Abstract
Modern heritage is not protected in Chile. Most of Chilean modern architectural heritage stands without an official decree protecting it from being modified or even demolished. This is a consequence of having state-controlled organisms in charge of the protection and defense of architectural heritage that use almost exclusively the building’s age as main criteria for its appraisement. From this point of view it seems difficult that constructions that are only between 40 and 90 years old may catch the attention of heritage preservation government officials. However negative the situation which, in the majority of cases has led to the systematic violation of constructions that constitute valuable records of the status of disciplinary and cultural discussion of Modern Architecture, the following case, paradoxically, couldn’t have crystallized the way it did, if the building had been officially protected, and neither could the docomomo–Chile group could have played a protagonic role in its management

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Embassy of Chile in Argentina, Echeñique, Cruz and Burchard, Chilean modern architecture, Conservation of modern architecture.

Issue 43
Year 2010
Pages 82-84
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/43.A.W81A0P91

Abstract
As the British colony of British Honduras prepared for independence, it adopted two important symbols of its emerging identity; the name of Belize was chosen for the new country and a new capital was planned from which this emerging nation would be governed. That new capital was called Belmopan and was to be established inland from the old coastal capital of Belize City. Designed by the British planning and architectural firm of Norman and Dawbarn, this new city followed in the tradition of British Garden City planning, making discrete references to the Mayan heritage of the region, while using the modernist architectural vocabulary typical of so much of the infrastructural development taking place at this time in various nations emerging from colonial status.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern urban design, Belmopan urban plan, Belizean modern architecture, Tropical architecture.

Issue 43
Year 2010
Pages 78-81
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/43.A.SMV82DGU

Abstract
The sky is low above Motovilikha. Making our way along a muddy street, in the timid light of this part of the Urals we see emerging before us a silhouette of carbonated concrete, an iron structure rusting in the cold, whose plaster panels between pilasters suggest a construction site of dubious standards. It is difficult to believe that eighty years before this old workers’ club designed by constructivist architect P. Golosov (Gladyshev, 2008) provided the early Soviet society with up to three hundred thousand meals a day (Semyannikov, 2002). An emblem of the new socialist urbanisation, not only was the workers’ canteen meant to rescue the woman from her kitchen slavery, it was also supposed to be a place capable of generating the new social structure by becoming a venue for festivals and shows in the evenings.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern urban design, Molotov, Sotsgorod, Soviet industrial towns.

Issue 43
Year 2010
Pages 74-77
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/43.A.KYCHZ0IL

Abstract
With the aim of contributing to the documentation and conservation of the modern architectural heritage, this paper presents Monteiro & Giro Complex (M&G), built during the 50’s in Quelimane, Mozambique, with the goal of stressing the modernity of the social program and the technological approach. If one wants to gain a better understanding of the worldwide Diaspora of architectural modernism, it is essential to document and analyse the important heritage of sub–Saharan Africa. Modern architectural debates have been reproduced, transformed, contested and sometimes even improved in distant lands and overseas territories. These contradictory aspects of Modernist practice are revealed in the programmatic, technological and structural M&G industrial Complex.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern urban design, Monteiro & Giro Complex, Mozambican modern architecture, Modern diaspora.

Issue 43
Year 2010
Pages 70-73
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/43.A.2BIF8AUU