Abstract
When it comes to ensuring the authenticity of an architectural conservation project, is an architect’s interpretation of the original sufficient in itself? Or should the architect’s largely intuitive understanding of a site be complemented by the knowledge of the architectural historian? The adaptive reuse of the Île des Soeurs service station, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1967 and renovated by architect Éric Gauthier in 2011, raises such questions. The unique value of this small facility is recognized by its designation as a historic monument. Today, it is a multigenerational activity centre where youth and seniors can gather to learn, play, and socialize.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Reuse, Renovation, Restoration, Quebec modern architecture, Mies van der Rohe, Île des Soeurs Service Station.

Issue 52
Year 2015
Pages 48-53
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.A.J10W10TT

Abstract
This is a progress report on the plan to conserve and repair the Musashi-Ranzan Country Club clubhouse designed by architect Taro Amano. It is a valuable example of the conservation and repair of private company-owned modern reinforced concrete architecture without the use of subsidies. Project planning commenced in 2009, and minor construction has been carried out each year, with the third installment of work carried out in 2014. For carrying out the construction, the design content and course of construction are based on the results of an analysis and survey of the original building. The clubhouse, together with the conservation and repair work currently being carried out, was selected as one of the works in the docomomo Japan 174 in 2014.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Reuse, Renovation, Restoration, Japanese modern architecture, Musashi-Ranzan Country Club Clubhouse, Taro Amano.

Issue 52
Year 2015
Pages 40-47
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.A.GTMIQMDV

Abstract
This essay synthesizes a serious concern related to built ecclisiastical heritage in Quebec. Most of all, it intends to present the recent conversion of the church of Sainte-Germaine-Cousin in Montreal, built between 1960 and 1962 by architect Gérard Notebaert into a community center related to social housing and child care. Today, after a decade and as the project is nearly complete, it recounts a modern heritage tale that led to an exceptional outcome from social and cultural perspectives and, of course, from an architectural angle. On a larger scale, this project responded sensitively to fundamental issues by creating awareness and a sense of belonging toward modern built heritage.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Reuse, Renovation, Restoration, Modern ecclesiastical heritage, Quebec modern architecture, Sainte-Germaine-Cousin Church, Gérard Notebaert.

Issue 52
Year 2015
Pages 34-39
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.A.HGVHZBWH

Abstract
Luis Barragán (1902–1988) produced few works in his prime, among which, other than his own house, in the Jardines de Pedregal only the Casa Prieto López (1950) has been preserved intact. It was successfully restored when Cesar Cervantes purchased it in early 2014 and hired architects Jorge Covarrubias and Benjamín González Henze. After extensive research, the architects, respecting the context and simplicity of design, eliminated additions and carefully conserved architectural details and furnishings; the color of the walls was restored based on stratigraphic findings that revealed surprising tones very different from the traditional Mexican palette.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Reuse, Renovation, Restoration, Luis Barragán, Casa Prieto López, Casa Pedregal, Mexican modern architecture.

Issue 52
Year 2015
Pages 28-33
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.A.FS1XG93Q

Abstract
Hizuchi Elementary School is an example of timber modern architecture completed between 1956 and 1958. It was recognized as one of the twenty representative modern buildings in Japan by docomomo in 1999, and from 2006 to 2009 it was meticulously restored. The consortium members for its conservation and renovation were awarded the Annual Award of the Architectural Institute of Japan and World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize in 2012. This paper outlines the project of the Hizuchi Elementary School and the architect Matsumura Masatsune who designed it.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Reuse, Renovation, Restoration, Hizuchi Elementary School, Timber modern architecture, Japanese modern architecture, Matsumura Masatsune.

Issue 52
Year 2015
Pages 20-27
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.A.SV4RXBPF

Abstract
The following article is an edited version of the keynote presented at the 13th International docomomo Conference that took place in Seoul, Korea, on September 2014. The economic miracle, increasing transparency and growing emancipation are some of the striking advantages of modernity. However these meet their opposites in severe conflicts at both global and regional scales. Where the oppressive new meets the vulnerable old the damage is at its heaviest and often non-reversible. The history of modernity in the Western world, from the European Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution to the Machine Age provides information of the root causes of these conflicts, such as the dominance of rationality, fragmentation, the linear and short term mind frame, devotion to constant newness and ever increasing scale. The history of East Asian civilizations shows the millennia old care for the environment and for dynamic tradition. Precisely the 14th International docomomo Conference in Seoul — for the first time organized entirely in an Asian country — offers the opportunity to widen our scope. docomomo has four advantages that make it particularly useful to contribute to soften these conflicts in the future. Today it is a global organization with many different cultural backgrounds, it is multidisciplinary, it concentrates on history and on the reuse of what is already existing and it shares communal enthusiasm. Until today we concentrated our efforts mainly on the history of the Modern Movement and the restoration of its icons. We could enlarge our scope to include the reuse and transformation of the ordinary Modern Movement heritage and to research the history of modernity as well in the various cultural regions. Some proposals will be made how we could change words into structured action, in order to contribute more effectively to a circular mindset of reuse, reduce and recycle, to arrive at a sustainable future for all.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Reuse, Renovation, Restoration, Reduce, Recycle.

Issue 52
Year 2015
Pages 14-19
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.A.TBI5OOGF

Abstract
In the period I was teaching at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, from 1984–1998, I often had the privilege to welcome our first year students entering the faculty of architecture. After I had paid my compliments to the students for having chosen a fascinating study and future profession I told them that for environmental and climate reasons, it would be best not to build at all any longer. And since this was unrealistic, the next best thing was that we should learn how to renew the world with things that exist already. Laughter was always their response. Didn’t the nutty professor notice that outside an enormous boom of new building was going on as a result of the neo-liberal wave that was hitting Europe and North America? Besides, the ambition of most of them was to become the future Rem Koolhaas or Norman Foster. So please don’t spoil the party. Directly after my talk they were embraced by the faculty staff to fulfill their dreams.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Reuse, Renovation, Restoration.

Issue 52
Year 2015
Pages 12-13
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.A.7IUNFMD9