Architektur und
Staedtebau der Nachkriegsmoderne
Convegno, TU Berlin
TU Berlin, Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Hardenbergstr. 40A,
10623 Berlin, EB 223 / 224, July 22-24, 2011
Registration deadline: Jul 11, 2011
Veranstalter: Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Fachgebiet
Denkmalpflege, TU Berlin;
Fachbereich Architektur, TU Darmstadt
During the last decades, especially in professional circles, the
interest in post-war modern architecture increased throughout Europe. At the
same time the buildings, ensembles and spacial structures of the generation
after 1945 can still be regarded as an endangered heritage. This is partly due
to the often difficult intercession of the values of
these objects to a wider public (or the lack of attempts to do so), and
also to the economic, environmental and infrastructural pressure to which they
are exposed. These two aspects go hand in hand, especially since a lack of
societal acceptance and appreciation increases the probability to give in the
pressure yielded by other factors. Thus
there are two conflicting poles, on one hand a growing professional
lobby for buildings, ensembles and green areas of the post-war years, and on
the other hand a strong pressure on these same objects inflicted by society.
This is evident not only in Germany but also in the international and European
context. Especially in Eastern Europe (as well as in other European countries,
but here even more due to the political, economic and social changes),
buildings from the post-war times paradoxically are both highly endangered and
subject of an increasing number of new scientific research at the same time.
These research projects mostly take place on the initiative of individuals and
are often linked to specific objects. A multidisciplinary, transnational
exchange hardly takes place, and if it does, mainly on an
unplanned and unstructured level. Moreover, information on the objects
themselves is often difficult to access and is scarce in many places. Research
beyond the local or national boundaries is hardly possible without the exchange
of scientific ideas. This is regrettable, especially since most architects of
that time integrated international influences in their work. In consequence the
international orientation of this architecture is only understandable by
re-contextualizing the artists and objects through international networking and
information sharing.
The first day the conference will give insights into individual research
projects and case studies on architecture and urban design. The structure of
the conference consciously doesn't follow geographical aspects to offer a
possible extension of existing patterns of interpretation. The second day will
focus on special issues, such as
the design of urban centres or contemporary concepts of dwelling and
their architectural and urban shapes. The conference concludes with case
studies on current strategies on preserving and promoting buildings of the
postwar era.
On Sunday there will be an internal meeting to establish a scientific
network of young researchers in the field of architecture and urban planning of
postwar modernism.
The conference will be in English.
Program:
Friday, 22.07.2011
10:00
Opening session
Planning after 1945. Motives and interpretations
10:30
Dr. Blaž Križnik, Ljubljana/Seoul:
Between regionalism and national narratives. Legitimating modernist
architecture in Slovenia and South Korea.
11:00
Neza Cebron Lipovec, Piran:
Building the brave new world in a contested land. Koper after 1945.
11:30 Break
Case studies
Panel I: Case studies architecture
12:00
Dragana Petrovic/Jelica Jovanovic/Jelena Grbi?, Belgrad:
Prefabrication: visual and aesthetic features of the experiment in
building of the cities and towns in the former Yugoslavia - examples of
Serbia.
12:30
Dr. Luka Skansi, Venedig:
Italian architecture of the 50s and 60s. An Atlas of figures, forms and
building techniques.
13:00 Lunch (both panels)
14:30
Maren Harnack, Hamburg:
The case of the Trellick Tower. From tower of terror to power tower.
15:00
Dr. Sandra Wagner-Conzelmann, Darmstadt:
Otto Bartning - Forward thinker and protagonist of rebuilding after
1945.
15:30
Tanja Seeböck, Berlin:
Ulrich Müthers concrete shells – between rejection and
appreciation. An
architectural survey and practical examples of their treatment.
Panel II: Case studies urban design
12:00
Andrea Benze/Christian Dengler, Berlin/Kassel:
Utopian Stirrings in Kreuzberg-Centre? Report on how ideas, realities,
social
movements and architecture conflict in a controversial example of
post-war Modernism.
12:30
Andreas Salgo, Berlin:
The dawn of the Postmodern. Critical reception of modernist urbanism
and architecture in the 1960s and '70s.
13:00 Lunch (both panels)
14:30
Galene Haun, Berlin:
More City – More Landscape. Exploration of possibilities for a
conversion of post-war traffic spaces.
15:00
Andrea Contursi, Berlin:
The Kollektivplan for Berlin of 1946 between infrastructure planning,
rationalization and city design.
15:30
Axel Zutz, Berlin:
Modern ways of preserving and constructing nature and cultural
heritage: The Senftenberg Lake as
a social leisure landscape.
16:00 Break
Both panels:
16:30
Dr. des. Pablo Tena Gomez, Barcelona:
55+. Modernity in Barcelona.
17.00
Dr. Vera Martinez, Darmstadt:
Architecture in the GDR. Between order and socialist esthetics.
17.30 Break
18:00 Keynote lecture Prof. Dr. Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper
18:45 Get Together
Saturday, 23.7.2011
Concepts of city centres
10:00
Yolanda Ortega Sanz, Barcelona:
Modern urban centres in Nordic countries.
10:30
Dr. Nika Grabar, Ljubljana:
Under-Ground. The Republic Square in Ljubljana.
11:00 Break
Concepts of habitation
11:30
Carola Ebert, Kassel:
Casual Modernism – The formation of the West German modernist
bungalow
1950- 1969.
12:00
Dr. Sebastian Haumann, Darmstadt:
Image Construction and Decline of West-German Public Housing,
1960s-1970s.
12:30
Markus Vogl, Wien:
The undetermined space. On the ability of urban overall concepts -
manifestos of architectural modernism.
13:00 Lunch
Urban designs
14:30
Dr. Mari Laanemets, Tallin:
Monument reconsidered. Urban design fantasies in the 1970s in Soviet
Estonia.
15:00
Marko Sancanin, Zagreb:
Technology of Urban planning of socialist Zagreb. Historical
Development and Institutional Critique.
15:30
Dr. Ines Tolic, Venedig:
Contending the city. Global ambitions and local needs in architecture
and city design of
post-earthquake Skopje and Yugoslavia.
16:00 Break
45+ today – Projects and Research
16:30
Martin Bredenbeck/Martin Neubacher,
Bonn:
Beethovenhalle Bonn. Defending buildings our grandparents have erected
to save them from our parents. Revaluation of post-war-architecture - a
new generations gap?
17:00
Vladimir Kulic/Maroje Mrduljas, Florida/Zagreb:
Unfinished Modernisations. Presentation of the research project.
17:30
Nevenka Mancheva/Vesna Mitanoska/Jane Stojanoski, Skopje:
Rejuvenation. Projects for interventions on abandoned and neglected
buildings in Macedonia
18:00 Discussion and end of the
open sections
Sunday, 24.07.2011
Internal meeting of the “Network 45+”