The German Center for architecture (DAZ) exhibition’s named „Emerging Identities – EAST!“ presented an architectural journey through contemporary built culture of the Central and Eastern European cities of the European Union. Emerging Identities: through the common language of built space trends, positions, planning goals and cultural developments of a country become readable.
The exhibiton focused on the driving forces and protagonists of new architecture - more than 90 young architects and their offices had been introduced - in Europe’s East from Berlin to Tallinn and Ljubljana. It is, for instance, not only the new public buildings, but far more the many small built interventions that represent current cultural tendencies in those cities. It is the young, not yet internationally published architects that develop projects out of their own initiative and idealism that define the emerging architectural scene. 30 of these built projects was presented and explored in detail in the exhibition.
