Architecture and construction play a prominent role in the field. The main issues to be discussed, as CHRISTOPH BERNHARDT Erkner pointed out in his opening remarks, were the circulation of knowledge, patterns of appropriation β thus problematizing concepts of linear transfer β, the identification of actors of such appropriation, the reimport of ideas and the critical evaluation of the Cold War as a dominant framework of socialist architectural export.
The report will present the individual papers following these main points of discussion, therefore slightly departing from the original conference order.
She presented her ethnographic study about a mass housing project in the city of Vinh Vietnam. It was launched by GDR architects on Vietnamese invitation in the s.
Today, female tenants do their cooking together, but outside in the courtyard. Courtyards were not only transformed into kitchens but also into gardens and accommodating chickens.
Instead of the planned basements, today the ground floors house small shops, dentists or bird markets. The intended borders of clearly separated functional spaces are thus continuously blurred.
