Gintaras Balčytis: Interwar Architecture of Lithuanian Kaunas
On Friday, November 13, at 9:30 AM, a lecture titled Interwar Architecture of Lithuanian Kaunas will take place in room A 2014 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology. The lecture will be delivered by architect Gintaras Balčytis, director of the Kaunas Architecture Festival. The introductory speech will be given by Associate Professor PhDr. Martin Horáček, Ph.D., Institute of Architecture, FAST VUT in Brno. The lecture and subsequent discussion will be held in English.
25 Years of Independence Lithuania Celebrates with an Exhibition of Interwar Modern Architecture in Brno
In November, the exhibition of the modernist architecture of the city of Kaunas, which was the temporary capital of the First Lithuanian Republic from 1920-40, is taking place at Villa Stiassni in Brno. On the occasion of the quarter-century celebration of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence, the exhibition will showcase the unique blooming of architecture in the Baltic region, influenced by the Bauhaus school and functionalism.
According to the exhibition's author, director of the Kaunas Architecture Festival Gintaras Balčytis, the city of Kaunas, during the dynamic events of the early 20th century, unexpectedly gained a significant place on the map of Europe, seizing the opportunity to become an important European city and center of interwar architectural modernism. This style became its new hallmark, its new face. To this day, the city retains an indelible aura of a free city and a place with a rebellious spirit that influences the entire later epoch of Lithuanian new architecture.
“On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of our Independence, we are presenting to the Brno audience the city that became a symbol of the First Lithuanian Republic, as well as the era of our state’s return to the map of Europe in the early 1990s. Kaunas, like Brno, is the second-largest city of our state, so it is characterized by a similar significance and atmosphere,” says Ambassador Edvilas Raudonikis on behalf of the organizing Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Prague.
On March 11, 1990, the Lithuanian Supreme Council declared the restoration of the Independence of the Lithuanian Republic and its statehood, continuing the pre-war tradition of independence in building a modern free state.
The traveling exhibition Interwar Architecture of Kaunas, which can be viewed at Villa Stiassni from November 14 to December 13, was prepared by the Kaunas Architecture Festival and co-organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Prague with partners, the City of Brno Municipality, and the Methodical Center for Modern Architecture in Brno at the National Heritage Institute.
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25 Years of Independence Lithuania Celebrates with an Exhibition of Interwar Modern Architecture in Brno
In November, the exhibition of the modernist architecture of the city of Kaunas, which was the temporary capital of the First Lithuanian Republic from 1920-40, is taking place at Villa Stiassni in Brno. On the occasion of the quarter-century celebration of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence, the exhibition will showcase the unique blooming of architecture in the Baltic region, influenced by the Bauhaus school and functionalism.
According to the exhibition's author, director of the Kaunas Architecture Festival Gintaras Balčytis, the city of Kaunas, during the dynamic events of the early 20th century, unexpectedly gained a significant place on the map of Europe, seizing the opportunity to become an important European city and center of interwar architectural modernism. This style became its new hallmark, its new face. To this day, the city retains an indelible aura of a free city and a place with a rebellious spirit that influences the entire later epoch of Lithuanian new architecture.
“On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of our Independence, we are presenting to the Brno audience the city that became a symbol of the First Lithuanian Republic, as well as the era of our state’s return to the map of Europe in the early 1990s. Kaunas, like Brno, is the second-largest city of our state, so it is characterized by a similar significance and atmosphere,” says Ambassador Edvilas Raudonikis on behalf of the organizing Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Prague.
On March 11, 1990, the Lithuanian Supreme Council declared the restoration of the Independence of the Lithuanian Republic and its statehood, continuing the pre-war tradition of independence in building a modern free state.
The traveling exhibition Interwar Architecture of Kaunas, which can be viewed at Villa Stiassni from November 14 to December 13, was prepared by the Kaunas Architecture Festival and co-organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Prague with partners, the City of Brno Municipality, and the Methodical Center for Modern Architecture in Brno at the National Heritage Institute.
More Information >
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