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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Artinfo Digest, Vol 58, Issue 9 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, December 8, 2007 12:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 07:24:43 -0800 (PST) From: Torok Borbala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [artinfo] journal launch and Ákos Moravánszky lecture at CEU Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies and Comparative Urban Studies Workshop, CEU cordially invite you to the launching of the thematic issue Urban History in East Central Europe of the journal East Central Europe (ECE) 33 (2006) 1-2 followed by an open lecture Coincidentia oppositorum? Competing Visions in the Work of István Medgyaszay by Ákos Moravánszky Central European Unoversity, 1051 Nádor u. 9, Monument Building Thursday, 13 December, 6 p.m., Gellner Room In his lecture, Prof. Moravánszky will start a polemic with his own thesis, expressed in his path-breaking book Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European architecture, 1867-1918 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1998). He will focus on the architect István Medgyaszay's search for a national style and at the same time for a modern language of concrete architecture, showing the connection between "aesthetic invention" and "social imagination" in one particular oeuvre. Ákos Moravánszky is Professor of the Theory of Architecture at the Institut gta (Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture) of ETH Zurich. His main areas of research are the history of East Central European architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of architectural theory, and the iconology of building materials and constructions. He is also editor of the book series TheorieBau at Quart Publishers in Lucerne, President of the editorial board of the Swiss architectural journal Werk, Bauen+Wohnen and serves on the editorial board of the journal tec21 and advisor to several renowned international academic programs. ECE is a refereed international journal of the social sciences and humanities with a focus on the region "between the Baltic and the Adriatic." This ECE's issue was done in cooperation with the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, L'viv. End of Artinfo Digest, Vol 58, Issue 9 ************************************** _______________________________________________ oberlist mailing list [email protected] http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
