Webinar: Largest Architectural Firms in the Global Scenario. Authorship Histories, Design Cultures and Managerial Organization

The conference aims to investigate the impact of the managerial organization and design expertise as key elements of architectural creativity. Since the last decades the most important architecture firms started to count hundreds of employees, having to necessarily structure themselves as real creative companies, managing the interaction between different skills – architects, structural engineers, plant engineers, furniture and product designers, graphic designers, IT experts, model-makers, accountants, legal experts etc. in order to foster their performance and remain competitive in the market. The managerial skills and the fruitful intersection of their internal different competences, can result in innovative design methodologies that…

Docomomo US National Symposium 2021 – Chicago: Crossroads of Modern America

“The Docomomo US National Symposium 2021 Chicago: Crossroads of Modern America will take place online Tuesday, May 25th – Friday, May 28th. After seeing so many of our peers host successful and engaging online events and hosting our own virtual Modernism in America Awards celebration, we are excited to bring Midwest Modernism and the National Symposium to you. While we will not physically be together, the online format will provide excellent opportunities for participating in educational sessions, experiencing tours, and connecting with speakers, sponsors and each other. We also find it exciting that virtual events break down many of the…

14th Seminar Docomomo Brazil

Docomomo Brazil is holding its 14th Seminar, from 27th to 29th October at the Federal University of Pará, Belém, with the theme O MODERNO EM MOVIMENTO: USOS, REUSOS, NOVAS CARTOGRAFIAS. Presente e futuro do legado da arquitetura moderna no Brasil [THE MODERN IN MOVEMENT: USES, REUSE, NEW CARTOGRAPHIES. Present and future of the legacy of modern architecture in Brazil]. More details: docomomo Brazil website [Portuguese]    

7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar

Between 9th and 14th November 2020 docomomo Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus and the stricto sensu Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the São Judas Tadeu University held the 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar. To review the conferences, please visit the Youtube page . More details: Docomomo Brazil webpage [Portuguese] Docomomo International News “The 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar provides for lectures, debates and presentation of communications on matters of relevance for the safeguarding of the cultural heritage of the modern movement in Brazil. Unlike the previous ones, in its digital version, the famous MomoTour cannot take place, which this time will be…

Call for Papers: UIA Public Health Group

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the UIA Public Health Work Programme (PHG) has launched the Call for new Papers and Projects for the UIA-PHG2021. The two themes for the UIA-PHG 2021 Seminars are: 1) Health and Cities, and 2) Architecture for Health. Presentations can be as Research Paper or Design Project. Regarding the COVID 19 Pandemic, priority will be given to projects that address the health design implications resulting from/associated with the Pandemic. The UIA-PHG2021 Rio Seminar will happen in conjunction with the 27th UIA Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-22 July 2021. The call for paper…

Docomomo Belgium Conferences – Online Lecture III

Due to COVID-19 Docomomo Belgium is organizing 3 online ZOOM conferences. After the first two conferences, the III Online Lecture will be held  on 28th January 2021 by Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor with the title “The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides”. CONFERENCE III | Thursday 28th January 2021, 20:00-21:30 | online (Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor – The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides) [in French]. Doctor in History, Art and Archeology, Sébastien Charlier is specialized in architecture history and scientific manager of GAR-Archives of Architecture (Faculty of Architecture, ULiège). Since 2014, he and Thomas Moor…

Online Docomomo School 2020+1 Tokyo, Japan

In the context of the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, Docomomo International invites bachelor and master students to participate on the Online Docomomo School 2020+1 Tokyo, happening from 26th July to 4th August 2021. Online Docomomo School is an online-workshop for succeeding and proceeding URBAN HERITAGE. People lived, live and will live in the living heritage. It is not a symbol or memorial but something active that is to be weaved with contexts of history for future. Students in Tokyo as physical sensors will find and show strings of the context and International Online Teams will weave with…

16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1

Docomomo International invites researchers and practitioners involved in the process of preservation, conservation, renovation or transformation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement, to investigate on the theme: Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities. Application of the third round call for papers is open from December 15, 2020 until 31 January of 2021． We are now accepting new applications for the following new themes: 13. Home and social change 14. Environmental awareness 15. Healthcare architecture 16. Wellbeing and urbanism IMPORTANT NOTICE:  The 2020+1 conference will be held with hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and PRESENTIAL…

Tertúlias GPHUC-UnB: A poética das Metrópoles – Le Corbusier e Hilberseimer nos anos 20  

Organized by Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Urbanismo e da Cidade (GPHUC-UnB/CNPq) [Research Group on History of Urbanism and the City], the Tertúlias Cycle aims to create a (virtual) space for the pace for the dissemination of knowledge in urban history through conferences and several presentations by researchers from Brazil and other countries. In this context, on the 11th December will happen the Conference “A poética das Metrópoles – Le Corbusier e Hilberseimer nos anos 20” [“The poetics of the Metropolises – Le Corbusier and Hilberseimer in the 1920s”] held by Prof. Dr. Carlos A. Ferreira Martins (USP/Brazil), via…