Edmonton 2020 Conference: “Hindsight 2020: Conservation, Disruption, and the Future of Heritage” – virtual sessions | Covid-19 disclaimer

[Dear members and Supporters, The difficult decision by the boards of APT and the National Trust for Canada to switch the Edmonton 2020 conference to a virtual event set off two months of intense activity by the joint APT/NT/CAHP planning team. The team has worked hard to reimagine what our annual conference will be like online rather than in-person. First, we focused on modifying the program already developed for Edmonton, adapting it to a remote, digital format. Our goal is to make the content and social events as engaging and interactive as possible. Next we had to evaluate the technology needed to…

2020 Docomomo Australia Annual General Meeting

[In light of the current situation of organisations and institutions trying to minimise the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and the Government’s request to both minimise travel and unnecessary physical meetings, the 2020 Docomomo Australia Annual General Meeting (due to be held on 28 March 2020 in Sydney) is hereby postponed until a later date.] Docomomo Australia invites members to attend the 19th Annual General Meeting of Docomomo Australia Incorporated at 70A Blues Point Road, McMahons Point, NSW, 2060. Bellow is the Notice of the 19th Annual General Meeting in 2020, the Form of Appointment of Proxy for this meeting…

International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture

The Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad de Navarra is pleased to announce the International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture, that will take place from 25th to 27th of March, 2020, Pamplona. Industrial building forms (in all its aspects, from dams to warehouses and silos, to workshops and mills), on their eminent search for economical and spatial efficiency, became extremely evocative formal references for architects in the early stages of the Modern Movement, as Reyner Banham noticed. They also often inspired the designs of urban ordinary buildings. This took place in the Twenties in Europe, later…

CIUL – Encontro UniverCidades: Lisboa Verde e Azul [CIUL – University Cities Meeting: Lisbon Green and Blue]

In the scope of the close collaboration between CIUL – Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa [CIUL – Lisbon Urban Information Center] and the academic universe, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will take place on the 4th and 5th of March. With an annual periodicity, this event aims to present reference works in Lisbon developed by each of the intervening entities, around a common theme. In the year that Lisbon celebrates the “European Green Capital 2020” award, which was distinguished by the European Commission, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will be subordinated to the theme “Lisbon Green and Blue”. We will thus…

MIES.5Oyears.PORTO – Matter: white conferences

Matter: white conferences evokes the 5Oth anniversary, of one of our main references’ death, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), through MIES.5Oyears.PORTO, a set of actions that discuss his line of thought and body of work, beginning mid-December 2019, extending up to April 2020. Library Installation_ Exhibit display/Hub Mies van der Rohe: Architecture is not a Martini Cocktail FAUP – library, December 19th to March 7th, 2020 Exhibition Mies van der Rohe: Un´idea di città [Uma ideia de Cidade] Casa das Artes, March 7th to  April 19th, 2020 Opening event: March 7th, Saturday, 4pm. The exhibition is organized in partnership…

4th Cycle of Conferences by Docomomo Switzerland

[Due to the restrictions of the Covid-19 crisis Docomomo Switzerland announces the following alterations: The round table around the figure of Hans Döllgast for this Tuesday, March 17 is cancelled. The conference of March 31 it will be streamed to the lesse:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/353979336 at 5:30 pm] Docomomo Switzerland is pleased to announce that the 4th cycle of conferences is organized jointly by the TSAM laboratory at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).  The conference cycle, running from February to May 2020, aims to restore the multiple aspects of modern and contemporary production. It is not only an opportunity to underline the diversity and…

Conference “Search for a 21st century classicism”, Porto

Atelier Kempe Thill presents the conference ‘Search for a 21st century classicism’, on February 20, Thursday, at 6:30 pm, in the Fernando Távora Auditorium, of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, within the scope of the cicle Matéria: conferências brancas [Matter: the white conferences]. Under the title ‘Search for a 21st century classicism’, Oliver Thill will address the logical relationship between typology and architectural expression and will present proposals for the design of collective housing and public facilities that face/incorporate the challenges of the 21st century. Atelier Kempe Thill architects and urban planners was founded in 2000…

Call for Proposals: “Contemporary Built Heritage – Conservation & Rehabilitation in the Mediterranean”, Montpellier 23-24 June 2020

UMAR (Union of Mediterranean Architects) invites researchers and practitioners involved in the process of preservation, conservation, renovation or transformation of contemporary architecture buildings, sites and neighbourhoods in the countries around the Mediterranean to present their works at the International Conference Contemporary Architectural Rehabilitation on the Mediterranean that will take place in Montpellier, France, on the 23rd and 24th of June 2020. Please submit abstracts and projects no later than February 29th, 2020 (24 pm GMT) UMAR is now accepting proposals for : Conference papers resulting from research promoting tailored rehabilitation of Contemporary Heritage buildings, sites and neighbourhoods Rehabilitation projects preserving…

VI International Congress of Architecture and Society “The city we want/La ciudad que queremos”, Pamplona

La Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad is pleased to announce its VI International Congress under the theme “The city we want”, where the city will be its main protagonist to reflect and discuss its reality and future from different prisms. The event that will be held on June 10, 11 and 12, 2020 in the Baluarte area of ​​Pamplona, ​​will bring together architects, historians and experts from fields as diverse as economics, sociology, architecture or public management, coming from the five continents that will discuss the role of cities in specific aspects such as sustainability and climate change, urban equity, mobility…

17th Docomomo Germany Conference 2020 – Modern Movement and Digital Challenges

The Docomomo Germay Foundation and the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture, OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts announce the 17th Docomomo Germany Conference 2020 that will take place in Berlin from March 5th to 7th, 2020. For Docomomo one of the most important questions is how to make knowledge about the Modern Movement accessible. Knowledge that is scattered in many archive files, heads, websites and books. Knowledge about individual buildings, the philosophical ideas behind them, about construction techniques or the original color scheme. Making it accessible to those who explore the city and whose interest is aroused by a…