Dr. Monika Motylińska
Head of Research Group | Contemporary History and Archive
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Monika Motylińska is an architectural and urban historian interested in cycles of architectural production in the 19th and 20th century, especially in the “Global South”. Since January 2022, she has been head of an interdisciplinary research group “Histories of the Built Environment” at IRS Erkner. She is the PI of the project “Conquering (with) Concrete. German Construction Companies as Global Players in Local Contexts” (Freigeist-Fellowship, Volkswagen Stiftung) and the collaborative project with Ghent University and Université Felix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan “Constructing transport architecture in West Africa (CTRAAF)” (WEAVE, DFG/FWO; co-PI Johan Lagae).

Between 2019 and 2022, she was a fellow of the “Centring Africa” research programme (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Canadian Centre for Architecture; together with Dr. Rachel Lee from the TU Delft). In 2016, she defended her PhD thesis at the TU Berlin on handling of post-war heritage in Germany. Since 2020, she has taught at the Institute for European Urban Studies at Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar; between 2017 and 2019, she was an external lecturer at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin.

Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals (Architecture Beyond Europe, Architectural Histories, Moderne Stadtgeschichte) and in edited volumes. Recently, she co-edited the volume Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints. Global Entanglements in Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period (Boston, Berlin: de Gruyter 2023; together with Christoph Bernhardt and Andreas Butter) and the Themed Section “Material Constraints”(ABE Journal. Architecture Beyond Europe, no. 23, October 2024, together with Robby Fivez, María Ignacia Jeldes Olivares and Paul Sprute; https://doi.org/10.4000/12ebu)

She holds a Master’s degree in heritage protection from the Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun and a Master’s degree in art history from the Technical University Berlin. She is a member of EAHN, SAH, EAUH as well as the Bauhaus Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and Planning in Weimar.  

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 01/2020 - 12/2024
Conquering (with) Concrete. German Construction Companies as Global Players in Local Contexts.

Global construction companies impact our futures. Yet, the role of these global players and their persistent presence in different regions has barely been reflected upon. This project uses German construction companies as a prism to address a wide spectrum of economic, political, environmental or cultural impacts in specific local contexts throughout the long 20th century and aims to critically analyse success stories and moments of failure. This choice is triggered by the label ‘Made in Germany’, which was established in the late colonial period and remains an unquestioned marker of quality. Focusing on production cycles, the research team scrutinises global flows of capital, labour, know-how and construction materials, primarily in West and Southern Africa as well as Latin America.<br/><br/> more info

Third-party funded project 11/2023 - 11/2026
Constructing Transport Architecture in West Africa. A Multi-Scalar History of Materialities, Territories and Actors / Construire l'architecture des transports en Afrique de l'Ouest. Une histoire multiscalaire des matérialités, des territoires et des acteu (CTRAAF)

The joint German-Flemish-Ivorian project CTRAAF examines the genealogies, materialisations and legacies of various forms of transport architecture in West Africa from the 1950s to the 1980s. At this time, a large wave of infrastructure projects was being promoted throughout West Africa. Transport infrastructures were nation building projects. CTRAAF examines ideas and realisations of transport architecture in this context, as well as the agency and power of political actors shaping it.<br/><br/>Le projet commun germano-flamand-ivoirien CTRAAF examine les généalogies, les matérialisations et les héritages de diverses formes d'architecture des transports en Afrique de l'Ouest entre les années 1950 et 1980. À cette époque, une grande vague de projets d'infrastructure a été promue dans toute l'Afrique de l'Ouest. Les infrastructures de transport étaient des projets de construction nationale. Le CTRAAF examine les idées et les réalisations de l'architecture des transports dans ce contexte, ainsi que l'agence et le pouvoir des acteurs politiques qui la façonnent. more info

Completed Third-party Funded Projects

GDR-Architecture Abroad. Projects, Actors and Cultural Transfer Processes

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Selected Publications by Year

