January 28th, 2013 – January 31st, 2013
– Parallel Modernities
conference / sweet sixties / Ashkal Alwan, Beirut / –

Location: Home Workspace - Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
Dates: January 28th — 30th, 2013

During the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the Southern hemisphere are replete with the spirit and forms of Modernity. Forms that transmogrify, and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star-maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains.

November 8th, 2012 – February 25th, 2013
– SOVIET MODERNISM 1955 – 1991. UNKNOWN STORIES
Exhibition / Az W / Vienna –

The Architekturzentrum Wien writes architectural (hi)stories: ‘Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories’ explores, for the first time comprehensively, the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics completed between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR in 1991. The research and exhibition project shifts the Russian-dominated perspective and focuses attention on the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan The Ukraine and Uzbekistan.