Call for Nominations: 2021 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that World Monuments Fund is inviting nominations for the 2021 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. The Prize will be awarded to architects or preservationists who have implemented an innovative intervention that preserved and saved a threatened modern building or complex. Nominated projects must have been completed in the last ten years and must have faced challenges or threats that affected the site before the project implementation. Threats may include deterioration of original materials, obsolescence, abandonment, or inappropriate changes in use, ownership, economic or political conditions surrounding the site. The deadline for submissions is 15th June,…

Winner of the international architecture competition for the Reconstruction & Rehabilitation of the Al Nouri Complex in Mosul, Iraq

Docomomo Interantional is pleased to share with you the winner of the international architecture competition for the Reconstruction & Rehabilitation of the Al Nouri Complex in Mosul, Iraq: an entry by eight Egyptian architects. The UIA-endorsed competition is a major component of UNESCO’s ambitious project for the rehabilitation of the ancient city, Revive the Spirit of Mosul. It has two main components: the Rehabilitation of Al Nouri Mosque Complex and the Reconstruction of Al Nouri Prayer Hall. The competition was organised by UNESCO in close coordination with the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and the Iraqi Sunni Endowment, with the support…

Nominations for the 2021 Modernism in America Awards

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that Docomomo US is now accepting nominations for the 2021 Modernism in America Awards. In its eighth year, the Awards celebrate the documentation, preservation and reuse of modern buildings, structures and landscapes built in the United States or on U.S. territory. The Awards recognize those building owners, design teams, advocacy and preservation organizations that have made significant efforts to retain, restore and advocate for the aesthetic and cultural value of such places. Deadline Early nominations must be submitted by 5:00 PM Eastern on April 29, 2021 All nominations must be submitted by 5:00 PM Eastern on June…

Awards: Lacaton & Vassal win the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Docomomo International congratulates the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal for being announced the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. “”Good architecture is open—open to life, open to enhance the freedom of anyone, where anyone can do what they need to do,” says Lacaton. “It should not be demonstrative or imposing, but it must be something familiar, useful and beautiful, with the ability to quietly support the life that will take place within it.” Through their design of private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions, public spaces, and urban developments, Lacaton and Vassal reexamine sustainability in their reverence for pre-existing…

Call for applications – 5th edition of the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the call for the 5th edition of the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA is open until 12th March 2021 (24h, GMT+1). The European Award for Architectural Heritage intervention is a biennial contest organized with the support of COAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) and AADIPA (Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage), the purpose of which is to distinguish quality heritage interventions and contribute to their disclosure. The contest that, with ten years of existence, is aimed at consolidating itself as a catalyst and observatory of new…

Buffalo’s Willert Park Court receives Modernism in America Advocacy Award of Excellence

“Willert Park Courts, the first housing complex for African Americans in Buffalo and an early example of International Style design, will receive the Docomomo US 2020 Modernism in America Advocacy Award of Excellence. The organization’s top advocacy prize honors the work of Preservation Buffalo Niagara and the Michigan Street Preservation Corporation, who for over 15 years have maintained their stance that the complex is “one of the single most historic places in the City of Buffalo.” The organizations have dedicated countless hours and resources to the preservation battle for this culturally, socially and architecturally significant resource. The award for Willert…

“Keeping It Modern” Getty Foundation distinguishes FAUP project for Álvaro Siza’s Swimming Pools

Docomomo International is glad to inform that the project by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), which counted with the participation of Professor Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, coordinated by Teresa Cunha Ferreira and directed to the study of management and conservation of the Piscina de Marés complex, in Leça da Palmeira, designed by Álvaro Siza between 1960 and 1973, just guaranteed a financing of 100 thousand euros under the “Keeping It Modern” program, promoted by the prestigious Getty Foundation (USA). This is the first time that a work located in Portugal has been distinguished…

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…