Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation is pleased to announce the inaugural conference dedicated to the preservation of modernist architecture in the Uzbek capital. The conference, titled Where in the World Is Tashkent, will be held on October 18-19, 2023, as part of the Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI research and preservation project. The event will be dedicated to the memory of architect and historian Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023), who was an important contributor to this project.
The conference will feature a keynote lecture by architect Rem Koolhaas and talks by other distinguished speakers including the General Director of the Pinacoteca di Brera and Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense James M. Bradburne; Principal of Counterspace and Professor of Practice, UCL Sumayya Vally; writer and curator Shumon Basar; Director of the Anthropology and History Museum of the State of Mexico Eduardo A. Escalante Carrillo; Advisor for Heritage Projects, Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop; Director of the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM Andreas Ruby; Director of MAXXI Architettura Lorenza Baroncelli; Associate professor of Architectural Restoration at Politecnico di Milano Davide Del Curto; Chairperson of Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation Gayane Umerova, and various other Uzbek and international preservation experts, architects and historians.
