Transit Point

Transit Point: Mitteleuropa Thursday–Friday September 8–9, 2016 Transit Point This symposium, convened to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “Oskar Hansen, Open Form,” explores Mitteleuropa and its strong multi-cultural, intellectual, and artistic legacy. The symposium highlights that the region has historically served as a transit point for people of different cultural backgrounds and nationalities, providing a fertile ground for the convergence of different artistic media as well as intellectual and interdisciplinary exchanges. Friday, September 9 9:30am 3rd loor Room 322 Trans-National: Politics and Networks Marci Shore Yale University “The Cosmopolitan Utopia of Central Europe” Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen Yale University “Le Carré Bleu: Communicating (Architecture) Across Borders” David Crowley Royal College of Art, London “Architecture as Futurology in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s” Thursday, September 8 12:30pm Exhibition Tour “Oskar Hansen: Open Form” 2nd floor Architecture Gallery Aleksandra Kędziorek Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 6:30pm Keynote Address Brendan Gill Lecture Łukasz Stanek “Socialist Architecture Goes Global” Moderator Kevin Repp Yale University Kędziorek Stanek Shore Pelkonen Crowley Repp Świtek Kulić Şerban Suthor Trans-Medial: Art And Architecture Gabriela Świtek University of Warsaw “‘Years Later…’: Oskar Hansen’s Open Form and the Horizon of Expectations” Vladimir Kulić Florida Atlantic University “Bogdan Bogdanović’s Open Meaning” Alina Şerban [National University of Arts Bucharest] “Sigma: Cartography of Learning 1969–1983” Moderator Nicola Suthor Yale University Y architecture Mitteleuropa Yale School of Architecture Paul Rudolph Hall, Hastings Hall (basement floor), unless otherwise indicated, 180 York Street, New Haven, CT The symposium is supported in part by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and the Brendan Gill Lectureship Fund. The Yale School of Architecture is a Registered Provider with The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems. Credit earned by attending this symposium will be reported to CES Records for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for non-AIA members are available upon request. Hastings Hall is equipped with assisted hearing devices for guests using hearing aids that have a “T” coil.