Transmodern Forum – PO·MO·STROIKA – Postmodern Theories, Practices and Histories in Central and Eastern Europe

Po·mo·stroika was a three-day long program, architecture conference and related event series, took place in 17-19 May 2018 in Berlin, focusing on postmodernism in Central and Eastern Europe. With the recent renaissance of the postmodern phenomena, a direct consequence of Read More …

Transmodern Forum – Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism

The ‘Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism’ conference and forum is organized by the Transmodern collective and Collegium Hungaricum Berlin in 28-29 April 2016 in Berlin, Germany. We had a really interesting program with 17 lecturers from 9 countries to speak about Read More …

Architekturzentrum Wien: Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories

The Architekturzentrum Wien writes architectural (hi)stories: ‘Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories’ explores, for the first time comprehensively, the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics completed between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR in 1991. The Read More …

Rasa Baločkaitė – Post-Soviet Transitions of the Planned Socialist Towns: Visaginas, Lithuania

Visaginas, formerly Sniečkus, (Lithuania) was built as a planned socialist town and a satellite settlement to the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Both the plant and the town were established in order to integrate Lithuania into the All-Union economic structures via Read More …