David Crowley will explore the present fate of the last generation of ultra-modernist buildings in Eastern Europe under comunist rule.

Many of the most ambitious examples of modern architecture from the 1960s and 1970s in Eastern Europe now stand in ruins. The early years of the C21st saw prominent examples of socialist modernist architecture being destroyed (such as the Republik der Palast in Berlin or Supersam in Warsaw). These buildings were punished - in the most literal and spectacular fashion – for the sins of the regimes which built them. Their destruction was not uncontested: popular campaigns have been mounted to save prominent socmodernist buildings. At the same time, there has been a considerable reassessment of socmodernism on the part of artists and film makers and, to some extent, architects. What can the work of artist like David Majlkovic, Hubert Czerepok, Monika Sosnowska and Deimantas Narkevičius tell us about the landscapes of  socialist modernity? What alternative dreams might be bound up in these ruins?