Research colloquium

Organized by chair for the History and Theory of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Landscape Planning, Kassel University

10 January 2025

9:30-17:10 CET

via Zoom

For the zoom link please contact Thilo Schulte: Thilo.Schulte@student.uni-kassel.de

Introduction

Alla Vronskaya, Kassel University

9:30-9:40 CET

Panel 1: Humanizing Modernism 

9:40-11:10 CET

1. Alexander Bala, University of Texas at Austin // 9:40-10:10

Form Follows Praxis: Modernist Architecture’s Humanist Renascence in the Art and Research Unit at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, 1945-1960

2. Nikolay Smirnov, Kassel University/RTG Organizing Architecture // 10:10-10:40

In Search of the Lost Image: Metageography Between Critical Postmodernist Humanism And Neoliberal Spatial Development  (1960s-2020s)

3. Tala Mukheimer, Kassel University // 10:40-11:10

Sustainable Practices for Preserving Jordanian Vernacular Architecture in Amman

Panel 2: Profession, Gender, Labor

11:20-12:50 CET

4. Sarah Wheat, Kassel University / University of Michigan // 11:20-11:50

Women, Labor, and Representation in German Industrial Architecture and Cultural Production, 1880-1933

5. Patricia Semeniuk, Warsaw // 11:50-12:20

Women Building a New State: Female Architects in Poland from the First to Second Modernism

6. Pavel Kuznetsov, Kassel University / HMWK // 12:20-12:50

The architect and his clients: a case of Konstantin Melnikov. Early Soviet modernist architecture in-between creative freedom of individual and external constraints

Lunch break

12:50-14:00 CET

Panel 3: The World and the Globe

14:00-15:30 CET

7. Oleksandra Sakorska, Potsdam // 14:00-14:30

Collecting, Designing, and Inhabiting World History in Imperial Kyiv

8. Holly Bushman, Princeton University // 14:30-15:00

From Internationalism to Globalism: East German Architectural Knowledge and the End of the German Democratic Republic, 1976-1993

9. Nikolay Erofeev, Kassel university/Humboldt Foundation // 15:00-15:30

An Extractive Union: Mining and Urbanisation in Socialist Resource Peripheries

Panel 4: Dimensions of Settlement

15:40-17:10 CET  

10. Megan Eardley, KTH Stockholm/ Kassel University // 15:40-16:10 

Between Makwayela and Makwayela: Reinhabiting the Extractive Landscape in Socialist Mozambique

11. Ekaterina Prozorov-Kaminker, The Technion, Haifa // 16:10-16:40

Programming the “Organic City”: Alexander Klein’s Search for Rationalist Urbanism across Three Political Regimes 

12. Wiebke Reinert, Kassel University // 16:40-17:10

Reinforcing sedentarism among marginalized communities in the West Germany during 1950s