THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13
09:30 Welcoming Speech
Herbert Karner, Vienna
10:00 Introduction
Maximilian Hartmuth, Vienna
Which Public, and Whose Aesthetics? Ruminations on the Architectural Design
Logics of Public Buildings in Core and Peripheral Areas of the Late Habsburg Realm
PANEL 1
10:30 Anna Mader-Kratky, Vienna
The Administration for Public Buildings during the sole reign of Joseph II
11:00 Raluca Mureşan, Paris
Transforming Churches into Theaters in Buda (Ofen) and Lviv (Lwów / Lemberg): “Economy” vs. “Character” in Josephist Architectural Policy
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
12:00 Richard Kurdiovsky, Vienna
From “Hofbaurat” to “Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten”: Habsburg’s Agencies for Construction Measures between Realizing and Testing
12:30 Wolfgang Göderle, Graz
The Birth of the Central State? An Overview on the Material Dimension of
Habsburg Central Europe after 1848
13:00 Harald R. Stühlinger, Basel
“The work of art becomes the matter of the people”: Ideas, Negotiations, and Laws about Competitions and Their Influence on the Quality of Architecture in the Aftermath of the Revolution of 1848
13:30 LUNCH BREAK
PANEL 2
15:00 Julia Rüdiger, Vienna and Linz. The Aesthetics of Architecture for Higher Education
15:30 Miroslav Malinović, Banja Luka
The Diversity of Austro-Hungarian Implantations in Banja Luka, 1878–1918:
The Architecture of Public Schools
16:00 Matthew Rampley, Brno
Crematoria: Symbols of Modernity and Modernism
17:30 Visit to Vienna’s “Neues Rathaus”
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14
PANEL 3
09:30 Marcus van der Meulen, Aachen
The Appearance of Public Buildings in Congress-Poland and Warsaw, 1815–1831
10:00 Guido Vittorio Zucconi, Venice
Between Palladio and the Middle Ages: The Search for Identity in the Public
Buildings of Northern Italy
10:30 Dragan Damjanović, Zagreb
Public Architecture in Austro-Hungarian Croatia: Fragmented Territory and Politics of Architectural Design
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
PANEL 4
11:30 Magdalena Markowska, Wrocław
Emblems of “Civic Pride”? Town Halls in Silesia in the Nineteenth Century
12:00 Jindřich Vybíral, Prague
Franz Count Thun vs. the “dummer Eselsbau”: Fighting for Maintaining the City Hall of Prague’s Old Town, 1838–1858
12:30 Frank Rochow, Halle a. d. Saale
Negotiating Aesthetics: The House of Invalids in Lviv (Lwów / Lemberg) between European Style and Local Adaptions
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:30 Caroline Jäger-Klein and Ajla Bajramović, Vienna
From Ottoman “Konak” to Austro-Hungarian “Amtshaus”: The Building History of the District and Province Administration Structure of Travnik in Central-Bosnia
15:00 Andrea Baotić-Rustanbegović, Munich
“Competing Visions”: The Case of the Unrealized Project for the Parliament Building in Sarajevo, 1910–1914
15:30 Summary and Final Discussion