2024
Lee, R., & Motylińska, M. (2024). Essential Reading? The Institut für Tropenbau’s Publications as Primers for the Designbuild Movement. In S. Bader (Ed.), DesignBuild in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Interrogation (pp. 21-41). Sto-Stiftung. https://sto-stiftung.de/foerderprojekte/wettbewerbe-ausschreibungen/designbuild/designbuild-reflect
Lagae, J., & Motylińska, M. (2024). On “Borrowing” and “Othering”: Unpacking the Practices, Networks, and Biases Underpinning two Manuals on Building in the Tropics Around 1940. 1269-1276. 8th International Congress on Construction History, Zürich, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3218/4166-8
Motylińska, M. (2024). Auslandsbau ausgepackt. IRS aktuell, (101), 6-8. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/IRS_Aktuell_101_April_2024_Auslandsbau.pdf
Motylińska, M., & Fivez, R. (2024). Addiction to Cement: Narratives and Strategies for Tackling the Lack of Cement in Sub-Saharan Africa (1920s-1980s). Architecture Beyond Europe, (23). http://journals.openedition.org/abe/16398
Motylińska, M., Fivez, R., Jeldes, M., & Sprute, P. (2024). Swimming in an Ocean of Materials. Architecture Beyond Europe, (23). http://journals.openedition.org/abe/16278
Motylińska, M., Fivez, R., Jeldes, M., & Sprute, P. (Eds.) (2024). Material Constraints. (Architecture Beyond Europe, Special Issue; No. 23). https://journals.openedition.org/abe/
2023
Adengo, D., Brisibe , W. G., Obagah-Stephen, R., Lee, R., & Motylińska, M. (Eds.) (2023). Archives 6-8 : Ephemeral Archives. In C. Lubell, & R. Ruiz (Eds.), Fugitive Archives : A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (pp. 156-225). Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Motylińska, M., & Verlaan, T. (2023). Architects as Global Entrepreneurs in the long 20th Century – Introduction. Architectural Histories, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/ah.8777
Bernhardt, C., & Motylińska, M. (2023). Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period: Approaches and Perspectives. In C. Bernhardt, A. Butter, & M. Motylinska (Eds.), Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements in Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period (pp. 1-18). (Rethinking the Cold War; Vol. 12). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658491-001
Bernhardt, C., Butter, A., & Motylińska, M. (Eds.) (2023). Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements in Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period. (Rethinking the Cold War; Vol. 12). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658491
2022
Motylinska, M. (2022). A Cuban Nickel Plant made in the GDR? The Architecture of a Comecon Joint Venture. In C. Bernhardt, A. Butter, & M. Motylinska (Eds.), Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements in Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period (pp. 103-122). (Rethinking the Cold War; Vol. 12). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658491-005
Motylińska, M. (2022). Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai (eds.), Architectural Guide Sub-Saharan Africa. Architecture Beyond Europe, 2022(20). https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.13452
Motylińska, M., & Phan, P. (2022). Nicht der übliche Weg? Der Beitrag eines ostdeutschen Ehepaars zur Planung der äthiopischen Hauptstadt. In A. Butter, & T. Flierl (Eds.), Der Architekturexport der DDR: Zwischen Sansibar und Halensee (pp. 190-209). (Gegenstand und Raum, Neue Folge; No. 3). Lukas.
Motylińska, M., & Verlaan, T. (2022). Architects as Global Entrepreneurs (1850-2000). (Architectural Histories; Vol. Vol. 9-10). https://journal.eahn.org/collections/806/
