Mission for Modernism

Mission for Modernism is a new online educational lecture series initiative of Docomomo US providing focused conversations, book discussions and tours from those on the front lines working to preserve and celebrate modern architecture, landscapes and design. Mission for Modernism highlights the depth and breadth of modern preservation projects and addresses core modern design principles including the social context, technical merits, aesthetics and setting of these important pieces of American history. The Mission for Modernism webinar series features scholarly discussions on important and current topics, preservation professionals’ efforts to restore and reuse significant sites, in addition to best practices for…

International Seminar: “Small Baltic Conversations: Architectures, Cities and Heritage of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia”

Docomomo International would like to draw your attention to the first of the six meetings of the International Seminar “Small Baltic Conversations: Architectures, Cities and Heritage of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia”,  happening thursday 8 April 2021, at 2.00 pm, curated by Donatella Scatena and Marco Falsetti and organized by the Sapienza University of Rome, in collaboration with the Department of Architecture and Design and the Baltic Studies Center will be held on the Zoom platform. The conference aims to address, within an interdisciplinary debate, the architectural culture, addresses and issues of the heritage of the Baltic countries. The intervention of…

Robert Maxwell Memorial Online Lecture by Kenneth Frampton

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that Kenneth Frampton is giving the 2021 Robert Maxwell Memorial Lecture via Zoom on 22 April 2021 at 6 pm British Summer Time. Please register via the link on the poster if you would like to attend the live event:  Frampton Lecture Poster Kenneth Frampton’s presentation will advance a critique of the current malaise in architectural education and of the equally debilitating state of contemporary practice. These aspects are evident in the current postmodern tendency to reduce architecture either to design of spectacular sculpture at a gargantuan scale or to the application of Building…

16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1

On March 20, 2021, the official Japanese Olympic/Paralympic Committee made a decision to bar spectators from abroad. This means some kind of barring of overseas travelers will be expected to extend this Summer and Fall. Therefore, the 16th International Docomomo Conference 2020+1 Tokyo organizing committee decided to hold the conference completely virtually, instead of a hybrid of real and online announced earlier. Please wait for further announcements of more details on how we conduct the meeting and all related matters around April 15th, 2021 on the conference website: docomomo2020.com

A talk by Philip Boyle: Two buildings by Carlo Scarpa – space, light and materiality

Docomomo International is pleased to share the online talk organized by Docomomo UK “A talk by Philip Boyle: Two buildings by Carlo Scarpa – space, light and materiality”, happening 30th March, 6.00 – 7.30 pm (GMT+1). The meeting will be presented live on Zoom – admission free of charge. Please join using the link shown below: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83532548604?pwd=b2RoWUhkVE9zQlVtNVJOejJJMTRWQT09 Meeting ID: 835 3254 8604 Passcode: 061921 Topic: DOCOMOMO – A talk by Philip Boyle: Two buildings by Carlo Scarpa – space, light and materiality Time: Mar 30, 2021 06:00 PM London Carlo Scarpa (1906 -1978) from Venice, Italy was…

Online Talks Cycle – Conversas de Pé d’Orelha

Docomomo International is pleased to share the Online Talks Cycle – Conversas de Pé d’Orelha. Ciclo de palestras e conversas em torno das obras de Bordalo Pinheiro e Querubim Lapa [Pé d’Orelha Talks. Lectures and talks cycle around the works of Bordalo Pinheiro and Querubim Lapa], happening 16th March to 9th April 2021, at 6 pm (GMT). Organized by Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, the Cycle Conversas de Pé d’Orelha, assembles presentations and talks within the theme of the exhibition Pé d’Orelha. Conversas entre Bordalo e Querubim, present in the museum until the end of April 2021. At this cycle, the curators of…

MCHAP/CoA spring lecture series – Emerging Brazilian Practices

The MCHAP (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize) and the IIT College of Architecture invites to join virtually on Wednesday, March 17 for the next panel in its spring lecture series – Emerging Brazilian Practices. “Emerging Brazilian Practices will be a panel that invites two brilliant and renowned young architecture offices to engage in conversation, Gustavo Utrabo (São Paulo) and RUA Arquitectos: Pedro Rivera, and Pedro Évora (Rio de Janeiro) and moderated by Ana Luiza Nobre, professor of the History, Theory, and Criticism at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Utrabo is…

International Conference: 1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand

Docomomo International’s chair, Ana Tostões is going to participate on the International Conference “1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand” [1989, outside the scope of the official architecture. From Small Worlds to Large Worlds], happening on 19th March 2021, online via Zoom. [French] “At the crossroads of architecture and the human sciences, using the date of 1989 with the dual role of pretext and landmark, this colloquium aims to attempt an architectural archaeology of the present. An investigation, which relates to what one could call “the history of the present time”, starting from France and gradually opening…

PhD seminar: Dirk van den Heuvel – Jaap Bakema and the Open Society: Architecture, Democracy and the Welfare State in The Netherlands

The Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Porto are organizing a seminar – Architecture: Design and Research – for the current academic year. In this context will happen on 12th March at 14:30 (GMT) the PhD Seminar Dirk van den Heuvel – Jaap Bakema and the Open Society: Architecture, Democracy and the Welfare State in The Netherlands. Throughout the post-WWII decades the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema (1914-1981) was inspired to build for a democratic and egalitarian society which recognized and accommodated diversity in lifestyles as a starting point for urban planning. This is evidenced by his many interventions…

Online Festival – To Spring with Oris

Days of Oris is an international architectural Festival organized by Oris House of Architecture from Croatia and in December 2020 we organized our first online Festival. This year’s first Oris Festival – To Spring with Oris – will be held on March 18 and 19, 2021 and will bring together 14 renowned architects and successful business women and 2 moderators. The online Festival To Spring with Oris is organized as 14 lectures, each 20 minutes long, with live stream from Oris House of Architecture and interaction between speakers, viewers and sponsors on a professional event platform for virtual events. The lectures will be in English….