It was not just the often-invoked phenomenon of "elite continuity" that revived transnational relations in architecture and urban planning after 1945, the different national identity constructs - between "perpetrator role", "victim myth" and "neutrality" - also helped shape the exchange. In the context of the global East-West conflict, how were the cultural models of the respective neighbours considered? In a symposium conceived by curator Monika Platzer under the title "Cold Transfer. Architecture, Politics, Culture - Germany, Austria, Switzerland after 1945", at the end of January architecture researchers from the D-A-CH network argued for a transdisciplinary and cross-border view of the architecture of the post-war period, which was shaped in a very particular way by the global political situation. Günter Bischof (Director of Center Austria at the Uni- versity of New Orleans) gave an overview of the early days of the Marshall Plan and the European Recovery Programme (ERP), from which all European countries not within the Soviet Union's sphere of influence profited -including even neutral states such as Sweden and Switzerland.
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