Fivez, R., & Motylińska, M. (2022). Cement as Weapon. Meta-Infrastructure in the ‘World’s Last Cement Frontier’. In J. Heathcott (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design: Global Perspectives from Architectural History (pp. 40-50). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge.
2021
Lee, R., Mkony, A., & Motylinska, M. (2021, Apr 15). Foreign Bodies, Three Hills, and a Hospital. https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/78984/foreign-bodies-three-hills-and-a-hospital
2020
Fenk, A., Lee, R., & Motylinska, M. (2020). Unlikely Collaborations? Planning Experts from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain and the Making of Abuja. Comparativ, 30(1/2), 38–58. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2020.01-02.03
Høghøj, M., & Motylinska, M. (Eds.) (2020). Spaces of Fear / Angsträume. (Moderne Stadtgeschichte; Vol. 2020, No. 1).
Motylinska, M., & Phan, P. (2020). "Not the usual Way?": On the Involvement of an East German Couple with the Planning of the Ethiopian Capital. Architecture Beyond Europe, 2019(16). https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.6997
  • https://journals.openedition.org/abe/6997
    • Motylinska, M. (2020). Simone Tulumello, Fear, Space and Urban Planning. A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe, New York 2016. Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2020(1), 82-85.
    Motylinska, M., & Høghøj, M. (2020). Spaces of Fear in European Cities of the 20th Century / Angsträume in den europäischen Städten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2020(1), 6-12.
    2019
    Bernhardt, C., Butter, A., Motylinska, M., & Burckhardt, D. (2019, May 15). Architekturprojekte der DDR im Ausland: Bauten, Akteure und kulturelle Transferprozesse. Onlinedatenbank zum Architekturexport der DDR. http://ddr-planungsgeschichte.de/auslandsprojekte/
  • http://ddr-planungsgeschichte.de/auslandsprojekte/
    • 2018
    Motylinska, M. (2018). Communicating Unwanted Heritage? The Case of the Technisches Rathaus in Frankfurt am Main. In R. Lee, D. Barbé, & P. Misselwitz (Eds.), Things don't really exist until you give them a name : unpacking urban heritage (pp. 258-265). Mkuki Na Nyota. https://urbannarratives.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/03/things-dont-really-exist_contents.pdf
    2017
    Motylinska, M. (2017, Aug 18). A Failure Upon Completion: Heidelberg's 'Concrete Ghetto' Still Stands 45 Years On. https://www.failedarchitecture.com/a-failure-upon-completion-heidelbergs-concrete-ghetto-still-stands-45-years-on/
  • https://www.failedarchitecture.com/a-failure-upon-completion-heidelbergs-concrete-ghetto-still-stands-45-years-on/
    • Motylinska, M. (2017). Radikal berlinisch? Die Diskussionen über den Umgang mit der Architektur der 1960er Jahre bis zur Jahrtausendwende . In K. Wittmann-Englert (Ed.), Verflechtungen: Berlin in der Architektur der 1960er Jahre (pp. 71-80). Wüstenrot-Stiftung. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/18799/Verflechtungen%20Berlin%20in%20der%20Architektur%20der%201960er%20Jahre%20Kerstin%20Wittmann-Englert%20150dpi.pdf?sequence=1
  • https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/18799/Verflechtungen%20Berlin%20in%20der%20Architektur%20der%201960er%20Jahre%20Kerstin%20Wittmann-Englert%20150dpi.pdf?sequence=1
    • 2016
    Motylinska, M. (2016). ‚Ape Rock’ or an Icon of Brutalist Architecture in Germany? In A. Tostoes, & Z. Ferreira (Eds.), Adaptive Reuse: The Modern Movement towards the Future (pp. 444-450). Docomomo International.
    Motylinska, M. (2016). A „Concrete Ghetto“ or a „Prime Example with Blemishes“? On Reputation of the Housing Estate Emmertsgrund in Germany. Paper presented at Reinterpreting Cities : International Conference on Urban History, Helsinki, Finland.

