1. “RE… (?)” MODERN NEIGHBORHOODS, CONSERVING
EAAE thematic network on CONSERVATION
Coordinator: Professor Stefano F. Musso
3rd Workshop / 2011
“RE… (?)” MODERN NEIGHBORHOODS, CONSERVING
October 2011, Romania
Organizing Schools:
Faculty of Architecture of the University of Genoa (Italy) &
“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest (Romania)

2. The subject
The subject to be addressed are the modern neighborhoods acknowledging that all our European towns have a valuable urban and architectural heritage built in the last part of the XIX and during the first half of the 20th century, which is currently confronted with new contemporary requirements, opportunities and risks.

3. Workshop’s concept
The workshop is experimental: participants are asked – through the investigation of a real site – to reflect on some key issues that impact on the integrated conservation theory and practice in the modern urban areas and on how these may be explored in teaching.
The guiding idea is to create a challenging, dynamic and interactive atmosphere able to stimulate the reflective papers of the participants to be written after the event.

4. Workshop’s themes
Three inter-connected themes are put forward for consideration:
A. The theoretical/methodological approach to the involved problems
B. The urban planning, management, economic and social aspects of the question
C. The building design/project and process with all its technical contents and criteria

5. The steps First Call for participation (April 2011).
Submission of preliminary abstracts on workshop themes (June 2011)
Themes explored in the context of a representative site. Participants (in small groups) examine the site and prepare a statement on its significance and how the themes refer to the integrated conservation issues involved (October 2011).
Statements presented to the workshop. Following discussions, the workshop will articulate key points for teaching conservation (October 2011)..
Participants develop abstracts into papers ( characters for review/publication) – January 2012.
Proceedings: 2012.

6. DAY 1 – Thursday afternoon (6 October 2011)
Workshop’s schedule
DAY 1 – Thursday afternoon (6 October 2011)
Assemble in Bucharest, at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning – Frescos’ Hall
Introductory session:
presentation of the themes and report on the accepted abstracts
presentation of the proposed study area
Formation of the working groups

7. Location
“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning Academiei St, Bucharest, ROMANIA

8. “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Bucharest - the historical building

9. “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Bucharest - the Frescos’ Hall

10. DAY 2 – Friday (7 October 2011) Examination of the site
Working in groups

11. The site
Airport
The site
Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning
It was included in the administrative perimeter of the town in 1895; between 1895 and 1940, the ancient large properties were progressively parceled, radically changing the area.

12. The site
Its current configuration is given by the assemblage of 11 historical parcelings, very different as urban composition, size and geometry, reflecting the social condition of the population which was concerned: from ensembles of rich villas, up to affordable housing estates.
The assemblage of the parcelings was done by the local administration; the regularity of the streets and their continuity contributed to the general urban order of the area. The parcelings have followed several successive regulations concerning the minimal dimensions of the allotments, buildings’ position, land occupation degree, buildings’ high, fencings, vegetation etc

13. The site
Most of the buildings are villas or blocks of flats built in the inter-war period; their architecture illustrate a large stylistic variety, from late eclectic and national style, to art-deco and modernism.

23. DAY 3 – Saturday (8 October 2011)
City tour by bus. Visit at Mogosoaia Palace (15 km NW of Bucharest)
Collation, reflection, discussion and sedimentation
Preparation of statements

24. Mogosoaia Palace ( )

25. DAY 4 – Sunday morning (9 October 2011)
Statements’ presentation
Discussions
Conclusions.
Key points for teaching conservation in architectural education

26. EAAE – ENHSA Sub-network on Conservation
SCHEDULE
ANNOUNCEMENT
April 2011
ABSTRACTS
June 2011
WORKSHOP
OCTOBER 2011
PAPERS
January 2012
PUBLICATION
2012

27. “RE…(?)” MODERN NEIGHBORHOODS, CONSERVING
EAAE Thematic network on Conservation
“RE…(?)” MODERN NEIGHBORHOODS, CONSERVING
3rd Workshop, October 2011
Bucharest, ROMANIA
SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE
Professor Rodica Crisan (Bucharest)
Professor Giovanna Franco (Genoa)
Professor Loughlin Kealy (Dublin)
Professor Stefano Fancesco Musso (Genoa)