An international conference hosted by the McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

 School of Architecture and the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Canadian Centre for Architecture

The Canadian Centre for Architecture is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Phyllis Lambert is the Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Mirko Zardini is the Director and Chief Curator....

 on September 13 to 15, 2007 in Montreal.

Notable scholars and architects such as Lily Chi, Marco Frascari

Marco Frascari

Marco Frascari is an Italian architect and architectural theorist born under the shadow of the dome of Sant Andrea in Mantova, in 1945. He studied with Carlo Scarpa and Arrigo Rudi at IUAV and received his PhD in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania...

, Gregory Henriquez

Gregory Henriquez

Gregory Henriquez is a Canadian architect, best known for the design of community-based mixed-use, institutional and social housing projects in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada...

, Michael Jemtrud

Michael Jemtrud

Michael Jemtrud is a McGill University associate professor of Architecture , and Director of the School of Architecture at the school.-Education:...

, Donald Kunze, David Leatherbarrow

David Leatherbarrow

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, where he has taught since 1984. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Kentucky and holds a Ph.D. in Art from the University of...

, Indra Kagis McEwen, Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Uolevi Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect and former professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and a former Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture . He runs his own architect's office – Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY – in Helsinki...

, and Alberto Pérez-Gómez

Alberto Pérez-Gómez

Alberto Pérez-Gómez is an architectural historian and is also known as a theorist and a promoter of phenomenology. Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico and pursued graduate studies in the history...

presented on various themes in an attempt to tease out points of contact between the poetics and ethics in architecture. Centred around the question, "How can architects reconcile their wish to design a beautiful world and the imperative to create a better place for society?"

The conference was co-organized by Lian Chang, Diana Cheng, and Peter Olshavsky.

External links

• Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture website