10th Vienna Architecture Congress

Opening: Friday, November 08, 2002, 07:00 P.M.

Architecture and Urban Planning In East And Southeast Europe

‘Western expansion’, says the East; ‘Eastern expansion’, says the West. Ten East European states are currently on the verge of joining the European Union. Thirteen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain Europe is just about to undergo decisive changes on a political level, a social level and a cultural level. The arrogant policies adopted by the West, treating the East European nations as supplicants that have to start working on becoming ’ripe’ for Europe, represents a highly unfruitful basis for the two groups of nations to approach one another. For independent of the clearly defined political, judicial, administrative, economic etc. guidelines that the nations preparing for entry into the EU have to comply with, there is a broad domain that cannot be defined by either regulation or evaluation: the treatment of the intellectual heritage, whether art, music, literature or in the realm of architecture and urban development.

One of the essential tasks being tackled by the post-Communist nations is the redefinition of their cultural identity, which puts them all the more in a position of having to confront the Western countries. In order to create an awareness ’in the West’ of the valuable cultural heritage to be integrated in one large Europe people have to be informed and there needs to be a lively exchange.

The 10th Vienna Architecture Congress provides an overview of occurrences in the field of architecture in the countries of East and Southeast Europe over the past ten years, covering a spectrum ranging from the architecture discourse to the new research into post-communist cities. What rules does urban development adhere to in the post-communist or post-socialist countries, what is the relationship between the inner cities and the suburbs, where and under what conditions are the new centres arising, what is the role being played by urban tourism, what is the role being played by the process of gentrification, and what are the effects of increasing globalisation on urban lifestyles and the design of urban space?

‘Next Europe’ is to be a focus of discussions at the Architekturzentrum Wien in the following years. This programme is being launched with the 10th Vienna Architecture Congress, which is intended to provide the basis for an extended discussion of architecture, urban planning, socio-political and socio-cultural currents and changes in the East and Southeast European nations on their path from Communism to Capitalism.

Organisation and Information:
Isabella Marte
Phone: ++43 1 522 31 15 Ext. 13
E-Mail: congress@azw.at

Press Accreditation:
Ulrike Kahr-Haele
Phone: ++43 1 522 31 15 Ext. 23
E-Mail: press@azw.at

Programme

Friday, November 08, 2002

19.00
Introduction Dietmar Steiner, Director of the Architekturzentrum Wien

19.15
Opening Rudolf Schicker, Councelor for Urban Planning, City of Vienna

19.30
Opening Discussion ‘Österreich und das Nächste Europa. Austria and Next Europe’

with
Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Journalist, Vienna
Christine von Kohl, Journalist, Vienna
Wolfgang Petritsch, former UN-Representative of Bosnia-Herzegowina
Andreas Pribersky, Insitute of East- and Southeastern Studies, University Vienna
Hannes Swoboda, Member of the European Parliament

Saturday, November 09, 2002

14.00
Andrej Hrausky, Architect, Architecture Gallery DESSA, Ljubljana
Catching up/nachholen

15.00
Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews, Urban Research Insititute Ljubljana
Mastering the Post-Socialist City: Urban Planning and (re)development in Slovenia since 1991

15.45-16.15
Break

16.15
Vedran Mimica, Assistant Dean, Berlage Institut, Amsterdam
Croatia between Postdaytonian Arcadia and Transitional Darkness

17.15
Bela Pazar, Architect, Budapest
Urban Planning and recent Architectural developments Hungary

18.00-18-30
Break

18.30
Judit Bodnar, Central European University, Budapest
Paris of the East – Urban Theorie of the West: Comparative Thinking After the End of the East-West Divide

19.30
Ludek Sykora, Dept. of Social Geography and Regional Develoment, Charles-University, Prague
Restructuring Spatial Urban Organisation in Postcommunist Prague

