[oberlist] DE* call/edu/arch|dsgn: After Levittown - Bauhaus Kolleg

[Vladimir US]

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> From: Michael Zinganel <zinganel at mur.at>
> Date: Jul 26, 2011 4:05:38 PM EEST
> To: After Suburbia 6 <zinganel at mur.at>
> Subject: After Levittown  Bauhaus Kolleg
>
>
> Dear Colleagues, please forward this invitation to interested young  
> scholars, artists, designers and architects, etc.. Thank you M.Z.
>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Bauhaus Kolleg - XIII After Levittown – Application procedure is  
>>> up and running
>>>
>>> When, in the course of the global financial crisis of 2008, the  
>>> American developer Levitt & Sons had to declare bankruptcy, not  
>>> only its creditors had their dream of owning a retirement home in  
>>> a gated community shattered, a collective dream got shattered  
>>> since Levittown had made possible the ‘American way of life’: For  
>>> over 60 years it had been lived out in suburbia.
>>>
>>> In the 1950s, the developer Levitt & Sons built planned  
>>> communities, so-called Levittowns in New York, Pennsylvania and  
>>> New Jersey, which consisted of more than 20,000 single-family  
>>> houses as well as community buildings, schools, shopping centres,  
>>> sports facilities and cultural facilities. Levittown provided  
>>> homes primarily to ex servicemen returning from World War II and  
>>> their families, thereby benefiting greatly from federal government  
>>> supports for housing. Levitt mass-produced those homes cheaply and  
>>> efficiently, realizing on a grand scale what its European  
>>> colleagues from the Bauhaus had anticipated back in the 1920s with  
>>> the Törten Estate in Dessau. The new Bauhaus Kolleg will take  
>>> Levittown, the role model of American suburbia, and the fate of  
>>> its latest developments as the starting point of a comparative  
>>> international study on the economic, social and cultural  
>>> implications of a global suburbia. The Bauhaus Kolleg XIII will  
>>> furthermore develop critical creative approaches to this form of  
>>> housing which today is no longer economically and ecologically  
>>> viable.
>>>
>>> The Kolleg is aimed at qualified designers and scientists in the  
>>> fields of architecture, city planning, the visual arts, media- and  
>>> product design, landscape architecture, sociology, cultural  
>>> studies and the humanities. Participation is limited to a maximum  
>>> of 25 people, who will grow together as a group through intensive  
>>> research, excursions that last several weeks as well as joint  
>>> publications. This work will lay the foundation stone for future  
>>> collaborations. Quite frequently the international reputation of  
>>> the program has allowed participants to advance professionally.
>>>
>>> For more information please check our website:
>>> http://afterlevittown.bauhaus-dessau.de/kolleg_xiii/
>>> Admission details:
>>> http://afterlevittown.bauhaus-dessau.de/kolleg_xiii/admission.html
>>>
>>> We are looking forward to your application!
>>>
>>> Ina Ross

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