Architecture of Buildings for Education

Name: Architecture of Buildings for Education
Start: 2025-03-20T10:00:00+01:00
Location: Akademické Konferenční Centrum

Schedule

Thu, 20 Mar, 2025 at 10:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Akademické Konferenční Centrum | Prague, PR

--English version below--
Srdečně zveme na workshop Architecture of Buildings for Education, který se koná ve čtvrtek 20. března 2025 v Akademickém konferenčním centru (Husova 4a, Praha 1).
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We cordially invite you to the international architecture history workshop jointly organized by the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
10:00 Registration
10:30 Greetings / Introduction
Tomáš Winter (director), Vendula Hnídková (project leader, both Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
10:45 Educational architecture in the Habsburg empire: Negotiating reform and political iconography in the 19th century
Gernot Biermeier (University of Innsbruck)
11:10–11:30 coffee break
11:30 Berlin school buildings of the 19th century as a symbol of Prussian school policy
Sonja Hnilica (Technical University Dresden)
11:55 The economic context of school construction in the last third of the 19th century
Jan Šimek (The National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius)
12:20–13:20 lunch break
13:20 From illiteracy to heritage: The architectural legacy of schools in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918)
Miroslav Malinovic (University of Banja Luka)
13:45 State schools in Austria and their surprising innovations (1900–1938)
Raphaela Hemetsberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
14:10–14:30 coffee break
14:30 State schools in the Lands of Bohemian Crown under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Works (1908–1918)
Jan Galeta (Czech Academy of Sciences)
14:55 The school buildings of the Komensky School Association in Vienna 1923–1935: Modern school construction as an expression of Czech national identity
Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (University of Vienna)
15:20 Construction of schools for Czechoslovak minority in Czechoslovakia
Barbora Řepková (Czech Academy of Sciences)
16:00 Excursion to Francouzské školy (school building complex by Jan Gillar, 1931–1934)
The workshop is open to the public and is free of charge.
To secure a place on the excursion, please inquire at [email protected] before the 14th of March, as the number of participants is limited.
The workshop was conceived beside of the "Invisible Agents" in Architecture (1908-38). Policies, Principles, and Projects in Central European Ministries of Public Works research project conducted at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of the Austrian Science Fund.