Sunday, November 10, 2002

13.00
Irena Fialova, Architect and Editor, zlaty rez, Prague
Western architecture insertment into Eastern cultural context: The Dancing Building

14.00
Stefan Slachta, Architect, Bratislava
Urban developments in Slovakia

15.00
Henrieta Moravcikova, Architectural theorist, Bratislava
NEW FREEDOM – AUTHENTIC OR DERIVED? The Slovak Architecture Scene in the 1990s

15.45-16.15
Break

16.15
Ewa Przestaszewska-Porebska, Editor Architektura, Warschaw
CoCa City. Communism, Capitalism – Citypath in Poland.

17.15
Stanislaw Denko, Architect, Office Wisja, Krakaw
Architectural Practice in Poland

18.00-18.30
Break

18.30
Anamaria Zahariade, Architect, IAIM – Institutul de Arhitectura ‘Ion Mincu’, Bukarest
Puzzle, Rubik’s cube or ‘Picnic by the road

19.30
Sampo Ruoppila, Graduate School for Urban an Planning Studies, University of Helsinki
Land-use Changes of City in Transition from Socialism, the Case of Tallinn, Estonia

Biographies

Vedran Mimica
born 1954 in Zagreb was granted a Diploma as an architect-engineer (1979) from the university of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture. Upon graduating he attended several post-graduated courses, in Diocletian palace in Split (1979-1981), in Plecnik’s Ljubljana (1984) and at the Technical University in Delft (1985-1986 and 1990-1991). Parallel to the postgraduate studies he worked as an architect, researcher and lecturer at the Faculty for architecture in Zagreb (1979-1990).
Vedran Mimica joined the Berlage Institute Amsterdam as Project Co-ordinator in January 1991, by the invitation from Herman Hertzberger who was the founder and the first Dean of the Institute. From September 1994, he became a Course Director responsible, with the Dean of the Institute, for creating the educational program, composing the curriculum and accompanying assignments and for the supervision of the second year program. During last ten years at the Berlage studios, masterclasses and thesis works he closely co-operated with Kenneth Frampton, Elia Zenghelis, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo van Eyck, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, Renzo Piano, Kazuyo Sejima and Alejandro Zaera-Polo among others.

Before joining the Berlage Institute Amsterdam, Vedran Mimica was a lecturer and architect at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture. He has lectured and participated at juries as a critic at Columbia University-New York, University Paris IV- Sorbonne, Architectural Association-London, Southern California Institute of Architecture-Los Angeles, South Bank Polytechnic-London, Strathclyde University-Glasgow, the University of Tokyo Department of Architecture, School of Architecture-Ahmedabad, Accademia di architettura-Lugano, Technical University Delft, Architectural Academy Amsterdam, the Faculty of Architecture at University of Chile (FAU), Fine Art Faculty at Catholic University of Chile (PUC),University Torcuatto di Tella-Buenos Aires and the Faculty of architecture University Mayor de San Andres-La Paz.

LUDEK SYKORA
is associated professor in urban geography at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles University of Prague. He received his M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1996) in Economic and Social Geography at Charles University of Prague. In 1988-1992 he worked at the Institute of Geography, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague.

His research interests include urban restructuring in post-communist cities, impacts of globalisation on urban transformations, processes of neighbourhood change, such as revitalisation, commercialisation, gentrification, suburbanisation, real estate development, housing and housing policy, urban strategic and physical planning in East Central Europe. He is a co-author of Regional Policy and Planning in Europe (Routledge 1999) and his research outcomes have been published in a number of academic journals and edited books.

