UIA2021 RIO – 27th World Congress of Architects

Docomomo International would like to inform that UIA2021RIO Organising Committee have announced that the UIA2021 RIO – 27th World Congress of Architects will be entirely digital, where the programme will innovate to combine pre-recorded videocasts and live transmissions. “Due to the current health crisis and government restrictions on public gatherings, the UIA2021RIO Executive Committee has been forced to reorganise the Congress in a new online format, with pre-recorded videos and live transmissions. The International Union of Architects applauds the efforts of Brazilian architects to celebrate its Congress. We regret not being able to assemble in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and…

Call for Papers – Architektúra & urbanizmus 2021, 3-4. “The Heritage of Postwar Modernism: Engaged Research”

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the new call for papers for the thematic issue of the Architektúra & urbanizmus 2021, 3-4 entitled The Heritage of Postwar Modernism: Engaged Research. “Today, we are witnessing a wave of demolition of Modernism or Brutalism icons on both sides of the former Iron Curtain. A key role in activating public opinion against the destruction of the often unpopular and long-criticised buildings has been played by architectural theorists and historians. Should we regard the present engagement of the scholarly community in the struggles for the protection of architectonic heritage as individual departures from the…

Docomomo US National Symposium 2021 – Chicago: Crossroads of Modern America

Docomomo International is please to inform that the schedule and speakers for the Docomomo US National Symposium 2021 – Chicago: Crossroads of Modern America, are now available in Docomomo US website. The Docomomo US National Symposium 2021 Chicago: Crossroads of Modern America will take place online Tuesday, May 25th – Friday, May 28th. “The site of Chicago has been recognized as a crossroads not only for transport, but for its place at the intersection of architecture, culture, and technological change. The notion of “crossroads” reflects not only physical intersections but also a place in time where change itself has a…

Winner of the international architecture competition for the Reconstruction & Rehabilitation of the Al Nouri Complex in Mosul, Iraq

Docomomo Interantional is pleased to share with you the winner of the international architecture competition for the Reconstruction & Rehabilitation of the Al Nouri Complex in Mosul, Iraq: an entry by eight Egyptian architects. The UIA-endorsed competition is a major component of UNESCO’s ambitious project for the rehabilitation of the ancient city, Revive the Spirit of Mosul. It has two main components: the Rehabilitation of Al Nouri Mosque Complex and the Reconstruction of Al Nouri Prayer Hall. The competition was organised by UNESCO in close coordination with the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and the Iraqi Sunni Endowment, with the support…

Online course “Patrimónios Contestados” [“Contested Heritage”]

Docomomo International would like to invite you to participate in the online course “Patrimónios Contestados” [“Contested Heritage”], with 8 sessions between April 28 and July 14, 2021. The reflection is organized by the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Dialogue in Portuguese Influential Heritage, of the University of Coimbra, in partnership with the Público newspaper. Political decolonization does not always mean cultural decolonization and there is still a great lack of information about historical and cultural heritage. How to act to preserve the heritage built by the Portuguese in Africa, Goa (India), or elsewhere in the world? What is the reality of…

Watch or review all sessions of the #ConversasComSerralves cycle!

Docomomo International would like to invite you to watch or review all the lessons in the #ConversasComSerralves cycle. The sharing of culture, the promotion and dissemination of science and the relationship with nature in all its areas, represent a unique mechanism with a real impact on our lives and the way we see ourselves in the world. Serralves lives to create multiple relationships with art forms, with nature and with people, whether they are musicians, artists, dancers, architects, filmmakers, landscapers, researchers, students, thinkers, teachers, partners, friends, founders or patrons. Serralves exists for all its public. The #ConversasComSerralves cycle appears in…

Exhibition “Archigraphies. Guido Guidi and Álvaro Siza” in Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that the Exhibition that marks the reopening of Casa da Arquitectura to the public, after the confinement “Archigraphies. Guido Guidi and Álvaro Siza” is open until 10th October 2021. The exhibition by italian photographer Guido Guidi on works by the architect Álvaro Siza is curated by Paula Pinto and Joaquim Moreno and opened its doors at Galeria da Casa on April 17th. The curators selected eight projects located in Lisbon, Porto and Matosinhos, which will be represented through 97 images by Guido Guidi. Arquigrafias thus offers a “dialogue between the photographic work of Guido…

Seminar: Renja Suominen-Kokkonen – The Past Voices of the Architectural Heritage in Finland: The Villa Mairea and the Finlandia Hall by Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio Aalto

Docomomo International is pleased to share that the Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto are organizing their 2021 PhD seminar in Architecture: Design and Research having as title “Renja Suominen-Kokkonen – The Past Voices of the Architectural Heritage in Finland: The Villa Mairea and the Finlandia Hall by Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio Aalto”. It will take place online via zoom Friday 23rd April at 14:30 (GMT). Synopsis: This lecture will discuss the problematic of architectural heritage including the questions of public memory and national heritage. The architectural case studies involve the Villa Mairea, a private villa…

Alfred Preis – Architect, Planner and Advocate. A Bi-cultural Legacy of Austria and Hawaiʻi

To celebrate the prolific and varied work and life of the Austrian-Hawaiian modern Architect Alfred Preis on the occasion of his 110th birth year we invite to visit a specially curated online exhibition and participate in the accompanying panel discussion online via zoom, happening next Friday, 23rd April at 12pm (HST) entitled “Alfred Preis – Architect, Planner and Advocate. A Bi-cultural Legacy of Austria and Hawaiʻi” The event is curated by Axel Schmitzberger & Laura McGuire with the support of the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles and hosted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Architecture, Register here…

CoA Inaugural Chicago Lecture – A Conversation with the Artistic Director of the Chicago Architecture Biennial

On Wednesday, April 21, the College of Architecture will present its inaugural Chicago Lecture, which features prominent members of the Chicago community, being the is the finale of the outstanding Crown Hall Spring Lecture Series. Joining them this semester will be David Brown, the artistic director for the fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Brown is a designer, researcher, and educator from the University of Illinois at Chicago, whose work investigates non-hierarchical, flexible, and variable approaches to urban design. His work has been exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012), the Chicago Cultural Center’s Expo 72 (2013), and the…