The International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry-US

Special foci: 
FOLK ARCHITECTURE – VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE 
with an outlook to folk music and folk dance
TRADITIONS and RURAL DEVELOPMENT

June 8 (morning) – June 10 (early afternoon), 2012 
Budapest – Veszprém – Szentendre

SCHEDULE / VENUES:

JUNE 8 (Friday) – BUDAPEST, “Eötvös 10″ (culture center)
Address: 1067 Budapest, Eötvös Street 10
Photos: http://www.eotvos10.hu/gallery/7/eotvos10
Map: http://www.eotvos10.hu/kapcsolat

(1) International Conference on Folk Architecture – Vernacular Architecture 
(2) Conference and Discussion on Traditions and Rural Development
(3) Folk music / Bartók – Takács – Schulze (conference with music)
(4) Roundtable and exhibition “Forma”, which is also the title of a new journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Budapest
(5) Evening program: Schulze’s Indonesian Theater

JUNE 9 (Saturday) – VESZPRÉM (110 km from Budapest to the West)
Headquarter of the Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA)
Address: 8200 Veszprém, Vár Street /Castle Street/ 37
Photos: http://www.veab.mta.hu/
The brief history of the city:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veszprém

Conferences – continued

JUNE 10 (Sunday) – SZENTENDRE (20 km from Budapest to the North)
Open Air Ethnographic Museum (“Skanzen”)
http://skanzen.hu/index.php?fm=article&id=1

Excursion and mini-conference with the local specialists
(folk architecture, folk art, folk music).

GOALS of the conference are
- to exchange information in an international circle,
- to share ideas how to preserve the sites of folk / vernacular architecture, 
- to discuss how the related knowledge may help modern architecture in the 21st century.

We also hope to provide a regular (bi-annual?) forum in the future with the above goals.

FREE ADMISSION

HOTEL (for the entire period):

We negotiated a special price for the participants, close to an iconic boulevard in Budapest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrássy_út
There will be a bus for the trip of the 2nd and 3rd day.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please contact: Denes Nagy – email: denes.nagy@acu.edu.au

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Danny Shechtman – the host of our 4th Symmetry Congress in 1998 and an Honorary Member of our society – was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. In the last fifteen years, this is only the fourth case that this prize was given to a single person – following Ahmed H. Zewail (1999), Roger D. Kornberg (2006), Gerhard Ertl (2007) – and not shared by two or three scholars. Danny made a revolutionary contribution to science by discovering the quasicrystals that have 5-fold and other such symmetries that were earlier considered as “forbidden” in crystallography.

See the text of the Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Lidin (10 December 2011): 
<http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2011/presentation-speech.html>

See a Video of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (89 minutes):
<http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1752>

Danny’s works in our Society’s publications:

Shechtman, D. (1994) Symmetry in periodic and quasi-periodic crystals, Symmetry: Culture and Science, The Quarterly of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry), 6, 480 (published for the 3rd Symmetry Congress).

Shechtman, D,  Nagy, D.  at al., eds. (1998) Order/Disorder, Vols. 1-3, Haifa: Technion, 168 + 167 + 84 pp. (published for the 4th Symmetry Congress).

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ISIS-S affiliate SEMA (the Argentine Society for the Study of Morphology) will host FORM and LANGUAGE, the 8th National and 5th International Congress.  The official languages of the Congress are Spanish, Portuguese and English. There will be no translation.

The website is here.

Submissions are due by 30 June.

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2nd International Conference on Architecture and Structure

&

3rd (Iranian) National Conference on Spatial Structures

The Second International Conference on Architecture and Structure, with the motto “Towards the Future with Creativity and Innovation” will be held on 15-16 May 2011.

The Third (Iranian) National Conference on Spatial Structures will be held on 17-18 May 2011.

With the contribution of more than 20 international experts in the field of architecture, structure, spatial structures and architectural technologies, these conferences provides a forum for academic and practicing architects and engineers as well as experts of relevant professions, to share their experiences.

Venue: The conference will be held at the College of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran, Iran.

Side Programmes

Workshops: There will be around 20 workshops with relevant themes conducted by specialists in the field.

Competitions: There will be four competitions for the interested participants.

Exhibition: Parallel to conference an exhibition of relevant material will be held for interested participants.

Technical Visits: Technical Visits to notable structures either built or under construction will be arranged.

For further information you may see our websites: Architecture and Structure, Spatial Structures

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The ISIS-S Congress was another success. Many photos by Dmitri Weise can be seen at the ISIS-S Flickr site.

While the ISIS-S Board finds helpers for the ISIS-S areas of the site, ISIS-US will be kicking off the “Form of Logic” program. Go to this blog, for information on that.

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The program for the ISIS-S Congress is now available for download here.

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Ron Brown now has an area:

<http://brown.symmetry-us.com>

His paper on art from the knight’s tour is there now.

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We now have turned on the user areas. Check out:

<http://nagy.symmetry-us.com>

<http://goranson.symmetry-us.com>

<http://cardier.symmetry-us.com>

We will be setting similar areas for any member who wants one.

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DIGITAL’2010: PLANET EARTH

The 12th International Juried, Digital Print Exhibition organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is to be held at the New York Hall of Science. October 3, 2010 – January 31, 2011.

The entry deadline is August 16, 2010

Details and submission information are online at; http://www.asci.org/artikel1102.html

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The agenda for the 8th General Assembly of ISIS-S is published on the president’s page.

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