionalism.
Moderator Giorgio Tartaro.
George Kunihiro, Zhu Pei, Italo Rota, Mark Wigley.
Palavela: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

MS - 20th Century Heritage: the Architecture of cultural change
The 20th Century saw massive changes in many fields of human activities such as communications, technology, construction and design. 20th Century Modern architecture started at different times in each country depending on its uptake and the influences from external countries. The way heritage is viewed has also changed during the 20th Century and in every region of UIA it is perceived differently. Understanding of 20th Century architecture within its context, has taken a long time. Some people still cannot understand it and will not embrace it even though we are nearly ten years into the 21st Century. Where have we come from, where are we going, and what is happening in the Regions?
Moderator Louise Cox
Pier Giovanni Bardelli, Jean-Marie Besnier, Jean-Yves Blaise, Maristella Casciato, Jean Gautier, Jeremie Hoffman, Sara Topelson de Grinberg, Ana Tostoes.
Session partners: Docomomo International, Docomomo Italia
Auditorium: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MS - Architecture and Context
The potential the historical city has for communicating community values and history. The architect's job: to conserve, restore, renew, as part of the work that valorizes local identity and is antagonistic to globalization and its risks.
Moderator Giuseppe Strappa
Maurice Culot, Nina Maritz, Liliana Pittarello, Vladimir Slapeta
Session partner: Facoltà di Architettura Valle Giulia Università Sapienza di Roma
Auditorium: 1 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

MS - Young architecture
What does it mean to experiment on reality through architecture in search of solutions and visions useful for the future? Some of the most interesting protagonists of the young international scenario confront themselves with the changes that metropolis and the contemporary landscape impose and with the possible solutions for facing this challenge. What are the alternatives, the new passwords and instruments, but especially, what is the role of the young world architecture? An intense dialogue based on the works and ongoing research from Hong Kong and China, passing through Eastern Europe, Italy and, finally, reaching New York.
Moderator Luca Molinari.
Gary Chang, Studio Lot-Ek, Metrogramma, Bevk Perovic
Auditorium: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

MS - Transmitting the industrial city
International debate on de-industrialization and strategies for planning and designing the post-industrial city, reusing and valorizing the landmarks, architectures and infrastructure of the industrial legacy. Increasing knowledge to handle the conservation/transformation process and to promote an attitude of knowledge and skill sharing.
Moderator Agata Spaziante and Rossella Maspoli.
Ewa Bergdahl, Louis Bergeron, Jean-Pierre Buffi, Simeon Bruner, Eusebi Casanelles, Renato Covino, Rolf Kϋhn, Wei Shaonong
Session partners: Politecnico di Torino, Regione Piemonte, AIPAI, AUDIS
Hall Gialla: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m

MS - The cultures of architecture
The ability of the design mentality, with its vocation for critically intervening on reality, to dialogue with other modes of thought that go into architecture, particularly in its social and public aspects.
There will be an attempt to understand how a critical design mentality can now abandon a self-referential position and consolidate a role useful to society. From "design mentality" to "architectural modes of thought".
Moderator Carlo Olmo.
Pierre-Alain Croset, Diane Ghirardo, Eric Mumford, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Joseph Rykwert, Carlos Sambricio
Session partner: UCM Urban Center Metropolitano Torino
Hall Gialla: 3:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m

MS - Learning to Understand: Educating Architecture and Cities
Policies and case studies on the avant-garde city in teaching architecture and sensitizing younger generations to it.
Moderators Marisa Cortese and Pier Giorgio Turi.
Frédéric Bourcier, Thomas Herzog, Hannes Hubrich, James Irvine, Josep Maria Llop, Jennifer Masengarb and Krisann Rehbein, Ann McNicholl, Luigi Saragnese, Ewa Struzynska, Alexandros Tombazis
Session partner: IAEC International Association of Educating Cities
Hall 500: 1 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MS - Archives as media
This session is for architects, critics and users, asking them to think about architecture archives and events as centers of information and cultivation for communicating and transmitting architecture, its mentality, know-how and values.
Moderator Rosa Tamborrino
Andrea Aleardi, Barry Bergdoll, Manuel Blanco, Marco De Michelis, Ole Bouman, Beatriz Colomina, Margherita Guccione, Lluis Hortet, Irina Korobina, Peter Murray, Mirko Zardini
Session partners: Politecnico di Torino, Regione Piemonte
Hall Azzurra: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

