9 a.m.
Welcome address: Lilli Hollein (General Director, MAK),
Herbert Grüner (Rector, NDU, St. Pölten)
Introducing the topic: Rainald Franz, Matthias Boeckl
Section 1, 9:30–11 a.m.
Josef Hoffmann as designer and design today
Impulse presentation: Matthias Boeckl and Rainald Franz
Panel: Michael Anastassiades (Designer, London), Thomas Feichtner (Designer, Vienna), Christine Schwaiger (Architect, NDU, St. Pölten)
Moderator: Amelie Klein (Curator, Design Theorist, Vienna)
Section 2, 11:15 a.m.–1 p.m.
Josef Hoffmann and the avant-gardes
Impulse presentation: Rainald Franz
Panel: Gerd Zillner (Kiesler Foundation, Vienna), Albert Kirchengast (ETH Zurich)
Moderator: Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (TU Vienna)
Section 3, 2:30–4 p.m.
The other Josef Hoffmann: social housing and innovative building methods
Impulse presentation: Matthias Boeckl
Panel: Andreas Nierhaus (Wien Museum), Otto Kapfinger (Architectural Researcher and Publicist, Vienna), Angelika Schnell (Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Moderator: Robert Temel (Architectural Researcher and Publicist, Vienna)
Section 4, 4:45–6 p.m.
Josef Hoffmann and the authoritarian regimes
Impulse presentation: Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper (formerly of the DÖW, Vienna)
Panel: Helmut Wohnout (General Director, Austrian State Archive, Vienna),
Ingrid Holzschuh (Historian of Art and Architecture, Vienna), Hermann Czech (Architect, Vienna)
Moderator: Anna Soucek (Culture Editor, Ö1, Vienna)
Friday, 18 March 2022
Josef Hoffmann and Historical Building Preservation
Together with the Federal Monuments Office
9 a.m.
Welcome address: Christoph Bazil (President, Federal Monuments Office)
9:15 a.m.
Introduction: historical building preservation and Modernism
Paul Mahringer (Federal Monuments Office)
9:30–10:30 a.m.
Josef Hoffmann: historical building preservation and the history of restoration work
Inge Podbrecky (Federal Monuments Office): Preservation orders as elements of discourse: on the reception of Josef Hoffmann in the world of historical building preservation
10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Josef Hoffmann: recent restoration work in Austria
Sylvia Schönolt (Federal Monuments Office): A look at restoration findings and construction projects at Hoffmann’s Vienna villas
Geraldine Klever (Federal Monuments Office): A country house on the Wörthersee: on deciding how to preserve Josef Hoffmann’s total work of art in Carinthia
Oliver Schreiber (BMKÖS): Ambivalent Modernism: the Vienna Werkbund housing project
1:45–3:15 p.m.
Josef Hoffmann: recent restoration work abroad
Vladimír Bužek, Henrieta Moravčíková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava):
Restoring the Villa Arpád Lengyel, Bratislava
Jiří Neubert (Czech Monuments Office, Telč):
Restoring and preserving Josef Hoffmann‘s birthplace in Brtnice and other of Hoffmann’s buildings in the Czech Republic
Closing discussion: on restoring Josef Hoffmann’s buildings and early Modernism in Central Europe
Moderator: Paul Mahringer (Federal Monuments Office)
![Josef Hoffmann, Porcelain set “Melon” [Melon] for the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory, 1931© MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen](/jart/prj3/mak-resp/images/cache/7736c128b45852df42e3e6b23079bec4/0x0ED1ABF302602D7F6BE8385FB8E6D328.jpeg)
