Session 1: 'Contested architectural heritage across Central and Eastern Europe'

CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES. MODERNISM BEYOND EAST AND WEST

Session 1: Contested architectural heritage across Central and Eastern Europe

The conference critically rethinks and analyzes the history of Modernism in Central and Eastern Europe and its transformations in the context of international relations, dependencies, influence, and power. Five panels share multiple perspectives presented by researchers, architects, designers, historians, urban and civic activists. Organized in cooperation by the Pilecki-Institute and the initiative for a “European Triennial of Modernism (ETOM)“

Moderator: Ingrid Ruudi, Ph.D. Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn

Dr. Christoph Rauhut Berlin Monument Authority, State Conservator
Karl-Marx-Allee and lnterbau 1957. Architecture and Urbanism in Postwar Modernism

Marii Laanemets, Ph.D. Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn
"The tangled history of Unna hall. Reflections on modernity in light of Ta11inn's iconic city hall"

Dr. hab. Andrzej Leśniak Polish Academy of Sciences
"The Parade Square between modernisation and globalization: the controversies and entangled histories on the site of the Future Museum of Modem Art in Warsaw"

lryna Matsevko, Ph.D. Kharkiv School of Architecture
"ls the Soviet Built Heritage Ukrainian? Challenges and Perspectives of the Legacy of Modernism in Shaping Postwar Ukrainian ldentity"

Aleksandra Sumorok, Ph.D. Academy of Fine Arts W. Strzemiński in Łódz
Socialist Realist Monuments in Poland. A „difficult" heritage?

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