International workshop "Architecture of Buildings for Education" at the Academic Conference Center (Husova 4a, Prague 1), March 20, 2025.

The workshop is being held alongside “Invisible Agents” as part of the research project “Architecture (1908-38). Policies, Principles, and Projects in Central European Ministries of Public Works” by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of the Austrian Science Fund.

Organization:
Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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PROGRAM

MARCH 20, 2025
Academic Conference Center (Husova 4a, Prague 1)

10:00 Registration

10:30 Greetings / Introduction
Tomáš Winter (director), Vendula Hnídková (project leader, both Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

10:45 Educational architecture in the Habsburg empire: Negotiating reform and political iconography in the 19th century, Gernot Biermeier (University of Innsbruck)

11:10 - 11:30 coffee break

11:30 Berlin school buildings of the 19th century as a symbol of Prussian school policy, Sonja Hnilica (Technical University Dresden)

11:55 The economic context of school construction in the last third of the 19th century, Jan Šimek (The National Pedagogical Museum and Library of J. A. Comenius)

12:20 - 13:20 lunch break

13:20 From illiteracy to heritage: The architectural legacy of schools in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918), Miroslav Malinovic (University of Banja Luka)

13:45 State schools in Austria and their surprising innovations (1900–1938), Raphaela Hemetsberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

14:10 - 14:30 coffee break

14:30 State schools in the Lands of Bohemian Crown under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Works (1908–1918), Jan Galeta (Czech Academy of Sciences)

14:55 The school buildings of the Komensky School Association in Vienna 1923–1935: Modern school construction as an expression of Czech national identity, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (University of Vienna)

15:20 Construction of schools for Czechoslovak minority in Czechoslovakia, Barbora Řepková (Czech Academy of Sciences)

16:00 Excursion to Francouzské školy (school building complex by Jan Gillar, 1931–1934)

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The workshop is open to the public and is free of charge.

To ensure your participation in the excursion, please register by March 14, 2025 at repkovaudu.cas.cz, as the number of participants is limited.