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SUMMARY:Geopolitics and International Modernism in Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Modernism in architecture has long been associated with human progress and universalism. It has also\, at times\, been criticized as contributing to a loss of identity and genius loci\, and even blamed for the alienation and social failures of anonymous suburban landscapes. \nThis panel considers the relevance of these opposing verdicts and examines the geopolitical incentives behind the spread of modernist architecture across borders in the East\, the West\, and the Global South from the Cold War period to the present. Topics include utopian and dystopian visions of global modern architecture; architecture as a form of soft diplomacy; tensions between political motivations and architectural practice; the role of architectural tourism; and the status of international modernism today. It will be moderated by Joes Segal\, the Wende’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming. \nSusan Horowitz is an artist/curator based in NY and LA whose case study/documentary projects explore modernist architecture\, urbanization\, architectural tourism and preservation. These interests reflect study of the UNESCO World Heritage program\, Getty Keeping It Modern Initiatives\, arts restitution\, museum exhibitions on modern architecture and involvement with advocacy/preservation programs of the World Monument Fund and Docomomo. The focus of this art practice\, which began with projects about early modern LA architecture\, led to a parallel project as director of preservation projects for hamptons20centurymodern.org\, presenting the under-the-radar\, threatened modernist heritage in the Hamptons. Currently a monograph and exhibition based on a notable Hamptons architect team focused on their archive and the current house owners as preservationists is underway. \nDavid Ruy’s work develops out of a single observation: what we take to be reality is largely built out of representations—buildings\, images\, interfaces\, stories. This insight has driven thirty years of design practice and theoretical writing\, work sustained by an ongoing engagement with emerging creative technologies. He has founded graduate programs and lectured throughout Asia\, Europe\, and the Americas. His work has been collected by prominent institutions and is frequently cited in studies of contemporary design culture. Presently\, he writes and lectures on the ramifications of artificial intelligence for cultural production while advising institutions and companies worldwide on design innovation and cultural strategy. He is on the faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles\, having previously held appointments at Columbia University\, Princeton University\, University of Pennsylvania\, and Pratt Institute. \nŁukasz Stanek is Professor at A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He also holds a dry appointment at the Department of History\, University of Michigan. Stanek is the author of Henry Lefebvre on Space: Architecture\, Urban Research\, and the Production of Theory (University of Minnesota Press\, 2011) and Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe\, West Africa\, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton University Press\, 2020). He curated several exhibitions\, including The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture (Architekturmuseum der TUM\, Munich\, 2024). Stanek is co-curator of the Wende’s current exhibition Intersections: The Architecture of Victor Adegbite and Charles Polónyi in Ghana. \nJoe Day is an architect and theorist in Los Angeles\, where he leads Deegan-Day Design LLC and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at SCI-Arc. In both his design and writing\, Day examines the intersections of contemporary art\, urbanism and architecture as visual disciplines. He contributed an additional foreword to the 2009 edition of Reyner Banham’s seminal study\, Los Angeles: Architecture of the Four Ecologies (University of California Press\, 2009)\, and in the spring of 2012 taught at Yale School of Architecture as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Chair. Day’s recent Corrections & Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime (Routledge\, 2013) explores new polarities in contemporary architecture and urbanism. He serves on the Board of Trustees at SCI-Arc\, and as a Director at the W.M. Keck Foundation. \nThis program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Intersections: The Architecture of Victor Adegbite and Charles Polónyi in Ghana\, guest-curated by Łukasz Stanek and Michael Dziwornu\, in collaboration with Dana Salama. \nImage: Lina Bo Bardi (architect)\, Sesc Pompéia\, São Paulo\, Brasil. Photography: Susan Horowitz.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/geopolitics-and-international-modernism-in-architecture/
LOCATION:Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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SUMMARY:Never Again Is Now (“Nie wieder ist jetzt”)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, February 25\, for an evening of reading and conversation with author and illustrator Stephanie Lunkewitz and Holocaust survivor Mary Bauer\, presented in partnership with the Goethe International Charter School. \nStephanie Lunkewitz will speak about the life of Eva Szepesi\, whose Holocaust testimony she illustrated and narrated in her book Ich war Eva Diamant. She will reflect on how Eva Szepesi’s story has become intertwined with her own life\, and on the responsibility of carrying survivor voices forward through art and storytelling. \nMary Bauer will share reflections on her own experiences as a survivor\, offering a firsthand account of the long aftermath of the Shoah. \nTogether\, the conversation will explore how three very different lives\, Eva’s\, Mary’s\, and Stephanie’s\, intersect\, and what these interwoven stories reveal about remembrance\, responsibility\, and the urgency behind the phrase “Never Again Means Now.” \nThe discussion will be moderated by Anne-Christine Witzgall\, author and co-founder of the Goethe International Charter School. \nPrior the program\, guests are invited to a complimentary garden reception beginning at 6pm. The program will begin in the A-Frame Theater at 7pm. \nBios \nStephanie Lunkewitz is a German-American illustrator and author who grew up in East Germany and came to the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her work spans textile design\, illustration\, and children’s literature. Lunkewitz divides her time between Frankfurt and Los Angeles. \nMary Bauer was born in Budapest in 1927 and survived Auschwitz-Birkenau\, multiple camps\, and a death march before being liberated in 1945. She immigrated to the United States in 1951 and has since dedicated herself to Holocaust education through schools\, colleges\, and the Holocaust Museum Los Angeles. \nAnne-Christine Witzgall was born in West Berlin and is an author and co-founder of the Goethe International Charter School\, where she works at the intersection of education\, literature\, and cultural exchange. She holds a Masters in Journalism and is a tour guide at the Museum of Tolerance.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/never-again-is-now/
LOCATION:Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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