
participation at the exhibition "WILD WILD EAST"
AIT Architektursalon - Hamburg, Bei den Mühren 70,
18.09. - 29.10 2009, 11:00 - 18:00______________________________________________________________________________
Wild, wild East Central European architectural magazines are extremely shortsighted
or extremely farsighted. The architectural middle ground is not their thing.
Either the magazines acknowledge Western, Southern or Northern-European
buildings or the interest is directed at the far East or North America all together. The
obvious projects located just east of Berlin are unfortunately often blinded out in the
architectural expert publicity. With the exhibition "Wild, wild East” exhibition we want
to close a gap – at least for a short period. This work show presents realised projects
by young Eastern-European architects under 40 years of age. This ought to prove
that high-quality buildings are realised between misunderstood international style,
socialist construction industry functionalism and copycatted western avant-garde –
unfortunately almost unheeded by the European professional media. The exhibition
is opened by Professor Krunow Iwanisin, a born Croat who presently teaches
architectural theory in Barcelona.
The exhibition attaches great value to presenting not visions but realised quality
architecture, which asserts itself in Russian boom towns next to mere investor
projects as well as buildings in regions located in the wake of the past real estate
boom.

