COLLOQUIUM
ARCHITECTURE AND THE IDEA OF NATION IN EUROPE 1860-1914
CREATION AND AFFIRMATION OF IDENTITES IN FINLAND, HUNGARY, ROMANIA, CATALONIA
10-11-12 December 2003

This colloquium has been organized by the Finnish Institute in Paris with the participation of the Hungarian Institute and the Catalan Institute, with the collaboration of the Laboratoire Histoire et Critique des Arts of the University of Rennes 2.

The colloquium focuses on the issue of nationalism in architecture during the second half of the « long nineteenth century » - 1860–1914 - in four European countries and regions : Finland, Hungary, Romania, Catalonia. They are chosen as representative cases of young nations, born in the course of the nineteenth century (Romania), entities which found themselves under the domination of grand empires (Finland) or which succeeded, within a grand Empire, to get their existence and their nationhood recognized during the XIXth century (Hungary), and finally, regions which established their autonomy within a state (Catalonia).

The colloquium takes place partly at the Finnish Institute in (on the 10th and 12th of December), partly at the Hungarian Institute (on the 11th of December). The presentations will be delivered in English or in French.

Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Place : Finnish Institute, 60 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris

MORNING 10H –12H30
10 H : Opening of the colloquium : Jean-Yves Andrieux, Professor, Director of the Laboratory « Histoire et Critique des Arts », University of Rennes 2, Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna, Academy Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland and Fabienne Chevallier, Associate Researcher (Rennes 2 University and Paris 1 University)
Jukka Havu, Professor, Director of the Finnish Institute : Rebuilding the past
Jean-Yves Andrieux : The National Style and its political and cultural context between 1860 and 1914
Stefan Muthesius, Professor, World Arts Studies, University of East Anglia : Arguments of Nationalism and Internationalism regarding the applied arts and “folk art” in Austria-Hungary and Germany during the later 19th century Fabienne Chevallier, Associate Research Fellow, University of Rennes 2 and University of Paris I : National Art and idea of a nation in the context of communication

AFTERNOON 14H30-17H30
Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna, Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland, Professor in Art History, University of Turku : The role of art in the construction of national identities
Katalin Keserü, Professor, Institute of Art History, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Director, Ernst Museum, Budapest : Hungarian Architecture and its quest for identity
Alexandru Beldiman , Vice-chairman, International Union of Architects : Comparative elements between national architectures in the European context Alice Thomine, Scientific Counsellor, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris : Art Nouveau and national identity between 1860 and 1914
Patrick Cabanel, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Toulouse-Le-Mirail : The landscapes of nations in Europe between 1860 and 1914

Thursday, December 11, 2003
Place : Hungarian Institute, 92 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

MORNING : 10H-12H30
The Hungarian case
Katalin Gellér, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences : Art Nouveau and national art in Hungary
Ákos Moravánszky, Professor, Institute of History and Theory of Architecture, Zürich : Between Engineering and Ethnography. István Medgyaszay’s Architecture between 1899 and 1919
Dr József Sisa, Head of Department, Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Urban Parks and Nationalism in Hungary Dr Samuel D. Albert, Art Historian, New Haven : Nationalism in the urban policies of the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Round table

AFTERNOON : 15H-17H30
The Catalonian case
Mireia Freixa, Professor in Art History, University of Barcelona : Catalan identity and architecture 1860-1914
Francesc Fontbona, Director of the Department of Graphic Arts at the Library of Catalonia : Antoni Gaudi, genius loci ?
Eliseo Trenc, Professor, University of Reims : Nationalism et cosmopolitism in the architectural works of Rafael Masó
Noémie Giard, Doctorand, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris : The reception of Catalan architecture in France 1860-1914

Round table

Friday, Decembre 12, 2003
Place : Finnish Institute, 60 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris

MORNING : 10H-12H30
The Finnish case
Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna: Two interpretations of nationalism : the neoclassical heart of Helsinki
Fabienne Chevallier : Eliel Saarinen’s projects and the idea of a nation from 1893 to 1914
Timo Keinänen, Art Historian, Director of the Archives at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki : The cultural and architectural relations around the Baltic Sea during the 1900s
Riitta Nikula, Professor in Art History, University of Helsinki : On the Finnishness of Modern Finnish Architecture

Round table

AFTERNOON : 15H-17H30
The Romanian case
Catherine Durandin, Professor, Institut National des Langues et civilisations orientales, Paris : The idea of the national and the Romanian context
Carmen Popescu, Doctor in Art History, University of Paris IV : Designing an architecture for the nation: context, ideology and typology in the national style in Romania
Shona Kallestrup, University of Aberdeen : Symbols of the nation : debates of style in the projects for the Royal Palace of Romania at the turn of the century
Nicolae Lascu, Professor in Architectural History, Institute of Architecture and Urbanisme Ion Mincu, Bucarest : Ion Mincu, national architect of Romania Round table

General round table and closing of the colloquium