The Soviet Heritage and European Modernism

Heritage at Risk - Special Edition
Edited by Jörg Haspel, Michael Petzet, Anke Zalivako and John Ziesemer
(April 2006)

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The Soviet Heritage and European Modernism

• Contents
• Editorial
• MOSCOW DECLARATION on the Preservation of 20th-Century Cultural Heritage
• RESOLUTION on Konstantin Melnikov's House and Collection

Initial Statements

• Sheridan Burke, ICOMOS International Scientific Committee of the 20th Century Heritage: Twentieth-Century Heritage at Risk and the Role of ICOMOS in its Conservation
• Maristella Casciato, DOCOMOMO International: Modern Monuments and Heritage at Risk
• John Stubbs, World Monuments Fund: Mobilizing Support for Conserving 20th Century Architecture

I. The International Day for Monuments and Sites 2006 in Moscow - a Summary

• Selim Khan-Magomedov: The 20th Century in the Context of the Millennium (Text in Russian)
• Jörg Haspel: World Heritage of the 20th Century – Chances for Russia from a Foreign Point of View
• Jean-Louis Cohen: Listing Le Corbusier as UNESCO World Heritage
• Jukka Jokilehto: Modern Built Heritage as World Heritage

II. Heritage Saved from Risk - Case Studies from Moscow and the Former Soviet Union

• Maija Kairamo: The Restoration of Viipuri Library, an International Pilot Project
• Marina Khrustaleva: “Bright future” – the Symbolic Potential of New Life for the Commune House (Text in Russian)
• Boris Pasternak: Burevestnik Factory Club. Short Notes on the Restoration and Conversion Project
• Alexander Lozhkin: House of Science and Culture – the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Novosibirsk (Text in Russian)

III. “Heritage at Risk” – Case Studies from Moscow and the Former Soviet Union

• Anke Zalivako: 2000 – 2006: Monitoring Moscow’s Avant-garde Architecture
• Natalia Dushkina: From “Metropolitan” to “Underground”
• Clementine Cecil: The Melnikov House-Studio
• Irina Chepkunova: Architectural Avant-garde in the Moscow Suburbs
• Andrey Chernichov: Preservation and Development of Iakov Chernichov’s Heritage- The Water Tower of the Cable Factory of the "Krasnyj Gvozdilshik" Plant (1930-1931)
• Margarita Shtiglits: Monuments of Industrial Architecture of the Leningrad Avant-garde Movement (Text in Russian)
• Alexander Buryak / Irina Kraizer: Stylistic Attribution of the Dzerzhinsky Square (Freedom Square) in Kharkov (Text in Russian)
• Igor Martynenko: Demolition of Architectural Monuments under the Pretence of their Restoration: From Theory to Criminal Practice (Text in Russian)
• Tatyana Budantseva: Modernist Heritage of Sverdlovsk Today
• Tatyana Vinogradova: Works by the Engineer Vladimir Shukhov in the Nizhny Novgorod Region (Text in Russian)

IV. World Heritage Sites of the 20th Century – German Case Studies

• Omar Akbar: Bauhaus and Heritage
• Monika Markgraf: Conservation and Preservation of the Bauhaus Building in Dessau
• Michael Siebenbrodt: The House "Am Horn" in Weimar – Bauhaus site and World Heritage site: Construction, Usage and Preservation (Text in German)
• Norbert Mendgen: Preservation and Re-use of the Blast Furnace Site – UNESCO World Heritage Site "Völklingen Ironworks"
• Walter Busch: The architects Schupp & Kremmer and their contribution to the World Heritage of the 20th Century: "Zollverein" Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen and Mines of Rammelsberg in Goslar (Text in German)
• Jörg Haspel: The Heritage of the Berlin Modern Style. Nomination of Housing Estates for Inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List

V. Moscow – Berlin: Interchanges and Heritage of the 20th Century

• Anke Zalivako: Connections between Germany and Soviet Russia’s Avant-garde Architecture – Examples from the 1920s in Berlin and Moscow (Text in Russian)
• Winfried Brenne: Practical Experience with the Buildings of the Avant-garde in Berlin and East Germany
• Alexey Vorontsov: The Bakhmetevsky Bus Depot (Text in Russian)
• Annemarie Jaeggi: Relations between the Bauhaus and the Russian Avant-garde as Documented in the Collection of the Bauhaus Archive Berlin
• Aleksey Ginzburg: The Narkomfin Building
• Tatyana Tsareva: Residential Settlements in Moscow in the 1920s. Methodical Approaches for Establishing Special Rehabilitation Programs (Text in Russian)
• Evgenya Dutlova: The History of the Construction of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in Moscow (State Kremlin Palace)

ICOMOS Germany

• Monuments of Modern Architecture at Risk – Case Study Berlin

Annexes

• Photo Credits
• Colour Plates
• Contact Information
• Authors