III National Congress for the Safeguard of Culture Heritage

Docomomo International would like to share the III National Congress for the Safeguard of Culture Heritage [III Congresso Nacional para Salvaguarda do Património Cultural], which will be held fully in a virtual environment between 9-12 November, 2021. CICOP Brasil 2021 is organized by the architecture and urbanism course of the Federal Institute of São Paulo – IFSP São Paulo campus and by the history department of UNIFESP, and has the theme “Cultural heritage: fragments, sums, constructions and dystopias”. To know more about the themes, please visit CICOP’s Instagram page. [Portuguese] Further information on CICOP’s website. [Portuguese]

Get ready! 10 days left to the 16th International Docomomo Conference 2020+1

16th International Docomomo Conference, Tokyo Japan 2020+1 Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities Docomomo’s first virtual international conference is just around the corner! This year the biennial International Docomomo Conference is held in Tokyo, where the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games are taken place, under the theme of “Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities,” Approximately 300 researchers and experts from 55 countries and regions around the world will make presentations on the world’s modern and contemporary architecture and history, as well as environmental conservation, restoration, and renovation, while engaging in a variety of discussions in online sessions (via Zoom). Keynote speeches will…

Iconic Houses Online Conference: Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House

Docomomo International would like to share the 6th International Iconic Houses Conference: Pioneers of the Dutch Modern House organized by the ICONIC HOUSES NETWORK. The event will be held online and consists of five modules to go live on the Thursday’s 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 September. It will be explored 20th-century Dutch architecture from the Amsterdam School to Post-Modernism, visiting twenty wonderful homes by Gerrit Rietveld, J.J.P. Oud, Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, and many others, not only in Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, but spread all over the Netherlands, including Drachten, Groningen, Delft and Schaijk. Several of these…

IV International Conference on the History of Art and Architecture of Ecuador

Docomomo International would like to share the IV International Conference on the History of Art and Architecture of Ecuador [IV Jornadas de Historia del Arte y la Arquitectura (HISTAA)], with the theme “Leisure and business: the post-war hotel in the Americas 1945-1990”, organized by the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAUC) de la Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador), to be held in a virtual format from 24th to 26th November 2021. This event is realized together with the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Artes (FADA) de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) and la Bienal de Arquitectura de Quito (BAQ),…

Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference

Docomomo International would like to share the Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference – The Future of the Past, organized by the Engineering New Zealand’s Otago Heritage Chapter. The pre-conference tour will be held between 11-14 November 2021 and the conference will be held between 14-17 November 2021, in Dunedin. The theme – The Future of the Past – focuses on heritage engineering and technology that has endured, been redeveloped, undergone restoration or repurposing to claim a place in the future. Pre-conference tour To whet your appetite ahead of the conference, experience a three-day pre-conference tour taking in the best of Southland’s engineering heritage across Queenstown,…

PROHITECH 2020 Postponed

[Message from the Organizing Committee: Dear PROHITECH 2020 participants, Despite the recent encouraging progress regarding the production of COVID-19 vaccines, it seems likely that various travel bans, and social distancing measures will remain for the upcoming months and it is uncertain whether it will be possible to travel and gather to Athens in July 2021 for PROHITECH 2020. In view of the above, the PROHITECH 2020 Organizing Committee has decided one final postponement of the Conference. The Conference will be held on 25-27 October 2021 in Athens. The new venue is the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘DEMOKRITOS‘. We anticipate that until then sufficient global immunity will…

17th International Docomomo Conference 2022

Docomomo International is pleased to annouce that the 17th International Docomomo Conference will be hosted at the School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia in Valencia, Spain, between 6th and 9th September, 2022, under the theme “Modern Design: Social Commitment & Quality of Life“. This theme will encourage us to reflect upon how re-thinking interior space in the widest sense was tackled, the different contexts where it was developed and who the main artifices were. If the proposed theme is, in itself, pertinent, today it is of even greater interest as, curiously, the improvement in the health conditions of habitable…

3rd Interdisciplinary and Virtual Conference on Arts in Education

Docomomo International would like to share the 3rd Interdisciplinary and 100% Virtual Conference on Arts in Education. CIVAE 2021 is an international conference whose mission is to provide a platform for collaboration between teachers, researchers and artists from different disciplines – music, dance, theather, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, cinema, philology, history, architecture, journalism, marketing… – with the aim to highlight the value of arts in education and promote their development from and interdiscilplinary approach. The conference will take place virtually on July 14 and 15, 2021 and it is addressed to teachers, researchers, artists, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students…

Second International Conference “Unspoken Issues in Architectural Education”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the second International Conference on Architectural Education with the theme of “Unspoken” that is going to be held in the Faculty of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University in Gazimagusa (Famagusta), North Cyprus, in April 14-15, 2022.  The meeting is organized with the intention that scholars, practitioners and students will come together for discussing architectural education from various perspectives. Under this scope, The second International Conference “Unspoken Issues in Architectural Education”, delightfully welcomes interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners and students from all around the world working in the disciplines of design, architecture, interior architecture, art & architectural history,…

Seminar: Carlo Gandolfi – “To Paulo Mendes da Rocha”

Docomomo International would like to share the seminar “Architecture: Design and Research” with the subtitle “Carlo Gandolfi – ‘To Paulo Mendes da Rocha’”, organized by the Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto, which will be held this friday, 11th June 2021 at 4.30 pm (GMT+1). Please, feel invited to participate: Zoom (class): https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84986977917 “A few days after the demise of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, we are taking the oppotunity at this conference to wonder about his legacy in our possession. The idea is to make the Brazilian architect ‘speak’ as much as possible, starting from his words…