International Commitee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement
Docomomo Brazil is holding its 14th Seminar, from 27th to 29th October at the Federal University of Pará, Belém, with the theme O MODERNO EM MOVIMENTO: USOS, REUSOS, NOVAS CARTOGRAFIAS. Presente e futuro do legado da arquitetura moderna no Brasil [THE MODERN IN MOVEMENT: USES, REUSE, NEW CARTOGRAPHIES. Present and future of the legacy of modern architecture in Brazil]. More details: docomomo Brazil website [Portuguese]
Between 9th and 14th November 2020 docomomo Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus and the stricto sensu Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the São Judas Tadeu University held the 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar. To review the conferences, please visit the Youtube page . More details: Docomomo Brazil webpage [Portuguese] Docomomo International News “The 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar provides for lectures, debates and presentation of communications on matters of relevance for the safeguarding of the cultural heritage of the modern movement in Brazil. Unlike the previous ones, in its digital version, the famous MomoTour cannot take place, which this time will be…
Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the UIA Public Health Work Programme (PHG) has launched the Call for new Papers and Projects for the UIA-PHG2021. The two themes for the UIA-PHG 2021 Seminars are: 1) Health and Cities, and 2) Architecture for Health. Presentations can be as Research Paper or Design Project. Regarding the COVID 19 Pandemic, priority will be given to projects that address the health design implications resulting from/associated with the Pandemic. The UIA-PHG2021 Rio Seminar will happen in conjunction with the 27th UIA Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-22 July 2021. The call for paper…
Due to COVID-19 Docomomo Belgium is organizing 3 online ZOOM conferences. After the first two conferences, the III Online Lecture will be held on 28th January 2021 by Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor with the title “The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides”. CONFERENCE III | Thursday 28th January 2021, 20:00-21:30 | online (Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor – The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides) [in French]. Doctor in History, Art and Archeology, Sébastien Charlier is specialized in architecture history and scientific manager of GAR-Archives of Architecture (Faculty of Architecture, ULiège). Since 2014, he and Thomas Moor…
Fundació Mies van der Rohe is thrilled to announce the launching and invites to take part in the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival, BARQ. “An initiative of the production company NIHAO Films with the support of Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ARQUIN-FAD and Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. The BARQ Festival is a film festival aimed at vindicating films on architecture as a specific genre and at deepening the relationship between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds that explore social realities, and architecture uses cinema to encourage reflection on the most current issues regarding…
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. Online Docomomo School is an online-workshop for succeeding and proceeding URBAN HERITAGE. People lived, live and will live in the living heritage. It is not a symbol or memorial but something active that is to be weaved with contexts of history for future. Students in Tokyo as physical sensors will find and show strings of the context and International Online Teams will weave with…
Docomomo International invites researchers and practitioners involved in the process of preservation, conservation, renovation or transformation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement, to investigate on the theme: Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities. Application of the third round call for papers is open from December 15, 2020 until 31 January of 2021． We are now accepting new applications for the following new themes: 13. Home and social change 14. Environmental awareness 15. Healthcare architecture 16. Wellbeing and urbanism IMPORTANT NOTICE: The 2020+1 conference will be held with hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and PRESENTIAL…
Organized by Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Urbanismo e da Cidade (GPHUC-UnB/CNPq) [Research Group on History of Urbanism and the City], the Tertúlias Cycle aims to create a (virtual) space for the pace for the dissemination of knowledge in urban history through conferences and several presentations by researchers from Brazil and other countries. In this context, on the 11th December will happen the Conference “A poética das Metrópoles – Le Corbusier e Hilberseimer nos anos 20” [“The poetics of the Metropolises – Le Corbusier and Hilberseimer in the 1920s”] held by Prof. Dr. Carlos A. Ferreira Martins (USP/Brazil), via…
Organized by Museo Casa sobre el Arroyo and AACASA, the virtual forum “Cultural Landscape of the 20th century. House on the Stream, Mar del Plata, Argentina” occurs on the 75th anniversary of the construction of the House on the Stream, designed by Amancio Williams and Delfina Galvez Bunge, as a celebration of the integrality of a valuable set in which the imprint of territory and environment give rise to an architectural resolution recognized worldwide, being it a relevant example of the Modern Movement. Date: Monday, 7th December 2020, 7pm, Argentina, 10pm GMT. Link: https://mdpeduar.webex.com/mdpeduar/j.php?MTID=mcb1f0daee766dd41647e16a184392b78 Meeting number: 179 025 9659 Password: observatorio…
Due the COVID-19 pandemic, DOCOMOMO International and the Japan conference board of the DOCOMOMO2020+1 decided to set up the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, 29th August – 2nd September 2021, with an hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and face-to-face (if possible, depending on the pandemic situation) lectures. Considering the new format available, 30 applicants with accepted abstracts who gave up their participation are welcomed to be back. If these candidates wish to participate under these new conditions, they should confirm and register till 7th December 2020. Turning the Conference into online, we are glad to announce and launch a 3rd call for papers between 10th December 2020 and 31st January…