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Environment.
New Landscapes of Design, 1960 –1980
28 /29 November
2014
Conference
ETH Zurich
The years between 1960
and 1980 were a period of
a hitherto unknown scale
of building production both
in East and West Europe.
New approaches in design
were characterized by
the expansion of architectural concepts to consider
the whole environment,
by the shift of attention from
objects to processes, and
by the turn to systems and
networks. These developments went hand in hand
with rapid modernization,
but also with a rise of
technocratic concepts and
utopian ideals. Thorough
changes came about in the
years between 1968 and
1973 marked by conflict and
crisis.
Department of Architecture
Institute for the History and
Theory of Architecture gta
Chair for the Theory
of Architecture
Prof. Dr. Ákos Moravánszky
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg
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information:
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East
11.00 –11.15
Welcome by the
conference organizers
Hashim Sarkis
(Harvard Graduate School
of Design)
Geo-Architecture.
Expanding context
after WW II
11.15–13.00
Introductory lectures
Evening
lecture and
discussion
Kenny Cupers
(University of Illinois)
Géographie volontaire
and the territorial logic
of architecture
Ákos Moravánszky
(ETH Zurich)
Blow-up.
The powers of scale
10.30 –11.00
Registration
HIL H 40.4
Planning,
state and
territory
Panel 1
Introductory
lectures
28 November
Schedule
Friday
East West
Central
Since 1945, Europe has undergone successive
phases of building and
re-building under the
influence of different polit­
ical systems. The project
»East West Central. Re-building Europe 1950–1990«
looks for a comparative picture of discourses
and devel­opments in architecture and urbanism
in a series of three conferences. After »Re-humanizing
Architecture 1950 –1970«
our second symposium
focuses on strategies for
comprehensive design
since the 1960s. The third
conference will follow
in 2015.
14.30 –16.30
Panel 1, HIL H 40.4
Jan Dostalík
(MUni Brno)
Czechoslovak urban and
regional planning in the
1960s. Eco-friendly theories
vs. everyday practise
David Crowley
(Royal College of Art,
London)
The choreography of the
console. The design of
electronic environments
and their operators in
the Cold War
Welcome by Enikö Bucs
(FSB)
Karl R. Kegler
(ETH Zurich)
1968 – towards the functional society. Paradigm
shifts in the regional
planning of West and
East Germany
17.30 –19.00
Evening lecture
and discussion
HIL E 4
Session Chair:
Philip Ursprung
(ETH Zurich)
Session Chair:
Judith Hopfengärtner
(ETH Zurich)
Cornelia Escher
(University of Konstanz)
Between model and utopia.
GEAM’s large-scale designs
Torsten Lange
(ETH Zurich)
The limits of planning.
Horst Rittel's theories
between cybernetics,
convergence and crisis
Session Chair:
Lukasz Stanek
(University of Manchester)
Schedule
Saturday
Tamás Meggyesi
(TU Budapest)
Urbanism and academia.
Teaching urban design
in Hungary
Mirko Baum
(RWTH Aachen)
On bees and screws.
Školka SIAL – an architects’
commune in Czecho­
slovakia
29 November
Session Chair:
Max Welch Guerra
(BU Weimar)
Piotr Bujas / Alicja Gzowska
(Warsaw / Warsaw
University)
New agencies. Convergent
frameworks of post-war
research and architectural
design in Central Europe
Panel 2a
Daniela Spiegel
(BU Weimar)
Vacationing within the walls.
The design and development of holiday resorts in
the GDR
Andreas Kalpakci
(ETH Zurich)
Total Environment and
its architectural con­
sequences. UIA’s seminar
on industrial architecture
as sense-making strategy
New scales
and
prospects
Axel Zutz
(Berlin)
Complex projects.
Landscape development
and the typology of
open spaces in the GDR
Panel 2b
Session Chair:
Arnold Bartetzky
(GWZO, Leipzig)
Aleksandra Kędziorek
(MoMA Warsaw)
Exercises on the Great
Number. Scales and
strategies of Oskar Hansen’s
Open Form
Frameworks for
exchange
Tom Cubbin
(University of Sheffield)
Culture, environment and
historical time at Senezh
studio 1974 –1991
Panel 3a
Andres Kurg
(EAA Tallinn)
The Concise Dictionary
of Modern Architecture.
Readdressing the environment in Estonia in the 1970s
Environment,
design and
planning
Panel 3b
Practices
and
agencies
Eugene Asse
(MARCH Moscow)
A Moscow architect in the
1970s. Thoughts, projects
and buildings
9.00 –10.00
Introductory lecture by
Ljiljana Blagojević
(University of Belgrade)
Modular Design.
Architect Milan Zloković
and the discourse on
industrialized construction
HIL H 40.4
10.30 –12.30
Panel 2a, HIL H 40.4
Panel 2b, HIL H 40.9
14.00 –16.00
Panel 3a, HIL H 40.4
Panel 3b, HIL H 40.9
16.30 –18.00
Final discussion
HIL H 40.4