Architecture We Love to Hate

15 Controversial Modernist Buildings in Hong Kong Why are certain buildings being deemed ugly and worthless by some people but treasured by others? What are the bases for forming these different opinions? How do judgements made by professionals and the general public affect the perceived value of our built landscapes and their fate in ongoing urban development? This public engagement project,  co-organized by Docomomo Hong Kong and HKICON, with funding support from the Built Heritage Conservation Fund, Development Bureau, HKSAR Government. explored these questions by examining 15 controversial modernist buildings in Hong Kong. Some key questions to consider include: What…

Online publication of the International Congress: Bauhaus and Greece

After the international congress entitled Bauhaus and Greece: The New Idea of Synthesis in Art and Architecture, held in Athens, from the 30th May  to 1st June 2019, the video recordings are now available on Youtube. The conference aimed to created a discussion around two main topics: the first, was the Bauhaus reception in Greece and other countries before and after the Second World War. In the special case of Greece, the influences of modern European culture on the arts, architecture and art education during these periods. The second topic was about other international initiatives that directly or indirectly referred…

Tour day 2019: Bauhaus 100: a celebration

Weissenhofsiedlung (Stuttgart, 1927 – Caracas, 1952) Docomomo Venezuela has organized a tour day on the 2nd of November with the theme: “Bauhaus 100 – a celebration” to celebrate the Centenary of the Bauhaus and discover its influence in Caracas. The tour will include relevant pieces of the first modern architecture of Caracas (1927-1952) little studied or recognized. Passing by bus through Paradise, San Martin, San Bernardino and La Florida, the docotour will end with a visit to the interiors of the fifth Caoma, residence of the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva and headquarters of the Villanueva Foundation that treasures his documents…

Architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia [Architecture from the 20th century in Basilicata and Puglia]]

“9 x 100 = 900, 9 itinerari per 100 architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia” is the title of the week dedicated to the modern movement architecture, organized by Docomomo Italy, from 15th to 23rd November, in Matera. On November 15th, to mark the beginning of the week, the traveling exhibition “9 itinerari per 100 architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia“, organized by the Basilicata and Puglia sections of Docomomo Italy will be inaugurated at the Cinema Teatro Duni (by the architect Ettore Stella, from Matera, 1949); guided tours to Matera’s modern architecture will take place during the…

International Symposium: 100 Bauhaus

The College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University held a symposium on “100 Bauhaus”, focusing on the challenges of conservation of modern heritage. This event brought specialists on conservation of Bauhaus-related heritage such as Dipl.-Ing. Frank Assmann (Bauhaus Foundation); Prof. Ivo Hammer (Tugendhat House International Conservation Committee), plus experts on the conservation of modern architectural heritage in Shanghai like Profs. Qian Feng and Qu Cuisong (Wenyuan Building, Tongji University); and Mr. Zuo Xun (Green House, Shanghai IADR). The symposium offered a great opportunity to discuss on conservation criteria and design approaches for a topic –modern heritage- that is…

Dennis Sharp CICA Awards for Architectural Criticism 2020

The International Committee of Architectural Critics CICA is pleased to announce an invitation to publishers, editors, curators and authors to submit their publications for consideration for the 10th CICA Awards 2020 by 30th November 2019. Award winners will be announced during the UIA XXVII World Congress of Architecture to be held in Rio de Janeiro from July 19th to 23rd, 2020. The Awards fall into four categories: “Bruno Zevi CICA Book Award” For published books on architectural criticism, theory and history “Pierre Vago CICA Journalism Award” For an article of architectural criticism for individual, institutional or society magazines, newspapers and…

XIII Seminar Docomomo Brazil “Brazilian Modern Architecture. 25 years of Docomomo Brazil. Every world into one”

13th Docomomo_Brazil Seminar Docomomo Brazil is holding their 13th Seminar, from 7th to 10th October at the the UFBA Faculty of Architecture in Salvador with the theme “Brazilian Modern Architecture. 25 years of Docomomo Brazil. All worlds into one”. According to the words of Jose Carlos Huapaya Espinoza, the General Coordinator of the 13th Docomomo Brazil Seminar: “The 13th Docomomo_Brazil Seminar, from October 7 to 10, 2019, has two meanings: first, it included the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the first seminar in June 1995; second, because, in this celebration, the event returns to the same place where it…

Docomomo US National Symposium 2020 – Announcement

The next Docomomo US National Symposium will take place in Chicago, IL from June 3-6, 2020 in collaboration with the Docomomo US/Chicago chapter. Chicago has been recognized as the “crossroads”, not only for its connecting of water, land, and air networks, but for its place at the intersection of architecture, culture, and technological change. The rapidity of Chicago’s growth, coupled with its prominence in producing innovations of the modern movement is an opportunity for the 2020 meeting of Docomomo/US to consider this history and its prospect for the recognition, interpretation, preservation and extension of the forms and ideas of modernism…

Docomomo US

“Docomomo US is excited to announce the line-up of tours and events taking place during our thirteenth Tour Day. The only national event of its kind, Tour Day is an annual celebration of modern architecture and design where the public and like-minded organizations across the country participate in a tour or event on the second Saturday and throughout the month of October. This year’s thematic focus, “The Diversity of Modernism” reflects the efforts of Docomomo US and its chapters to raise awareness of sites designed by minority and female architects, landscape architects, designers, and engineers, and of the designers themselves….

Mies in Translation

The Farnsworth House – Barnsworth Gallery is presenting the exhibition Mies in Translation, which will open on the 15th September with the presence of the exhibition curator William Huchting of makeArchitecture. The exhibition will feature architectural models of selected projects designed by Mies van der Rohe, including the Barcelona Pavilion, the 1940 IIT Campus plan, and the unbuilt Brussels Pavilion. These projects embody the evolution of Mies’s signature “free plan”– a framework of structural order giving way to unobstructed, free-flowing open space – from a residential to an urban scale. They will be framed through the lens of the writings of…