On April 23, Anna Bokov (Yale University) will give a talk, “VKhUTEMAS 1920-1930: Institutionalizing the Soviet Avant-Garde” at the AIA New York Center for Architecture. For more information, click on the image below.
The “Visions and Foundations” conference of the Second World Urbanity project will be held April 11-12, 2014 at Georgetown University. For the conference schedule and directions to conference locations see the program and links below. Map and directions to MSFS … Continue reading
The Socialist Internationalism Workshop will take place April 11-12, 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley. The workshop explores the social and cultural legacies of Cold War Socialist internationalism. Recent scholarship has focused on the ties between so-called Second and … Continue reading
Please see the conference program below for the “Visions and Foundations” conference of the Second World Urbanity project. (Click on each image for a larger view.) If you have not already done so, RSVP directly to Steven Harris (sharris@umw.edu) if … Continue reading
Contested Memory Sites in Post-Socialist Capitals American Comparative Literature Association March 21-23, 2014, New York University This seminar investigates physical memory sites across the capital cities of postsocialist Eurasia, an enormous territory that includes capital cities from Berlin to Bishkek. … Continue reading
The first conference of the Second World Urbanity project will take place April 11-12, 2014 at Georgetown University. The preliminary program for the conference is now available. To see it, click here.
On February 11-12, 2014, the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana will host the Final ReNewTown Project Conference. For more information about this conference, go here and/or see this flyer: ReNewTown_Final Conference_Invitation.
We’re pleased to introduce our discussion of Virág Molnár’s new book, Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe (Routledge, 2013). A sociologist by training, Molnár offers an innovative approach to studying socialist architecture
Dear Colleagues, In 2014-2015, the Second World Urbanity project will feature three two-day conferences about the history of urban planning, architecture, and the everyday in socialist cities. The first conference will be held at the Mortara Center for International Studies at … Continue reading
Our second book discussion features two recently published exhibition catalogs by Łukasz Stanek: PRL™. Export Architecture and Urbanism from Socialist Poland / Eksport architektury i urbanistyki z Polski Ludowej, Text: Łukasz Stanek / Design: Metahaven, special supplement to Piktogram 15, 2011. Postmodernism Is Almost All Right: Polish Architecture … Continue reading
