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Heritage rejected Austria and Nazi Architecture Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Podium Symposium: 15 September 2006 - 16 September 2006 Tickets: Admission free! Organised by: Architekturzentrum Wien, Bundesdenkmalamt Nazi architecture in Austria is not just comprised of the Vienna Flak Towers, the Führerstadt Linz or the currently debated Hitler Room at the Vienna Volkstheater. During the seven years of Nazi rule in Austria barracks, factories and works buildings, schools, administrative buildings and, above all, numerous housing complexes and estates were completed that are still in use today as a matter of course. Frequently well functioning and often idyllic and harmless in appearance, the context in which the architecture was originally made is now unknown to many people. The symposium, organised by the Architekturzentrum Wien and the Bundesdenkmalamt (the Austrian Federal conservation authorities) in collaboration, poses questions about the appropriate treatment of these buildings, looking at the tense dialectic between the history of their creation and their everyday use. German and Austrian experts analyse and discuss the inventory of Nazi architecture in Austria and the history both of its completion and its usage since then. The aim of the symposium is to provide an impulse for a long overdue reflection on the taboo theme of the presence of the Nazi architectural legacy in this country. In German only! FRIDAY 15.09.06 NAZI ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRIA Moderated by Dietmar Steiner 2pm welcome Wilhelm Georg Rizzi Dietmar Steiner 2.30pm State Protection for Nazi Buildings – An Austrian Dilemma? / Eva-Maria Höhle, Bundesdenkmalamt 3.15pm The Normalcy of Nazi Planning / Klaus Steiner, Urban Planner 4pm – 4.30pm break 4.30pm Observations on Linz 1938–45 / Wilfried Posch, Professor of Urban Development, University of Applied Arts, Linz 5.15pm The Flak Towers in Vienna – The Usability of the Unusable / Ute Bauer, architect 6pm – 6.30pm break 6:30pm Invisible Nazi Architecture. Subterranean Arms Factories on Austrian Territory / Bertrand Perz, Historian 7:15pm "There should be a town where the camp once stood." (The Oranienburg Appraisal 1992/93) / Hermann Czech, Architect From 8pm, discussion moderated by Dietmar Steiner SATURDAY 16.09.06 Morning THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT Moderated by Barbara Feller 10:00 Architects in the Third Reich / Werner Durth, Professor of Architecture History and Theory, TU-Darmstadt 10:45 Building Under the Nazi Regime – A Quantitative Analysis and the Context / Winfried Nerdingerm Director Architekturmuseum der TU Munich 11:30 – 12:00 break 12:00 Conservation and Industrial Architecture of the Nazi Era. Examples from Westphalia / Federal State Conservator emeritus, Westfahlen 12:45 Architecture and Fascism / Jan Tabor, Forum für Experimentelle Architektur 1.30pm – 3.30pm lunch break SATURDAY 16.09.06 Aftertnoon NAZI ARCHITECTURE TODAY Moderated by Eva-Maria Höhle 3pm Architecture in the Fading Horizon of Contemporary History / Wilfried Lipp, Federal State Conservator of Upper Austria 3.45pm Inherit and Maintain / Friedrich Achleitner, Architecture Theoretician 4.30pm – 5pm break 5.00pm Dealing with a Difficult Legacy / Norbert Huse, Professor of History of Arts, TU Munich 5.45pm Propaganda film – Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers (The Buildings of Adolf Hitler, 1938 by Walter Hege, 16 mins.) 6.30pm closing discussion moderated by Dietmar Steiner and Eva-Maria Höhle Additional Events Exhibition: 'Atlantic Wall. Cast Concrete Insanity – 12,000 German Coastal Bunkers' Wed, 13.09.06 at 7pm, opening of the exhibition, Az W / F3 14.09 – 09.10.2006 Admission free! Excursion SOLD OUT sundays 177. vienna nazi walls Sun, 17.09.06 / Venue 1:45 pm at the Az W-Shop |
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Heritage rejected Biographies (German only!) Press Release: Nazi Focus at the Architekturzentrum Wien Gallery: Pictures taken during the Symposium Links: Bundesdenkmalamt Information: Anneke Essl Tel.: +43 (1) 522 31 15 - 11 Fax: +43 (1) 522 31 17 Email: essl@azw.at |
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