With: Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

The building of the Czech Embassy, ​​where MakeCity Festival Center is located, is itself an example of brutalist architectural heritage and the challenges of today’s use. Built between 1974 and 1978 by the Czech architect couple Věra and Vladimír Machonin, who were masterminds of their time and allowed to realize the construction of a final design during the liberal 1960s. Today, this architectural work of art is in need of renovation and its spatial dispositions no longer correspond to the times. This fate is shared with many other buildings in other parts of Berlin.
Based on the embassy building and film footage from Haruna Honcoop’s project Built to Last, which deals with architectural relics of the socialist era in Eastern Europe, experts from Germany and the Czech Republic discuss the handling of the brutal architectural heritage and the possibilities of its (re)use in East and West Berlin, as well as across Eastern and Western Europe.

Please register by 20.6.2018 at ccberlin@czech.cz