Awards: Lacaton & Vassal win the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Docomomo International congratulates the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal for being announced the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. “”Good architecture is open—open to life, open to enhance the freedom of anyone, where anyone can do what they need to do,” says Lacaton. “It should not be demonstrative or imposing, but it must be something familiar, useful and beautiful, with the ability to quietly support the life that will take place within it.” Through their design of private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions, public spaces, and urban developments, Lacaton and Vassal reexamine sustainability in their reverence for pre-existing…

International Conference: 1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand

Docomomo International’s chair, Ana Tostões is going to participate on the International Conference “1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand” [1989, outside the scope of the official architecture. From Small Worlds to Large Worlds], happening on 19th March 2021, online via Zoom. [French] “At the crossroads of architecture and the human sciences, using the date of 1989 with the dual role of pretext and landmark, this colloquium aims to attempt an architectural archaeology of the present. An investigation, which relates to what one could call “the history of the present time”, starting from France and gradually opening…

PhD seminar: Dirk van den Heuvel – Jaap Bakema and the Open Society: Architecture, Democracy and the Welfare State in The Netherlands

The Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Porto are organizing a seminar – Architecture: Design and Research – for the current academic year. In this context will happen on 12th March at 14:30 (GMT) the PhD Seminar Dirk van den Heuvel – Jaap Bakema and the Open Society: Architecture, Democracy and the Welfare State in The Netherlands. Throughout the post-WWII decades the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema (1914-1981) was inspired to build for a democratic and egalitarian society which recognized and accommodated diversity in lifestyles as a starting point for urban planning. This is evidenced by his many interventions…

Online Festival – To Spring with Oris

Days of Oris is an international architectural Festival organized by Oris House of Architecture from Croatia and in December 2020 we organized our first online Festival. This year’s first Oris Festival – To Spring with Oris – will be held on March 18 and 19, 2021 and will bring together 14 renowned architects and successful business women and 2 moderators. The online Festival To Spring with Oris is organized as 14 lectures, each 20 minutes long, with live stream from Oris House of Architecture and interaction between speakers, viewers and sponsors on a professional event platform for virtual events. The lectures will be in English….

Does architecture evolve with the human species? Does the species condition architecture?

On the occasion of the event “Serralves On Line Experience”, the Serralves Foundation is inviting you to the conference “A Arquitetura evolui com a espécie? A espécie condiciona a Arquitetura?” [Does architecture evolve with the human species? Does the species condition architecture?], on 8th March, with the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, the physician Dr. Manuel Sobrinho Simões, and moderation by Valdemar Cruz, journalist. Admission is free upon registration. For more information and registration, please visit the website. [Portuguese]

Digital forum – Beirut Urban Declaration

Docomomo International is pleased to share the digital forum organized by the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut “Beirut Urban Declaration”, happening 12th, 13th and 14th March 2021, online. “Transport and urban mobility, housing, Beirut’s harbor, urban regulations and heritage, master plan for the districts devastated by the explosion of August 4, 2020… These 5 issues crucial to Beirut reconstruction will be discussed on March 12, 13, 14, 2021 during a digital forum organized by the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut. “Since the explosion of August 4, 2020, the Order has mobilized to build positive dynamics around…

Online Talks Cycle – Pier Luigi Nervi e l’architettura del ‘900 a Firenze

On the occasion of the ending of the exhibition Pier Luigi Nervi Architettura come Sfida [Pier Luigi Nervi – Architecture as a Challenge] that happened between 25th January and 26th February 2021, will happen the online talks cycle “Pier Luigi Nervi e l’architettura del ‘900 a Firenze”, between 26th February and 9th April 2021. Organized by Fondazione degli Architetti di Firenze [Architects’ Foundation Florence], Associazione Pier Luigi Nervi Project [Pier Luigi Nervi Project Association] and Manifattura Tabacchi, this cycle of four talks explores the theme of the importance of Pier Luigi Nervi’s Municipal Stadium Nervi, both in the context of…

Call for applications – 5th edition of the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the call for the 5th edition of the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA is open until 12th March 2021 (24h, GMT+1). The European Award for Architectural Heritage intervention is a biennial contest organized with the support of COAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) and AADIPA (Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage), the purpose of which is to distinguish quality heritage interventions and contribute to their disclosure. The contest that, with ten years of existence, is aimed at consolidating itself as a catalyst and observatory of new…

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, happening from 26th July to 4th August 2021. Summary  In 2021, the DOCOMOMO Online School will be focusing on in-depth research on urban modern heritage and its relation to Japanese culture. People have lived and will continue to live in modern neighbourhoods and sites that represent 20th century urban heritage. Daikan-yama Hillside Terrace in Tokyo, is such an example of a modern architecture and urban masterpiece, designed between 1969 and 1992 by Pritzker…

Mini Modern Film Festival: “Minnesota Modern Masters”

Docomomo US/Minnesota and the Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH) will host “Minnesota Modern Masters,” a mini film festival and panel discussion, Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 6:30pm. “​This year we are thrilled to be presenting a special joint program hosted with our friends at the Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH). We will be screening a selection of interviews from MNSAH’s extensive “Minnesota Modern Masters” oral history project. Interview subjects include Close Associates, Hodne & Stageberg, Ed Sovik, Rafferty & Rafferty, and Val Michelson. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with MNSAH and Docomomo US/MN members.”…