In 2001, during a monographic exhibition on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, interest was aroused in the Wolf Villa in Gubin – a dilapidated and little-known building built in 1926 for the hat manufacturer Erich Wolf. With the joint efforts of architects and researchers, an international initiative has been launched to reconstruct the villa in the form of a 1:1 model on historical foundations.

Will it be possible to reconstruct Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist villa many years after it was destroyed, and will it be responsible in terms of design, functional programme and daily maintenance? Is physical reconstruction a way to tell the story of a lost architecture?

We will seek answers to these and other questions together with Florian Mausbach, a German urban planner, co-author of a book on Wolf’s Villa and one of the initiators of its reconstruction, and Anna Stryszewska-Slońska, CEO of Heinle, Wischer und Partner Architekci, the Wroclaw branch of the office involved in the project. The starting point will be a book to be published by DOM in 2021, containing not only materials relating to the building, but also texts describing the historical, social and architectural background of the period in which it was built.

The event is organised in cooperation with the OP ENHEIM Foundation and Heinle, Wischer und Partner.

The event will be translated from German.