    Selected Publications by Type

    Anthology
    Bernhardt, C., Butter, A., & Motylińska, M. (Eds.) (2023). Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements in Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period. (Rethinking the Cold War; Vol. 12). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658491
    Journal Issue / Special Issue
    Motylińska, M., Fivez, R., Jeldes, M., & Sprute, P. (Eds.) (2024). Material Constraints. (Architecture Beyond Europe, Special Issue; No. 23). https://journals.openedition.org/abe/
    Motylińska, M., & Verlaan, T. (2022). Architects as Global Entrepreneurs (1850-2000). (Architectural Histories; Vol. Vol. 9-10). https://journal.eahn.org/collections/806/
    Høghøj, M., & Motylinska, M. (Eds.) (2020). Spaces of Fear / Angsträume. (Moderne Stadtgeschichte; Vol. 2020, No. 1).
    Journal Article
    Motylińska, M., & Fivez, R. (2024). Addiction to Cement: Narratives and Strategies for Tackling the Lack of Cement in Sub-Saharan Africa (1920s-1980s). Architecture Beyond Europe, (23). http://journals.openedition.org/abe/16398
    Motylińska, M., Fivez, R., Jeldes, M., & Sprute, P. (2024). Swimming in an Ocean of Materials. Architecture Beyond Europe, (23). http://journals.openedition.org/abe/16278
    Motylińska, M., & Verlaan, T. (2023). Architects as Global Entrepreneurs in the long 20th Century – Introduction. Architectural Histories, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/ah.8777
    Fenk, A., Lee, R., & Motylinska, M. (2020). Unlikely Collaborations? Planning Experts from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain and the Making of Abuja. Comparativ, 30(1/2), 38–58. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2020.01-02.03
    Motylinska, M., & Phan, P. (2020). "Not the usual Way?": On the Involvement of an East German Couple with the Planning of the Ethiopian Capital. Architecture Beyond Europe, 2019(16). https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.6997
  • https://journals.openedition.org/abe/6997
    • Motylinska, M., & Høghøj, M. (2020). Spaces of Fear in European Cities of the 20th Century / Angsträume in den europäischen Städten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2020(1), 6-12.
    Contribution to Anthology
    Lee, R., & Motylińska, M. (2024). Essential Reading? The Institut für Tropenbau’s Publications as Primers for the Designbuild Movement. In S. Bader (Ed.), DesignBuild in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Interrogation (pp. 21-41). Sto-Stiftung. https://sto-stiftung.de/foerderprojekte/wettbewerbe-ausschreibungen/designbuild/designbuild-reflect
    Adengo, D., Brisibe , W. G., Obagah-Stephen, R., Lee, R., & Motylińska, M. (Eds.) (2023). Archives 6-8 : Ephemeral Archives. In C. Lubell, & R. Ruiz (Eds.), Fugitive Archives : A Sourcebook for Centring Africa in Histories of Architecture (pp. 156-225). Canadian Centre for Architecture.
    Bernhardt, C., & Motylińska, M. (2023). Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period: Approaches and Perspectives. In C. Bernhardt, A. Butter, & M. Motylinska (Eds.), Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements in Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period (pp. 1-18). (Rethinking the Cold War; Vol. 12). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658491-001
    Motylinska, M. (2022). A Cuban Nickel Plant made in the GDR? The Architecture of a Comecon Joint Venture. In C. Bernhardt, A. Butter, & M. Motylinska (Eds.), Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements in Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period (pp. 103-122). (Rethinking the Cold War; Vol. 12). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658491-005
    Motylińska, M., & Phan, P. (2022). Nicht der übliche Weg? Der Beitrag eines ostdeutschen Ehepaars zur Planung der äthiopischen Hauptstadt. In A. Butter, & T. Flierl (Eds.), Der Architekturexport der DDR: Zwischen Sansibar und Halensee (pp. 190-209). (Gegenstand und Raum, Neue Folge; No. 3). Lukas.
