Exhibition: November 07 - December 07 2014

Bar Neglected Grassland,New Kräme 29 (Sandhofpassage),60311 Frankfurt am Main

With a Pan-European Picnic in a field on the Hungarian-Austrian border, the Iron Curtain fell in August 1989. This was the end of a social, political, economic and cultural experiment. The architecture was an important part of this experiment. You specified the social ideals, but often failed to economic and political realities. Nevertheless, during the communist period outstanding examples of contemporary architecture emerged. During decades of the Iron Curtain obstructed the view of this architecture are today often lack of interest or prejudice. Had with the turn and Central and Eastern Europe wanted to reorient. The free market economy brought free (meaning "wild") construction. The level of architecture from the communist era but is rarely achieved.

Neglected Architecture Post-Modern In Eastern And Central Europe

Photos:Peter Sägesser

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