MODERNISM,
MODERNISATION
AND THE RURAL LANDSCAPE
MODSCAPES_conference2018 & Baltic Landscape Forum 2018
Introduction 
Axel Fisher, Simon Bell, Vittoria Capresi, Mara Helena Maia and Cristina Pallini
Invented Ruralities, Designed Communities
Rural Housing as a Field of Modernist Experiences
Alexandra Cardoso; Alexandra Trevisan; Rute Figueiredo; and Maria Helena Maia
Type-Planning a Fenno-Swedish Identity.
The Housing Association for the Swedish Speaking Areas of Finland and the Ideal Rural Home Between 1938 and 1969
Mia Åkerfelt
Alejandro de la Sota’s Modern Villages: Vernacular Abstraction and Surrealist Modernity
Jean-François Lejeune
Idealisation of the Land: Forming the New Rural Settlements in Early Republican Turkey
Özge Sezer
Modernist Rural Planning: Paradigms
Regionalism at All Costs – Nallo Mazzocchi Alemanni and the Bradano Valley Land Reclamation Project, 1955
Filippo De Dominicis
The Portuguese Internal Colonization.
The Country that Could Have Been, but Was Not
Miguel Moreira Pinto and Joana Couto
Spatialized Corporatism Between Town and Countryside
Francesca Bonfante
The Rural Transition – Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaften and Landscape before and After German Reunification (1990).
Vittoria Capresi, Emily Bereskin and Christoph Muth
Modernist Rural Planning: Comparative Perspectives
From the Thirties to Post-War Reconstruction.
The Land Reclamation Consortia and Rural Architecture in Italy
Luca Monica and Luca Bergamaschi
Modernist Rural Planning: Cultural and Physical Legacies
Issues and Strategies for the Conservation of the Artificial Water System in Hongcun, China
Tingshen Li
Learning from the Douar. Écochard and the Modern Invention of the Traditional Moroccan Rural Habitat
Edoardo L. G. Bernasconi
The Safeguard of a Rural Landscape and of its Use.
Study on the Western-South of Lazio (Italy)
Nora Lombardini
The Soviet Modernisation of the Public Road Landscape
Kristine Vugule and Simon Bell
Modernist Rural Planning: Antecedents, Copycats and Mavericks
Rural Development in Belarus: The “Agrogorodok”: Between Rural and Urban?
Liudmila Slivinskaya
Tessenei (1905-1941): Intensive Farming Shaping Landscape and Social Relations in Colonial Eritrea
Nelly Cattaneo
The Rural Super City: Central Lancashire New Town
Victoria Jolley
Mapping Modernist Rural Landscapes: Methodologies and Outcomes
Land reclamation, farm mechanisation, rural repopulation:
the shifting landscape of the Gharb Valley in Morocco, 1912-1956
Michele Tenzon
The Strada Litoranea. Mapping Colonial Rural Landscape Along the Libyan Coastal Road
Alessandro Raffa
Architectural Conjectural Mapping: Two Examples
Silvia Boca and Aleksa Korolija
“Alive and Kicking” – Moving Through and Diving into the Soviet Kolkhoz and the East German LPG
Friedrich Kuhlmann
Mapping Modernist Rural Landscapes: Shifting Uses and Patterns
Historical GIS: Application of Map-based Biography to the Laeva Sovkhoz / State Farm, Estonia
Martti Veldi and Simon Bell
Building the Modernist Rural Landscape in the Salazar’s Regime. The Agricultural Colony of Boalhosa
Paolo Marcolin, Joaquim Flores and Isabel Matias
Soviet Era Landscape Change and the Post-Soviet Legacy in Latvia
Simon Bell, Olgerts Nikodemus, Zanda Peneze and Imants Kruze
Mapping Modernist Rural Landscapes: Speculative Approaches
The Krushchkevka and the Dom Kultura: Urban Lifestyles in a Rural Setting
Oksana Zhukova and Simon Bell
A Landscape of Lies: Soviet Maps in Estonia
Martti Veldi and Simon Bell
The New Towns in the Agro Pontino: A Literature Review and Critical Bibliography
Emanuela Margione
Rurality, Ruins and Archives. Mapping the Architectural History of the Greek Countryside
Afroditi Maragkou
Bottom-Up Perspectives on Modernist Ruralities
Avangard: A Forward-Looking Kolkhoz is Seen as Part of the Past
Kaja Veddel and Martti Veldi
“We had a Toilet!” The Modernisation of the Countryside as Perceived by the Inhabitants, the Public Spaces and the Presence of Politics in the New Settlements in Italy and Colonial Libya (1932-1939)
Vittoria Capresi
The Social Appropriation of the Portuguese Inner Colonisation Project in Boalhosa
Marta Prista
“Life Was Not All That Bad”: Memories and Experiences of Kolkhoz Life in the Baltic States
Friedrich Kuhlmann and Martti Veldi
Modernist Ruralities Between Representations and Propaganda
The Built Memory: Presenting the Colonization Villages in Spain by the Newsreel of State NO-DO
Josefina González Cubero and Alba Zarza Arribas
Five-Year Plan in Four: Kolkhoz Propaganda in Film and Documentaries in Estonia
Martti Veldi, Simon Bell and Friedrich Kuhlmann
“Forward to the Bright Future of Socialism!”: The Role of Images and Symbols in Promoting Collectivization in Soviet Ukraine
Oksana Zhukova
The Jewish Farmer, the Village and the World Fair: Politics, Propaganda and the “Israel in Palestine” Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937
Tzafrir Fainholtz
Making and Preserving Modernist Rural Heritage
Keep Out! No Entry! Exploring the Soviet Military Landscape of the Coast of Estonia
Ann-Leena Miller
Modern Rural Landscapes in Contemporary Heritage Imaginaries: The Case of Germany’s Southern Oderbruch
Emily Bereskin
Towards the Contemporary Development of Modern Architecture Inherited from the Fascist Regime. The City of Sabaudia
Constance Ringon
Comparing the Socialist Rural Architecture of the Baltic States: The Past and the Future of the Administrative-Cultural Centres of Collective Farms
Laura Ingerpuu
Taming Nature
Landscapes and National Imaginary: The Role of National Parks in the Formation of National Belonging in Turkey
Asya Ece Uzmay
Modern Rural-Scape and Contemporary Ideology: The Case of the Pontine Plain
Annalisa Metta and Davide Onorati
“Nature Caprices are Finally Defeated!”: Reclamation Politics and Practices in Latvia During the Era of Modernism
Anita Zariņa and Ivo Vinogradovs
Encounters Between Infrastructure and Rural Landscapes
The Five Residential Settlements Built by HICA
César Machado Moreira
Re-Location: Urban and Architectural Analysis of Resettlement Practices in the Brown Coal Mining Area of Welzow-Süd in East Germany
Julia Ess
Conclusions
Conference conclusions: some of overall impressions, themes and questions
Simon Bell
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