Kimberly Zarecor : Ostrava Réelle et Imaginaire
Antique Bookstore and Club Fiducia, in collaboration with architectural historian Martin Strakoš, invites you to a lecture:
Kimberly Zarecor
Ostrava Real and Imagined
December 7, 2011, at 6:00 PM
Lecture by the American researcher on the architecture of Ostrava's housing estates.
The lecture will focus on summarizing the development of postwar modernism in Ostrava. It will discuss the construction of the city from functionalist architecture in the 1940s to the period of socialist realism, culminating in late modernism from the 1960s to the 1980s. The focus will be on the development of satellite housing estates in Poruba and Ostrava-Jih. The author will share her experiences in Ostrava over ten years of research that she began in 2002. She will present her views on the city through the lens of an architect with different cultural experiences and a sustained interest in events in Ostrava beyond just urbanism and architecture. Therefore, she will also focus on changes regarding public space, questions related to architectural quality, and attempt to answer why Ostrava needs good architecture and what the current possibilities are for the postindustrial city.
Assoc. Prof. Kimberly Zarecor, M.Arch, PhD. (Iowa State University, USA) American architect and architectural historian. She teaches at Iowa State University in the USA and engages in studio work and lectures on the history of architecture. She is interested in the transformations of architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries in former Czechoslovakia, specializing in the cultural, architectural, urban, and technological changes of housing estates and social construction during the socialist era. She published the book "Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) on the development of postwar Czechoslovak architecture and panel construction. Currently, she is residing in Ostrava for a six-month research stay as a Fulbright Foundation scholar at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Ostrava and at the Department of Art History in the Philosophical Faculty of Ostrava University.
This lecture, presented in English, will discuss the development of postwar modernism in Ostrava from the functionalist architecture of the 1940s to the era of socialist realism in the 1950s and late modernism in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In particular, the lecture will examine the housing estates in Poruba and Ostrava-Jih. The author will draw upon her experiences in Ostrava during almost ten years of research from 2002 until today. She will offer listeners her opinions about the city as seen through the eyes of an architect with other cultural experiences and a continuing interest in events in Ostrava beyond just architecture and urbanism. The discussion will also address changes in the use of public space, questions about architectural quality, arguments about why Ostrava
needs good architecture, and what the current possibilities are for the postindustrial city.
Assoc. Prof. Kimberly Zarecor, M.Arch, PhD. (Iowa State University, USA)
American architect and historian of architecture who teaches design studios and history courses at Iowa State University where she is an Associate Professor of Architecture. She completed her M.Arch and PhD. at Columbia University in New York. Her research concerns the development of twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture in the former Czechoslovakia with a specialization in the cultural, architectural, urban, and technological development of housing estates and mass housing in the socialist period. Her book, Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), looks at the development of postwar architecture in Czechoslovakia and the history of prefabricated panel buildings. She is currently in Ostrava for five months on a Fulbright Research Grant and is affiliated with the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Ostrava and the Department of Art History in the Philosophical Faculty at Ostrava University.
Kimberly Zarecor
Ostrava Real and Imagined
December 7, 2011, at 6:00 PM
Lecture by the American researcher on the architecture of Ostrava's housing estates.
The lecture will focus on summarizing the development of postwar modernism in Ostrava. It will discuss the construction of the city from functionalist architecture in the 1940s to the period of socialist realism, culminating in late modernism from the 1960s to the 1980s. The focus will be on the development of satellite housing estates in Poruba and Ostrava-Jih. The author will share her experiences in Ostrava over ten years of research that she began in 2002. She will present her views on the city through the lens of an architect with different cultural experiences and a sustained interest in events in Ostrava beyond just urbanism and architecture. Therefore, she will also focus on changes regarding public space, questions related to architectural quality, and attempt to answer why Ostrava needs good architecture and what the current possibilities are for the postindustrial city.
Assoc. Prof. Kimberly Zarecor, M.Arch, PhD. (Iowa State University, USA) American architect and architectural historian. She teaches at Iowa State University in the USA and engages in studio work and lectures on the history of architecture. She is interested in the transformations of architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries in former Czechoslovakia, specializing in the cultural, architectural, urban, and technological changes of housing estates and social construction during the socialist era. She published the book "Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) on the development of postwar Czechoslovak architecture and panel construction. Currently, she is residing in Ostrava for a six-month research stay as a Fulbright Foundation scholar at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Ostrava and at the Department of Art History in the Philosophical Faculty of Ostrava University.
This lecture, presented in English, will discuss the development of postwar modernism in Ostrava from the functionalist architecture of the 1940s to the era of socialist realism in the 1950s and late modernism in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In particular, the lecture will examine the housing estates in Poruba and Ostrava-Jih. The author will draw upon her experiences in Ostrava during almost ten years of research from 2002 until today. She will offer listeners her opinions about the city as seen through the eyes of an architect with other cultural experiences and a continuing interest in events in Ostrava beyond just architecture and urbanism. The discussion will also address changes in the use of public space, questions about architectural quality, arguments about why Ostrava
needs good architecture, and what the current possibilities are for the postindustrial city.
Assoc. Prof. Kimberly Zarecor, M.Arch, PhD. (Iowa State University, USA)
American architect and historian of architecture who teaches design studios and history courses at Iowa State University where she is an Associate Professor of Architecture. She completed her M.Arch and PhD. at Columbia University in New York. Her research concerns the development of twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture in the former Czechoslovakia with a specialization in the cultural, architectural, urban, and technological development of housing estates and mass housing in the socialist period. Her book, Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), looks at the development of postwar architecture in Czechoslovakia and the history of prefabricated panel buildings. She is currently in Ostrava for five months on a Fulbright Research Grant and is affiliated with the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Ostrava and the Department of Art History in the Philosophical Faculty at Ostrava University.
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