archint_1989_cz:de: Iconic Ruins? Representative Socialist Architecture in the four Visegrad Countries

Focusing primarily on politically prominent post-war public investment projects in the former state-socialist countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (also called the Visegrad Group), the evening explores where the state’s ambitions of power and the architects’ creative ideas connected and where they clashed. How is the society’s relationship to these buildings and how is each of the Visegrad countries handling this heritage from the socialist era?

Featuring:
Petr Vorlík (CZ), architect and architecture historian. Co-curator of the Iconic ruins? exhibition. He works in the Department of Theory and History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague.
Peter Szalay (SK), architecture historian and theoretician. He works as a researcher at the Department of Architecture, Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava.
Anna Cymer (PL), architecture historian and journalist. She is the author of the book Architektura w Polsce 1945 - 1989 (Architecture in Poland 1945 - 1989) and co-curator of the Iconic ruins? exhibition.
Dániel Kovács (HU), art historian, architectural critic, chief editor of Epiteszforum.hu and curator of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 17. International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.
Bettina Güldner (DE), art and design historian, curator of art and design exhibitions.

Admission free, please register here (https://www.eventbrite.de/e/iconic-ruins-representative-socialist-architecture-in-cz-hu-pl-sk-tickets-76430562871)