International Commitee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement
Docomomo International is glad to announce that the tickets for the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1 are now available for purchasing. An online viewing ticket includes: participation in all programs during the conference from 29th August to 2nd September 2021. Tickets can be purchased via online here. If you have any questions, please email: registration@docomomo2020.com.
Docomomo International became aware by Docomomo Brazil that Hospital Octávio Mangabeira (HEOM) is in high danger of being lost, due to the remodeling project proposed by the Secretaria de Saúde do Estado da Bahia [Bahia State Secretary of Health, SESAB]), that leads to irreversibly damage of cultural value elements of this health heritage site developed in Bahia at the beginning of the 1940s: the former Santa Terezinha Hospital Sanatorium, an icon of the Bahian antituberculosis architecture, and one of the major projects responsible for the consolidation of Modern Architecture in the State. “The former Santa Terezinha Hospital, now HEOM, began construction…
[Message from the Organizing Committee: Dear PROHITECH 2020 participants, Despite the recent encouraging progress regarding the production of COVID-19 vaccines, it seems likely that various travel bans, and social distancing measures will remain for the upcoming months and it is uncertain whether it will be possible to travel and gather to Athens in July 2021 for PROHITECH 2020. In view of the above, the PROHITECH 2020 Organizing Committee has decided one final postponement of the Conference. The Conference will be held on 25-27 October 2021 in Athens. The new venue is the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘DEMOKRITOS‘. We anticipate that until then sufficient global immunity will…
Docomomo International would like to share the ESACH open call for contributions in view of the release of The ESACH Quarterly n°2, the second issue of the educational association’s magazine which will feature the work of its members. The ESACH Quarterly is the international, peer-reviewed magazine of the European Students’ Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH), that provides an Open Access space for the discussion and publication of grounded university and independently carried research, professional activity, and content in various formats exemplifying personal engagement into all aspects of Cultural Heritage. The magazine’s goal is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for debate…
Docomomo International is pleased to annouce that the 17th International Docomomo Conference will be hosted at the School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain, between 6th and 9th September, 2022, under the theme “Modern Design: Social Commitment & Quality of Life“. This theme will encourage us to reflect upon how re-thinking interior space in the widest sense was tackled, the different contexts where it was developed and who the main artifices were. If the proposed theme is, in itself, pertinent, today it is of even greater interest as, curiously, the improvement in the health conditions of habitable…
Docomomo International would like to share the 20th Docomomo Australia Annual General Meeting. The meeting will be held on Friday 23rd July 2021 at 7.00 pm AEST (QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS), 6.30 pm (NT & SA) and 5:00pm (WA) via ZOOM. Bellow are the papers for the meeting with the ZOOM Meeting details on the Notice for this Meeting: Docomomo-Australia-2021-AGM-Notice-for-Friday-23-July-2021 Docomomo-Australia-Financial-Statement-for-2020 Further information on Docomomo Australia website.
Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for the international symposium on the role of paper in European avant-garde art during the first half of the 20th century, organized by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in collaboration with the MDRN lab of the University of Leuven and with the Université Libre de Bruxelles. “A wide variety of historical or classic avant-garde artists turned to paper during the first half of the 20th century. Whereas this turn to paper has received quite some attention in the study of Cubism (collage), Expressionism (the woodcut), and Dada (photomontage),…
Docomomo International would like to draw your attention to the alarming situation of the Wrocław Sports Park, designed by Richard Konwiarz in 1924 and built from 1926 to 1928, when the city of Wrocław (then Breslau) was still part of Germany. This Olympic Complex was later extended in 1936-1939, and is now facing risk of demolition. This Olympic Complex is a world-class heritage site which was awarded with a brown medal on Olympic Competition of Arts and Literature in Los Angeles in 1932. The whole settlement is registered by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as a historic monument….
Docomomom International would like to share the XV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU), which will be presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. The Fundació Mies van der Rohe invites you to visit the exhibition that can be enjoyed until 16 September and in parallel, from 2 July to 10 October, at the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid. Two emblematic sites with a common objective: to connect architecture, urban planning and citizenship under the slogan: “Empty Spain, Full Spain. Strategies for conciliation”. “The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, together with the Patio Herreriano Museum of Contemporary Art…
Docomomo International is pleased to share the call for nominations for the SAH Publication Awards. Every year, the Society of Architectural Historians presents awards that recognize the most distinguished publications in architectural history, urban history, landscape history, preservation, and architectural exhibition catalogues. SAH also presents the Founders’ Award for an outstanding JSAH article written by an emerging scholar in the previous two years. The deadline to submit nominations for the 2022 SAH Publication Awards is July 31, 2021. Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award was established in 1949 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of…