Wednesdays at AVU - Maroš Krivý - Urbanity 86 and the Critique of Housing Estates in the Time of Late Socialism
VVP AVU would like to invite you to a lecture from the spring cycle Wednesdays at AVU
20-4-2016, 18:00
MAROŠ KRIVÝ /Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn/
URBANITY 86 AND THE CRITIQUE OF HOUSING ESTATES IN LATE SOCIALISM
The exhibition Urbanity 86 (1986) marked the peak of the critique of housing estates, which architects in Czechoslovakia had been addressing since at least the 1970s. Maroš Krivý will present variants of this critique (reformist, ironic, and cynical) within the social-institutional framework of late socialism. He will emphasize the parallels between the reception of postmodernism and the renewed interest in socialist realism, such as the thematization of architecture as a living environment that influences individual psychology. Finally, he will introduce a hypothesis about the continuity between the critique of housing estates and post-socialist neoliberal urbanization.
Maroš Krivý (*1981) is the head of the Department of Urban Studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki in Finland (2012). His research focuses on the history of the critique of housing estates and late-socialist reception of postmodernism in Czech and Slovak architecture. His publications include Greyness and Colour Desires: The Chromatic Politics of the Panelák In Late-Socialist and Post-Socialist Czechoslovakia (Journal of Architecture, 2015) and Postmodernism or Socialist Realism? The Architecture of Housing Estates in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2016). His articles have also been published in the journals Footprint, City, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. In 2014, he organized the conference Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanizations: Architecture, Land and Property Rights (Tallinn). He addresses similar themes in his visual work (New Coat of Paint, Political Economy of Landscape). He is the winner of the sittcomm.award (2011).
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
U Akademie 4, aula – 3rd floor
Organized by the Scientific-Research Institute of AVU in collaboration with the Department of Theory and History of Art at AVU.
Technical support by Digilab AVU, online stream by Czech Television.
Lectures are available online at the streaming page www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/extra or later from the recordings in iVysílání.
More information >
20-4-2016, 18:00
MAROŠ KRIVÝ /Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn/
URBANITY 86 AND THE CRITIQUE OF HOUSING ESTATES IN LATE SOCIALISM
The exhibition Urbanity 86 (1986) marked the peak of the critique of housing estates, which architects in Czechoslovakia had been addressing since at least the 1970s. Maroš Krivý will present variants of this critique (reformist, ironic, and cynical) within the social-institutional framework of late socialism. He will emphasize the parallels between the reception of postmodernism and the renewed interest in socialist realism, such as the thematization of architecture as a living environment that influences individual psychology. Finally, he will introduce a hypothesis about the continuity between the critique of housing estates and post-socialist neoliberal urbanization.
Maroš Krivý (*1981) is the head of the Department of Urban Studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki in Finland (2012). His research focuses on the history of the critique of housing estates and late-socialist reception of postmodernism in Czech and Slovak architecture. His publications include Greyness and Colour Desires: The Chromatic Politics of the Panelák In Late-Socialist and Post-Socialist Czechoslovakia (Journal of Architecture, 2015) and Postmodernism or Socialist Realism? The Architecture of Housing Estates in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2016). His articles have also been published in the journals Footprint, City, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. In 2014, he organized the conference Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanizations: Architecture, Land and Property Rights (Tallinn). He addresses similar themes in his visual work (New Coat of Paint, Political Economy of Landscape). He is the winner of the sittcomm.award (2011).
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
U Akademie 4, aula – 3rd floor
Organized by the Scientific-Research Institute of AVU in collaboration with the Department of Theory and History of Art at AVU.
Technical support by Digilab AVU, online stream by Czech Television.
Lectures are available online at the streaming page www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/extra or later from the recordings in iVysílání.
More information >
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