WESTERN TEMPTATIONS IN COLD WAR TIMES - International Influences in Yugoslav Architecture (1945 – 90) Conference is happening on 5th of November at 10:30 a.m. at Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana.

Within the post-war European geopolitical partition, Socialist Yugoslavia enjoyed a peculiar condition: far from being permeable to international influences as western democracies, but even further from living the autarchic circumstances of other eastern Socialist countries. The Yugoslavian architectural scene was characterized by different contexts, that developed alternative and heterogeneous interests, languages, professional and cultural paths. These paths were marked, by the strong imprint given by the local cultural traditions, architectural schools and professional practice. On the other side, these diversities were determined by the different international “models”, chosen as examples for the post-war reconstruction and subsequent modernization of the country. The conference will present, by exploring explicit case studies, the different forms of international influences that manifested themselves in ex-Yugoslavian architecture, periodicals, books, architectural theories.

Lecturers:
Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Institute of Art History, Zagreb
Martina Malešič, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana
Luka Skansi, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka
Vladimir Kulić, Florida Atlantic University
Dubravka Sekulić, ETH Zurich
Jelica Jovanović, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna
Karin Šerman, Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb
Renata Margaretić Urlić, Zagreb
Aleksa Korolija, Politecnico di Milano
prof. Aleš Vodopivec, Faculty of Architecture UL

Programme:
10.30 Welcome and Opening of the convenors
Session I
11.00 Tamara Bjažić, With Le Corbusier in Person – Hosting the Exhibition „Le Corbusier“ in Yugoslavia in 1952 and 1953
11.30 Martina Malešič, Scandinavian Models for Slovenian homes. Scandinavian influences in Slovenian housing culture after WWII
12.00 Luka Skansi, Streets and Megastructures. The multiple origins of Braco Mušič’s urban design theories
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
Session II
14.00 Vladimir Kulić, Ford’s Architects
14.30 Dubravka Sekulić, Learning from North and South
15.00 Jelica Jovanović, “Yugoslavs Built This” - an Odd Case of Yugoslav Construction in Czechoslovakia
coffee break
Session III
16.00 Karin Šerman, Renata Margaretić Urlić, Jacob Bakema and Croatian architectural scene: Team 10 ideas influencing the local modernist tradition
16.30 Aleksa Korolija, Bogdanović’s picturesque architecture
Keynote address
17.00 prof. Aleš Vodopivec, Ravnikar’s intellectual horizon apart from foreign role models

Curated by Luka Skansi. The conference will be held in English.

Admission is free.