Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], with the participation of Professor Ana Tostões, chair of docomomo International and coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will…

Online Seminar ACERCA DE LA ARQUITECTURA / ABOUT ARCHITECTURE

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the Seminar “Acerca de la Arquitectura” [“About Architecture”]; a cycle of conferences of international academic excellence, organized by the Casa Curutchet allied with Alejandro Lapunzina. The Seminar is free for architects and registered architects of the College of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires. It will be held from Barcelona and Paris and is organized in four conferences that will be held on every Friday at 3:00 p.m. (GMT -3) from July 10 to July 31, by Zoom until the capacity of the room is exhausted and will also be broadcast through the…

Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone

Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Houston’s foremost modern architect in the 1950s, Barnstone came to prominence for his designs with partner Preston M. Bolton, which transposed the rigorous and austere architectural practices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the hot, steamy coastal plain of Texas. Barnstone was a man of contradictions—charming and witty but also self-centered, caustic, and abusive—who shaped new settings that were imbued, at once, with spatial calm and emotional intensity. Making Houston Modern explores the provocative architect’s life and work, not only through…

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern Modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism–the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will be promoted a wide and informed debate in which citizens and specialists…

Yam Sokly (1984-2020)

Docomomo International wishes to convey the most sincere condolences at the passing of the Cambodian architect and researcher Yam Sokly, to his family and friends. “We have just lost a young architect and modern Cambodian architectural heritage advocate, Yam Sokly (速利任), on 28 June 2020. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Cambodia (2003-2009) and a master’s degree from Kyungmin University in Korea (2016). He was a staff of Heritage Mission at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in Cambodia (2009-2012) and at the Royal University of Fine Arts (2012-2020), and worked as…

Proposal of the new Docomomo International’s Headquarters

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that has received a proposal to host Docomomo International’s Headquarters at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft, The Netherlands, submitted by Docomomo Netherlands (Wido Quist, General Secretary candidacy) and Docomomo Germany (Uta Pottgiesser, Chair candidacy) . The Advisory board team is currently analyzing the application. More information will be available soon.

Call for Books: 2021 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award

The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting nominations for the 2021 Publication Awards through July 31, 2020. The Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award was established by the SAH Board in 2005 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design. Named for SAH past president and landscape historian Elisabeth MacDougall, the award honors the late historian’s role in developing this field of study. Criteria for Submission Books in English with a 2017, 2018, or 2019 printed copyright date are eligible. Entries for consideration may be submitted only by the publisher or…

Call for Books: 2021 Spiro Kostof Book Award

The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting nominations for the 2021 Publication Awards through July 31, 2020. This award was established in 1993 at the Society’s Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, in recognition of Spiro Kostof’s extraordinarily productive and inspiring career that was ended by his premature death in December 1991. In the spirit of Kostof’s writings, the award will be given to interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution to our understanding of the growth and development of cities. Criteria for Submission The award is open to authors worldwide for books in English with a 2018 or…

Call for Catalogues: 2021 Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award

The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting nominations for the 2021 Publication Awards through July 31, 2020. As architectural history exhibitions are able to address historical and critical questions in special ways, through the presentation of both documentation and artifacts to a diversified audience, so their catalogues have become distinctive vehicles for the expression of scholarship in architectural history. They remain as the substantial and enduring contribution after the life of the exhibition is spent. In order, therefore, to recognize and encourage excellence in this form of scholarship and publication, the Society of Architectural Historians established its annual Philip Johnson…