Marcela Hanáčková: CIAM and the Cold War - lecture at Gallery VI PER
Helena Syrkus between modern architecture and socialist realism
VI PER cordially invites you to a lecture and guided tour, which will take place as a part of the accompanying program for the exhibition Interwoven: Women Architects and the Resilience of Modernist Networks.
During the early Cold War, Polish architect Helena Syrkus delivered a speech at the seventh CIAM congress in Bergamo (1949), which created considerable stir within the organization advocating for the principles of modern architecture, as she defended the positions of her ideological counterpart – socialist realism. The lecture and subsequent tour of the exhibition will reveal the political, discursive, and personal motivations behind this event in a broader context.
Marcela Hanáčková is a historian of architecture. She primarily focuses on the architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. She studied art history at Charles University Faculty of Arts and humanities at Charles University Faculty of Humanities. She defended her doctorate at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. Currently, she works as a research assistant at the Department of Landscape and Garden Architecture, Faculty of AgriSciences, MENDELU in Brno.
During the early Cold War, Polish architect Helena Syrkus delivered a speech at the seventh CIAM congress in Bergamo (1949), which created considerable stir within the organization advocating for the principles of modern architecture, as she defended the positions of her ideological counterpart – socialist realism. The lecture and subsequent tour of the exhibition will reveal the political, discursive, and personal motivations behind this event in a broader context.
Marcela Hanáčková is a historian of architecture. She primarily focuses on the architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. She studied art history at Charles University Faculty of Arts and humanities at Charles University Faculty of Humanities. She defended her doctorate at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. Currently, she works as a research assistant at the Department of Landscape and Garden Architecture, Faculty of AgriSciences, MENDELU in Brno.
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