The lecture gives an overview of current requirements in urban development and urban design in Eastern Europe countries, especially in Ucraine and Russia. Specific fields of work for architects and planners on multilevel scale are to be discussed and solutions on basis of projects will be pointed out. keywords Central Eastern Europe, urban transformation, urban acupuncture, public space interventions The lecture will be done in english, both types of participation within Modul 12 or singular are possible. Timing lectures (theory) :
General topic 2012:
The Post_Socialist_Metropolis between top-down and bottom-up
Theoretical part
Two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the current global economic crisis currently slows down a so far quite dynamic urban development process in Central and Eastern European Countries. At the same time, the region is getting all prepared for two large-scale events that both constitute an enormous potential as well as challenges for the respective city regions: the European Football Championship in the Ukraine and Poland
2012 and the 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
In the midst of these urban development dynamics in Eastern Europe it is clearly comprehensible that these cities have been and still are exposed to dynamic operations of national and international private sector investors. Yet these investors hardly have any interest in integral urban development but are above all profit-oriented. This situation though still faces numerous urban planning challenges: immense backlog demands on the housing market and urban infrastructure, negligence of the public space, weak steering mechanisms and hardly any existing public relations for urban development themes.
We will specifically look at current urban development issues and examine their relevance for Central and Eastern European cities.
Practical part
advertising clip „Soviet_Modern_Spot”
in cooperation with Architekturzentrum Wien www.azw.at
The aim of the practical part is to produce a 10 sec. advertising clip on the exhibition SOVIET MODERNISM - UNKNOWN MASTERPIECES 1955 –1991. The exhibition explores the architecture completed in the 14 former-Soviet republics between the late 1950s and the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 and takes place from the 8th of November 2012 till the 11th february of 2013 at Architekturzentrum Wien.
The advertising clip should be produced in the form of either an animation or a sequence of images.
The subject matter should be the Modern Soviet Architecture, and both the exhibition and the Architekturzentrum Wien should be mentioned (i.e. advertised).
Further details in the class!
Timing
Theoretical part
thur 8 March 2012 II 14.00 – 18.00 hrs Sem 5
• Pre_view: General introduction: Architecture_Construction_Settlements within Module 12
• The Post Socialist Metropolis: contemporary urban development trends
• Slavutitch: The last foundation of a city in the history of the Soviet Union (1989).
thur 15 March 2012 II 14.00 – 18.00 hrs Sem 5
Top-Down:
• The Heritage of Large-scale Housing Development: Shrinking cities, ‘Plattenbau’ and other phenomena;
Case studies from Possojolok Kodowskowo/Odessa, Sychiv District/Lviv, Ukraine, Halle-Neustadt and Bijlmermeer/NL.
• Movie: “Platte mit Aussicht - Über das Neubaugebiet Dresden-Gorbitz”, Documentary by Uta Hergert
and Marcel Raabe, 2006, 80 min (in german language).
Guest lecture: „Urban Identity in the Post-Soviet Metropolis“
Prof. Bohdan Tscherkes, Lviv National University ¿
Date and Timing to be defined !
thur 22 March 2012 II 14.00 – 18.00 hrs Sem 5
Bottom-Up:
• From the kiosk to the informal market: The creation of new urban centralities by ‘market-cities’,
case studies: Kilometer Seven, Odessa and Jarmark Europa, Warsaw.
• Movie: “Jarmark Europa” Documentary by Minze Timmerscheidt, 2004, 120 min
Practical part
thur 29 March 2012 II 14.00 – 18.00 hrs Sem 5
• intro: Practical part: „Soviet_Modern_Spot”
Alexandra Viehhauser, Architektur Zentrum Wien: Kick-off, defining the project goals
April / May 2012
• Further meetings to be defined, according to individual availability
(wednesdays afternoon)
end of May 2012
• Final presentation of „Soviet_Modern_Spot”
final evaluation and feedback
Participants
• max. 25 - 30 students from Architecture and Planning
• other disciplines are welcome: multidisciplinarity is the main goal of this lecture;
• inscription by tuwis / email / or in the first lecture
Additional information
• The seminar can be taken as part of Module 12 or on its own
• Participation in the Design Programme (Entwerfen) „Harbourpolis Odessa 2012“ would be an asset
but is not required
• The seminar is part of the Academic Cooperation between Lviv State University of Ukraine and
Vienna University of Technology
• Further information on www.stb.tuwien.ac.at
