Exhibition “9 x 100 = ‘900 – 9 ITINERARI PER 100 ARCHITETTURE DEL ‘900 IN BASILICATA E PUGLIA”

Docomomo International would like to share the exhibition “9 x 100 = ‘900 – 9 ITINERARI PER 100 ARCHITETTURE DEL ‘900 IN BASILICATA E PUGLIA”, wich will be in place between 18th June and 16th July, 2021. The exihibition wants to focus attention on the most significant architectures built in the two regions during the 20th century: an initiative that is the result of a filing of the regional architectural heritage of the 20th century by Docomomo Italia, Sezione Basilicata and Puglia E.T.S. Within this filing, a Scientific Committee of international importance has selected 100 works of modern architecture of…

Battleship Berlin film

Docomomo International would like to share Nathan Eddy’s new film “Battleship Berlin”, a film that explores the dilemma facing Berlin’s notorious brutalist icon the Mäusebunker. The trailer was released in the beginning of this month, and the 40-minute film will have its world premiere in Berlin on 26th June and will then be shown at global film festivals as the year progresses. Nathan Eddy’s last film, Starship Chicago, won Docomomo’s Advocacy Award of Excellence in 2018. Synopsis Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital plans to destroy a brutalist icon of the Cold War era: The…

Seminar: Carlo Gandolfi – “To Paulo Mendes da Rocha”

Docomomo International would like to share the seminar “Architecture: Design and Research” with the subtitle “Carlo Gandolfi – ‘To Paulo Mendes da Rocha’”, organized by the Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto, which will be held this friday, 11th June 2021 at 4.30 pm (GMT+1). Please, feel invited to participate: Zoom (class): https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84986977917 “A few days after the demise of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, we are taking the oppotunity at this conference to wonder about his legacy in our possession. The idea is to make the Brazilian architect ‘speak’ as much as possible, starting from his words…

North Sydney MLC building added to state heritage register

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the MLC Building is now listed on the State Heritage Register. The Independent Planning Commission supported the Heritage Council’s recommendation to list the building and the Minister has concurred. However, as Scott Robertson, President of Docomomo Australia states, “whilst this battle has been won we now have to be vigilant when plans for the building’s refurbishment are submitted as the IPC report stated that substantial work could occur to the facades (even removal of fabric) and that the rear wing could be demolished if necessary.” To ensure that the heritage values of the…

Call for Papers: 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”]

The deadline of call for papers for the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”], organized by the Museum of Architecture Study Group of the Graduate Program in Architecture – Proarq, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was extended to 15th July, 2021. Teachers, graduate students, researchers and professionals in Architecture, Museology and Heritage are invited to participate in the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”] to be held between 18th October and…

Publication “Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the launch of the publication Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980, written by Micaela Antonucci and Gabriele Neri, published by Quodlibet Studio, 2021. The publication counts with the contribution of Professor Ana Tostões, chair of Docomomo International, who wrote the Introduction Nervi in Africa, la diaspora moderna. “In the many stories written so far about Pier Luigi Nervi, one of the most famous engineers and architects of the twentieth century, Africa has remained a totally unexplored context. Yet, between 1964 and 1980 Studio Nervi – directed together with…

Second meeting of “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes and viceversa. Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin America Modern Movement.”

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the second meeting of the lecture series “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes and vice-versa. Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin American Modern Movement”, organized by ex-momo. The next lecture, “Germán Samper Gnecco: el intercambio desde Colombia”, will be held online on 11th June, at 6.00 pm (GMT+2).  To register, send an email to info@ex-momo.com. The lecture will be in Spanish. Seven sessions on a monthly basis, presented by international researchers reflecting on some of the protagonists of the Latin American Modern Movement who have developed urban projects for the…

Docomomo Israel – Germany Conference “From Conventional to Experimental – Mass Housing and Prefabrication”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the Docomomo Israel – Germany Conference “From Conventional to Experimental – Mass Housing and Prefabrication”. The conference will be held online between 14-15 June 2021 and is hosted by the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Docomomo Israel, Docomomo Germany, and EU COST action Middle Class Mass Housing. Registration is requested to get into the zoom meeting link: https://technion.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uf-ugrTIvHNJ50C-A2F0ij0KL_gv4IQK6 “Mass housing owes much of its social ideas and design to architectural prefabrication. However, it seems that the history of prefabrication and its relationship to modernist architectural concepts and their dissemination, has remained somewhat at the…

Call for Application: Post-doctoral Research Grants

Docomomo International would like to inform that is open the candidacy for Post-doctoral Research Grants, supported by the Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture (CiTUA), ref UIDP / 05703/2020, with the financial support of FCT / MCTES ( PIDDAC).   Scientific Area: Architecture Host institution: Association of the Instituto Superior Técnico for Research and Development Application deadline: 9th June, 2021 Reference: UIDP/05703/2020 – (BL83/2021-IST-ID): http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=134811&lang=pt Reference: UIDP/05703/2020 – (BL82/2021-IST-ID): http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=134808&lang=pt

Under threat – Casa Roja

Docomomo International became aware that the Casa Roja, in El Poblado, Medellín, Colombia, designed by Rogelio Salmona, in 1966, is at risk of being demolished according to La Dirección de Patrimonio y Memoria, which received an issuance of the Construction License C2 for the development of a real estate project. “In this regard, and given the apparent imminent demolition of the house,  La Dirección de Patrimonio y Memoria makes a urgent call to the municipal administration, in order to protect this important legacy that the architect Salmona leaves to the city of Medellín – the only buildings designed by the…