(DIS)CONTINUITIES: SPACES OF MODERNITY 1900-1950

A conference organized by the Order of the Romanian Architects, the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZOUniversity of Leipzig) and the National University of Arts (Bucharest), with the support of the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism (Bucharest) Co-ordinator: Carmen Popescu

Venue: UNAgaleria, 10 G-ral Buditeanu Street (Bucharest) Dates: November 26-27, 2010

Friday, November 26 9:00-9:30 OPENING: Carmen Popescu/ Marina Dmitrieva/ Ruxandra Demetrescu

DISCONTINUITIES? CHRONOLOGY, METHODOLOGY, TOPICS 9:30-10:15 Jean-Louis Cohen (Institute of Fine Arts, New York): White Spots and Steel Storms: Architects During the Second World War 10:15-10:30 questions 10:30-10:50 COFFEE BREAK

First session: RE-ASSESSING MODERNISM Moderator: Magda Crneci 10:50-11:30 Eva Forgacs (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena): Perceptions of Modernity and Harnessing Modernist Styles 11:30-12:00 Mihaela Criticos (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism): Modernity and historical model in architecture (1900-1950). The case of Romania or the double mimesis 12:00-12:30 Ruxandra Demetrescu (National University of Arts): The artist as an individualist. A case-study: the painter Theodor Pallady

12:30-13:00 questions

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

Second session: LIVING IN MODERNITY: DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES Moderator: Anamaria Zahariade 14:30-15:10 Hilde Heynen (Catholic University, Leuven): Revisiting modernities in architecture. The impact of gender studies on architectural theory and history 15:10-15:40 Marina Dmitrieva (GWZO): From Communal House to communalka: Socialist private space through the eyes of foreign travelers, 1920s-1930s 15:40-16:10 Irina Crba (Institute of Art History, Bucharest): Max Herman Maxy. Art Deco in Avant-garde 16:10-16:40 questions 16:40-17:00 COFFEE BREAK 17:00-17:30 tefan Ghenciulescu (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism; journal Arhitectura): I am modern! Architecture and the social image in inter-war Romania, as expressed by the average production and vernacular modernism 17:30-18:00 Irina Tulbure (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism; journal Arhitectura): Changing Policies: Social Housing from the Establishment of the Communal Society for Low-Cost Dwellings to the First Years of the Communist Regime 18:00-18:20 questions

Saturday, November 27 Third session: GEOGRAPHY MATTERS: TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES, LINKING TERRITORIES Moderator: Carmen Popescu 9:00-9:40 Kazmer Kovacs (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism): Modernity in terms of boundaries 9:40-10:10 Toader Popescu (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism: Ubiquitous modernity: Railway stations in Romania before the Second World War 10:10-10:40 Irina Popescu-Criveanu (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism: Bucharest in the first half of the 20th century: between the modern city and its lost villages 10:40-11:00 questions

11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK 11:15-11:45 Robert Born (GWZO): Modernity and Periphery. The Case of Transylvania between 1918 and 1944 11:45-12:15 Ada Hajdu (National University of Arts): Nicolae Ghika-Budeti - Writing and Practicing Tradition 12:15-12:45Arnold Bartetzky (GWZO): "The Modernisation of Tradition. Retrospective Tendencies in Polish Architecture after World War I and II" 12:45-13:15 questions

13:15-14:30 LUNCH

15:00-18:15 MUSEUM OF THE ROMANIAN PEASANT Visit of the exhibition: SPACE OF THE ROMANIAN MODERNITY 1906-1947 Projection of period films: LEISURE: BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE SUBURB TRIPS/ TOURISM/ EXHIBITIONS (short) Visit of the museum