Schedule: 9 December 2011

9.30 Registration

10.30  Introduction / Orientation

11.00 Session 1

1A Patronage | Session Chair: Robert Proctor
Joao Pedro Da Cunha (Lisbon Faculty of Architecture), ‘The Religious Art Renovation Movement and Twentieth-Century Religious Architecture in Portugal’
Sven Sterken (Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels), ‘Building a Home for God: The Domus Dei Church Building Programme in the Belgian Archdiocese, 1953‐1975’
Carla Zito (Polytechnic of Turin), ‘The Construction of New Parish Churches in the City of Turin: Between Urban Growth and Liturgical Reform, 1965-1977’
Jose Fernando de Castro Goncalves (Universidade de Coimbra - dArq), ‘The Effects of Patronage on Architectural Production'

1B Practice | Session Chair: Raymond Quek
Sing Ly D’Arcy (University of New South Wales, Sydney), ‘Architecture and the Organ: Music, Liturgy and Design in Contemporary Catholic Space’
Grace Carmody and Christopher Platt (University of Strathclyde), ‘A Church for the Liberties’
Eduardo Delgado Orusco and Miriam Garcia Garcia (Polytechnic University of Madrid), ‘Monastery of San Pedro Regalado in La Aguilera, Burgos, Spain: New Forms of Religious Life’
Janek Ozmin (Independent, Dublin), ‘A Pastoral Centre for Our Lady, Help of Christians, Dublin’

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Session 2

2A Identity | Session Chair: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Kate Jordan (Bartlett School of Architecture, London), ‘Constructing Identities: The ‘Building Nuns’ of Presteigne’
Victoria M. Young (University of St Thomas, Minnesota), ‘Modern Catholic Monastic Architecture and Gender: Marcel Breuer and the Benedictines of Saint John’s Abbey and Annunciation Priory’
Raymond Quek (Bond University), ‘Tropical Modern: Sacred and Communal Canopy of Society in Pre-Independence Malaya’

2B Modernism | Session Chair: Patrick Lynch
Gretchen Buggeln (Valparaiso University, Indiana), ‘Catholic Modernism in a Midwestern American Context’
Joao Luis Marques (University of Porto), ‘The Church in the City: Parish Church Complexes’
Judi Loach (University of Cardiff), ‘The Unoriginality of Le Corbusier’s Catholic Spaces’

15.30 Break

16.00  Session 3

3A Laity | Session Chair: Ambrose Gillick
Andrea Longhi (Polytechnic of Turin), ‘“The Community Praying Around the Altar”, 1952: An Unsuccessful Architectural Competition, Patronized by a Lay Association’
Stephen Fai (Carleton University), ‘St. Basil's and the Construction of the Modern Canadian Catholic’
Catherine De Lorenzo (University of New South Wales, Sydney), ‘Creativity Against Fundamentalism: The Struggles of a Little Church in Sydney’

17.30 Break

18.00 Keynote Lecture: Professor Richard Kieckhefer (Northwestern University, Illinois), 'Christocentric and Theocentric Church Design: An Issue in Twentieth-Century Liturgical Architecture'

19.30 Close