MS - Transmitting the Landscape
How to transmit to a vast public the many values of landscape education? Some experiences in Italy and Europe of relations between those investigating the landscape and the wider public: cultural and sensitization projects, publicity and educational campaigns that have involved administrations, operators, citizens and associations. And through which perhaps is being built a new "clientele" for landscape design.
Moderator Carla di Francesco
Francesca Bagliani, Liliana Bazzanella, El Montacir Bensaϊd, Jordi Bellmunt, Bernard Lassus, Domenico Luciani, Annalisa Maniglio Calcagno, Lars Nyberg, Franco Zagari
Session partners: Creare Paesaggi - Fondazione OAT, Politecnico di Torino, Regione Piemonte, Hessitalia, AIAPP, EFLA
Hall Berlino: 11 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SE - Paolo Soleri
A meeting with the ideator of Arcology and founder of the Cosanti and Arcosanti communities in Arizona; a tribute to a great Torino-trained architect of world fame.
Antonietta Iolanda Lima interviews Paolo Soleri
Hall Berlino: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Can a Building change your life?
Changing identities and architectural concepts in an age of pluralism is presented and discussed by architectural critics, theorists and historians from five continents.
Moderator Joseph Rykwert.
Trevor Boddy, Pippo Ciorra, Manuel Cuadra, William J.R.Curtis, Louise Noelle Gras, Süha Özkan, Yasmin Shariff, Jennifer Taylor
Session partner: CICA International Committee of Architectural Critics
Hall Londra: 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m

SS - Architecture and architectural magazines
What role do specialized magazines play in communicating architecture, its changes and the new protagonists? How are these traditional means of communication evolving with respect to the web and to new forms of specific know how sharing? But, above all, what innovative function can architectural magazines develop to establish a different and open dialogue with society and with the various realities that are becoming involved in such a specific dimension?
The directors of some of the most interesting architectural magazines on the international scene confront each other on these issues/problems to look at the future of an instrument in intense metamorphosis.
Moderator Mirko Zardini.
Flavio Albanese, Stefano Boeri, Gilda Bojardi, Marco Casamonti, Cesare M. Casati, Jiang Jun, William Menking, Carlo Olmo
Hall Azzurra: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

SS - Architecture and Newspapers
Communicating architecture through daily newspapers: the viewpoint of the architecture-page editors on the world's major dailies.
Moderators Alessandro Allemandi and Cristiana Chiorino.
Sebastiano Brandolini, Luis Fernandez Galiano, Fulvio Irace, Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Christopher Hawthorne, Edwin Heathcote, Sebastian Redecke
Session partners: Società Editrice Umberto Allemandi & C. SpA, Città di Torino
Hall 500: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

