The conference is open to the public. There is no conference fee. Please register by sending an e-mail to dhi@dhi.waw.pl
The conference language will be English; select contributions and the Round Table discussion will take place in Polish.
Thursday 12 September
17.00-18.00: Registration
18.00–18.10: Welcome: Ruth Leiserowitz, Deputy Director, GHI Warsaw
18.10–18.30: Introduction: Błażej Brzostek, Florian Urban, Annika Wienert
18.30-19.30: Keynote Lecture
Léa-Catherine Szacka, Manchester: The Presence of the Past: From Centres to Peripheries
followed by a Reception
Friday 13 September
09:00-10:30: Session I – Poland
Chair: Marcin Zaremba, Warsaw
Marcin Zaremba, Warsaw: Introduction
Emilia Kiecko, Wrocław: The Meaning of Postmodernism in Light of the International Exhibitions of Intentional Architecture 'Terra'
Marek Budzyński, Warsaw: Niezrealizowane projekty z lat 80-ych: Osiedle Górników Miedziowych w Lubinie i Osiedle Młodych w Nowym Dworze Mazowieckim [Unrealized projects from the 1980s: the Górników Miedziowych Estate in Lubin and the Młodych Estate in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki]
10:30-11:00: Break
11.00-13:00: Session II – East Germany, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
Chair: Arnold Bartetzky, Leipzig
Tobias Zervosen, Munich: Building History. The GDR’s Postmodernism
Gruia Badescu, Konstanz: Golden Era, Iron Gates: Postmodern Architecture and Political Transformation in 1980s Romania and Yugoslavia
Maroš Krivý, Tallinn: Boom, Boom, Boom
13:00-14:00: Break
14:00-17:00: Session III – The Soviet West
Chair: Felix Ackermann, Warsaw
Andres Kurg, Tallinn: Estonians on the Scaffoldings: Ethnicity, Class and Single-Family Housing in Late-Socialism
Marija Drėmaitė, Vilnius: The Desire to Look Postmodern: Lithuanian Architecture of the Final Soviet Decade, 1979-1989
Oxana Gourinovitch, Berlin: National Theatre. The State Theatre of Musical Comedy in Minsk
Ievgeniia Gubkina, Charkiv: The Architecture of Socialist Postmodernism in Ukraine
17:00-18:30: Break
18.30-20:00: Public Round Table Discussion: Architektura postmodernistyczna i zmiana polityczna [Postmodern Architecture and Political Change]
Welcome Note: Miloš Řezník, Director, GHI Warsaw
Chair: Anna Cymer, Warsaw
Panelists:
Konrad Kucza-Kuczyński, Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw
Maria Lubocka-Hoffmann, former General Conservator of Elbląg
Maciej Miłobędzki, JEMS Architects, Warsaw
Ewa Porębska, Architektura Murator, Warsaw
Saturday 14 September
09.15-10.15: Keynote Lecture
Andrzej Leder, Warsaw: Unconscious Design of the City Space. The Case of Warsaw
10.15-10:45: Break
10.45–12.45: Session IV – Postmodern Architecture and the City
Chair: Léa-Catherine Szacka, Manchester
Piotr Winskowski, Kraków: The Postmodernisation of Polish Architecture
Piotr Marciniak, Poznań: Postmodernism and New Urban Concepts in Poland
Błażej Ciarkowski, Łódź: Art Nouveau and Large Panel System-Building? Postmodern Architecture and Prefabrication in Łódź
12.45-13.30: Break
13.30-15.00: Session V – Postmodern Architecture before and after 1989
Chair: Annika Wienert, Warsaw
Michał Wiśniewski, Kraków: Tomasz Mańkowski and Brutalist Influences on Postmodern Architecture in Kraków
Ania England, Poznań: The Other Postmodernism of the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń
15.15–16.00: Closing Remarks and Wrap-up Discussion
Chairs: Błażej Brzostek, Florian Urban, Annika Wienert