The newly independent Lithuanian state (1918\u20131940), emerging from wars and the collapse of empires, was in great need of modern professionals. State scholarships encouraged young people to study in Western Europe, yet only one Lithuanian student chose the Bauhaus, the most avant-garde school of design of its time. The life and work of Vladas \u0160vipas (1900\u20131965) reveal the making of a new type of modernist architect and his role in shaping a modern state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u0160vipas studied in Wassily Kandinsky\u2019s workshop from 1924 to 1926 and completed an internship at the Bauhaus Architecture Office in 1928. In interwar Kaunas, he developed ideas of rational planning in public service and through his theoretical work. During the Second World War, \u0160vipas navigated between the Soviet and Nazi occupation regimes. At the end of the war, he further developed his architectural ideas in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany from 1945 to 1949, until he emigrated to the United States with the help of former Bauhaus director Walter Gropius and began a new life in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u0160vipas\u2019s legacy invites a broader view of the architectural profession as the work of a modern technical expert. His biography raises questions about the architect\u2019s role amid political change, forced migration, and within the diaspora. The exhibition highlights \u0160vipas as a modernist architect while tracing the transnational history of professional migration in architecture, shaped by political regimes and historical ruptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Produced by: Kult\u016bros projekt\u0173 asociacija DOCUMENTUM<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Curator: dr. Marija Dr\u0117mait\u0117 (Vilnius University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Project manager: Lina Pranaityt\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Architect and designer: Vika Pranaityt\u0117 (O-D-A . architecture studio)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photographer and researcher: Lukas Mykolaitis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Models: Urt\u0117 \u0160imkut\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Image Editing: Aust.studio<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exhibition partner: LNDM Nacionalin\u0117 dail\u0117s galerija<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coordinator: Giedrius Gulbinas (NDG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Project partner: LAPAS books<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition is financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exhibits were loaned by: Nacionalinis M. K. \u010ciurlionio dail\u0117s muziejus, Vilniaus universiteto biblioteka, Lietuvos moksl\u0173 akademijos Vrublevski\u0173 biblioteka, Lietuvos nacionalin\u0117 Martyno Ma\u017evydo biblioteka, Lietuvos centrinis valstyb\u0117s archyvas, Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus, Kauno apskrities \u0104\u017euolyno vie\u0161oji biblioteka, Leidykla \u201eVaga\u201c, Alfonsas \u0160vipas, Bernd Freese, Galerie Berinson Berlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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