Ana Maria ZAHARIADE
born 1949, 1973 – Dipl. Architect I.A.I.M. (presently U.A.U.I.M.), 1979 – Post-graduate studies in Urban Research, 1991 – Doctor in Theory of Architecture – I.A.I.M.
Professor of Theory of Architecture – since 1994, Head of the Chair of History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation in the University of Architecture and Urbanism ION MINCU (U.A.U.I.M.), Bucharest, Romania, since 2001 – member of the Editorial Board of the ARHITEXT – DESIGN Magazine, Bucharest.
Since 1994 – member of the Board of the Union of Architects of Romani, 1995 – member of the National Committee for Habitat, 1996- 2000 – member of the Section for Inventory of the National Heritage Commission, 2000 – member of the jury for the ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL `Published Works’ section, Bucharest, Romania
1977-1990 – academic work in the Design Studios in the University of Architecture and Urbanism ION MINCU, Bucharest
After 1990: Deeply involved in the reform of the architectural education in U.A.U.I.M., especially in the teaching theory of architecture and history of architecture and their connection with the architectural project

Publications among which:
Articles published in Romanian architectural magazines and cultural newspapers, some published in foreign architectural magazines.
Books, published in Romania: ROMANIA 1996-FORGOTTEN BALANCE, Ed. Simetria, Bucharest, 1996 (author and chief editor); ‘ION MINCU’ UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, Ed. UAUIM, 2001 (author); CENTENAR HORIA CREANGA, Simetria, 1992 (co-author);
MARCEL JANCO IN ROMANIA BETWEEN THE TWO WW, Simetria, Bucharest 1996 (co-author)
Participation with the paper EXPECTATIONS vs, REALITIES in the collective volume NEW BUILDINGS TODAY, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel-Berlin-Boston, 1996

Judit Bodnar
Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Nádor u. 9. H-1051 Hungary, email:
bodnar@rci.rutgers.edu and bodnarj@ceu.hu
PhD, with Certificate in Comparative International Development, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University, 1997
M.A. in Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University, 1989
FELLOWSHIPS held at The University of Chicago, Rutgers University, U.S.A.; University of Ghent, Belgium; Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany, Spring 2002
PRESENT POSITIONS:
Assistant Professor of History and Sociology, Central European University, Budapest
Research Fellow, Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Judit Bodnár. 2001.
Fin-de-Millénaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London.
Bodnár, Judit. 2001. ‘On Fragmentation, Urban and Social’ Pp. 173-94 in Kevin Fox Gotham (ed.):
Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment: Research in Urban Sociology. Vol.6, JAI Press, Oxford.

Bodnár, Judit. 1998. ‘Assembling the Square: Social Transformation in Public Space and the Broken Mirage of the Second Economy in Postsocialist Budapest.’
Slavic Review, 57, 3 (Fall 1998): 489-515.
Bodnár, Judit and József Böröcz. 1998. ‘Housing Advantages for the Better-Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Social Network Effects in Late State-Socialist Housing Inequalities.’ Social Forces, 76, 4 (June): 1275-1304
Bodnár, Judit. 1996. ‘’He That Hath to Him Shall Be Given’: Housing Privatization in Budapest after State Socialism.’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 20, 4: 616-36.

SAMPO RUOPPILA
is a researcher and a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Policy in University of Helsinki. His research topics have included housing and urban development in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Tallinn, and an uprise of urban popular culture in Helsinki. Before joining the Department of Social Policy, Ruoppila has worked for Tietokeskus – an urban research institute of city of Helsinki.

HENRIETA H. MORAVCíKOVá
works as a scientist and head of the Department of Architecture at the Institute of Construction and Architecture, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. She is involved in research and critiques of 20 th century architecture. Since 1997 is she editor in chief of the review Arch about Architecture and other Culture. She has published several monographs about contemporary Slovak architects, tens of studies and critiques on architecture of 20 th century and prepared several exhibitions on architecture.

Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews
Director of Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, architect and planner Ph.D. in Architecture, University of Ljubljana in 1994, after a co-operative studies on Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University (former Oxford Polytechnic).
My particular interests are in the fields of City planning, Restructuring and Design, Housing Planning and Regeneration, Urban Design Methodology, Town centres and Residential Area Design. I am interested in Impact of Transition on the Built Environment and Planning.

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