    Fivez, R., & Motylińska, M. (2022). Cement as Weapon. Meta-Infrastructure in the ‘World’s Last Cement Frontier’. In J. Heathcott (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design: Global Perspectives from Architectural History (pp. 40-50). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge.
    Motylinska, M. (2018). Communicating Unwanted Heritage? The Case of the Technisches Rathaus in Frankfurt am Main. In R. Lee, D. Barbé, & P. Misselwitz (Eds.), Things don't really exist until you give them a name : unpacking urban heritage (pp. 258-265). Mkuki Na Nyota. https://urbannarratives.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/03/things-dont-really-exist_contents.pdf
    Motylinska, M. (2017). Radikal berlinisch? Die Diskussionen über den Umgang mit der Architektur der 1960er Jahre bis zur Jahrtausendwende . In K. Wittmann-Englert (Ed.), Verflechtungen: Berlin in der Architektur der 1960er Jahre (pp. 71-80). Wüstenrot-Stiftung. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/18799/Verflechtungen%20Berlin%20in%20der%20Architektur%20der%201960er%20Jahre%20Kerstin%20Wittmann-Englert%20150dpi.pdf?sequence=1
  • https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/18799/Verflechtungen%20Berlin%20in%20der%20Architektur%20der%201960er%20Jahre%20Kerstin%20Wittmann-Englert%20150dpi.pdf?sequence=1
    • Motylinska, M. (2016). ‚Ape Rock’ or an Icon of Brutalist Architecture in Germany? In A. Tostoes, & Z. Ferreira (Eds.), Adaptive Reuse: The Modern Movement towards the Future (pp. 444-450). Docomomo International.
    Article in Conference Documentation
    Lagae, J., & Motylińska, M. (2024). On “Borrowing” and “Othering”: Unpacking the Practices, Networks, and Biases Underpinning two Manuals on Building in the Tropics Around 1940. 1269-1276. 8th International Congress on Construction History, Zürich, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3218/4166-8
    Conference Paper
    Motylinska, M. (2016). A „Concrete Ghetto“ or a „Prime Example with Blemishes“? On Reputation of the Housing Estate Emmertsgrund in Germany. Paper presented at Reinterpreting Cities : International Conference on Urban History, Helsinki, Finland.
    Contribution to Forum or Blog
    Bernhardt, C., Butter, A., Motylinska, M., & Burckhardt, D. (2019, May 15). Architekturprojekte der DDR im Ausland: Bauten, Akteure und kulturelle Transferprozesse. Onlinedatenbank zum Architekturexport der DDR. http://ddr-planungsgeschichte.de/auslandsprojekte/
  • http://ddr-planungsgeschichte.de/auslandsprojekte/
    • Motylinska, M. (2017, Aug 18). A Failure Upon Completion: Heidelberg's 'Concrete Ghetto' Still Stands 45 Years On. https://www.failedarchitecture.com/a-failure-upon-completion-heidelbergs-concrete-ghetto-still-stands-45-years-on/
  • https://www.failedarchitecture.com/a-failure-upon-completion-heidelbergs-concrete-ghetto-still-stands-45-years-on/
    • Contribution to Special Interest Journal
    Motylińska, M. (2024). Auslandsbau ausgepackt. IRS aktuell, (101), 6-8. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/IRS_Aktuell_101_April_2024_Auslandsbau.pdf
    Other transfer publication
    Lee, R., Mkony, A., & Motylinska, M. (2021, Apr 15). Foreign Bodies, Three Hills, and a Hospital. https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/78984/foreign-bodies-three-hills-and-a-hospital
    Review in Journal
    Motylińska, M. (2022). Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai (eds.), Architectural Guide Sub-Saharan Africa. Architecture Beyond Europe, 2022(20). https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.13452
    Motylinska, M. (2020). Simone Tulumello, Fear, Space and Urban Planning. A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe, New York 2016. Moderne Stadtgeschichte, 2020(1), 82-85.

