Lithuanian Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover

“This is MMD (Micro-Macro Disc) house compilation project” states young Lithuanian architects Valdas Ozarinskas and Aida Čeponytė while describing Lithuanian Pavilion project for Hanover Expo 2000 in Baltic architecture exposition in Paris, La Galerie d’Architecture.

Evolved from the ideas confronting manipulative „retro-utopian“ visions of Lithuania and it’s “imprisoning into the slow modernity” effect, Hanover expo introduces the new “possible” into the inert local architectural fabric. The contradictory competition process related to the recently implemented public procurement law, and controversial moves towards unlocking hermetic understanding of the style brings the newly established non-formal lithuanian group “Private Ideology” on board.

Exposed in the “Boulevard of Europe” highly acknowledged lightweight steel structure first time participant in Expo Lithuanian Pavilion marks the turn century as aerodynamic and within “cosmopolitical“ forms, transfiguring into another.

1. Nordic - Baltic Architectural Triennale in Tallinn. Authors: Private Ideology group: Audrius Bučas, Marina Bučienė, Valdas Ozarinskas, Aida Čeponytė, Gintaras Kuginys, 1999, Gintaras Kuginys photograph.

2. Four architectures Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden. La Galerie d'Architecture . Authors: Private Ideology group : Audrius Bučas, Marina Bučienė, Valdas Ozarinskas, Aida Čeponytė, Gintaras Kuginys, 2000. Courtesy: Valdas Ozarinskas.

3. Explanatory statement for the Lithuanian Hanover Expo 2000 architectural competition. Authors: Valdas Ozarinskas, Aida Čeponytė, 1998 Courtesy: Valdas Ozarinskas.