Lancashire Goes Pop. Modernism & Politics in Central Blackburn in the 1960s

Blackburn Shopping Centre was built through the sixties in partnership between the Blackburn Corporation and the Laing Development Company, and was designed by the Preston based architectural firm Building Design Partnership (BDP). BDP, as evinced by their two recently listed projects Preston Bus Station and the Halifax Headquarters Building, were one of the few architectural practices of the period really able to exploit the aesthetic possibilities of a project of this scale. Whatever the aesthetic nuances or otherwise of the scheme, by any measure knocking down Blackburn’s Victorian city centre and replacing it with a shopping centre was a simply…

15 IDC – Programme available 15th International DOCOMOMO Conference

Docomomo International and Docomomo Slovenia informs that the Programme for the 15th International Docomomo Conference is now available at http://www.docomomo2018.si/index.php/programme! We are looking forward to see you all in the Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 28th and 31st August 2018! ABOUT Every two years docomomo (the international committee for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement) organizes an international conference, bringing together docomomo members and friends from its 72 national Working Parties, as an opportunity for in-depth exploration of an important theme or aspect of the Modern Movement. The forthcoming conference is being hosted by docomomo Slovenia and will take place at…

15th International Docomomo Conference 2018

Ljubljana, Slovenia, 28-31 August 2018 http://docomomo2018.si THEME Metamorphosis. The Continuity of Change VENUE: Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia ORGANIZED by: docomomo International and docomomo Slovenia LANGUAGE: English SCHEDULE Call for Papers . 2 June – 1 September 2017 – Call for Papers . 8 November 2017 – Notification of Acceptance . 30 January 2018 – Full paper submission deadline (1st version). . 28 February 2018 – Deadline for session chairs to return papers with comments to authors, with suggested revisions. . 30 March 2018 – Full paper submission deadline (final version). . 20-28 August 2018 – Workshop . 28-31 August 2018 – Conference . 26-27 August; 1-3 September 2018 – Docotours ABOUT Every two years docomomo (the international committee…

Conference: 14th International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association

“The 14th International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) took place between July 25 and July 28, 2018 at PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference program included academic panels, invited speakers, plenary sessions, and cultural activities.” The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, participated with the lecture “A reverberação da arquitetura moderna brasileira na África, a modernidade como processo transcontinental e a presença Brasil na modernidade africana: transferências ibero-americanas”. More details: website

13th International Docomomo Conference 2014

Seoul, South Korea, 19-29 September 2014 THEME Expansion and Conflict VENUE: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul ORGANIZED by: Docomomo International + Docomomo Korea LANGUAGE: English and Korean (Simultaneous interpretation will be provided) SCHEDULE . 19-24 September – WORKSHOP – program . 25-27 September – CONFERENCE –  final program . 28-29 September – POST-CONFERENCE TOUR – program LOGISTICS . Online Registration available here. . Accommodation/Airline details available here. . Registration Fees Early registration by 30th June 2014: . 200 EUR (docomomo members) . 300 EUR (non members) . 100 EUR (students) Pre-registration by 1st July~10th September 2014: . 400 EUR (docomomo members) . 500 EUR (non members) . 200 EUR (students) On Site Registration . 500 EUR (docomomo members) . 600 EUR (non members) ….

International Seminar: re-Habitar el Carmen | A Project on Contemporary Heritage

Docomomo international participated in International Seminar “_re-HABITAR EL CARMEN. A project on contemporary heritage.”, at The Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH), on the 28th and 29th May, having Docomomo International Chair, Professor Ana Tostões, as member of the seminar round table. This seminar was part of the Knowledge Application Research Project “_re-HABITAR. Contemporary heritage and technology. [Technological update project of contemporary heritage: social housing of the Modern Movement]” encouraged by the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Junta de Andalucía, in collaboration with DOCOMOMO Ibérico, several teams of the University of Seville, and a group of researchers specialists in the field. The object of study…

MOMOWO Symposium 2018 International Conference | Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Towards a New Perception and Reception

From 13 to 16 of June, the MoMoWo Symposium 2018 International Conference – Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Towards a New Perception and Reception – took place in Turin. Being Docomomo International is an institutional partner of MoMoWo, the Chair, Prof. Ana Tostões participated, presenting the lecture “Women in Power beyond Europe”. What is MoMoWo? “MoMoWo – Women’s Creativity Since the Modern Movement is a large-scale cooperation project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programmewithin the Culture sub-programme. MoMoWo is an interdisciplinary non-profit project that contributes to create European added value, as expected by Creative Europe. From a pan-european and interdisciplinary perspective,…

6th International Scientific Conference: Modernism in Europe — Modernism in Gdynia

Docomomo international participated in the 6th scientific conference in the ‘Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia, between 24 and 26 of May, having Prof. João Belo Rodeia, member of the Advisory Board of Docomomo International, opening the conference. “The 6th scientific conference in the ‘Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia’ series is a continuation of conferences held in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2016. The series is currently the most important periodic event of this kind in Poland. Main themes of the forthcoming conference are research and popularization of modernist architecture. The contents of the conference will be supervised by…

Lecture by Prof. Ana Tostoes: Urban Planning Meeting – EXPO98 – 20 Years

“Between February and June, at the CIUL auditorium, will take place another edition of the Urban Planning Conference Cycle, this year with the title “EXPO98 – 20 Years”. The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, participated in the session about Public Space, 6 p.m., 17 May 2018, at CIUL, Lisbon, Portugal. More details: website [Portuguese] + Programme [Portuguese]

2nd RMB Conference: TEACHING THROUGH DESIGN

The RMB Conference 2018 was held in Coimbra, within the framework of the Colloquium ´Teaching through Design´, organized by the Department of Architecture and the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, since 2012. The RMB Conference is an activity of the European Erasmus Project “Reuse of Modernist Buildings – Design tools for sustainable transformations”, under Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (Detmold, Germany) coordination, along with the University of Coimbra, the University of Antwerp, the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa, the Technical University of Istanbul and Docomomo. The conference was composed by four sessions – tools, methods, interdisciplinary, research– focusing on the fundaments…