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On the occasion of the General Assembly on Wednesday, 19 October, two new publications on international architectural heritage research will be presented for the first time at the International Heritage Centre of the Bauhaus University Weimar.

A film by Verena von Beckerath with Niklas Fanelsa, Momoko Yasaka and Maximilian von Zepelin in cooperation with Jens Franke.

Die von Taishi Watanabe, Architekt und Professor an der Waseda University in Tokio, konzipierte Ausstellung geht auf einen einjährigen Studienaufenthalt an der Aalto University 2019-20 zurück und wurde in unterschiedlichen Formaten bereits in Helsinki, Berlin und Tokio gezeigt.

Im Rahmen der Triennale der Moderne zeigen das Archiv der Moderne und die Professur Denkmalpflege und Baugeschichte eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte der Mensa am Park unter dem Titel »Mensa am Park. Ein Denkmal der späten Moderne«.

The research project “Living in a Listed Building: Conservation and design of 20th century housing concepts and estates” contributes to a fundamental understanding of the (reciprocal) processes of evaluation and appreciation among different actors in relation to listed 20th century residential buildings, ensembles, and settlements and their inherent housing concepts. Residential properties, communities—and their access and participation in use and care, and in conservation and design—are systematically examined from the perspectives of both heritage conservation and housing research on participation and identification.

Alla Vronskaya is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Kassel University. She examines gender inequality—and women-architects attempts to undermine it—at design and construction industry institutions of state socialism. She introduces
the research conducted for the project "Second World, Second Sex: Women-Architects under State Socialism".

Vladimir Paperny is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. In his Keynote Lecture, he will talk about his time at the VNI ITE (the All-Union Research Institute of Technical Aesthetic) and the TsNI ITIA (Central Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture, also known as NI ITIA, VNI ITAG a.o.), where he was doctoral researcher (aspirant) until 1979, after graduating from the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts. His dissertation thesis, which he would not defend until 2000, was published in 1985 as "Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two" by Cambridge University Press to become one of the most iconic books on Soviet architecture.

The last decade saw a rapid influx of histories on architectural production and urban development in the postwar state socialist world. Researchers have documented how city-planning and mass housing programmes in individual countries helped to forge diverse and often competing projects of socialist modernity. Others expanded their scope beyond Eastern Europe and argued, within the broader geopolitical contexts of the Cold War and decolonisation, that mobilities of architectural expertise, technology, and resources mediated the expansion of the state socialist interests in the Global South. Meanwhile one crucial area remains largely under-researched: the ways of organisation and management of architectural production and labour within the socialist world – the institutional structures, hierarchies and networks, paths of interaction of architectural science, research, planning, design and construction in and between the socialist countries, as well as their relationships with power brokers.

Die Sonderausstellung präsentiert die wechselhafte Geschichte von Stadtvorstellungen anhand städtebaulicher Planungen für die Erfurter Innenstadt und nimmt dafür den Beginn der modernen Stadtplanung in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts als Startpunkt. Auf engem Raum rieben sich Fortschrittsdrang und Altstadt-Bewusstsein. Konfliktfelder und Schauplätze hierfür waren im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert konkrete Orte, an denen sich die jeweiligen Stadtepochen in Form von Bauprojekten sehr greifbar manifestierten. „Modell Innenstadt" zeigt die dazugehörigen Zeichnungen sowie zahlreiche städtebauliche Modelle und schlägt den Bogen bis in die Gegenwart.

Vortrag und Workshop zur Geschichte der Bauhaus Straße 11