international conference on the research of modern architecture
30 august - 1 september 2002 jyväskylä, finland
themes
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This conference will explore the architectural legacy of the 1960s both from the viewpoint of universally felt currents and dominating trends as
well as illuminate counter-movements of individual and regional character. The conference seeks to highlight and analyze a number of vital architectural strands and cases of the years from the late 1950s to the oil crisis of the early 1970s. The architecture of this period went through rapid technological and formal changes. The early 1960s witnessed the global spread of Late Modernism and the continuing presence of the canonized masters who had been instrumental in the shaping of Modernism - International Style - itself. Simultaneously a drift towards anonymity through universally applicable structural and formal systems brought to the scene a new generation looking for an architecture less tied to a. personally expressive vocabulary. The overall picture, however, showed great diversity intensified by movements and individuals exploring alternatives to hegemonizing tendencies influential throughout the Western realm. The architecture of the 1960s was also closely tied to the triumph of the consumer society, to the impact of information explosion brought by the mass media and to structural changes of societal character. A political aspect was brought by the Cold War and the uses of Modernism as an ideological vehicle. Growing awareness of ecological issues, social injustice and the uneven division of wealth on the global scale led to radicalization reflected also in architecture. From the rich web of the architecture of the 1960s, displayed by things and thoughts both universal and individual, we want to generate discussion around following key topics:
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