    Talks

    2023
    Agents of neocolonialism?

    International Congress on Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes

    January/20/2023
    Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissabon, Portugal

    2022
    Joburg Gen: Hohenheim | Hochtief | CMJAH – Tracing Urban Healthscapes of Johannesburg

    ArchHiv. Archéologie du VIH à Paris. Espaces, mémoires et séquences virales autour de l’ancien Hôpital Claude Bernard

    November/07/2022
    Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Trajectories of German Expertise in Nigeria

    Producción de infraestructura

    November/02/2022
    Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Stories of (Dis)connection – Investigating Spaces of Infrastructure

    September/15/2022

    Conquering (with) Concrete. German Construction Companies as Local Players in Global Contexts

    June/08/2022

    Unpacking Overseas Construction

    Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 75th Annual Conference 2022

    April/28/2022
    Pittsburgh, United States

    2021
    (Dis)Connecting Elements. A Vivisection of Ebute-Ero in Lagos

    Material Assemblages

    December/16/2021
    Herrenhausen Palace, Hannover, Germany

    Selling Tropical Architecture? German Networks of Planning for the Tropics in the 1930s and post-1945

    Architectures of Colonialism

    June/17/2021
    BTU Cottbus, Cottbus/online

    Cementing the Ties: ZAB, CMEA and the Architecture of Multilateralism in Syria and Ethiopia

    EAHN Conference 2021

    June/05/2021
    Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    (Re)Constructing German Colonial Capitalism from its Margins: German Companies in Liberia

    Colonial Capitalism in Action

    May/05/2021
    Universität Hamburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hamburg, Germany

    2019
    Post Wall Heritage - Zum Umgang mit der DDR-Architektur in den 90 Jahren

    Architekturdiskurse der 90er Jahre in Berlin

    December/05/2019
    Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin

    2018
    Botschaften der DDR – eine architekturhistorische Perspektive

    December/12/2018

    A Success Story? On the GDR Export of Cement Plants

    Exporting Socialism, Making Business? Intercultural Transfer, Circulation and Appropriations of Architecture in the Cold War Period

    June/22/2018
    Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Erkner, Germany

    Striving for Recognition - GDR Embassies from the 1950s and 1960s

    71st Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians 2018

    April/20/2018
    St. Paul, United States

    Architekturprojekte der DDR im Ausland: Bauten, Akteure, kulturelle Transferprozesse

    15. Werkstattgespräch zur DDR-Planungsgeschichte

    January/18/2018
    IRS Erkner, Erkner , Germany

    2017
    The COMECON and Knowledge Production in the Fields of Architecture and Town Planning

    Spaces of Interaction between the Socialist Camp and the Global South: Knowledge Production, Trade, and Scientific-Technical Cooperation in the Cold War Era

    October/26/2017
    Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Excluded from the Canon of the Postwar Modernism in Germany?: On Handling the Architectural Heritage from the 1950s and 1960s

    Canonization of Modernism

    August/14/2017
    Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Germany

    In Search of a Better World?: Migrations of Modernist Architects from the GDR to Latin America

    19. International Conference of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA)

    August/10/2017
    Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Germany

    Seeking Recognition, Making Business.: The Export of GDR Architecture

    Export of Architecture in the Cold War Period: Projects, Actors and Cultural Transfers

    July/07/2017
    Erkner, Erkner, Germany

    How Much Rebuilding?: On Handling the Postwar Modernist Architecture

    Umbauten zwischen Funktionswandel und weltanschaulicher Anpassung

    March/18/2017
    Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany

    Communicating Unwanted Heritage?

    International Conference Urban Heritage Activism

    March/17/2017
    Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    2016
    Towards the 'World Niveau': Architectural Export of the GDR: Path, Results und Repercussions

    Migration und Baukultur von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

    November/24/2016
    Erkner, Erkner, Germany

    ‚Ape Rock’ or an Icon of Brutalist Architecture in Germany?

    Adaptive Re-use. The Modern Movement Towards the Future

    September/08/2016
    Lissabon, Portugal, Lissabon, Portugal, Portugal

    A „Concrete Ghetto“ or a „Prime Example with Blemishes“?: On Reputation of the Housing Estate Emmertsgrund in Germany

    Reinterpreting Cities : International Conference on Urban History

    August/26/2016
    Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Memberships

    • University Félix Houphouët-Boigny (External organisation)

    • Society of Architectural Historians (External organisation)

    • European Architectural History Network (External organisation)

    • DFG Network "Post-Colonial Business History" (External organisation)

    Dr. Monika Motylińska in the Media

    Neue Freigeist Fellowships
    (Bio Spektrum, 11/01/2019)
    Export-Hit Zementanlagen
    (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 04/27/2019)
    Kritisch Denken und Zeichnen für Architektur und Gesellschaft: Bruno Flierl im IRS Erkner
    (Archive der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, 04/05/2017)