Zagreb City Museum
12th April 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Axel Föhl, Düsseldorf

Axel Föhl, the creator of the Guest Exhibition "New Uses In Old Industrial Buildings", will present a lecture before its opening. A pioneering documenter and protector of industrial heritage within the Federal Republic of Germany, Föhl will speak about the 40 years of protecting industrial heritage by the Association for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany. The lecture will be in English (no interpretation). 

Abstract

Since about 1970, more attention has been given to the industrial part of our architectural heritage. Inventories have been put together, knowledge about coal mines, railway stations and water towers has increased. Something that has also increased is the knowledge how to make use of this part of the heritage. It has been found that industrial buildings are very well suited to a broad range of re-use concepts. The solidity and robustness of factories, transformer stations and  railway buildings allows for many possibilities for an economic and aesthetic second life of these structures.

The lecture at the beginning of the exhibition "New Uses in Old Industrial Buildings" shows German examples from the last 40 years of how water towers, textile mills, harbour buildings or machine halls have been put to new uses, how it all started and how it is projected into the future.