Call for Papers: Architectural Exhibitions. Bitácora Arquitectura Journal, issue 44

In this issue, the editors of Bitácora aim to explore architectural exhibitions as cultural artefacts that have fostered critical reflection and have established aesthetic canons, social patterns, and cultural policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is often overlooked that some noteworthy architectural works achieved this status thanks to exhibitions and that some works were even produced only for exhibition purposes. Influential exhibitions advanced polemical proposals that guided critics and gave rise to canonical works and debates of the past century. Exhibition spaces such as galleries and museums condition the development, reception, and presentation of architecture. In these spaces,…

International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture

The Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad de Navarra is pleased to announce the International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture, that will take place from 25th to 27th of March, 2020, Pamplona. Industrial building forms (in all its aspects, from dams to warehouses and silos, to workshops and mills), on their eminent search for economical and spatial efficiency, became extremely evocative formal references for architects in the early stages of the Modern Movement, as Reyner Banham noticed. They also often inspired the designs of urban ordinary buildings. This took place in the Twenties in Europe, later…

Call for Papers: Identifications of the Postmodern

Sonja Hnilica (TU Dortmund) and Riklef Rambow (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, KIT) invite papers for an issue on “Identifications of the Postmodern“ (Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land | Воздушный замок, Vol. 24, No. 41). Denise Scott-Brown stated in 1990: “We are modernists, not postmodernists. No one is a postmodernist. Maybe postmodernism is dead.” Only ten years ago, the architecture of the socalled postmodern era suffered from a rather dubious reputation. Since then, the perspective seems to have shifted radically. The 1980s are enjoying a revival not only in the fashion world and, an increased interest in postmodernism can be observed in the…

CIUL – Encontro UniverCidades: Lisboa Verde e Azul [CIUL – University Cities Meeting: Lisbon Green and Blue]

In the scope of the close collaboration between CIUL – Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa [CIUL – Lisbon Urban Information Center] and the academic universe, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will take place on the 4th and 5th of March. With an annual periodicity, this event aims to present reference works in Lisbon developed by each of the intervening entities, around a common theme. In the year that Lisbon celebrates the “European Green Capital 2020” award, which was distinguished by the European Commission, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will be subordinated to the theme “Lisbon Green and Blue”. We will thus…

Call for papers: Cultural Heritage and International Law in the Event of Armed Conflict

For centuries the international law has developed a vast legal framework of Conventions and Declarations to protect cultural heritage. History also teaches us that it is not always possible to stop those who, with wickedness and contempt, offend the cultural heritage and identities of communities around the world. Following the political events that are offending cultural heritage and destroying the identity of the communities in so many countries of the world, we are urging, today, citizens of the world to reflect together about the value of the “soft power” because the culture is an expression of the communities and stressing…

Launch of the website dedicated to Le Corbusier serial inscription on UNESCO World Heritage List

The serial inscription of Le Corbusier’s Architectural Work on the World Heritage List occured in 2016 at the 40th of the World Heritage Committee in Istanbul. It is the result of joint work by Germany, Argentina, Belgium, France, India, Japan and Switzerland. Le Corbusier Foundation and Docomomo France inform us of the launch of the website dedicated to Le Corbusier’s architectural work inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The site is accessible from the link: http://lecorbusier-worldheritage.org.

MIES.5Oyears.PORTO – Matter: white conferences

Matter: white conferences evokes the 5Oth anniversary, of one of our main references’ death, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), through MIES.5Oyears.PORTO, a set of actions that discuss his line of thought and body of work, beginning mid-December 2019, extending up to April 2020. Library Installation_ Exhibit display/Hub Mies van der Rohe: Architecture is not a Martini Cocktail FAUP – library, December 19th to March 7th, 2020 Exhibition Mies van der Rohe: Un´idea di città [Uma ideia de Cidade] Casa das Artes, March 7th to  April 19th, 2020 Opening event: March 7th, Saturday, 4pm. The exhibition is organized in partnership…

Mies van der Rohe latest published books

Shopmies.com, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation library, offers an extensive and careful selection of books about Mies van der Rohe that incorporates the latest news published worldwide: Architectual Portraits. The Mies Project: The Berlin-based photo artist Arina Dähnick follows in the footsteps of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe most worlwide iconic buildings in her study of city life and urbanity, displaying the contrasts of inside and outside, of blurriness and focus, reflections and mirror images, and playing with the viewer’s perception. Almost Nothing: The book collects work by one hundred various artists that comment on or appropriate buildings, designs,…

Haunted Bauhaus

“The Bauhaus (1919–1933) is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s most influential art, architecture, and design school, celebrated as the archetypal movement of rational modernism and famous for bringing functional and elegant design to the masses. In Haunted Bauhaus, art historian Elizabeth Otto liberates Bauhaus history, uncovering a movement that is vastly more diverse and paradoxical than previously assumed. Otto traces the surprising trajectories of the school’s engagement with occult spirituality, gender fluidity, queer identities, and radical politics. The Bauhaus, she shows us, is haunted by these untold stories. The Bauhaus is most often associated with a handful of famous…

The Future as a Project: Doxiadis in Skopje is now available in open access digital format

“The Future as a Project: Doxiadis In Skopje” an edited book by Docomomo Greece is now available in an open access in digital format. It presents for the first time Doxiadis’ work in Skopje, which includes strategic plans for the city and a new outline for the master plan. In addition, it presents the work of Kenzo Tange for Skopje’s city centre, and showcases a series of modernist buildings authored by leading Yugoslavian architects that still stand in the city today. It finally comments on ‘Skopje 2014’ project and its ‘conflict’ with the modern heritage of the city. Edited by:…