Online Conference “Towards a public space. Le Corbusier and the Greco-Latin Tradition in the Modern City”

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the online conference “Towards a public space. Le Corbusier and the Greco-Latin Tradition in the Modern City” given by the Professor Marta Sequeira on the PhD Program in Architecture of DARQ / FCTUC, University of Coimbra. The conference will be happening next Friday, May 8, 2020, at 11:00 am with the assistance of the Zoom platform (Zoom ID: 964-5787-6197; https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/96457876197).

International Ideas Competition for Adaptive Reuse and Regeneration of Rey Cement Factory

The “International Ideas Competition for Adaptive Reuse and Regeneration of Rey Cement Factory” is held to receive the best and most creative design and plan ideas for the adaptive reuse and regeneration of Rey Cement Factory along with its feasibility study (FS) and economic plan. Within the framework of this competition, participants recognized, observed and maintained the values ​​of Rey Cement Factory as one of the examples of Iran’s industrial heritage, design and planning ideas for regeneration of Rey Cement Factory as well as the required costs, Feasibility Study Report and how to attract investment for their idea. They have…

PROHITECH 2020 4th International Conference on Protection of Historical Constructions

[Message from the Organizing Committee: Dear PROHITECH 2020 participants, With regard to the COVID-19 virus epidemic, and the uncertainty that is likely to persist globally for the following months, the Organizing Committee decided that it would be best to postpone the PROHITECH 2020 Conference by one year. The Conference will be held on 5-7 July 2021 at the same venue in Athens. The registration fee payments as well as the submitted contributions are automatically transferred to the new dates and no action is required from your side. For other organizational matters, eg. postponement of the important dates, as well as the publication of the proceedings in Springer,…

Edmonton 2020 Conference: “Hindsight 2020: Conservation, Disruption, and the Future of Heritage” – virtual sessions | Covid-19 disclaimer

[Dear members and Supporters, The difficult decision by the boards of APT and the National Trust for Canada to switch the Edmonton 2020 conference to a virtual event set off two months of intense activity by the joint APT/NT/CAHP planning team. The team has worked hard to reimagine what our annual conference will be like online rather than in-person. First, we focused on modifying the program already developed for Edmonton, adapting it to a remote, digital format. Our goal is to make the content and social events as engaging and interactive as possible. Next we had to evaluate the technology needed to…

EU Mies Award online

These days, when all of us – in Europe and around the world – are exploring new online resources from home, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe invites you to virtually get close to the European Architectural culture. For over 30 years, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award has pointed out the solutions that the best architecture has generated in accordance to each moment. To journey through this scenery you can look through the Prize archive and filter the results according to your preferences or else download  the EUMiesAward App to see which works are close…

ITSLIQUID International Contest – 7th Edition 2020

ITSLIQUID CONTEST ITSLIQUID Group, a communication platform for contemporary art, architecture and design, is proud to present ITSLIQUID International Contest – 7th Edition 2020. The contest is a great opportunity to globalize the language of art, to connect artists working in every part of the world, to exhibit artworks in the most influential cities. Take part in ITSLIQUID Contest and win the participation in contemporary art exhibitions worldwide, the opportunity to show your artworks in Venice during the Biennale and in London, interviewes and featured articles shared with a public of more than 250,000 subscribers. ITSLIQUID Contest is developed in partnership with a professional jury of renowned curators,…

2020 Docomomo Australia Annual General Meeting

[In light of the current situation of organisations and institutions trying to minimise the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and the Government’s request to both minimise travel and unnecessary physical meetings, the 2020 Docomomo Australia Annual General Meeting (due to be held on 28 March 2020 in Sydney) is hereby postponed until a later date.] Docomomo Australia invites members to attend the 19th Annual General Meeting of Docomomo Australia Incorporated at 70A Blues Point Road, McMahons Point, NSW, 2060. Bellow is the Notice of the 19th Annual General Meeting in 2020, the Form of Appointment of Proxy for this meeting…

Call for Papers: Emotional Objects

Emotional Objects – Northern Renaissance Afterlives in Object, Image and Word, 1890s-1920s A one-day International Symposium, the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 12-13 June 2020. Organizer: Prof. Juliet Simpson In 1920 Louis Gillet, the French art historian and internationalist published a rousing article defending the repatriation of stolen fragments from the Van Eycks’ Ghent Altarpiece from Germany to Belgium as ‘un drapeau’. His ensign of a Northern patrimony pitched as an emotive call for a different cultural ‘belonging’ post-1918 was part of a pattern. Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych was vaunted as both a ‘jewel’, yet the…

Call for Papers: Architectural Aesthetics: An Old Matter Revisited. sITA – studies in History and Theory of Architecture Journal

Trying to highlight the architects’ involvement in topics other than the mere production on form, the heading Less aesthetics, more ethics of the 2000 Venice Architectural Biennale inadvertently opened the way to a specious professional dichotomy. The title has become a tagline encouraging alternative practices of architecture motivated by ethical — environmental and social — concerns, while seemingly dismissing the aesthetic discourse. Yet, concerns about the nature and expression of beauty had proven fundamental for defining architecture as a practice, for writing its theory, for endowing its critique and education with specific instruments even before aesthetics was born. And despite the debunking…

International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture

The Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad de Navarra is pleased to announce the International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture, that will take place from 25th to 27th of March, 2020, Pamplona. Industrial building forms (in all its aspects, from dams to warehouses and silos, to workshops and mills), on their eminent search for economical and spatial efficiency, became extremely evocative formal references for architects in the early stages of the Modern Movement, as Reyner Banham noticed. They also often inspired the designs of urban ordinary buildings. This took place in the Twenties in Europe, later…