Seminar: Absolutely fabulous! Optimistic designs for new societies (1945-1985)

After World War II, there was an urge for optimistic designs. After a long dark period of economic decline and misery, from the stock exchange crash of 1929 to 1945, society needed to be rebuilt and, above all, improved. Architects, urban planners and landscape architects enjoyed playing a major role in this. They wholesaled in optimistic designs that bear witness to a great belief in makeable societies, whether plans for new housing estates in Capelle aan den IJssel, futuristic polyester architecture or university campuses in Twente, Turkey, Mexico and Africa are concerned. These often happy and not infrequently outrageous designs are the focus of this seminar on the years 1945-1985: Absolutely fabulous!

Three recent publications will be addressed this afternoon: Docomomo Journal No 69 focuses on buildings for higher education in Africa. OverHolland 22 rereads the TU Twente campus in the context of national and international developments. The Post 65 theme issue of the Bulletin KNOB examines young heritage from the period 1965 to 1990 in the Netherlands.
Chairman of the day Reinout Rutte talks with Wido Quist, Esther Gramsbergen Kees Somer who provide the three lectures.

Registration

Participation is free, you can register here. Send for online participation an email to Judith Fraune.

More information

More information can be found here or send an email to Judith Fraune.