docomomo, Author at Docomomo Portugal

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the issue 162 of Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica – Housing in a Box – has just been printed: the main core of the different essays converges into that considerable body of experiments aimed to explore and encourage the efforts of architects, engineers and manufacturers in promoting a widespread knowledge and use of a Meccano-like house, no more a static object but a demountable, assembled and mass-produced shelter. This world of (apparently) humble things is therefore the central point of convergence of all the essays in which our readers will find the emerging lines of a…

XL: Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra. 1978-2018

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of XL: Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra. 1978-2018, by Jorge Tárrago Mingo and Antonio José Cidoncha Pérez (EUNSA, 2020). “This book is published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the construction of the building that houses the University of Navarra’s School of Architecture. It contains a description and an annotated selection of historic materials (reproduction of some of the original drawings and the specifications for the detailed design) interspersed with two series of photographs of the building as it presently stands. Technical data are also included…

Online debate event series: “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development”

Docomomo Israel is inviting you to participate in the international online debate event series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development”. The 4th debate will be on 11th February 2021, with the topic “Outstanding 20th Century Heritage – World heritage Sites and World Heritages Initiatives in Germany and Israel”. Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development The international online debate event series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development” focuses on how the needs of conservation as well as development requirements can be managed in the urban context. How can historically developed urban fabrics/structures…

An overview of the Architecture of House of Cinema Manoel de Oliveira

On the occasion of the event “Serralves On Line Experience”, the Serralves Foundation is inviting you to the conference “Um Olhar sobre a Arquitetura da Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira” [An overview of the Architecture of House of Cinema Manoel de Oliveira], on 8th February, with the architect Álvaro Siza, author of the project for the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira, Serralves Foundation, and António Preto, its director. Admission is free upon registration. For more information and registration, please visit the website. [Portuguese]

Call for Papers: Architecture and Endurance

EAHN is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the thematic conference Architecture and Endurance (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 30th September – 2nd October 2021) was extended til 14th February 2021. “Endurance is a state of surviving, remaining alive; the ability to continue a given task; the power of withstanding hardship. Its original meaning implies continued existence and ability to last. As such it has implications not only for how architecture is conceptualized but also for the ways within which architectural historiography is conceived. In recent years, there is a tendency in architectural historiography to go…

Vesterport — Metal and Structure

Abstract
The British metallurgist Cyril Stanley Smith emphasized the interdependence of science and art. His research and reflections on the sense of materiality is a lifelong experience where A Search for Structure is the noteworthy title of a book of essays published in 1992. Smith emphasizes the value of practical experience and the experience of sense as an engagement with matter. He certainly makes an impact when it comes to the concern for matter and material, referring to structure as aesthetics as well as technology and to objects of art as well as to science. No doubt this point of view is valid also when it comes to studying architecture and practical, social and philosophical possibilities of matter.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Vesterport, Metal architecture, Modern building materials.

Issue 42
Year 2010
Pages 124-127
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/42.A.M6WZZC40

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Eliana Cárdenas

Abstract
It is more common for disciples to write memories of their old masters that it is for a master to bear the hard news of the death of one of his disciples. It is painful and sad to face and deal with the death of Eliana Cardenas, the leading historian of architecture in Cuba.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Eliana Cárdenas, Cuban modern architecture.

Issue 42
Year 2010
Pages 122-123
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/42.A.PXG3LQDW

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Dennis Sharp

Abstract
Dennis died on the 6th May after a serious illness that bothered him for several years. He leaves behind his wife Yasmin, his daughter Melani, his son Deen and many friends all over the world. He was a universal man: architect, scholar, critic, writer, teacher, bookseller, cook and walking encyclopedia. He collaborated with architects like Santiago de Calatrava. His books Modern Architecture and Expression (1966) and 20th century architecture - a visual history (1972) became classics. He made exhibitions, was the editor of the magazine World Architecture, he was professor at the Open University and for the development of docomomo he was of vital importance.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Dennis Sharp.

Issue 42
Year 2010
Pages 120-122
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/42.A.6R1UKFT9

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The Synthesis of the Arts and MoMa

Abstract
1948-49 were key years for the reaction of the Museum of Modern Art’s newly amalgamated Department of Architecture and Design to respond to the rising discourse on the “Synthesis of the Arts.” The response was indirect and took the form of MoMA assessing the progress of modern architecture that it had been describing and forecasting for fifteen years. The exhibition “From Le Corbusier to Niemeyer, 1929–1949” was part of a larger assessment of the fate of the international style and of the interaction between abstraction in painting and sculpture and in architectural design, a theme laid out by Alfred Barr and Hitchcock in the 1948 book Painting Toward Architecture. Niemeyer’s unbuilt Treamine House, designed with Roberto Burle Marx, was upheld as a synthesis not only of the arts but of the movements coalescing towards a postwar abstract consensus.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Art and architecture, Modern art, Museum of Modern Arts, Synthesis of the arts.

Issue 42
Year 2010
Pages 110-113
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/42.A.TLVMHUCY

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The Total Artist. Max Bill according to Tomás Maldonado

Abstract
Max Bill was an important reference in the field of art and architecture in Latin America. Unlike the synthesis of the arts, Max Bill was proposing a program based on “concrete art” and the idea of gute form, which sought to provide a common principle to the built environment that would guarantee its formal quality and harmony. This point was central to the reception of his ideas in Argentina. It was largely Tomás Maldonado who introduced these ideas. He presented Max Bill as a “total artist”, a sort of premonition of the “man of the future”, endowed with a capacity of coherence that would allow the synthesis not of the arts, but that of the artistic product with mass production.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Art and architecture, Modern art, Max Bill, Latin American modern architecture, Concrete art.

Issue 42
Year 2010
Pages 100-109
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/42.A.STR8TDH8

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