This weekend will be in Belgrade at the Fourth International Week of Architecture – BINA 2009 held a conference about the REdefining Post-WWII Housing. Conference will gather leading scholars from European universities and heritage institutes to present their answers to the acute question of valorization and further treatment of the rapidly dilapidating post-WWII housing conglomerations. Regardless of the boundary between the East and the West during the Age of Cold War, the huge-scale housing projects appeared all over Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. Until now, the criteria for evaluation and possible reconstruction of those vast built areas have been vaguely considered by the professionals, including architectural historians, preservationists, urban planners and practicing architects.
The official preservationist institutions have been struggling with defining methodologies for the valorization of heritage from the recent past. Loosely structured and complicated systems of ownership over the common areas and private units within housing complexes make difficult to administrate clearly defined and systematic actions for the improvement of the existing conditions. This conference will provide a unique opportunity for sharing different attitudes about the poorly discussed subject of the values of post-WWII housing. In addition to lectures by the invited speakers, the participants in the conference will have a chance to contribute to the discussion, take a guided tour through the impressive housing projects of New Belgrade and give their opinion in the concluding roundtable titled “What Should We Do With New Belgrade?”
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday, July 3rd 2009
9.00 – 9.15
Italian Institute for Culture, Kneza Miloša 56, Belgrade
Welcome: Tanja Conley (University of Belgrade)
9.15 – 10.00
Joseph Abram (School of Architecture Nancy)
Perret, Le Corbusier, Zehrfuss: Reconstruction of Grand–Ensambles: the protection of modern housing in France from the post–WWII period
10.00 – 10.45
Gabi Dolff–Bonekämper (TU Berlin)
Macro–structures and Landscapes: Value and protection of Berlin’s 1960s and 1970s suburban settlements
Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.00
Elain Harwood (English Heritage)
Post – 1945 Housing in England
12.00 – 12.45
Marieke Kuipers (TU Delft)
Sites of Sobriety: Postwar Social Housing in the Netherlands
Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.45
Paola Di Biagi (University of Trieste)
Post WWII Social Housing in Italy: The public city as a laboratory for modern city theories and urban renewal contemporary perspective
14.45 – 15.30
Alessandra Cerroti (University of Rome)
Conservation and Restoration Matters in the Post–WWII Social Housing INCIS Estates in Rome: Villagio Olimpico and Decima
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.15
Giovanni Caudo (University of Rome)
DenSity, IntenCity: Housing in Italy
17:15 – 18:00
Piet Eckert (e2a Eckert Eckert Architekten, Switzerland)
E2A: Post CIAM Reconfiguration
18.00 – 19.00
DISCUSSION
Moderator Tanja Conley (University of Belgrade)
Saturday, July 4th 2009
10.00
Gathering in front of The Central Army Hall, Braće Jugovića 19
Guided bus tour: Superblocks of New Belgrade
Led by: Tanja Conley and Ivan Kucina
17.00
Institute of Urbanism Belgrade, Palmotićeva 30
Exhibition Presentation RE_Belgrade: Old and New
Student’s workshop Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade
18.00 – 19.30
Institute of Urbanism Belgrade, Palmotićeva 30
Roundtable: What Should We Do With New Belgrade?
Moderator: Žaklina Gligorijević (Institute of Urbanism Belgrade)
20.00
RECEPTION
The Conference is organized within the framework of The Fourth International Week of Architecture by the Association of Belgrade Architects and the Cultural Centre of Belgrade.
Posted by: Eva Prelovšek
