Program and Abstracts

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Tuesday, 21/03/2023
08:00-20:00    Excursion to Jerusalem and Rehovot
Hosted by the Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel
For speakers only

Wednesday, 22/03/2023
09:00 Gathering
09:30 Greetings and Opening Remarks

10:00-12:00    Architecture of Dialogue
Chair and Discussant: Alona Nitzan-Shiftan

Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Israel, USA
Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue
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Caroline Jessen, Germany
Elusive contexts: Erich Mendelsohn, Salman Schocken, and the (Zionist) Cultural Scene of Berlin,
1918-1933
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Michael Benedikt, USA
Three Themes in Mendelsohn and Buber: Creation-Evolution, Zion-Acropolis, and the Large in the Small
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Regina Stephan, Germany
The Sketches, the Letters and the Built Work of Erich Mendelsohn
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12:00-13:00 Lunch break

13:00-15:00    Workshop: Buildings Nominated for the Tentative List
Chair and Discussant: Regina Stephan

Lightning films:
Einstein Tower, Potsdam – Metal Workers Union, Berlin – De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea – Weizmann House, Rehovot – Schocken Library, Jerusalem – Anglo Palestine Bank, Jerusalem – Park Synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio – Mount Zion Community Center in St.Paul, Minnesota

Kornelia Kurowska, Poland
Bet Tahara, Olsztyn
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Carsten Krohn, Germany
Erich Mendelsohn’s Buildings in Danger
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Discussion

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00    Architecture of Collaborations
Chair and Discussant: Eran Mordohovich

Rainer Schützeichel, Germany
Teaching Mendelsohn: Theodor Fischer and the Fischerschule
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Jerzy Ilkosz and Jadwiga Urbanik, Poland
The Relationship Between Erich Mendelsohn’s Work and the Architecture of Wrocław
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Matthias Brunner, Germany
Erich Mendelsohn, Richard Neutra, and Frank Lloyd Wright: Encounters and Traces
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17:00-17:30 Coffee break

 


You are cordially invited to participate in the faculty event:
Morley Blankstein Lecture 2023
Louisa Hutton
Sauerbruch Hutton
17:30-19:00
Benjamin Hall


 

21:00-22:30    Screening of the Documentary Film:
Schocken, On the Verge of Consensus
With the director and scripter: Noemi Schory
> Screening will take place at the P.E.K.A Gallery

 

Thursday, 23/03/2023
9:00 Gathering

09:30-10:45 Workshop II: World Heritage Nomination, Criteria and Narratives
Chair and Discussant: Guy Kav-Venaki

Pierre-Francois Toulze, France
Twentieth-Century Architecture, Transnational Serial Nomination and World Heritage List: Some Examples for Thought and Research
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Jörg Haspel, Germany
Biographical or Thematic Approaches for Serial Transnational World Heritage Nominations
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Birgitta Ringbeck, Germany
OUV, Attributes and Values – a Way of Understanding the Concept of Outstanding Universal Value
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Oshrat Wolfing Assa, Israel
Do Transboundary and Transnational Properties Promote International Cooperation and Representativity?
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10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 Workshop III: OUV, Narratives and Criteria
Chair: Regina Stephan

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 Erich Mendelsohn’s Work in Palestine: Local and Global Perspectives
Chair and Discussant: Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler

Ita Heinze-Greenberg, Germany
Praised and Boycotted: Erich Mendelsohn’s Government Hospital in Haifa
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Tal Gazit and Amnon Bar Or, Israel
Erich Mendelsohn Heritage in Private Ownership, Conservation & Public Exposure of OUV In Jerusalem
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Ada V. Segre and Yulia Leonova, Israel
Garden and Architecture at the Villa Weizmann in Rehovot
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Oren Eldar, Israel
Mendelsohn’s Influence on the Israeli Everyday Realm: Gad Ascher and the PWD
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15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30    Architecture of Industry & Living
Chair and Discussant: Jadwiga Urbanik

Achim Reese, Germany
Electric Mendelsohn, Giving Architectural Form to Electricity
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Tim Altenhof, Austria
The Factory as a Chimney (Luckenwalde-Leningrad)
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Michele Stavagna, Germany
Well-Tempered Levels of Privacy. Erich Mendelsohn’s Thought on Dwelling and the Interwar CIAM
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18:00-19:00    Closing Discussion — Erich Mendelsohn: Outstanding Universal Value
Chair and Discussant: Ruth Liberty Shalev

Birgitta Ringbeck (ICOMOS Germany)
Eran Mordohovich (ICOMOS Israel)
Alona Nitzan Shiftan (BHRC Technion, Israel)
Guy Kav-Venaki (Israel World Heritage Committee)
Michael Turner (ICOMOS Israel)


Friday, 24/03/2023 — Tour and Exhibition

09:00-11:00 Tour of the Rambam Government Hospital in Haifa
Guided by Arch. Nili Bar On and Ita Heinze Greenberg

13:30-15:00 Opening of exhibition
at the Bauhaus Center, Tel Aviv

Erich Mendelsohn: Berlin — Jerusalem
Photography by Carsten Krohn

Ita Heinze Greenberg and Carsten Krohn will speak about Erich Mendelsohn’s international oeuvre in the context of an aspired nomination for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Israel and the Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel.