The legendary high-rise of Pécs, once the Guinness-recorder as the highest unnoccupied building in Central Europe, is finally gone. After years of legal negotiations, the demolition of the building, which stood empty for 27 years, was started in Spring 2016 Read More …
Between 1945 and 1989, despite the Communist state’s hostility towards religion, over 3,000 churches were built in Poland: the Architecture of the VII Day. Built by their parishioners, these churches represent a truly communal architecture, one which rejected the rigid Read More …
The Marburg-based Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe expects lecture abstracts till 15 June for a conference organized in the topic of Socialist architecture and heritage. Call for Papers Heritage Studies and Socialism: Transnational Perspectives on Heritage in Eastern and Read More …
The Leipzig-based Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) organizes an interesting conference in November 2016. They expect mostly young lecturers with topics connected to urban problems of the Post-Soviet region. Call for papers REDEFINING CITIES IN POST-SOVIET SPACE Venue: Leibniz Institute for Read More …
A selection of the finest architectural documentaries on the fate of Socialist Modernism, from Estonia to Croatia. The Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism conference and forum is accompanied by two evenings of film screening, each offering a unique insight to Read More …
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 have a really interesting program with 17 lecturers from 9 countries. We are Read More …
Interesting double exhibition in Budapest: alongside the ‘Pier Luigi Nervi – Architecture as Challenge’, the evolution of Hungarian concrete shell architecture is presented at the Budapest University of Technology and FUGA Architecture Center in April and May. The influential ferroconcrete Read More …
As part of an ongoing research and exhibition program of the PostModernism Museum in Bucharest, Romania, the exhibition ‘Socialist Architecture in Bucharest’ is on view between 1 March and 1 May 2016. The exhibition presents works from the formerly unseen Read More …
The exhibition ‘Enjoying the Fruits of Yugoslavia’s Third Way’, curated by Michael Zinganel is currently on view at the Galerie Gebhart Blazek in Graz, Austria. The exhibition showcases both the heritage of Yugoslavian mass tourism and its architecture and invites contemporary Croatian Read More …
Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism workshop was organized by the architects of paradigma:ariadné studio at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Architecture Faculty. The topic of the workshop was strongly connected to the Transmodern Forum in Berlin and its Read More …
The Roman Catholic Church of Cserépváralja, Hungary is one of the first church buildings erected in Hungary after the 1947-1948 Communist transition. The church was the work of the young and successful industrial architect, László Csaba, who was working in Read More …
Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism – the next Transmodern event is to be held in the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany, 28-29 April 2016 as an international forum about Post-War architecture in Central and Eastern Europe. The event Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism is Read More …
The first international conference, devoted to the work of the pioneering Polish architect, Oskar Hansen (1922-2005), was held in 2013 in the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. The museum maintains a great website for the conference, with videos from all Read More …
The very first conference of Transmodern aimed to show the initiations around the Visegrad countries that have already started to collect and interpret their own regional post-war heritage through their regional characteristic. These characteristic differences can defined on political, economical Read More …
‘Autoportret. A Magazine on Good Space’ is a magazine which promotes reflection about space as a cultural phenomenon. It presents theoretical reflections on various areas of knowledge, non-obvious contexts, and positive solutions. The Autoportret magazine is aimed at everybody, not Read More …
Trespassing Modernities exhibition by SALT will reveal the legacy of modern architecture in the former Soviet Union. Examples of exceptional practices by local architects working in the 1960s and 1970s followed by the crticial approach of the Paper Architecture movement Read More …
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 …
Urbanity Twenty Years Later is a long term research project which is rediscovering Central European urban values. The project is regional aiming to find answers for the future of our cities as such. The first publication of the Urbanity project Read More …
We tend to think that the history of postwar architecture and urban planning has been written. Yet upon closer observation the map of canonized perceptions of Modernism reveals a number of white areas and blind spots. Among the most fascinating Read More …
The metabolist towers of the lesser-known Hungarian architect László Kiss E. could easily be the most disputed, and probably the most hated Modernist landmark of Budapest – but they did never come near to realization. In fact, the concept of Read More …