Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation is pleased to announce the inaugural conference dedicated to the preservation of modernist architecture in the Uzbek capital. The conference, titled Where in the World Is Tashkent, will be held on October 18-19, 2023, as part of the Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI research and preservation project. The event will be dedicated to the memory of architect and historian Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023), who was an important contributor to this project.
The conference will feature a keynote lecture by architect Rem Koolhaas and talks by other distinguished speakers including the General Director of the Pinacoteca di Brera and Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense James M. Bradburne; Principal of Counterspace and Professor of Practice, UCL Sumayya Vally; writer and curator Shumon Basar; Director of the Anthropology and History Museum of the State of Mexico Eduardo A. Escalante Carrillo; Advisor for Heritage Projects, Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop; Director of the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM Andreas Ruby; Director of MAXXI Architettura Lorenza Baroncelli; Associate professor of Architectural Restoration at Politecnico di Milano Davide Del Curto; Chairperson of Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation Gayane Umerova, and various other Uzbek and international preservation experts, architects and historians.
The event will take place at the State Museum of Arts in Tashkent, one of the most remarkable buildings within the project that will be partially renovated in the run-up to the conference.
The attendees will be invited to partake in a walking tour along the cultural trail created by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation and Laboratorio Permanente. This route connects the two dozen buildings featured in the project, many of which are proposed for heritage status. The trail will be available through an iOS and Android app presented in three languages and enriched with videos and archival photos.
The title of the conference Where in the World Is Tashkent references a panel organized by the American Institute of Architects in 2000. The event was called Where in the World Is Chicago? and was focused on the state of architecture in the city that occupies a very special place in the history of modern architecture. Alluding to the event, the conference in Tashkent seeks to retroactively align the Uzbek capital with other cities around the globe that significantly contributed to the modernist movement.
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Where in the World Is TashkentType
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October 18, 2023 04:32 PMUntil
October 19, 2023 04:32 PMVenue
State Museum of Arts of UzbekistanAddress