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The Department of Public Administration’s seminar room, which is also used for meetings and council sessions, now features a small permanent exhibition of architectural designs by one of the fathers of the “Second Modernity”, the famous architect and architectural theorist Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926-2007).
These are twelve very colorful plottings of modern houses for one-family uses to be erected within well-preserved historical Old Towns (“Neues Bauen in alter Stadt”) from 1971, but signed, dated and matted in 1977 for a one-person show at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. (Similar drawings can be seen in the Ungers Museum in Cologne.) The installation is by Estonian artist Kadi Estland.
As Wolfgang Drechsler pointed out during his speech at the opening of the exhibition on 14 July, not only do these designs please aesthetically and reflect (upon) the architecture of the Akadeemia 3 (“Ragnar Nurkse”) building and the challenges of Tallinn and its Old Town, they are also especially suitable for a Public Administration department by raising issues of the tension and synergy between modernity and tradition, between evidence-base and subjective feeling, and between functionality and formalism. The Ungers exhibition can be viewed during any event in the seminar room, or by request to the departmental secretary, Ms. Piret Kähr, during departmental office hours.
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