Become a Docomomo Portugal member 2025

Docomomo Portugal is the Portuguese working party of Docomomo International. It aims to foster the documentation, conservation and reuse of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement in Portugal according to Docomomo International’s mission. The territorial scope of its activities will be in Portugal, however, it will extend to work carried out within the Iberian countries, as well as in with Docomomo International. If you wish to join the efforts of documenting and protecting the Modern Movement architecture at a worldwide scale, you can support Docomomo Portugal as chapter of Docomomo International you can become a member. The Docomomo Portugal+International…

Docomomo Portugal officially approved as Docomomo chapter!

Docomomo Portugal is happy to announce that it was officially approved as a Docomomo working party during the last Council Meeting of Docomomo International that took place of 12 December 2024 during the 18th International Docomomo Conference in Santiago, Chile. This approval follows the challenge launched by Docomomo International that was unanimously approved at the 17th Docomomo Council Meeting (Valencia, September 8, 2022) to create a Portuguese chapter, autonomous from Docomomo Iberia. The formal candidacy of Docomomo Portugal was supported by letter by the Docomomo chapters Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. Portugal is now one…

Highlights from the 18th International Docomomo Conference

Last December 10-14, took place the 18th International Docomomo Conference in Santiago, Chile, under the theme “Modern Futures – Sustainable development and cultural diversity”, organized by Docomomo International and Docomomo Chile. Highlight for Docomomo Portugal was its official approval as Docomomo working party at the Council Meeting on 12 December. Portugal took part at the conference with several presentations by its members as well as chairing of sessions, namely: Session: – “Capturing time inside architecture” – Ana Tostões (Docomomo Portugal chair) and Marta Peixoto (Docomomo Brazil) – “Adaptive modern housing:shifting notions of comfort and the transformation of domestic space for…

Modernist Women Interior Designers and Artists

Ana Tostões, Zara Ferreira (eds.) Lisboa, Docomomo Portugal / Docomomo ISC/ID, 2024   Docomomo Portugal is proud to announce that its first publication Modernist Women Interior Designers and Artists is out! Edited by Ana Tostões and Zara Ferreira Modernist Women Interior Designers and Artists is the result of the joint Docomomo Portugal and the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Interior Design (ISC/ID) conference with the same name held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on March 7th and 8th, 2024, in celebration of International Women’s Day. The Modern Movement, often celebrated for its commitment to a better life for all, has historically…

Landscape Architecture and Infrastructure of the Twentieth Century – Selections from the Docomomo Chapters

Jan Haenraets, Andrew Saniga, Gulnur Cengiz (eds.) Docomomo International, 2024   Started in 2019, the project of this book was carried out by the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscape, in collaboration with Docomomo International (under the presidency of Ana Tostões) and all working parties. It was published finally in 2024 in an online format as part of the Docomomo International Book Series #1 (series eds.: Uta Pottgiesser, Wido Quist) This book presents a wide range of landscapes that have been integral to the Modern Movement era. It aims to raise awareness of their design significance and to…

Ana Tostões distinguished with the Médaille de la critique et des publications, Prix Académie d’Architecture 1965

Docomomo Portugal is honored to share that its chair Ana Tostões, also chair of the ISC Publications, was distinguished on 18th September 2024 with  the Médaille de la critique et des publications, Prix Académie d’Architecture 1965! This distinction by Académie d’Architecture is “awarded to personalities who have contributed to the enrichment of the architectural debate through their writings, publications or achievements”. The Académie d’Architecture aims to promote the quality of architecture and spatial planning and its teaching, the search for environmental improvement, the publication of opinions relating to questions of architecture and urbanism, and the research and conservation of archives on…

Docomomo Portugal & ISC/ID Conference “Modernist women interior designers and artists”

Docomomo Portugal and the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Interior Design (ISC/ID) organized between 7-9 March 2024 the Conference “Modernist women interior designers and artists: to deepen the reading of the different expressions of female creativity.” The conference was held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, in celebration of the International Women’s Day. On March 9, the program included a guided tour of the MUDE in Lisbon and the Museum of Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais. In the realm of modernist interior architecture, design and art, women have made significant but often overlooked contributions. This conference Modernist Women…

Docomomo Portugal

We are happy to announce that in accordance with the discussed on the last Docomomo International council meeting, on 8 September 2022, during the 17th International Docomomo Conference, Valencia, Docomomo Portugal has been established in 2023. Docomomo Portugal is the Portuguese working party of Docomomo International. It aims to foster the documentation, conservation and reuse of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement in Portugal according to Docomomo International’s mission. The territorial scope of its activities will be in Portugal, however, it will extend to work carried out within the Iberian countries, as well as in with Docomomo International. It…

First Docomomo Rehabilitation Award honors worldwide diversity in Modern architecture

Tokyo, 2 September 2021 – Docomomo International has announced the winners of the first Docomomo Rehabilitation Award (DRAW), recognizing outstanding interventions from the past 12 years in Modern architecture. On 1 September 2021, during the awards ceremony held at the 16th Docomomo International Conference in Tokyo/Lisbon, Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, revealed the 18 winning interventions and the lifetime achievement awards. Organized in 10 categories, the awards recognize exceptional projects of rehabilitation from all over the world, which respond to the complex and dynamic conditions with which architecture must engage today. “The aim was to reveal how the safeguarding of heritage…

Happy 2022

Dear friends, Thanks to your effort and support, 2021 was definitely a very challenging year due to the COVID-19 Pandemic that we face since 2020. Having kept working hard, even in distance Online or by Zoom, we were able: – to hold the 16th International Docomomo Conference, Tokyo, Japan 2020+1, the first virtual International Docomomo Conference, along with the first online Docomomo workshop – oDOMOs; – to launch the Docomomo Rehabilitation Award with an online ceremony, being a publication on work; – along keeping the presence at several events and meetings mainly online and launching the 2 annual Docomomo Journals…