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….

Does architecture evolve with the human species? Does the species condition architecture?

On the occasion of the event “Serralves On Line Experience”, the Serralves Foundation is inviting you to the conference “A Arquitetura evolui com a espécie? A espécie condiciona a Arquitetura?” [Does architecture evolve with the human species? Does the species condition architecture?], on 8th March, with the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, the physician Dr. Manuel Sobrinho Simões, and moderation by Valdemar Cruz, journalist. Admission is free upon registration. For more information and registration, please visit the website. [Portuguese]

Digital forum – Beirut Urban Declaration

Docomomo International is pleased to share the digital forum organized by the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut “Beirut Urban Declaration”, happening 12th, 13th and 14th March 2021, online. “Transport and urban mobility, housing, Beirut’s harbor, urban regulations and heritage, master plan for the districts devastated by the explosion of August 4, 2020… These 5 issues crucial to Beirut reconstruction will be discussed on March 12, 13, 14, 2021 during a digital forum organized by the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut. “Since the explosion of August 4, 2020, the Order has mobilized to build positive dynamics around…

Online Talks Cycle – Pier Luigi Nervi e l’architettura del ‘900 a Firenze

On the occasion of the ending of the exhibition Pier Luigi Nervi Architettura come Sfida [Pier Luigi Nervi – Architecture as a Challenge] that happened between 25th January and 26th February 2021, will happen the online talks cycle “Pier Luigi Nervi e l’architettura del ‘900 a Firenze”, between 26th February and 9th April 2021. Organized by Fondazione degli Architetti di Firenze [Architects’ Foundation Florence], Associazione Pier Luigi Nervi Project [Pier Luigi Nervi Project Association] and Manifattura Tabacchi, this cycle of four talks explores the theme of the importance of Pier Luigi Nervi’s Municipal Stadium Nervi, both in the context of…

Modernism Is Frozen – Urbanism and Architecture under/after Covid-19

LEARNING FROM MODERN MOVEMENT INTERIORS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC Specialist Committee on Interior Design of Docomomo International 27th March 2021, 1 pm (GMT) We have an online discussion for The Next Urbanism and Architecture Under/After COVID-19. This series is subtitled “Is Modernism Frozen?” and the discussions were held with titles “HOW DO YOU MAP MODERNISM UNDER/AFTER COVID-19”, “TRAFFIC SEEKS ANOTHER WAY” and “HOUSING FOR ISOLATING”. Now we are going to have the fourth public panel discussion titled “LEARNING FROM MODERN MOVEMENT INTERIORS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC” and you are invited to participate. Panelists: Deniz Hasirci (Izmir University of Economics, Docomomo-interior-Turkey)…

Docomomo Belgium Online Lecture IV

Docomomo Belgium invites to the Online Lecture IV, via ZOOM, on Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 8 pm. The conference will be held by Guido Stegen with the title “Conservatieve chirurgie en circulariteit, guidelines voor de restauratie van La Nouvelle Maison” [Conservative surgery and circularity, guidelines for the restoration of La Nouvelle Maison]. Guido Stegen is an architect and founder of the architectural firm ARSIS and Space Syntax Brussels, active in the fields of architecture, urban planning, restoration and research. Since 2018, he no longer holds official functions (teacher, CRMS), but remains active as a guest professor in post-graduate courses…

Register at 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1!

Docomomo International and  Japan conference board informs that the registration for the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, 29th August – 2nd September 2021, is open at http://docomomo2020.com/registration/! IMPORTANT NOTICE:  The 2020+1 conference will be held with hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and PRESENTIAL lectures.Authors can present their papers with pre-recorded video presentations. At the real-time conference, the video recording will be broadcasted at the scheduled place and time. The authors for presenting physically in Tokyo are welcome. The digital proceedings will be published in 2021 before the conference including both online and alive presentations. Registration is…

Docomomo Switzerland / TSAM: Online Conference Series 2021

Docomomo Switzerland and the TSAM Laboratory of EPFL are inviting for the Docomomo Switzerland / TSAM Online Conference Series 2021, under the theme “Projet, Histoire, Construction: regards croisés sur le patrimoine récent” [Project, History, Construction: Views on recent heritage], happening online via Zoom from March to June 2021 at 6 pm (GMT+1). “For their fifth lecture series, Docomomo Switzerland and the TSAM Laboratory of the EPFL intend to present the multiple facets of modern and contemporary production, by combining different perspectives on the history of 20th-century architecture and its restoration. In this way, Serge Binotto, who formerly worked with Jean Prouvé,…

10th mASEANa International Conference

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that next weekend, 27-28 February 2021, will happen the 10th mASEANa International Conference, online via Zoom Webinar. Started in 2015, the mASEANa (modern ASEAN architecture) Project is designed to operate for six years until 2020. Within the defined period local and foreign architects, researches, politicians and citizens are called to think together and take action on modern architecture in Southeast Asia. “For 2021, as the duration of the project has coincided with the pandemic, the situation has served as a catalyst for rethinking our spatial relationships. Beyond the aesthetics and politics of modernity, the medicalization of…