CIUL – Encontro UniverCidades: Lisboa Verde e Azul [CIUL – University Cities Meeting: Lisbon Green and Blue]

In the scope of the close collaboration between CIUL – Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa [CIUL – Lisbon Urban Information Center] and the academic universe, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will take place on the 4th and 5th of March. With an annual periodicity, this event aims to present reference works in Lisbon developed by each of the intervening entities, around a common theme. In the year that Lisbon celebrates the “European Green Capital 2020” award, which was distinguished by the European Commission, the 2nd UniverCidades Meeting will be subordinated to the theme “Lisbon Green and Blue”. We will thus…

MIES.5Oyears.PORTO – Matter: white conferences

Matter: white conferences evokes the 5Oth anniversary, of one of our main references’ death, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), through MIES.5Oyears.PORTO, a set of actions that discuss his line of thought and body of work, beginning mid-December 2019, extending up to April 2020. Library Installation_ Exhibit display/Hub Mies van der Rohe: Architecture is not a Martini Cocktail FAUP – library, December 19th to March 7th, 2020 Exhibition Mies van der Rohe: Un´idea di città [Uma ideia de Cidade] Casa das Artes, March 7th to  April 19th, 2020 Opening event: March 7th, Saturday, 4pm. The exhibition is organized in partnership…

IST PhD Program in Architecture: PhD Week Winter 2020

On 28th February 2020, the first day of the IST PhD Week Winter 2020 will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon, with the presentation “All museums need to be set on fire!” by Professor Nuno Faria (artistic director in Museu da Cidade, Porto, and guest lecturer in ESAD-Caldas da Rainha). On 9th March 2020, the IST PhD Week Winter 2020 will continue with presentations from the lecture “Portuguese Architecture by hand of Lúcio Costa” by Professor José Pessôa (Escola de Arquitectura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal Fluminense) and the lecture “Goa diaries” by Architect Victor Mestre…

4th Cycle of Conferences by Docomomo Switzerland

[Due to the restrictions of the Covid-19 crisis Docomomo Switzerland announces the following alterations: The round table around the figure of Hans Döllgast for this Tuesday, March 17 is cancelled. The conference of March 31 it will be streamed to the lesse:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/353979336 at 5:30 pm] Docomomo Switzerland is pleased to announce that the 4th cycle of conferences is organized jointly by the TSAM laboratory at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland).  The conference cycle, running from February to May 2020, aims to restore the multiple aspects of modern and contemporary production. It is not only an opportunity to underline the diversity and…

Docomomo US National Symposium – Chicago: Crossroads of Modern America

[Dear Symposium Speakers, Registrants, and Sponsors, Thank you for your ongoing and generous support of the Docomomo US National Symposium in Chicago.  I am writing today with good news. We have identified May 26-29, 2021 as the new dates for the Chicago Symposium. We believe these dates allow us to move forward with the outstanding program of speakers, tours and events that were originally scheduled. While we considered dates in the fall of 2020, we believe keeping the Symposium in the late spring necessitates the least amount of changes, provides a time with excellent Chicago weather, and allows for largest number of people to participate in the…

Conference “Search for a 21st century classicism”, Porto

Atelier Kempe Thill presents the conference ‘Search for a 21st century classicism’, on February 20, Thursday, at 6:30 pm, in the Fernando Távora Auditorium, of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, within the scope of the cicle Matéria: conferências brancas [Matter: the white conferences]. Under the title ‘Search for a 21st century classicism’, Oliver Thill will address the logical relationship between typology and architectural expression and will present proposals for the design of collective housing and public facilities that face/incorporate the challenges of the 21st century. Atelier Kempe Thill architects and urban planners was founded in 2000…

Results of the _re-HABITAR EL CARMEN: A project on Contemporary Heritage

The results of the research Rehabitar project coordinated and developed by the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH) between 2106 and 2018, are now summarized in the choral book entitled _re-HABITAR EL CARMEN: A project on Contemporary Heritage, edited as Notebook number 32 of the periodicals of the institution. The Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage, on February 18 at 12 noon at its headquarters an academic act of the presented and distributed the work to the scientific community, which was implemented with a visit and a presentation to the neighborhood community of the Barriada de Nuestra Señora del Carmen that…

Call for Proposals: “Contemporary Built Heritage – Conservation & Rehabilitation in the Mediterranean”, Montpellier 23-24 June 2020

UMAR (Union of Mediterranean Architects) invites researchers and practitioners involved in the process of preservation, conservation, renovation or transformation of contemporary architecture buildings, sites and neighbourhoods in the countries around the Mediterranean to present their works at the International Conference Contemporary Architectural Rehabilitation on the Mediterranean that will take place in Montpellier, France, on the 23rd and 24th of June 2020. Please submit abstracts and projects no later than February 29th, 2020 (24 pm GMT) UMAR is now accepting proposals for : Conference papers resulting from research promoting tailored rehabilitation of Contemporary Heritage buildings, sites and neighbourhoods Rehabilitation projects preserving…

VI International Congress of Architecture and Society “The city we want/La ciudad que queremos”, Pamplona

La Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad is pleased to announce its VI International Congress under the theme “The city we want”, where the city will be its main protagonist to reflect and discuss its reality and future from different prisms. The event that will be held on June 10, 11 and 12, 2020 in the Baluarte area of ​​Pamplona, ​​will bring together architects, historians and experts from fields as diverse as economics, sociology, architecture or public management, coming from the five continents that will discuss the role of cities in specific aspects such as sustainability and climate change, urban equity, mobility…

Call for registration: Cities in Asia Summer Programme – Studio Jakarta-Taipei, 24th June to 14th July

The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Architecture is pleased to announce that registration for this year’s Cities in Asia Summer Programme is now open. The credit-bearing HKU course was established in 2010 to focus on urgent architectural and urban issues confronting Asian cities today. This year, the studio will be traveling to Jakarta and Taipei. The collaborating partners are Rujak Center for Urban Studies (Jakarta) and Shih Chien University (Taipei).​ The programme is an immersive course designed to expose students to these cities through daily learning activities including lectures, seminars, studio crits, field work, firm visits, and design…