Preserving the Modern – New Perspectives on Postwar Modernist Architecture
Workshop June 26th and 27th 2017
23.06.2017
Organized by URBANgrad Fachbereichssaal / Faculty Room Gebäude L3|01 Faculty of Architecture, TU Darmstadt
Monday 26th June 2017
16:15 – 18:00
Modernist Planning in the Welfare State
Markus Kip, URBANgrad, Faculty of Architecture, TU Darmstadt
Discourses of Destruction. Narratives of postwar modernist urban planning. The Example of CIAM.
Simone Bogner, Bauhaus-Uni Weimar
„The Most Socialist City in the World“ and its Socialist
Modernism Legacy
Oxana Gourinovitch, GraKo „Identität und Erbe“ TU Berlin/
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
18:15 – 19:00 Keynote Talk
Can Socialist Modernism Survive Post-socialism?
Case Studies of Hanoi, Berlin and Stockholm
Lisa B. Welch Drummond
Urban Studies Department of Social Science
York University, Toronto
Douglas Young
Urban Studies Department of Social Science
York University, Toronto
19:00 – 19:30 Discussion
Tuesday 27th June 2017
10:00 – 11:10
The Case of Pruitt-Igoe. On the demolition of the US public housing complex in St.Louis, 1972
Sabine Horlitz, Architect and Urban Researcher, Berlin
Modernism in Socialist Yugoslavia:
Modernist Housing in Belgrade 1945-1980
Anica Maksic, Faculty of Design Sciences/Architecture, Interior Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Antwerp
11:30 – 13:15
Alltagssiedlungen – Impact of the topical aesthetic debate about post-war architecture on the lived space of 1950s/60s housing ensembles
Sophia Walk, Institute of Architectural Theory, Art History and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Graz
(De-)Constructing the Crisis of Mass Housing.
Discourses on modernist housing estates in Austria and Western Germany
Daniela Zupan, RWTH Aachen
Hotel Obir – Contrapuntal Architecture in the village
Lukas Vejnik, TU Wien
14:15 –16:00
Die von Auguste Perret umgebaute Stadt. Welcher soziale und räumliche Mehrwert für „Le Havre“ heutzutage?
Pedro Gomes, Faculty of Architecture, TU Darmstadt
No(n)-place like Bullring: Disimprovement of Modernist Planning in Birmingham?
Katharina Frieling, Faculty of Architecture, TU Darmstadt
Postwar period architecture in the city center of Hanover and its value of today
Katharina Kostka, Faculty of Architecture, TU Darmstadt
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee and Wrap up
Organizer: Dr. Markus Kip & Dipl.-Ing. MSc. Katharina Frieling // URBANgrad Faculty of Architecture, TU Darmstadt
Promoted by DAAD and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research