Program

Arpil 6, 2000 Selina Korban Auditorium, Byblos Campus
14:00-14:15	Nabeel Haidar (Lebanese American University) Opening Address
14:15-15:00	Joseph Rykwert (University of Pennsylvania ) “The Birth of the City”
15:00-15:30	Kevin Mitchell (American University of Sharjah) “The Reality of Myth: On the Origin of the Gridiron Plan in Ancient Athens”
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:30	Eric Huybrechts (CERMOC) “Beirut: Metropolization and the Mediterranean City”
16:30-17:00	Pippo Ciorra (Universita’ di Camerino) “Edge Landscape: The Infinite Waterfront of the Adriatic Metropolis”

Arpil 7, 2000 Gulbenkian Auditorium, Beirut Campus
14:30-15:00	Benedetto Gravagnuolo (Universita’ di Napoli) “Nea-polis and the Labyrinth: Foundational Myth and Urban Complexity”
15:00-15:30	Xavier Costa (University of Barcelona) “Barcelona: Reconstructing the Seafront”
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:30	Jala Makhzoumi (Bartlett School) “Environmental Sustainability: Addressing the Urban-Rural Interface in the Mediterranean”
16:30-17:00	Luciano Semerani (Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) “Obscurity & Light: Appollo and Dionysius”
17:00-18:00	Round Table
18:00	Abdallah Sfeir (Lebanese American University) Closing