LS - Forum Young Architects Associations
The International Forum of Young Architects Associations is promoted by the Italian Association of Young Architects and Planners GiArch, which represents associations from Barletta, Brescia, Enna, Ferrara, Firenze, Genova, Pescara, Roma, Torino, Trani, Trieste, Verona, Venezia, Vicenza.
The event is the occasion to get in touch with young colleagues from all over the world, to discuss together about the future of architecture and of the professional challenges in future decades.
Moderators: Alessandra Fidanza and Andrew Boffa
Paolo Caleo, Andrew Caruso, Marc Di Domenico, Alessia Guarnaccia, Yansong Ma, Danica Mifsud, Luca Paschini, Andreas Vass
Living Space partners:Coordinamento Nazionale dei Giovani Architetti Italiani
Hall Madrid: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - International Call for Papers - Culture
Moderator Ernesto Alva
Marco Bovati, Prodromos Nikiforidis, Azza Eleishe, Jennifer Masengarb, Brooks Rainwater, Mònica Inés Fernàndez, Zhang Guangwei, Shiva Shadravan, Nancy Clark, Maziar Memar, Cristo Vosloo, Rosangela Tenorio, Saleh Masoumi Varaki, Negar Khalili Motlagh, Navid Saeidirezvani, Michal Stangel, Patricia Mendez, Iuliana Ciotoiu, Heike Oevermann, Li Wenhong, Andrei Ivanov
Hall Londra: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS -Welfare Project
What is the most appropriate scheme for guaranteeing self-employed workers a fair and sustainable retirement future, during a historical period in which the freelance profession has to face great challenges, such as the struggle for its recognition as an activity of public interest, and not merely as a rendering of commercial services, in the context of an increasingly wider and more competitive labour market.
Moderator Maria Carla De Cesari
Michele Boldrin, Giuliano Cazzola, Paola Muratorio, Raffaele Sirica
Session partner: INARCASSA
Hall Londra: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

WS - Soft-Stone Stone Origami
Stone and its many-sided potential is the theme that Kengo Kuma is concerned with. The interest that the sculptor has in stone, for its absolute and variegated material character, becomes the key to interpreting the many ways he each time deals with the stone theme.
Kengo Kuma
Session partner: MARMOMACC
Hall Londra: 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

WS - Material Encounters Creativity
The FMGxtreme designs reflect the future of architecture, expressing the unique and dynamic relationship between the world of design and that of production. A genuine meeting of "matter" and "creativity", a pairing that merits our attention.
Moderator: Luca Molinari
Aldo Cibic, Lot-ek (Giuseppe Lignano - Ada Tolla), Italo Rota
Session partner: FMG
Hall Madrid: 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

SS - Live World Heritage of the Modernity
Constructed between the years of 1950 and 1954, the Mexico University City exemplifies in a paradigmatic way a critical moment in the cultural and political life of Mexico. The University City is an evocation of the Modern Man, the site and its history, its creation, it is in itself an evocation of the Modern Mexican as a continuation of the revolutionary process initiated in 1910. The University City is a true fusion, the result of the union without precedents of the Modern Mexican architects, more than sixty architects interacted to give origin to one of the most emblematic complexes of the Modern Mexico.
Moderator Luis Enrique Lopez Cardiel
Felipe Leal, Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, Daniel Escotto
Session partner: University City of Mexico
Hall Madrid: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

SS - Forum school +
The irreversible process of structural change in the cities as a consequence of globalisation forces to redefine the role of cultural and educational facilities anew. In the breathtaking growing megaloplis Addis Ababa, theses of the working program. The emphasis is placed on the fact that schools are important tools for urban management and generators for a liveable and sustainable civil society.
Moderator Yannis Michail
Zegeye Cherenet Mamo, Zeev Druckmann, Myriam Gautschi, Frid Bueler, Gavriela Nussbaum, Armando del Fabbro, Herber Buehler
Session partner: UIAWP Educational and cultural spaces
Hall Madrid: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

SS - Sport & Leisure Presentation
Sport & Leisure are growing in importance in the health and well being of the world, whether we are looking at rich developed nations or the poorest parts of the planet. This session open to all, will be series of presentations on the theme of Sport & Leisure. They will reflect the architecture of Sport & Leisure Buildings from a range of international speakers. The session is designed to be inter-active, to stimulate discussin and comment. It will be of interest to all delegates, and we welcome you to attend.
Geraint John, Ian McKenzie, Enrico Carbone, Miranda Kiuri, Conrad Boychuk, Djordje Bajillo.
Session partner: UIAWP Sport & Leisure
Hall Copenhagen: 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

