CFP:East West Central 01: Re-humanizing architecture. New forms of community 1950-70 - Zürich 05/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Dr. Ákos Moravánszky, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, ETH Zürich 16.05.2013-17.05.2013, Zürich, ETH Zürich Deadline: 01.11.2013 Since the end of World War II, Europe has undergone several phases of building and re-building under the influence of different political systems and, connected to these systems, different ideas concern-ing the built environment and its production. State-socialist countries and capitalist welfare states alike enlisted architecture and urbanism in the organization of new social and economic environments not only to meet basic needs, but to establish new forms of community and cultural identity. While the two systems initially embraced ideological and economic recovery on both sides since the late 1950s. Nevertheless, across Europe protagonists such as Team X urged for a re-establishment of traditional and regional patterns in order to "humanize" environmental design. They proposed new forms of community, criticizing functionalist principles of urbanism as propagated by the CIAM. The aim of the symposium is to analyze proposals to re-humanize architecture by placing them in the context of intellectual debates around New Humanism, aesthetic concepts such as (Socialist) Realism and philosophical currents like Existentialism. We seek to re-assess the role of alternative discourses and spatial concepts about the forms of community in post-war modernization processes. We welcome con-tributions that - trace representations of the new society, public space and interferences between art and architecture, - study spatial strategies of community building in urban and rural situations as well as in the con-texts of work and leisure - investigate concepts such as the neighborhood or micro-rayon and compare integral models for living, working and leisure in both parts of Europe. We encourage the use of comparative methods to produce qualified,relational, and contextual ac-counts of discourses in architecture and urbanism, of competition and cooperation, mutual influences or alternative paths across European countries. This may take the form of investigating (to name a few): - related concepts of architecture and urbanism in Eastern and Western countries. - competing paths or developments within a single country or among a network of actors. - the implementation of similar concepts in different geographical or social contexts. Please send an abstract of up to 300 words and a brief biography (max.150 words) to: [email protected] Abstracts can be submitted until Friday, November 1st, 2013. The selected participants will be informed by Monday, December 2nd, 2013. Full papers due: March 15th, 2014
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