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1989, im Jahr als der Eiserne Vorhang fiel, arbeitete ich in einem staatlichen Architekturbüro in Budapest. Mit meinen Kolleginnen reiste ich in dieser Zeit und danach durchs Land und entdeckte hier und in anderen ehemals kommunistischen Ländern herausragende Architektur, die im Westen völlig unbekannt war. Seit damals dokumentiere ich diese Architektur und seit 2006 zeige ich sie hier auf ostarchitektur.com
In 1989, the year the Iron Curtain fell, I worked in a state architectural office in Budapest. With my colleagues I travelled around the country during and after this time and discovered here and in other former communist countries outstanding architecture that was completely unknown in the West. Since then I have been documenting this architecture and since 2006 I show it here on ostarchitektur.com
Peter Sägesser, dipl. Architekt ETH, Switzerland
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Network
Bosnia und Hercegovina:
Days of architecture, Dani arhitekture
Filter architecture Architecture office
LIFT NGO for spatial initiatives
University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Architecture
Germany:
Das Neue Dresden, Dresdner Bauten aus dem 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
machmaplazda, Grosswohnsiedlungen in (Ost-)Deutschland, Beispiele zu Plattenbausiedlungen in Ostdeutschland
Croatia:
radionica arhitekture Architecture office
Studio UP Architecture office
University of Zagreb, Faculty of architecture
Mazedonien:
Arhitektri Architecture office
University Cyril and Methodius Skopje, Faculty of architecture
Romania:
Andreescu and Gaivoronschi Associated Architects Architecture office
Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj, Artist Centre
Made in Romania Socialist architecture blog
Parasite Studio Architecture office
Planwerk Architecture office
planT Studio, Tövissi Zsolt, Architect, Csíkpálfalva
Vitamin A Architecture office
Zeppelin Romanian architecture magazine
Serbia:
CAB Centar za arhitekturu Beograd Center for architecture, Belgrade
Hungary:
KÉK, Hungarian contemporary architecture Centre
MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of art and design, Budapest
sporaarchitects Architecture office
t2a, Turányi & Turányi architects Architecture office
3h architects Architecture office
Paradigma Ariadné Architecture office
International:
Shera Society of historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture
several contacts to architects in other countries as Czech Republic, Lithuania, Georgia, Macedonia and Russia