Oct 15 – Nov 15 / MNAC, Izvor St. 2-4, wing E4, Bucharest, Romania
An exhibition by the S AM – Swiss Architecture Museum – Basel in cooperation with Az W Architekturzentrum Wien, Kai Vockler – curator, supported by ERSTE Stiftung
Extensive informal construction that began with the end of the Socialist economic system has resulted in a radical transformation of urban structures and a new form of urbanisation. With examples from Belgrade, Bucharest, Kotor, Pula, Prishtina, Sofia, Tirana and Zagreb, the exhibition Balkonology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in Southeast Europe shows how architects, urbanists and activists engage with the rapid processes of urban transformation in a context of their cultural, social and political dimensions in the Balkan countries.
As an initiative – supported by ERSTE Stiftung from the outset – the exhibition opens up a new field, and provides an overview of the little known post-Socialist architecture as well as the result of unregulated and uncontrolled urban growth in the countries of Southeast Europe.
We invite you to the opening event, Friday, 15.10.2010, at 6:30 pm, MNAC, Izvor St. 2-4, wing E4, Bucharest, Romania / Entrance from Calea 13 Septembrie. Admission free.
