“Olympic games – tradition, crisis, solutions?”

5th of March 2010
Budapest, Institute of Italian Culture
(1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor Street 8. Hungary)

Moderator: István Pálffy architect, MTV

Registration from 8:00 o’clock 

09.45      Ernő Kálmán – President of the Association of Hungarian Architects welcomes the guests

Tradition

10:00    Pál Ritoók – art historian, Hungarian Museum for Architecture –
                                    Architectural traditions of the Carpathian basin
10:30    Dr. Frigyes Károlyházy – Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of
                                    Science – Science history context

11:00 coffee break

Crisis

11:30    Gaetan Siew – Immediately Past President of the UIA, President of the UIA Vision and Strategy Work Programme – Survey of the
             global processes about urbanization, wasting, concentration of
             capital, poverty…
12:00    Dr. Zsigmond Nagy – President of the Preparing Committee of
             the Olympic Games in London – Olympic and crisis context:
             current report of the preparing of the Olympic games 2012 London
12:30    Josep Acebillo – Chief Architect of Barcelona – Future of the
             cities: connections between the urban and the rural spaces

13:00 lunch break

Solutions

14:00    Geraint John – President of the UIA Sports and leisure Work
            Programme – Bidding, Preparing and Designing for the Olympic
            Games. The Pro`s and Con`s for small cities.(Experience from Sydney,
            Athens, Beijing and London )
14:30    Prof. Peter P. Schweger – architect – Urban planning in Hamburg after a lost Olympic competition – effects of the conceptions
15:30    Péter Janesch – architect, Holcim International Award 2008 – Planning competition for the arrangement of the Danube river side in Buda and Pest