Architekturexport DDR, Zwischen Sansibar und Halensee, © Grafik: Hermann-Henselmann-Stiftung, 2022
Triennale of Modernity 2022 – Two-day symposium Architecture Global Modern
Architecture Global Modern (1)
Andreas Butter und Thomas Flierl (Hg.)
The architectural export of the GDR. Between Zanzibar and Halense
(Lukas Verlag Berlin 2022)
Mit Beiträgen von Nikolai Brandes, Andreas Butter, Thomas Flierl, Monika Motylińska, Phuong Phan, Juliane Richter, Tanja Scheffler, Christina Schwenkel und Wolfgang Thöner.
TDM2022 – Two-day symposium, © Photos: Arnas Diemann, 2022
Book presentation and panel discussion
25 Nov 2022, 18:00-20:30
BHROX bauhaus reuse, Ernst-Reuter Platz – Mittelinsel / central traffic island
18:00 Robert K. Huber (BHROX) – Welcome
18:15 Thomas Flierl – New Attention on socialist Modernism
18:30 Andreas Butter – The architectural export of the GDR
19:15 Andreas Butter / Thomas Flierl / Łukasz Stanek – Panel discussion: «Architecture Global Socialism»?
What did the «built GDR» look like abroad? This book provides surprising answers to this question. The export of architecture between 1949 and 1990 took place in the field of tension between internationalist solidarity, self-assertion of the state and commercial interests. Creative solutions were required for every country and every building task – from housing complexes to planetariums – and these could not originate from an «architecture without architects», as planning practice in the «acceding territory» was denounced after 1990. Just as the creative power of GDR architecture was influenced by foreign countries, it impressed the image of a modern state abroad and collaborated on a global socialist perspective.
With Łukasz Stanek (University of Michigan), the editors discuss with one of the currently most renowned colleagues, who for years has been investigating the international interconnections between the back then so-called «second» and the «third world» in the field of architecture (cf. Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism. Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press 2020).
An event of the Hermann-Henselmann-Foundation in cooperation with BHROX bauhaus reuse, funded by the LOTTO-Foundation Berlin and kindly supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
China – Knotenpunkte der Moderne, © Grafik: Hermann-Henselmann-Stiftung, 2022
Architecture Global Modern (2)
China – Crossroads of Modernism. Place of Exile in the 1930s/40s and German-Chinese Architectural Relations in the Post-War Period.
Symposium
26 Nov 2022, 10:30-19:30
BHROX bauhaus reuse, Ernst-Reuter Platz – Mittelinsel / central traffic island
During planning the «Triennale der Moderne 2022», the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and China was an additional occasion to deal with the crossroads of Modernism in China. The Hermann-Henselmann-Foundation had already published the book and exhibition on Richard Paulick «Bauhaus Shanghai Stalinallee Ha-Neu» as well as exile in China and the international architectural relations of socialist countries have attracted new attention worldwide.
Since the GDR maintained diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic since 1949, research results on the architectural export of the GDR to China can be presented at the colloquium. The view will be extended to the Western reception of China in the 1950s and 1970s as well as to the German-Chinese architectural relations of the last three decades up to the present with their changing geopolitical context.
The lectures will be held in German or English according to the respective title.
10:30 start & registration
10:45 Thomas Flierl & Robert K. Huber – Welcome & Introduction
11:00 Eduard Kögel – Historical introduction 1912–1949
11:15 ZHANG Chunyan (Hangzhou) – Bauhaus as Resource for China ‘s «New Architecture Movement» in the 1940s
11:45 WANG Wen-chi (Taiwan) – Chen Kuan LEE und der Chinesische Werkbund – Gedanken und Praxis einer interkulturellen Architektur
12:15 Li HOU (Boston) – Richard Paulick and the origins of modern urban planning in China
13:00 Lunch-Break
14:00 Eduard Kögel – Historical introduction 1949–1976/1980
14:15 Eduard Kögel – The German-German Architecture Trip to China 1957
14:45 FENG Jiang (Guangzhou) – Returning Home: Hsia Changshi and Tropical Modernism in China
15:15 Andreas Butter – GDR shell sheds for China
15:45 Coffee-Break
16:15 Wolfgang Thöner – Marianne Brandt in China
16:45 Łukasz Stanek (University of Michigan) – Architecture of the Sino-Soviet Split
17:15 Angelika Schnell (Wien) – Roland Rainer travels to China and Iran (1972)
18:00 Pause
18:15 Frank Sieren (Beijing) – Keynote – Urban development in the 21st century – China as a trendsetter? (Outlook)
19:00 Closing discussion & questions by audience
An event of the Hermann-Henselmann-Foundation in cooperation with BHROX bauhaus reuse, funded by the LOTTO-Foundation Berlin and kindly supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
… free registration (Book presentation)
… free registration (Symposium)
