Chartres International Meeting “When the Cathedrals burn”

Docomomo International would like to share the Chartres International Meeting “Quand les cathédrales brûlent” [“When the Cathedrals burn”], organized by the Centre international du Vitrail de Chartres and the Laboratoire TrAme (UR 4284) de l’université de Picardie Jules-Verne, which will be held on October 15-16, 2021. From the abbey church of Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire in 1026 to Vézelay in 1165, from the cathedral of Canterbury in 1174 to Noyon in 1293, from the cathedral of Chartres in 1836 to Reims in 1914, from Nantes in 1972 to Paris in 2019… churches and cathedrals are on fire! Their restoration gives rise to recurring…

In Conflict

“‘How will we live together?’ is the question proposed by the Lebanese architect Hashim Sarkis, curator of the 17th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, aiming to bring to the discussion the future and the challenges we will face, as well as the neglected role of the architects as civilized promoters and protectors of the contract of these spaces. In 2021, the studio depA will be in charge of the Portuguese Official Representation, with the project In Conflict selected through a competition of the Directorate-General for the Arts. As a direct response to this challenge, the goal is to learn from processes…

Docomomo Belgium Online Lecture V: “L’îlot et la barre: Formes de logement collectif à Vienne et Francfort”

Docomomo International would like to invite you to register in the 5th online conference that Alessandro Porotto will give on Tuesday June 8 at 8.00 pm with the title “L’îlot et la barre: Formes de logement collectif à Vienne et Francfort” [“The island and the bar: Forms of collective housing in Vienna and Frankfurt”], organized by Docomomo Belgium. The ZOOM conference is given in French. Alessandro Porotto is a postdoc researcher at the LOCI Faculty of UCLouvain. Within the Uses & Spaces research unit, he leads the European Cities: Referential Housing Type research project, dealing with the evolution of forms…

Exhibition “Young Talent Architecture Award 2020. Educating together”, a Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Docomomo International is pleased to share the Exhibition “Young Talent Architecture Award 2020. Educating together”, opening on 22nd May, 2021 in Palazzo Mora (European Cultural Centre), Venice. The results of the third edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award, enriched in 2020 with a parallel award in Asia, will be presented as a Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2021. The exhibition will show all the projects participating in the award with models and publications of the winning projects as well as photos, drawings, videos and images of all the shortlisted, finalist and…

ICOMOS Conference “In Restauro: Post-War Heritage of Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe. Integrated Approaches to Dissonant Monuments and Sites”

Docomomo International would like to draw your attention to the conference “In Restauro: Post-War Heritage of Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe. Integrated Approaches to Dissonant Monuments and Sites” on 2nd and 23rd of July, 2021. The hybrid event is planned to be held live in Kazanlak (Bulgaria) and online by ICOMOS Germany and ICOMOS Bulgaria. The symposium will focus on currently planned or recently carried-out measures of monument protection and monument restoration. Contributions should pay special attention to technical and methodological issues of conserving testimonies of post-war art and architecture; to a critical reflection of the intended…

Online Docomomo School Tokyo Japan 2020+1

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 – oDOMOs, happening from 26th July to 4th August 2021. Summary: Online Docomomo international School, namely oDOMOs are newly set up this summer to open a 10-day-workshop to provide an unique online/interactive learning opportunity for architectural students worldwide. The workshop focuses on Daikan-yama Hillside Terrace, iconic urban architecture designed by Fumihiko Maki in the heart of Tokyo. You will learn Maki’s philosophy how it was developed through local and historical contexts of the area, and the…

Call for Abstracts: Global Conference “Environments by Design: Health, Wellbeing and Place”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the global conference “Environments by Design: Health, Wellbeing and Place”, which will be held between 1st and 3rd December, 2021. This international event is organized by Syracuse University, Chalmers University of Technology, Northumbria University, and the Italian Society for the Sociology of Health. Coordinated by AMPS. Dates: 1-3 December, 2021 Place: Virtual Call On January 1st, 2020, the world woke to news that a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, had been identified as a strain of coronavirus. By March, the World Health Organization would define it as a pandemic and the most serious global…

Call for Abstracts: Conference “Cultures, Communities and Design”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the conference “Cultures, Communities and Design” – a conference connecting planning, landscapes, architecture and people, which will be held between 28th and 30th June, 2022. This international event is organized by the University of Calgary, the interdisciplinary research organization AMPS, its academic journal Architecture_MPS, together with the events and publication group PARADE. Place: Calgary Format: Virtual Host: University of Calgary, Canada Dates: June 28-30, 2022 Abstracts: July 01, 2021 (Early)   Call ‘The Countryside’ – a polemically generic term Rem Koolhaas has recently used to reposition debates about our cities to those of rural areas. While posited…

Call for Abstracts: Conference “Sustainable Architecture(s) – Humane Cities”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the conference “Sustainable Architecture(s) – Humane Cities”, which will be held between 23rd and 25th March, 2022. This conference is organized by the College of Architecture, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, with the Research group AMPS in collaboration with PARADE (Publication and Research in Art, Architecture, Design and Environments). It is part of the Urban Condition is a global research program coordinated examining issues related to the 21st Century condition. The conference is now planned as a virtual event. Place: Bangalore, India Format: Virtual Host: Dayananda Sagar Institutions [College of Architecture] Dates: March 23-25, 2022 Abstracts: June…

ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes and vice-versa. Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin America Modern Movement

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the lecture series “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps  to the Andes and vice-versa” and with the subtitle “Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin American Modern Movement”, organized by ex-momo. Seven sessions on a monthly basis, presented by international researchers reflecting on some of the protagonists of the Latin American Modern Movement who have developed urban projects for the continent, contributing to the debate on the contemporary urban landscape. After the first lecture series (October-December 2020), “Roundtrip: From the Seine to the Rio de La Plata” (see more on YouTube Channel ex-momo) on…