SS - Seven Reflection groups work
UIA Commission on Architectural Education: Seven Reflection Groups working conclusions presentation and open debate.
Juhani Katainen, Alexandre Koudryavtsev, Rodney Harber, Kam Sing Wong, Kate Schwansen, Jorg Joppien, Nana Kutateladze, Zakia Shafie, Vladimir Slapeta, Patricia Mora, Carlos Pezzi, Hector Garcìa Escorza, Roland Schweitzer, James Horan, Fernando Ramos, Jack Pringle, Nobuaki Furuya, James Scheeler.
Session partner: UIA Architectural Education Commission
Hall Dublino: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - Modernist architecture in global context - Urban Examples of Modernist Architecture in Context to Contemporary Politics and Culture
Asmara, capital of Eritrea in East Africa, exhibits one of the largest ensembles of modernist architecture in the world. Asmara's city centre was mainly built in the 30s, most of it in the architectural language of rationalism. This is still a secret, even for experts. The aim is to reveal this secret and compare Asmara with prominent cases of urban classical. The political contexts of early modernist architecture ranged from democracy to communism, fascism and colonialism. Therefore, the second aim is to discuss the impact of contemporary politics and culture on early modernist architecture.
Moderator Christoph Melchers
Filippo Amara, Naigzy Gebremedhin, Anna Godio, Pe'era Goldman, Stefano Zagnoni, Anke Zalivako.
Session partner: 4 Asmara - Arbate Asmera
Hall Parigi: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

SS - UIA Region II - Road to the future
UIA Region II is considered as the most changing part of the World. Great part of the European Countries of this Region became the European Union Members, and the same legistlature and even monetary system applies. The Southern part of the Region is the most booming economically, but challenging the stability and relationship of neighbours. What are the influences to the Architecture, to the Architectural Practice, to the Architectural Education, to the Architectural Associations. Is the Cultural diversity fact that glue together or the fact of division? UIA Council Members and Presidents of Associations will share their view with the participants and invited guests.
Martin Drahovsky, Lisa Siola, Tomaz Kancler, Andrei Kaftanov, Sϋha Ozhan, Alexander Koudriyavtsev, Yuri Gnedovskiy, Presidents and guests
Session partner: UIA Region II
Hall Copenhagen: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SS - Roots and Architecture
What the term roots might imply in our life? One might think of, and relate it to, many things, e.g., geography, water, race, type of food, language, ideology, religion, believes, way of living, profession, the national dress, architecture, fine arts, system of writing, literature, science, and you might add other things to this array of natural and developmental realms.
The term "roots" was there all the time, in its physical interpretation, as one may see it hidden in other terms that the architects, the planners and the intellectuals use, e.g., the authentic physical patterns, the indigenous spatial dialogues, and/or the local architectural characters; denoting the physical, and some times the non-physical images of the human settlements in which the roots of societies still intact.
Moderator Ali Raafat
Seif Allah Alnaga, Hossan Aboul Foutouh, Leon Jacques Otro, Jean Bosco, Tarek Naga, Karime Elouze
Session partner: UIAWP Heritage Region V
Hall Madrid: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

SS - Waterfront Architecture. From Fellini to the archistars
The city of Rimini submits for discussion by the world of architecture the projects in competition for the redesigning of its waterfront and of its beaches, symbol of Italian tourism and theatre of Fellinian imagination.
Moderator: Vittorio Santoro
Atelier Jean Nouvel, Foster + Partners, Maurizio Melucci, Massimo Totti, Elisabetta Mariotti, Michele Iannantuoni, Julien De Smedt, Pierluigi Maffei, Marino Bonizzato
Hall Berlino: 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

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

Activities of UIA Commissions and Workgroups
UIA Architectural Education Commission, Presentation results of 7 reflection groups
UIA CPD, Program presentation
UIAWP Educational and Cultural Spaces, Presentation of student competition
UIAWP Sports and Leisure, Presentation