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Program
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
13:30 – 14:00
INTRODUCTORY WORD by Saida Mirziyoyeva, assistant to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT ON TASHKENT MODERNISM by Gayane Umerova, Chairperson at Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Cabinet of Ministers
SPEECH by Shavkat Umurzakov, acting mayor of the city of Tashkent
14:00-14:30 BRIEF PROJECT PRESENTATION/EXHIBITION TOUR
14:30-16:00 SESSION 1 – MUSEUMS AND ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATION
What is the role of institutions in promoting critical revision of architectural history? How have museums been the catalysts of the growing awareness of the importance of preserving architectural heritage and urban environments? Departing from a selection of international case studies, the session will evaluate the potential of Tashkent’s museums to generate knowledge and relevant precedents in preservation of Modernist heritage.
Gayane Umerova, Chairperson at Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Cabinet of Ministers
Eduardo A. Escalante Carrillo, Director of the Museum of Anthropology and History of the State of Mexico
Andreas Ruby, Director of the Swiss Architecture Museum
James Bradburne, Director General of the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Braidense National Library in Milan
Moderated by Beatrice Grenier, Director of Curatorial Affairs at Fondation Cartier
16:30–18:00 SESSION 2 – PRESERVATION AS ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
Preservation as an autonomous discipline or as an architectural project? Or both? Departing from a selection of realized projects, the session illustrates the multiplicity of approaches to preservation of architecture across the world by preservation experts, practicing architects, curators and activists.
Lucia Allais (by zoom), Associate Professor and Director, Buell Center at Columbia University
Aziza Chaouni, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto's
Richard Southwick, Director of Historic Preservation and partner at Beyer Blinder Belle
Alexandr Kuranov, architect, Member of the Union of Architects of Uzbekistan
Farkhod Rikhsiev, professor of architecture at Ajou University, Tashkent
Moderated by Ekaterina Golovatyuk, architect, coordinator of Tashkent. Modernism XX/XXI
18:30–20:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE – A NEW PRESERVATION Rem Koolhaas, Architect and researcher, founder of OMA
Rem Koolhaas’s lecture will address the pressing question: can preservation be interpreted in a new way, and what are the consequences of such interpretation? Through a series of specific case studies and OMA recent work, Koolhaas will elucidate his latest considerations on the future of preservation.
Thursday, October 19, 2023
13:00–14:30 SESSION 3 – PRESERVATION AND THE CITY
How can the complex historical layers of a city be analysed and preserved? How does memory work on an urban scale? The session will address several cases of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, leading up to Tashkent.
Noura Al-Sayeh, Head of Architectural Affairs at Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities
Sumayya Vally, Founder and principal of Counterspace, the architecture and research firm
Aziza Chaouni, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto
Moderated by Shumon Basar, curator and writer
15:00–16:30 SESSION 4 – URBAN ECOLOGIES AND MODERNIST CITY
The session will reflect on the nature of the modernist public space, as well as, on how the terms landscape, ecology and environment were interpreted and declined as public space in the soviet ‘East’. Is there any specificity in the relationship between the modernist buildings and the common spaces that surround them, deriving from the local climate, constraints, etc? What aspects of these spaces are still relevant today, and should be preserved?
Boris Chukhovich, historian, independent curator, member of Tashkent. Modernism XX/XXI
Wael Al Awar, Architect, founder of WaiWai
Luka Skansi, Associate Professor in History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of Milan Polytechnic University
Sherzod Hidoyatov, Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Gunther Vogt, Landscape architect, founder of Vogt Landscape Architects
Moderated by Nicola Russi, Associate professor at Turin Polytechnic University, founder of Laboratorio Permanente, member of Tashkent. Modernism XX/XXI
17:15–18:30 SESSION 5 – THE FUTURE OF TASHKENT
The session will address the potentialities and challenges related to Tashkent's candidacy for the UNESCO serial heritage site.
Gayane Umerova, Chairperson at Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Cabinet of Ministers
Bakhodir Abdikarimov, head of Agency of cultural heritage of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Rem Koolhaas, Architect and researcher, founder of OMA
Francesco Bandarin, Architect, former Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Alessandro De Magistris, Professor at Milan Polytechnic University
Moderated by Davide Del Curto, preservation expert, professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of Milan Polytechnic University, member of Tashkent. Modernism XX/XXI
18:30–19:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE – TASHKENT MODERNISM: A VIEW FROM AFRICA Łukasz Stanek, Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning | University of Michigan
The presentation offers a view from Africa on Tashkent and reevaluates its modern architecture within a more global, heterogenous, and antagonistic perspective on XX century modernism.